Joint conference of the Standing Committee of European Doctors and the German Medical Association (BÄK) – 20 November 2020. The event was part of the associated programme of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the EU. Summary video here. The conference opened with a statement by Jens Spahn, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, on digital […]
On 6 January 2021, CPME endorsed the Digital Doc Thematic Network Joint Statement. The Joint Statement focuses on actions needed to prepare future and current doctors to cope with and contribute to the digital transformation of healthcare through the integration of digital competencies in the education and training curricula of medical doctors. CPME contributed extensively […]
On 21 January, CPME Executive Committee endorsed the EUHPP Thematic Network Joint Statement. The Joint Statement identifies health workforce skills and competences necessary to address digital transformation in support of effective, accessible and resilient health systems. The Statement highlights European innovations in digital and data areas that represent best practices in developing the skills of […]
On 9 July May 2020, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the ‘CPME response to the Digital Doc Thematic Network Survey on Challenges, Recommendations and Best Practices’ (CPME 2020/060 FINAL). CPME believes that the digital transformation of medicine should be understood by all actors as a long-lasting disruptive process of change and innovation that will massively […]
On 4 December 2017 the European Parliament’s IMCO committee took the vote on its position on the Proportionality Directive. On the crucial issue of the exemption of health professions from the Directive, the proposal was defeated by 20 votes to 15. The European Parliament will therefore now go into negotiations with the Council without a […]
“Economics vs Health? EU Proportionality Test for Health Professions” 18 October 2017, 13h00 – 15h00 European Parliament, Room: JAN4Q1 Co-hosted by MEP Lieve Wierinck, and MEP Dr Peter Liese The event is web-streamed HERE. Show the web-streamed event The Council of European Dentists (CED) is a European not-for-profit association representing over 340,000 […]
On 8 April 2017, the CPME Board adopted the ‘CPME Position on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a proportionality test for adoption of new regulation for professions COM(2016) 822 final’ (CPME 2016/009 FINAL).
The European Commission just released a report with ‘Key Findings and Recommendations on Education and Training in Patient Safety across Europe’. The report is a common effort of the ‘Subgroup on Education and Training of the Patient Safety and Quality of Care Working Group of the European Commission’. CPME contributed to the report with a […]