Welcome to the 36th edition of the CPME Newsletter!  With this edition we are delighted to announce that Dr Christiaan Keijzer has been elected as our President for a three-year term from 2022 to 2024. Dr Keijzer has served as Vice-President since 2019 and succeeds Prof. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery who will complete his highly-successful […]

On 13 December 2021, the CPME adopted the CPME Feedback on the Commission’s Proposal for a Decision establishing the 2030 Policy Programme “Path to the Digital Decade”. CPME feedback focuses on the digital targets of the Proposal, in particular on the digital skills of the population and on the digitalisation of public services. CPME key […]

On 25 November 2021, the CPME Executive Committee approved CPME’s co-signature of a joint statement of the European Health Stakeholder Group on the access of UK bodies to Horizon Europe.

On 27 November 2021, the CPME Board adopted a response to the European Commission public consultation on air quality. It highlights that the EU air quality standards should be made more stringent, fully aligned with the latest WHO recommendations. The revised standards should be achieved as soon as possible, but by 2025 at the latest. […]

On 27 November, the CPME Board adopted the “CPME response to public consultation on the general pharmaceutical legislation (CPME 2021/119 FINAL)“.

On the 10th of November, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) and the World Medical Association (WMA) sent an open letter to the President of Turkey H.E Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish Minister of Justice Mr Abdulhamit Gül, and the Turkish Minister of Health Dr Fahrettin Koca on the trial against Dr Şeyhmus […]

CPME commends the European Commission for developing a ground-breaking legislation on artificial intelligence (AI). European doctors welcome the overall risk-based approach for AI, the creation of the European Artificial Board, the development of the EU database for high-risk AI and the proposed risk management system. European doctors also welcome the proposed definition of the AI […]

This edition opens with a feature article by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) highlighting the importance of a trustful relation with the medical community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Special emphasis is placed on the alarming acts of violence against healthcare professionals and on the panel discussion on the future of telemedicine, hosted by the Portuguese […]

On 8 July, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the CPME Response to the Public Consultation on a set of European Digital Principles. CPME notes that the individual needs to learn to make healthy choices, not only physical, mental, spiritual and economic, but now also digital, fighting against addictive behaviours, sedentary activities, adequately respond to cyberbullying […]

On 8 July 2021, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the CPME Response to the Public Consultation on the European Health Data Space. The consultation addresses i) the use of health data for healthcare provision, research and innovation as well as policy-making and regulatory decision; ii) the development and use of digital health services and products; […]