On 3 April 2020 CPME adopted its response to public consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence. Please find the response here.

On 3 April 2020, CPME adopted its response to the public consultation on the Commission’s Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. Please find the response here.

The European health professionals and their students’ organisations are calling on the European Commission and the governments to support and protect healthcare professionals fighting Covid-19. Staff must be provided with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and must be regularly tested, regardless of reported symptoms or exposure.  Full press release available here.

The European Doctors along with other organisations representing patients, consumers, trade unions and public interest organisations expressed its views on the importance of public support to research and development during the current pandemic in an open letter published today. The letter observes that since January, the European Commission and national governments have mobilised millions of […]

Dear Colleagues, My name is Miguel Jorge, I am the President of the World Medical Association, the global umbrella organization of currently 113 national and territorial medical associations. Let me thank all of you standing at the front line treating patients during this COVID-19 outbreak. Your work and that of nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and all […]

On the occasion of the 1st European Awareness Day on Violence against Doctors and other Health Professionals, the European Medical Organisations adopted a Joint statement on violence against doctors and other health professionals.

Physician leaders representing doctors across the world have written to the President of Turkey and the Prime Minister of Greece expressing their deep distress about the escalation of the humanitarian crisis on the border between Turkey and Greece. Dr. Miguel Jorge, President of the World Medical Association, and Prof. Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, who is […]

CPME recommends to monitor the latest information on COVID-19 through the official websites of: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) WHO Europe European Commission

On 28 February 2020, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), together with the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the European Federation of Allergy & Airways Diseases Patients´ Association (EFA), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) sent a joint letter to the members of the Environment Council of the […]

This edition opens with a spotlight on the air quality debate and the consequences of the Green Deal on health. You will read about the CPME’s policy on air quality and health stating that policymakers should make air quality a priority at all levels. Also other stakeholders, such as the European Medical Students’ Association, the […]