During its Annual General Assembly on 21 November, the Board of the CPME endorsed the World Medical Association’s position on the Turkish Government’s threat to dismantle the Turkish Medical Association. To read the CPME’s press release, click here.

European doctors from 30 National Medical Associations met online for the biannual General Assembly and Board meetings of the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) on 21 November. Read the full press release here

On 21 November 2020, CPME published the ‘CPME report on COVID-19 in Europe’. Click here to access the full report.

CPME, the Standing Committee of European Doctors, and the German Medical Association will be co-hosting a conference entitled ‘Doctors going digital: How to future-proof skills’ on 20 November from 9am until 12 noon. Please find the Press Release here. Interested journalists can follow the discussions on Twitter via this hashtag (#CPMEdigitalskills) or by going to the following website […]

On the occasion of European Antibiotic Awareness Day, we are pleased to share with you a CPME report on European doctors’ knowledge of and attitudes towards antibiotics and antibiotics resistance. The report was prepared by CPME with the help of the Danish Medical Association (Laegeforeningen). Its findings are based on a European Centre for Disease Prevention […]

On 13 October, CPME together with a broad coalition of professional organisations, trades unions and patient groups launched a campaign to stop cancer at work. The campaign aims to ensure that the current fourth revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (CMD) includes groups of carcinogenic and mutagenic hazardous drugs, which cause cancer. Please find […]

‘’While we are glad to see that European leaders reached a compromise agreement, we are greatly disappointed about the enormous cuts in the health budget” commented CPME President Prof. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery on the outcome of the European Council 17-21 July 2020. Over the past months policy makers all over the European Union strongly […]

Following the alarming reports of cases of violence, discrimination and exclusion that physicians and other healthcare professionals across Europe have been facing because of the fear they will spread the Coronavirus, European Medical Organisations reaffirm that they stand in complete solidarity with their colleagues who are in the front line of the fight against the […]

A plea to all governments to continue providing the World Health Organisation with sufficient funds has come from physician leaders from across the world. In a rare joint statement on the eve of next week’s World Health Assembly in Geneva, global physician organisations from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe have issued a strong warning […]

Medicine shortages can severely limit doctors’ ability to provide appropriate treatment. Today the situation is aggravated by the surge in demand due to the treatment of COVID-19 patients and additional interruptions in a globalised and fragile supply chain. We must undertake immediate actions to prevent European hospitals from running out of essential medicines and, once the […]