Latest update (below) 9:50 a.m. ET. I moved the section on cross-border care into another post.
I wish I had three heads to blog and absorb everything going on at the Patients In Power conference, described in my previous post. (I have immense respect for capable journalists!) But, we do what we can.
The current session is on health reforms, including the work to make equal access to care a reality across borders within Europe. The first speaker was Mariano Votta, Director of Active Citizenship Network. From their About page:
ACN’s mission is to promote and support the construction of the European citizenship as an “active citizenship” which means the exercise of citizens’ powers and responsibilities in policy-making.
Hey, that sounds a lot like the Society for Participatory Medicine’s vision of patients as active partners, with power and responsibility! So it’s no surprise that a primary focus of Active Citizenship is Patients’ Rights. And they have a European Charter of Patients’ Rights, created years ago. Until this trip, I’d been unaware of it! Fascinating:
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