The EUHA Members’ Assembly was hosted by King’s Health Partners on 16th June in London bringing together representatives from all EUHA members, ten of Europe’s leading university hospitals. During the meeting, EUHA representatives discussed EUHA’s ongoing projects to address workforce challenges and sustainable healthcare systems, reviewed the progress of EUHA working groups and networks, and discussed EUHA’s organisational and operational developments.
The European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA) recently held a workshop on “Rethinking European Healthcare System” at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin last week. Considering the current healthcare workforce shortages and the increasing demands on the European healthcare systems, experts and leaders from across EUHA members came together with other international organisations to explore sustainable long-term solutions for the future of the healthcare systems.
Providing high-quality care is especially challenging for rare diseases. For this reason, EUHA joins the global awareness-raising campaign, Rare Disease Day, to show solidarity with the rare disease community.
As an alliance of 10 leading university hospitals, EUHA is an important stakeholder in promoting excellence and innovation in healthcare education and research. For this reason, EUHA participated as a key panellist at the session on “Future Opportunities in Research Collaboration in the Context of the European Universities Alliance” organised by Circle U.
EUHA recently adopted the Nursing Mission Statement, which advocates for nursing as an attractive profession and academic discipline. The statement, developed by the Nursing Network, will support EUHA in developing unique expertise to improve the quality of nursing care, increase the profession’s attractiveness, encourage staff retention, and help drive the development of nursing careers in Europe.
EUHA is proud that Peter Gocke (Charité) joined the roundtable on “Patient-centred partnerships: bringing the European Health Data Space to life” at the H2O-organised event. As the EUHA Digital Health and Data Network coordinator, Peter Gocke highlighted the importance of data sharing to provide high-quality care and research and the recent publication of a EUHA Statement on the European Health Data Space.
EUHA has released a consensus standpoint, written up by the Digital Health and Data Network (DHDN) and the Policy Working Group, on the essential aspects of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). All EUHA members joined the statement that emphasises how EUHA hospitals are ready to help unlock the potential of the EHDS.
EUHA was invited to join the session “Towards a European Health Union” in the Risk Management Forum, which took place in Arezzo towards the end of November. The Steering Committee member from UZ Leuven, Johan Van Eldere, represented EUHA and shared some joint ongoing initiatives within EUHA as success stories of European collaboration, relevant to advance towards a European Health Union.
By signing the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, EUHA joins a coalition of like-minded organisations that are committed to reforming the way research is assessed and who recognise the variety of activities that maximise the quality of research.
Dipl Ing Herwig Wetzlinger, CEO of the University Hospital Vienna and the current president of EUHA, talks about the prospects and challenges facing EUHA and summarises his term as president, which will end at the upcoming Members’ Assembly on November 28th in Vienna. After the Members’ Assembly, the EUHA Presidency will hand over to King’s Health Partners.