European Patients’ Forum (EPF)

General Info

The European Patients’ Forum (EPF) is an umbrella organisation that works with patients’ groups in public health and health advocacy across Europe. Our members represent specific chronic disease groups at EU level or are national coalitions of patients.

Our mission is to ensure that the patients’ community drives policies and programmes that affect patients’ lives to bring changes empowering them to be equal citizens in the EU.

Registration Process

Programme Topics

• The “Patient as partner” initiative / “Hello healthcare” campaign
  
• Equipping patients with the skills and knowledge to take an active role: the “Patient academy” in Bulgaria
  
• WS 1: Health literacy and the informed patient
  
• WS 2: The new patient-professional relationship
  
• WS 3: The role of self-management in chronic disease
  
• Patient empowerment: the policy challenge
  
• European Commission’s perspective
  
• The way forward: presentation of the EPF thematic campaign