U.S. Hospital Association (AHA) Fights Digital Data Access for Patients | Center for Democracy & Technology

Hospital Association Fights Digital Data Access for Patients | Center for Democracy & Technology

Help us fight cancer! EU (FACE)

We hope you will join the Forum Against Cancer Europe (FACE) and we call on you to work towards implementing the European Parliament Cancer Resolution by supporting us in our campaign to:

1. Encourage and adopt national Charters for patients' rights according to European guidelines to ensure that the rights of cancer patients are upheld and enforced.
2. Urgently develop and, where existing, improve national cancer plans, setting priorities and effectively allocating resources for improving cancer control and research across the European Union, paying attention to rare or difficult to treat cancers.
3. Ensure cancer patients are included in formulating and monitoring all research, legislation and policies that affect their health.
4. Invest in cancer prevention in Member States and implement the Council Recommendation on Cancer Screening of 2003 by setting up or improving national high quality population-based screening programmes.
5. Vigorously promote cancer awareness in the general public through the existing Europe against Cancer Code.
6. Make timely, high quality and up to date information, diagnosis, treatment and care available for all cancer patients in each European Member State..
7. Firmly tackle the socio-economic and geographic divide, which leads to inequalities in cancer control
8. Oppose discrimination in the latest cancer treatment because of age, race, gender and domicile.

media: Doctors call for patients' charter of rights + advocate Dr Durhane Wong-Rieger

Note: Dr. Durhane Wong-Rieger can also be referenced through WHO/PAHO/Canadian Patient Safety communities

"We do not have a system that at this point is focused towards timely, accessible, sustainable care from a patient perspective," said Durhane Wong-Rieger, president of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, in an interview following her address to the CMA. "I think it's become a huge bureaucracy on its own."

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/health
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