The Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH) has published a draft opinion on the organisation of resilient health and social care systems. The Panel received a mandate from the European Commission to look beyond the current pandemic crisis and consider how health systems can better prepare for future threats, specifically requesting a new framework for the organisation of health and social care systems. The paper:
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Identifies the building blocks of resilient health and social care organisation
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Explores the elements and conditions for capacity building to strengthen health system resilience
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Addresses healthcare provision for vulnerable patient groups and how to sustain such provision in a system under stress
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Defines an approach to develop and implement “resilience tests” of Member State health systems.
Within the report, dementia and Alzheimer’s are included under section 1.3.3, as a population which should be considered as vulnerable and for whom specific measures should be introduced. You can read the draft opinion here: https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/expert_panel/docs/ev_20200916_mi_en.pdf
