The NGOs fund scholarships and provide appropriate training to untrained or poorly trained healthcare workers.

NOTES that the current trend of shifting care from hospitals to outpatient care, including primary care and home care, can result in an increased amount of care provided by non-hospital healthcare workers, social workers and carers, including informal caregivers.

RECOGNISES that integrated models of care between primary, secondary and hospital care and among health and social care, along with the implementation of ICT innovations and eHealth solutions can improve resilience of health systems, while taking into account patient safety and high quality of healthcare.

16. Welcomes the emphasis which the Commission places on improving interdisciplinary and interagency communication and cooperation between individual health care and long-term care providers in prevention, diagnosis and treatment; believes that doctors responsible for dispensing primary care play a key role in such communication and cooperation and the sharing of existing information leads to higher quality and efficiency of the care provided, a reduction in the risk that patients will be harmed and greater effectiveness in the use of manpower and resources;

3. Emphasises that between 80-90% of these single-parents are women, acting as head of the household and taking on all the responsibilities of being the provider and carer;

The most common denominator is that, in most cases, the single parent is in a very vulnerable situation having to cope with double responsibilities as both provider and carer for the family.