Health and Safety Policy Branch

Nursing care/supplementary health teaching, guidance, and counseling

Directorate 3 - Employment and Social Policy, Health and Foodstuffs | Directorate 4 - Employment, Social Policy, Health and Foodstuffs

European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines | European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare | EDQM [Abbr.]

Directorate-General XXIV-Consumer Policy and Consumer Health Protection

Health Policy Directorate

30. Considers it essential to support older people in living independently and actively for as long as possible, as set out in Article 25 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, by developing and maintaining people-oriented and demand-driven public support, assistance and care services and by improving the connection between these services; calls, therefore, on the Member States to ensure affordable, accessible and non-discriminatory health care and to prioritise prevention in their health care policies; calls, therefore, ...[+++] on the Commission to implement the Social Investment Package, to keep healthy ageing and the adequacy and quality of long-term care high on the political agenda, and to analyse the affordability of health care for older people, collect data on waiting times in health care systems across the EU and propose guidelines for maximum waiting times; considers it essential to promote personal and individual responsibility for one’s own health, with a marked increase in the level of information on health care and national motivation campaigns, as well as to encourage cooperation on health literacy in order to empower older persons to take care of their health; recalls that we should devote greater attention to innovative technological solutions and tools; finally, recognises the importance of effective dissemination of information relating to local services and entitlements in achieving this goal;

30. Considers it essential to support older people in living independently and actively for as long as possible, as set out in Article 25 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, by developing and maintaining people-oriented and demand-driven public support, assistance and care services and by improving the connection between these services; calls, therefore, on the Member States to ensure affordable, accessible and non-discriminatory health care and to prioritise prevention in their health care policies; calls, therefore, ...[+++] on the Commission to implement the Social Investment Package, to keep healthy ageing and the adequacy and quality of long-term care high on the political agenda, and to analyse the affordability of health care for older people, collect data on waiting times in health care systems across the EU and propose guidelines for maximum waiting times; considers it essential to promote personal and individual responsibility for one’s own health, with a marked increase in the level of information on health care and national motivation campaigns, as well as to encourage cooperation on health literacy in order to empower older persons to take care of their health; recalls that we should devote greater attention to innovative technological solutions and tools; finally, recognises the importance of effective dissemination of information relating to local services and entitlements in achieving this goal;

Witnesses: From Health Canada: Marie Fortier, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Consultation Branch and Assistant Deputy Minister, Home Care Development; Abby Hoffman, Director general, Health Policy and Information Directorate; Phyllis Colvin, Director, Health Policy Division, Policy and Consultation Branch; Frank Fedyk, Director, Health System and Policy Division, Policy and Consultation Branch; Richard Jock, Director General, Program Policy and Planning Division, Medical Services Branch; Robert S. Lafleur, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services Branch; Pauline Bissonnette, Director, Planning, Analysis an ...[+++]d Reporting Division, Departmental Planning and Financial Administration, Corporate Services Branch.

Witnesses: From the Health Canada: Robert S. Lafleur, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services Branch; Orvel Marquardt, Director General, Departmental Planning and Financial Administration, Corporate Services Branch; Scott Broughton, A/Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Policy and Consultation Branch; Michel Léger, Director, Consultation and Collaboration Division, Information Analysis and Connectivity Branch; Seamus Hogan, Director of Health Demand and Supply Analysis, Information Analysis and Connectivity Branch; Laurette Birch, Director General, Intergovernmental Affairs; Wendy Watson-Wright, Director-General, Policy ...[+++]and Major Projects Directorate, Health Promotion and Programs Branch; Dann Michols, Director General, Therapeutic Products Programme, Health Protection Branch; Paul Mayers, A/Director, Bureau of Biohazards, Health Protection Branch; Serge Lafond, A/Director of Health Insurance Division, Policy and Consultation Branch.