Strengthening of the Health Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases, with a focus on the real-time collection of clinical and laboratory data and analysis, will enhance the capacity of early warning at national level and Community levels.

42. Stresses that sound information on the use of antimicrobials in some Member States is still lacking; emphasises the importance of establishing an effective European network of national surveillance systems in the human health and veterinary sectors, based on uniform standards for all Member States, in order to compile clear, comparable, transparent and timely reference data on antimicrobial drug usage; believes this should be based on the existing monitoring networks operated by EFSA, the ECDC European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Co ...[+++]nsumption Network (ESAC-net), the ECDC European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-net), the ECDC Food- and Waterborne Disease Network (FWD-Net), and the EMA European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption (ESVAC);

(52 ) Routine statistics as well as complementary data on cross-border healthcare are required for efficient monitoring, planning and management of healthcare in general and cross-border healthcare in particular, and their production should be integrated as far as possible within existing data collection systems to enable appropriate monitoring and planning to take account of cross-border care, including appropriate structures at Community level such as the Community statistical system and in particular Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health ...[+++]and health and safety at work , the health information system established within the framework of the health programme established by Decision No 1786/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002 adopting a programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008) and other monitoring activities such as those carried out by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control established by Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European centre for disease prevention and control .

Furthermore, the candidates countries are invited to develop a health monitoring system in order to obtain health data and indicators comparable with the Community health monitoring system.

developing and operating a health monitoring system ;

To improve information and knowledge for the development of public health, and to ensure the highest level of health, the strengthening and maintenance of efficient health systems and effective interventions to improve health, as well as the collection of qualitative and quantitative data on health inequalities and effective methods to tackle these, both at micro- and macro-levels, by setting up , developing and operating a Health Coordination and Monitoring Centre, which constitutes a well-structured and comprehensive system for collecting, monitoring, analysing, evaluating and imparting comparable and compatible health information and ...[+++]knowledge to all key partners and actors committed to improving public health, by ensuring a dialogue with these partners and actors, and by incorporating their expertise in the development of an efficient and transparent Community knowledge base on health , and by undertaking assessments of and reporting on health status and health-related policies, systems and measures;