Fourteen new Primary Care Centres are to be built across Ireland following a new EUR 70 million, 27-year loan from the European Investment Bank.

12. Stresses that South Sudan has some of the worst health and nutrition levels in the world, with access to quality primary health care problematic due to underdevelopment, ongoing conflict, attacks on health care facilities and difficulty in accessing many areas; underlines that poor health care affects, in particular, the most vulnerable, leading to high mortality rates among children and women;

Patient safety is about reducing adverse events which occur in all health-care settings – in hospitals, in primary care, in long-term care or in the community.

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote breast-feeding in primary care centres;

For example, it supports the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Healthcare quality indicators project, focusing on cardiac care, diabetes care, mental health care, primary care and prevention, and patient safety.

27. Welcomes efforts to move towards European Centres of Reference and the potential benefits that this will bring for treatment of rare diseases; recognises that patients affected by a rare disease or condition may often require greater support in accessing such specialist care; calls for the setting up of European Centres of Reference not to be limited to rare diseases but to be extended to cover all diseases for which a special concentration of resources and expertise is available; emphasises that, in addition to treating these diseases, European Centres of Reference should also play a prominent part in obtaining second opinions an ...[+++]d in further training for medical specialists;