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Brussels is back! The newly-elected European Parliament is at work, and Olivér Várhelyi is proposed, following a hearing before the Parliament, as Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare. Who can ignore the importance of Health in Europe since the COVID crisis? European cooperation has been a founding step towards greater solidarity and the pooling of shared solutions. The coordination of Member States is our common future.

All those involved in healthcare are impatiently awaiting the guidelines from the new leaders, as well as a strengthened dialogue. There are some many issues: the new European Health Data Space, the new technologies, the quality of work life in hospitals, and the challenges of mental health, particularly for the younger generations. The tensions in the budgetary balance also mean that the resources available for social protection will be affected. To protect our European space, positive regulation can only be defined under the principle of efficiency, health technology assessment and value-based medicine.

It is as ever UEHP ambition to demonstrate the relevance of the private economic model for the performance and sustainability of healthcare systems. In this regard, UEHP is calling for the respect of equivalent funding for all healthcare sectors public and private under contract with public insurers as part of the principle of Universal Coverage, in order to enable a real policy of quality care for European citizens.

Dr Paul Garassus
President of UEHP