Under the future Partnership between the European Commission and the healthcare sector industries, a considerable amount of public funds will be allocated to health research and innovation projects. 43 organisations including patients, consumers, doctors, payers, HTAs and public interest organisations express their views on the European Partnership on Innovative Health in a letter to the European Commission.
They urge the European Commission to safeguard that the public interest is at the core of the future European Partnership on Innovative Health by ensuring:
- Priority Setting driven by public health needs
- Transparent, balanced and inclusive governance structures
- Public return on public investment and ensuring equitable access to publicly funded R&I
- Full transparency on R&I investments
- Open science
- Sensitive health policy issues to be discussed in inclusive multi-stakeholder platforms with strong stewardship from public authorities
Supporting organisations
- AAJM – Asociación por un Acceso Justo al Medicamento (Spain)
- Access to Medicines Ireland (Ireland)
- AIDES (France)
- AIDS Action Europe
- AOK Bundesverband (Germany)
- ARAS – Romanian Association Against AIDS (Romania)
- BEUC – The European Consumer Organisation
- Bulgarian Association for Patients’ Defense (Bulgaria)
- Commons Network
- EKPIZO (Greece)
- European Academy of Paediatrics
- European AIDS Treatment Group
- European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines
- European Association of Hospital Pharmacists – EAHP
- European Institute of Women’s Health
- European Public Health Alliance – EPHA
- European Social Insurance Platform – ESIP
- Global Health Advocates
- Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos (Portugal)
- Health Action International – HAI
- HOPE – European Hospital and Healthcare Federation
- International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies – AIM
- Just Treatment
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for HTA – LBI-HTA (Autria)
- Main Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions – SV (Austria)
- Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (Italy)
- Medecins du Monde (Greece)
- Mental Health Europe
- MSF Access Campaign
- National Health Care Institute – ZIN (The Netherlands)
- Prescrire
- ReAct Europe
- Romanian Health Observatory (Romania)
- Salud por Derecho (Spain)
- Social Security Institution of Finland (Finland)
- SOMO
- Standing Committee of European Doctors – CPME
- STOPAIDS (UK)
- T1International
- Test Aankoop/Test Achats (Belgium)
- Transparency International Health Initiative
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) Europe
- Wemos (The Netherlands)