European Alliance for Cardiovascular Health (EACH)

🎉 Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Mr Olivér Várhelyi announces that the European Commission will develop a new European Cardiovascular Health Plan ⤵️ 📽️ The success and impact of a European CVH Plan will depend not only on what is achieved in the next few years but on how it is achieved so that no one and no country is left behind. EACH calls on addressing societal barriers, underserved populations, discrimination on all grounds, and fundamental inequities that permeate health systems across Europe. At EACH, we know that the time to act is now. Read about the EACH plan and our asks here: https://lnkd.in/exkeqf2s #CVHealthForAll #EUCVHPlan

The #CouncilConclusions being approved is not the only announcement of today! Commissioner for Health Mr Olivér Várhelyi states that the European Commission "will develop a new European Cardiovascular Health Plan", as it aims to "put front and centre cardiovascular health" in the new mandate, an ambition EACH Partners have been calling for! This is great news for the cardiovascular community across Europe! https://lnkd.in/eUHNfNwp #EUCVHPlan #CVHealthForAll

« Le Noël de mes rêves » just became a reality. A year ago we were in #Strasbourg at European Parliament ( where I took this photo) advocating for the prioritization of the health of over 440 million people. The European Union has just adopted Council Conclusions that will set a milestone for the continent’s #cardiovascular health. Why this matters? #Cardiovascular disease (CVD) – the leading cause of death in the EU and globally – affects more than 60 million Europeans, accounts for over 1.7 million deaths annually on the continent, and costs its economy an estimated €282 billion each year. European Alliance for Cardiovascular Health (EACH) World Heart Federation Read our joint statement: http://bit.ly/3VhPir6

Approved 💚 ! Council Conclusions on the Improvement of Cardiovascular Health in the EU: https://lnkd.in/ew79yBnP Read the Press Release from EACH here: https://lnkd.in/eQQYFUZA

🍂 🎃 🦃 November has just come to a close ! Let's have a look at our highlights: 🎂 🎆 🎇 Celebrating 65 Years - our anniversary event in Brussels brought together industry leaders, policymakers, and healthcare professionals. 🎙️ MEP Stine Bosse, MEP Vytenis Andriukaitis, Prof Annemiek Snoeckx, MD, PhD from the European Society of Radiology and Irene Norstedt from the European Commission joined our President Jan-Willem Scheijgrond in reflecting on the association’s significant achievements and discussing the future of healthcare in Europe. https://lnkd.in/eHNDhKi2 🫁 🥸 We marked both #LungCancerAwareness Month and #Movember by taking part in the event "Advancements in Cancer Treatment" organised by Slovenian Business & Research Association (SBRA). We presented our views on advancing innovation, research, and digitalisation in medical technology under new EU Legislative Frameworks, with a spotlight on #Radiotherapy (RT). https://lnkd.in/esjmgqrp 🥼 🔬 🧪 We took part in the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Brokerage event in Brussels, which was attended by 380 people, with 61 pitchers who presented their ideas. 🚀 Calls 9 and 10 are scheduled for launch in 2025 - Register now to the #IHICallDays https://lnkd.in/e4K-NUfb 🎧 Our Annabel Seebohm, LL.M. recorded her #BreaktheBubble podcast with Incisive Health https://lnkd.in/e-ypCHRe 🫀 As proud partners of the European Alliance for Cardiovascular Health (EACH), we attended the event "Rising to the challenge: time for action on cardiovascular health", which explored how to best focus EU-level action against CVD during the new mandate. https://lnkd.in/emxwVEU8 📜 We partnered with MedTech Europe to present our shared vision to enhance the resilience of healthcare infrastructures through comprehensive #cybersecurity measures. https://lnkd.in/eZwHTPwT 📜In advance of #EPSCO - Health on 3 December, we partnered with eurom - the European Federation of High-tech Industries, FIDE - Federation of the European Dental Industry - and MedTech Europe to detail our joint recommendations for short-term and mid-term measures to support the future medical technologies sector framework. https://lnkd.in/e7veAfHH Keep following us for more updates ! 💡 More about us 👇 🇪🇺 Our five core recommendations to European policy- and decision-makers https://lnkd.in/ei3EjMAV 📞 Not a COCIR member ? contact us https://lnkd.in/eEQjZKz7

Welcome to the MEP Cardiovascular Health Group, MEP Andras Kulja MD! MEP Kulja has a background in healthcare, as he completed studies in medicine and health at the Semmelweis University in Budapest. Having amassed more than 400,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram, he has also been hard at work sharing health information with the public! We look forward to cooperating with you, MEP Kulja, and we hope your medical expertise will give an added impulse to the #CardiovascularHealth policy Europe desperately needs! #CVD #CVHealthForAll #MEPCVHGroup Read more: https://lnkd.in/e-zhbRCR

Our event last week "Rising to the challenge: time for action on cardiovascular health" explored how to best focus EU-level action towards the unmet needs of the cardiovascular community and ensure that the new EU mandate puts forward the right tools to support the communities and the Member States in promoting cardiovascular health. Watch below some of the highlights! 📹 #CVHealthForAll Read more: https://lnkd.in/emxwVEU8

EACH Partners have entrusted the European Society of Cardiology to continue providing Secretariat support for the Alliance in 2025 🎉 ! The Alliance has grown to 2️⃣1️⃣ European and international health organisations who have joined forces to call on the EU to elaborate an ambitious plan to address the burden of CVD and really make a difference by improving the lives of millions of people. Together, we can do more to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease, which is still the leading cause of death in Europe and impacting the lives of millions of Europeans every day. #CVHealthForAll

It was a blast ! Brussels couldn’t  be more vocal this week on the need to deliver better for its European citizens on Europe’s top two killer diseases: cardiovascular disease and cancer. While Commissioner Varhelyi is now ready to take office, the European Alliance for Cardiovascular Health (EACH) and its members are ready to support the deliver of an EU #CardiovascularHealth Plan. Great conference with opening remarks from @Csaba Contor; amazing @Cecilia Linde and outstanding input from all panellists. Meantime, at the #PoliticoHealthCare Summit a strong message was conveyed about NCDs on integrating strategies which do not encompass only lifestyle approaches ; NCDs and cancer should not be perceived as merely lifestyle diseases; primary prevention policies are in place but evidence shows that numbers are not falling – And last but not least to finish the week; The European Cancer Organisation Summit and a truly implementation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: prevent the preventable, deploy and embrace digital transformation in healthcare, personalised care and deliver better on survivorship and quality of life for European citizens. My key takeaways from this week's conferences: -         Competitiveness before access: First, we need to get medicines to Europe, and then we can work together to get equitable access to them -         The time is now to make the change for Cardiovascular Disease -         There will be no change if we don’t switch the focus from lifestyle prevention strategies to secondary prevention and early detection; European citizens needs support in management of their health conditions -         It is fundamental for health to be part of any EU preparedness union strategy; its not about which Commissioner will take the dossier but working together to achieve a truly European Health Union Excited about the months to come and looking forward to 2025 already !

On 18 November in Brussels, at the high-level policy event of the European Alliance for Cardiovascular Health (EACH), the cardiovascular community represented by prominent speakers such as MEP Vitenys Andriukaitis, Csaba Kontor, Michal Vrablík, Cecilia Linde, Ruth Biller, Prof. Raymond Vanholder, Marc Rijken and a wonderful audience of more than 100 attendees, agreed on what cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients need more in Europe ➡ A comprehensive EU Cardiovascular Health plan to be published by the European Commission focusing on: ❤️ Early detection ❤️ Timely screening and diagnosis ❤️ Early intervention ❤️ Rehabilitation and long-term care ❤️ Quality of life Václav Pláteník, Deputy Minister of Health in Czechia, Konrad Korbiński Head of Department of Coordinated Care at the Ministry of Health in Poland and Dr Michael Brinkmeier, Chairman of the German Stroke Foundation, shared their perspectives of what are the main key factors for successful implementation of national cardiovacsular health strategies and plans 💙 Political commitment and social cohesion 💙 Collaboration between all sectors 💙 Dedicated funding With the incoming Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi supporting a holistic CVH plan in Europe to address CVD, let's make the change now! Sophie Millar James Kennedy Christian Thonke Sandrine Cogez Karen Padilla Magdalena Daccord Cecilia Linde Emanuele Degortes Radka Lang Isabelle Schatz Christina Dimopoulou India Rijken Gabriele La Fata Nikos Manaras Enrica Obizzi Dimitri Pouradier Duteil Christian Juul Nyhus Andrea Forgione, HSBA Thomas Allvin Aleksandra Kaczmarek Gianfranco Parlato Tamara Krcmar Audrey Rousseau Birgit Beger Arlene Wilkie Karen Padilla Jeremiah Mwangi EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations Josef Vanicek Verena Kantel