EuroPharm Forum

This conference is organised jointly by the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, the Hungarian Committee of Pharmaceutical Care and the EuroPharm Forum.

With this conference, we focus on ways to improve efficacy, patient safety and costs in the area of noncommunicable diseases, and demonstrate the value of pharmacists’ contribution to a better health for patients.

• Short report on the conference
• Opening address, by Dr. Hanna Pava, Deputy Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Resources, Hungarian EU Presidency
• Welcome, by Dr. Th(Dick)FJ Tromp, President, EuroPharm Forum
• Focus on risks: Most important risks in medicines use, by Prof. Dr. Peter de Smet, KNMP, The Netherlands
• Focus on NCD's: The impact of NCD's on Health and Wealth, by Dr. Hans Kluge, Director Health System and Public Health, WHO Europe (presented by Mr. Kees de Joncheere, WHO Europe, in Dr. Kluge's absence)
• Focus on costs and health: How collaboration has an impact, by Ms. Martine Ruggli, Project Manager, Swiss Association of Pharmacies, Switzerland
• Presentation of the new Health System in Hungary (the Health Systems in Transition (HIT) series), by Dr. Peter Gaál, Director, Associate Professor of Health Service Management Training Centre, Semmelweis University, Hungary
• Presentation of the new Health System in Hungary (the Health Systems in Transition (HIT) series), by Mr. Willy Palm, Dissemination Development Officer of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
• The relation of the quality of pharmacist service and cost-effectiveness of medicines, by Dr. Ab Klink, Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands
• Impact of policies on practice situation: The Hungarian example, by Dr. Attila Horváth-Sziklai, Pofessional Secretary of the Hungarian National Committee of Pharmaceutical Care, Hungary
• Pharmacists' contribution to public health: The Portuguese example, by Ms. Cristina Santos, Head of Pharmacy-based Services Department, ANF, Portugal