What can you do?

  1. Following the example of the Maltese organizations, all the civic & patient organizations supporting the initiative are invited to call their national MEPs to join the Interest Group on Patients’ Rights & Cross-Border Healthcare. Please, find your MEPs here and use this letter to be co-signed together with Active Citizenship Network.
  2. Take part to the European webinar titled Improving patients’ rights in the EU: the Case History of Cross Border Healthcare Directive. The initiative is organized by Active Citizenship Network in the framework of the EU project “From Citizen Involvement to Policy Impact (U-Impact)” and it is supported by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union. The initiative will be held next 4th March 2016 in Rome (Italy), to participate please contact us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  3. In order to draw and maintain the highest level of attention on patients' rights, the Interest Group will promote in 2016 several initiatives. From your point of view, what topics are you interested to present within the Interest Group? Please let us know writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  4. Record a video (max 30’’) with your smartphone, in English in your language, in which you agree with the key issues that the Interest Group will address: among others, to officially recognize the European Patients’ Rights Day, to establish the European Year of Patients' Rights in 2017, to support the implementation of the Directive 2011/24/EU on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare. Explain why the European Patients’ Rights Day should be instituzionalized for you. Please, the only rule is: conclude your video by saying  “Make it official!”.
    Send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.