The European Commission recently published a booklet which briefly presents 12 good practices illustrating the success factors and the added value of cross-border cooperation in the health sector. The publication can be read and downloaded here.
The publication covers the following topics:
1. Direct services to citizens: Treatment, diagnostics and emergency care:
- ZOAST Zone of organised access to cross-border healthcare
- CBD-HEALTH Cross-border health: The Irish experience
- VÄLTEL Mixed Zone för Välfärdsteknologiska TestLabs
- TRISAN Trinational competence centre for your health projects
2. Enabling factors to improve healthcare providers: Workforce training and high-cost capital investment:
- RARESCREEN Innovative, Polish-German cross-border programme for early diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases in newborns
- HAFF Healthacross for future
- DOLJ-VRATSA HEALTH Coordinating and supporting the modernisation of public health services in Dolj-Vratsa
- EMS When emergency medical systems erase borders
3. Innovation and knowledge production: Knowledge sharing, management and crossborder care research:
- RARENET Trinational network for education, research and management of complex and rare diseases in the Upper Rhine
- HEALTH (SALUTE-ZDRAVSTVO) Integrated Territorial Investment: building a network of cross-border health services
- EUPREVENT Improve the health situation for citizens in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (EMR)
- NEURNET Care management network for patients with pharmaco-resistant epilepsy and patients with late-stage Parkinson’s
