4 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2008/2115(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that patients must be empowered and that, in this context, information strategies should be set up in order adequately to inform patients of their rights and obligations, including their right of free movement for health-care provision, thus allowing them increasingly to become active subjects rather than mere objects of health care and fostering the personal maturity that will enable population groups to start to be able to provide their own responses to certain health needs, and to assume active responsibility for these;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. OIs of the opinion that health-care professionals’ training should be adapted to the dynamics of health care and that this involves promoting lifelong learning among health- care professionals so that they benefit to the full from developments in the information and communications technology sector as well as the new medical, scientific and technological developments, and developing stable training structures to provide such lifelong learning, and attaches particular importance to initiatives by institutions and universities that have run substantial training measures characterised by contributions from a range of experts aimed at developing a method of integrating health measures, particularly with regard to long-term health needs;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to guarantee patients access to lifesaving drugs, even if these are expensive, in order to guarantee the universal right to health;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to provide, where appropriate and via special support projects, for the development and dissemination in the various States of practices supported by the scientific nature of the relevant actions, the proven efficacy of procedures and the low level of forecast and managed expenditure, in the context of long-term assistance in the area of domicile;