4 Amendments of Elizabeth LYNNE related to 2008/2115(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. Calls, in the framework of the strategy, for more effective exchanges of best practices within the European Union in all areas of health-care provision, in particular in relation to screening programmes and the diagnosis and treatment of serious illnesses such as cancer, but also looking at best practices where Member States have successfully integrated health and social care services so that other Member States can learn from this,
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in the framework of the strategy, to work towards the development of guidelines for a common definition of disability, which may include people with chronic illnesses or cancer and, in the meantime, for Member States that have not yet done so, to act as quickly as possible to include those people within their national definitions of disability;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that the European Union should take further steps to protect health-care workers from accidents or injury in the workplace, where there is scientific or medical evidence of need; welcomes the Commission's intention to put forward a legislative amendment to the 2000 biological agent's directive by the end of 2008 in order to ensure that people working in the health-care sector are protected from infection as a result of needle-stick or other medical sharps injury;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in the framework of the strategy, to do more to reduce the significant threat faced to health-care workers and patients, of hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA through the improved sharing of best practices, the implementation of effective screening programmes, and the mandatory isolation of infected patients and health-care workers;