European Patients` Rights Day

European Patients’ Rights Day
29 March 2007
European Parliament, Brussels
Altiero Spinelli Building Room ASP3G-2
Morning session
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
Chairperson:
Albert Jovell, Director of the Spanish Patient Forum, Spain
9:00 – 9:30
Opening Remarks
Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer
Protection
Antonyia Parvanova, MEP, ALDE, Bulgaria
Nicola Zingaretti, MEP, PSE, Italy
9:30 – 10:00
Why a European Patients’ Rights Day?
Teresa Petrangolini, Secretary General of Cittadinanzattiva, Italy
10:00-11:00
Comments by Members of the European Parliament
Adamos Adamou, Confederal Group of the European United Left –
Nordic Green Left, Cyprus
Giovanni Berlinguer, PSE, Italy
Ilès Braghetto, PPE, Italy
Jolanta Dickute, ALDE, Lithuania
Monica Frassoni, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Italy
Françoise Grossetete, PPE, France
Marian Harkim, ALDE, Ireland
Karin Jons, PSE, Germany
Marios Matsakis, ALDE, Cyprus
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, PPE, Greece,
Giovanni Pittella, PSE, Italy
Heide Rühle, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Germany
11:00 – 11:30
What is the situation of Patients’ Rights in Europe? Presentation of the
report on the monitoring of the European Charter
Giovanni Moro, President of the Active Citizenship Foundation, Italy
11:30- 13:00
Comments
Dorina Bianchi, Member of the Parliament, Italy
Lucien Bouis, Member of the EESC, Brussels
Fergus O’ Ferrall, Adelaide Hospital Society, Ireland
Lara Garrido-Herrero, Secretary General of the European Public Health
Association, Belgium
Lisette Tiddens, Secretary General of the Standing Committee of European
Doctors, Belgium
Representative of the European Commission, Belgium
Representative of the Veneto region, Italy
Annemie Van de Casteele, President of the Commission of Social Affairs in
the Belgian Senate, Belgium
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Afternoon session
Chairperson:
Pascal Garel, Chief Executive of European Hospital and Healthcare
Federation (HOPE), Belgium
14:00-14:30
Focus on the rights with the lowest attention in Europe : right to time,
access to care, free choice, innovation
Melody Ross, Project Manager of Active Citizenship Network, Italy
14:30-16:00
Comments
Marco Cappato, ALDE, Italy
Nadine Cluydts, Europa Donna, Belgium
Pim de Graaf, European Forum for Primary Care, The Netherlands
Representative of the Minister of Health, Italy
Charles Gutteridge, Director of Royal London Trust, UK
Brian Toohey, Vice President International Affairs of PhRMA, USA
16:00-17:00
Open debate
17:00- 17:30
Closing Remarks
Members of the European Parliament who have already confirmed their participation:
Adamos Adamou, Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, Cyprus
Stavros Arnaoutakis, PSE, Greece
Edit Bauer, PPE, Slovacchia
Giovanni Berlinguer, PSE, Italy
Johannes Blokland, Independence/Democracy group, the Netherlands
Jens-Peter Bonde, Independence/Democracy group, Denmark
Ilès Braghetto, PPE, Italy
Charlotte Cederschiöld, PPE, Sweden
Dorette Corbey, PSE, the Netherlands
Panayiotis Demetriou, PSE, Cyprus
Jolanta Dickute, ALDE, Lithuania
Harald Ettl, PSE, Austria
Marian Harkim, ALDE, Ireland
Monica Frassoni, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Italy
Françoise Grossetete, PPE, France
Karin Jons, PSE, Germany
Marios Matsakis, ALDE, Cyprus
Miroslav Mikolá_ik, PPE, Slovak Republic
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, PPE, Greece
Antonyia Parvanova, ALDE, Bulgaria
Lapo Pistelli, ALDE, Italy
Giovanni Pittella, PSE, Italy
Heide Rühle, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Germany
Nicola Zingaretti, PSE, Italy
This event is organized in collaboration with ALDE and PSE groups, with the support of Regione
del Veneto and thanks to Eucomed, PhRMA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd,
Medtronic and Merck Sharp & Dohme.