EU Health Policy Platform Restricted Network
JANE-2 collaborates and develops synergies with ongoing EU Joint Actions, projects and initiatives following Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. To enhance this collaboration, JANE-2 has launched a restricted network entitled EU Health Networks – Synergies and Challenges, hosted on the European Commission’s Health Policy Platform, with the support of DG SANTE and HaDEA , bringing together 14 cancer-related Joint Actions, EU projects and ERNs (ECHoS, JARDIN, TEHDAS-2, CAN.HEAL, eCAN Plus, EUCanScreen, JA PreventNCD, CCI4EU, EURACAN, ERN-PaedCAN, ERN-EuroBloodNet, ERN GENTURIS, EUnetCCC and JANE-2). Two more Joint Actions also joined the EU HPP Restricted Network: JA Cancer Watch and JA Hope4Kids (Joint Action -Holistic Palliative Care for Children in Europe), increasing the number of the members to 16.
Aim of the Restricted Network: The aim of the Restricted Network is to jointly discuss the synergies and to tackle challenges experienced by joint actions, EU projects and ERNs, while developing new EU Health Networks. JANE-2 has already completed the difficult exercise of highlighting 13 questions that need to be addressed while developing the seven Networks of Expertise (JANE’s policy document, Green Paper).
Why is this important: As JANE-2 is a joint action focusing on creating seven Networks of Expertise (NoEs) that will function at both EU and national levels, including via comprehensive cancer centres, it is crucial for all current and future EU projects (and networks) that are directly or indirectly connected to the seven Networks of Expertise on cancer, to have a way of communicating the needs, challenges and jointly discussing solutions specifically pertaining to EU health networks. As the only way forward is together.
The focus HPP Restricted Network is on ensuring the long-term sustainability of the cancer- related EU Health Networks in terms of financial, institutional, operational and political aspects. To this end, 9 subgroups have been created on nine thematic areas to address synergies and overlaps across the members of the HPP Restricted Network- EU Health Networks: Synergies and Challenges.
