While the final text is under finalisation, the infrastructure according to the EP’s press release of Friday 15 March would work as follows :`
SUMMARY
The Space purports to ease access to personal health data and to boost secure sharing for the public & private interest :
-Patients will be able to access their personal health data electronically across the EU’s different healthcare systems.
-Patients will be able to download their health record free of charge.
-Health professionals like dental practitioners will have access to their patients’ data, based strictly on what is necessary for a given treatment (this is the ‘primary use’ of these data).
-Industry & Research will have access to an unprecedented amount of health data (450 million citizens are potentially concerned) thanks to the heavily negotiated possibility of a “second use” of these data (see below).
The Belgian EU presidency is working to lay a foundation for a future EU health workforce strategy.
Key themes of the conference are : security of medicines supply, the shortage of health workers (i.a. medical deserts, shortages of some professions, violence and verbal abuse towards healthcare professionals)and crisis preparedness.
A workshop involving politicians, stakeholders, and health experts will discuss “what we could do to set up a better policy approach at the EU level for the health workforce”.
L’automne dernier, des enseignants-chercheurs impliqués dans un large projet Européen (J.Dixon et collaborateurs, dont S.Tubert-Jeannin, V.Roger-Leroi & S Vital) publiaient une enquête sur la formation des chirurgiens-dentistes en Europe1,2. L’enquête est disponible en ligne et s’intitule O-HEALTH-EDU: Aperçu de l’état actuel de la formation des professionnels de la santé orale en Europe.
Le Pr Tubert-Jeannin (Département de santé publique orale, Université Clermont Auvergne, France), coordinatrice du projet, nous présente l’intérêt de cette étude.
The idea is not to create in the near future a legally binding instrument that should be common to all EU countries.
Instead, the idea is rather to create a context for interested universities that facilitates the possibility to deliver a degree joint and common to several institutions from Member States.
Professions with automatic recognition of qualifications such as the one of dental practitioners could greatly benefit from such an initiative on joint degree programmes.
FEDCAR is the Federation of European Dental Competent Authorities and Regulators.
We bring together European orders and bodies responsible for the regulation, the registration and the supervision of dental practitioners. We share information and good practices on the regulation of dentists and aim at promoting common positions to the EU legislator regarding initiatives and legislation at European level which affect the regulation of dental professionals.
About FEDCAR
FEDCAR is the Federation of Europeen Dental Competent Autorities and Regulators bringing together European chambers, councils and public bodies responsible for the regulation, the registration and the supervision of dental practitioner.
Following informal meetings since 2000, FEDCAR – under the former name of “CODE” – was formally created on the 3rd April 2004 by the Roma Declaration.
The mission of Regulators and Competent Authorities is to ensure at the domestic level that practitioners cope with their professional duty and deontology.
Contrary to associations or trades, Regulators and Competent Authorities in FEDCAR deal with any practitioner whatever is the form of his or her exercise: company, independent worker, employed worker in hospital or in university, general practitioner or specialist.
Our Objectives, Code & Position Papers
FEDCAR’s objectives are:
> To promote patient safety across Europe
> To promote a high standard of dental regulation and of dental care in Europe
> To contribute to the safe facilitation of dental professional mobility within the EU
Our Code of Conduct details this threefold concern.
The Code is available on a permanent basis on this site (see the sections at the beginning of the web-site).
We also share information and good practices on the regulation of dentists and we aim to develop opinions and statements on new initiatives and legislation at European level which affect the regulation of dental professionals.
In 2016 our position-paper regards the risks associated with the use of tooth whitening without dental supervision in Europe.
In 2017 our position-papers regard :
the use by dental regulators of the Alert Mechanism in Europe regarding sanctions adopted against a dental practitioner (in English and in French languages);
the exclusion of Public Health professions from the scope of application of draft Directive on a proportionality test before adoption of new regulation of professions, or alternatively, a more balanced approach in this draft Directive of the specificity of Public Health professions as the Legislator already did in other pieces of EU legislation (in English and in French languages).
FEDCAR’s Secretariat is located in Brussels, hosted by the French Chamber of Dentists.
FEDCAR holds two plenary meetings a year: a Spring meeting in the country which holds the Presidency and an Autumn meeting in Paris.
For further information on FEDCAR & on the conditions for joining it, please contact:
info@fedcar.eu.
Members of the FEDCAR board
Dr Massimo Ferrero
General Secretary of FEDCAR
Former President for 2022
PRESIDENTE DELLA COMMISSIONE ALBO ODONTOIATRI DI AOSTA
Dr Oscar Castro
Chair of FEDCAR for 2023
Vice-president for 2024
President of Spanish Dental Council/Consejo Dentistas
Dr Marie-Anne Baudui-Maurel
Treasurer of FEDCAR
Vice-President of French Dental Chamber
Country’s members & partners
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Albania
Order of dentists of AlbaniaDr Nikoll Deda
President
info@ussh.org.al
Hungary
Egészségügyi Engedélyezési és Közigazgatási Hivatal
(Office of Health Authorisation and Administrative Procedures)
www.eekh.huZsolt Bélteki
Head of Department (Migration and Human Resources Methodology)
belteki.zsolt@enkk.hu
Spain
Illustro consejo general de odontologos y estomatologos de EspanaDr. Miguel Angel López-Andrade Jurado & Dr. Nacho Rodríguez Ruiz
Past Chair of FEDCAR
consejo@infomed.es
“Compliance with the professional rules regarding, in particular, the independence, dignity and honor of the profession, professional secrecy and fairness towards clients and other members of the profession” is a principle that is recognized by the EU judge and that is encouraged by the EU legislator.
The FEDCAR’s members have therefore agreed with common rules of conduct that should run a dentist’s professional activity anywhere in Europe.
EU Office
Conseil national de l’ordre des chirurgiens-dentistes
Chambre française de commerce et de l’industrie
8 avenue des Arts
1210 Bruxelles – Belgium – +32 2 506 88 44