Policy instruments
Discover the policy instruments that the partners of this project are tackling.
A means for public intervention. It refers to any policy, strategy, or law developed by public authorities and applied on the ground to improve a specific territorial situation. In most cases, financial resources are associated with a policy instrument. However, an instrument can also sometimes refer to a legislative framework with no specific funding. In the context of Interreg Europe, operational programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs as well as Cooperation Programmes from European Territorial Cooperation are policy instruments. Beyond EU cohesion policy, local, regional, or national public authorities also develop their own policy instruments.
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European Funds for Kuyavia and Pomerania 2021-2027 is a regional operational programme which is the basic instrument for implementing the objectives of the regional development strategy, prepared on the basis of socio-economic analyses of the region and the resulting development challenges.
The goal of the EFKP is to make the KPV a competitive and innovative region in Europe and to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. The ROP is co-funded by the ERDF and the ESF. The managing authority of the programme is the Management Board of KPV.
The draft EFKP (3rd version submitted to the EC) envisages a specific objective: Ensuring equal access to healthcare and supporting the resilience of healthcare systems, including primary care, and supporting the transition from institutional care to family and community-based care. The objective assumes increasing high quality of medical services, including improving accessibility and quality of medical care, as well as a quality of provided services through new centers’ establishment or development of activities of centers which provide services within the scope of palliative and hospice care, geriatric care and care and nursing services.
Under the specific objective, transnational and interregional actions with involvement of foreign partners are envisaged. It is planned to address issues of improving of local and regional policies that will be responsible for the systemic implementation of telecare and telemedicine in the region.
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The health and silver roadmap of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Council 2022-2027 will detail the policy of the Regional Council regarding health and silver economy (research, businesses, town planning, sanitary and social training, e-health) and will be adopted in the 2nd semester of 2022. It will be the first time that the health and silver domains will be targeted within the same roadmap. In fact, during the last period (2018-2021), two different roadmaps were dedicated to each domain.
For the current period (2022-2027), the Regional Council is preparing its regional roadmap together with the Quadruple Helix stakeholders through consultative meetings organised in April 2022 throughout the region with the participation of the Gérontopôle. These meetings aimed to collect various feedbacks of the regional stakeholders in order to adopt a roadmap matching their real needs. The new Health and Silver Action Plan will address, among other, the trend of withdrawal from medical care (including in rural areas) by increasing the availability of healthcare, the access to caregivers and by making the elderly care profession more attractive, and thereby by improving the quality of home care services. The scopes of intervention of the regional Council will probably deal with multi-professional health centers, support for projects improving access to care though innovation, support for innovative projects in the medical withdrawal issues (also in rural areas).
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In the past few years, the Region of Southern Denmark has increased its focus on how to scale those telemedicine and digital solutions that are developed and tested in the Region with good results and evaluations.
In January 2022, the Regional Council in Southern Denmark approved a new digitalisation strategy covering the years 2022-2024. The Region has great ambitions in the field of telemedicine and building on many years of work in the field, this strategy stipulates that patients have a right to virtual contact when it is medically compatible with the course of treatment. More specifically, 30 % of outpatient contacts should be virtual, and the number of video consultations should be increased considerably. Telemedicine should help make health care more easily accessible, flexible and allow patients and relatives to play a more active role. Furthermore, the implementation of both national and regional solutions should enable patients to be treated in their own homes to a larger extent via telemedicine. This also necessitates efforts to strengthen and develop the skills of health care professionals when it comes to using the relevant solutions in their daily clinical work.
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The policy instrument LGVO Work plan highlights three different target groups for initiatives in health, care and social services. The LGVO (Health and care management group) are categorised according to age groups "Growing up", "In the middle of life" and "Ageing" and priority development areas. The LGVO work plan decides, prioritizes and allocates resources for joint initiatives between the Region's health and medical care and the municipalities' responsibility for elderly care and certain medical care in ordinary homes. E-health, telecare and digitization are a central part of the policy instrument.
The policy is focus on collaboration between the various municipalities and health and medical care actors. LGVO work plan, wants to act as a cohesive force for goal image, direction and common needs and ensure that activities can be carried out independently in the operations in municipalities and regions, to enable rapid development. There are many comprehensive challenges in the transition to integrated care and e-health, such as coordination of regional and municipal political governance at strategic, tactical and operational levels, coordination and synchronisation of resource transfer and the possibilities to share information between principals. The work plan is adjusted in two-year periods. The current Work plan extends over 2022-2023. In 2023 it is expected to adopt the new policy plan for 2024-2025 and in consequence 2026-2027.
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Currently, the indicated Regional Social and Health Plan is prepared for years 2019-2023 but it is planned to be continued in following 5 years. Main feature: putting the citizen at the centre of policies. Objective: ensuring global care respecting equity, sustainability and efficiency. Measures addressed:
-digitalization, the development of innovative solutions. The objective exploits the potentialities of digitalization to respond to the challenges linked to the new needs in terms of health.GPs selection at local level to be extended at regional level.Identifying the present problems to define answers and assessing the results,
-promoting a participative approach of services using the potentiality of technologies to set up accessible services,
- guaranteeing accessibility of innovative services to the citizens,
- pharmaceutical governance and medical devices,
- guaranteeing to all citizens the access to innovative services,
- Increasing the role of community pharmacies by way of experimenting with new types of services,
The Regions have a significant role to carry out prior assessments of the expected expenditure impact of new technologies and to plan possible improvement of services and savings.
- an active involvement of patients in the prevention and in the managing of their own health and that of their community, to create a participative relationship in every phase of life between the citizen and the social and health care system.
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The Ministry of Health in Spain together with a representative from each Region’s Health Ministry have elaborated this policy instrument. This co-governance with the autonomous communities will facilitate the adoption of agreements ensure the interoperability of projects. Therefore the Aragón has had a relevant role in the definition and designing the document.
The objective is to improve the capacities of the National Health System (Spanish acronym: SNS), making it more progressive and providing it with characteristics in line with the demands of a developed society to ensure that everyone can make effective use of their right to health. To this end, actions will be carried out to strengthen care, preventive, equity, cohesive, professional development and health intelligence capacities, and the capacity for adaptation and resilience of the SNS.
The Strategy is structured in three main lines of action:
- Development of digital health services aimed at people, organizations, and the processes that make up the health protection system;
- Generalization of the interoperability of health information;
- Promotion of the analysis of data related to health and the health system.
In our region, Aragón, we will focuss on:
- Plan to Improve the Efficiency and Sustainability of the National Health System
- Component 11 - new e-administration primary care model within the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism Plan (RRM)
- RRM Epidemiological Surveillance
- RRM Training.
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Plan of health promotion, prevention and early detection of diseases in the City of Zagreb 2023-2025 (and the is a document consisted of measures and programs for prevention and early detection of diseases that will be implemented in a period of 3 years, the holders of measures are defined, and funds for implementation are provided in the budget of the City of Zagreb.
The goals of the Plan are:
- protection, preservation and improvement of the health of the population in the city of Zagreb;
- encouraging the development of healthy lifestyles;
- strengthening one's own responsibility for health;
- reducing the incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases by implementing preventive and promotional activities;
- prevention of addictive behavior;
- protection and improvement of mental health;
- health promotion.
- healthy growing up;
- health protection by acting on environmental factors;
- prevention, early detection and identification of disease risk factors and prevention of disease occurrence;
- early intervention.
The purpose of the implementation of health promotion in the City of Zagreb is investment and actions that would effectively reflect on: health determinants, health benefits of citizens, reducing inequalities in health, human rights and building social capital of the City of Zagreb.”