Last week, the Research Institute in Primary Healthcare IDIAPJGol and the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) presented their Annual Awards for "Research in Primary Health Care IDIAPJGol-ICS". A total of 23 researchers were awarded in different categories.
Categoría: Happy Patient News
More than 400 European experts
participate in the project HAPPY PATIENT
to optimize the use of antibiotics
• One of the research lines of the HAPPY PATIENT European project is to develop a strategy to improve communication between professionals and patients. • As the celebration of the European Day for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics approaches on November 18, it is worth remembering that the adequacy of...
Lithuania kicked off the HAPPY PATIENT training interventions for trainers
Last 11 November about 40 health care professionals - mostly family doctors/general practitioners participated in the first training of the project On November 11, the Lithuanian colleagues of the HAPPY PATIENT project carried out their first intervention in the country. During it, the communication materials made by the consortium were...
“A good use of communication reduces the
arbitrary prescription of antibiotics by 25-30%”
The first session of the HAPPY PATIENT Communication skills: Training the trainers for the countries taking part in the project took place yesterday, 13 September afternoon. The topic addressed was the need to integrate communication skills into clinical practice and, more specifically, when deciding on the prescription of antibiotics. Nieves Barragán and Lucía Arias, as members of the Spanish Society of Family and...
«GPs are playing a much more critical role in nursing homes now than they used to do
before the pandemic»
Ana Moragas is a Family Doctor and a researcher in the field of Infectious Diseases. She is also working closely with HAPPY PATIENT as a member of both IDIAPJGol and semFYC. We had the chance to interview her before her presentation at the 42nd Spanish Conference which was held in...
Commission welcomes Member States’
support to designate antimicrobials reserved for humans
Member States have given their support to the establishment of a list designating antimicrobials to be reserved exclusively for treating certain infections in people. This means that these antimicrobials cannot be used in animals under any circumstances. The sale of veterinary medicinal products containing these antimicrobials will be prohibited. Through...
The debate on deprescription is intensifying in the Nordic countries, and HAPPY PATIENT is the instigator
The HAPPY PATIENT project was presented in the 22nd Nordic Conference of General Practice which took place in Stavanger, Norway, from the 21 to 23 of June 2022. The HAPPY PATIENT symposium was in the biggest room of the congress venue (Mastrafjorden A) and during the one an a half...
Almost 10,000 cases have been registered by the consortium as preliminary results
were discussed in Copenhagen
On May 30 and 31, an international meeting was held at the Panum Tower in Copenhagen of the HAPPY PATIENT project of the European Union, which fights against the arbitrary prescription of antibiotics in the 5 countries where it is most prevalent. HAPPY PATIENT (The Health Alliance for Prudent Prescription...
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threats to global public health
On 30-31 May an international conference was held in the Panum Tower of Copenhagen on the subject based on the EU project HAPPY PATIENT. Among others, Danish researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen have been participating. Resistance to antibiotics is a growing problem with...
WHO IS WHO – NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
HAPPY PATIENT targets both patients, primary health care professionals (general practitioners, nurses, dentists and pharmacists), health care professionals working at OOH services, and nursing homes. We will invite the scientific committees and the relevant societies for all the professionals involved (family doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, OOH services, and nursing homes),...