On December 1st, the final conference of HAPPY PATIENT took place in Barcelona, bringing together nearly 50 people, including project partners and professionals from the academic, health, and research fields. It served as a gathering point to address the public health issue of antibiotic resistance on a European and global...
The coordinator of HAPPY PATIENT, Dr. Carl Llor, researcher at IDIAP Jordi Gol and family doctor, explains in this interview his role in the project and everything that working on it for three years alongside professionals from around Europe has brought to him. HAPPY PATIENT emerges as a standout initiative...
On June 8th and 9th, the partners of the HAPPY PATIENT project gathered in Copenhagen to assess the progress of this project, which started in 2021 and will run until the end of this year, 2023. Around thirty professionals from different parts of Europe gathered at the University of Copenhagen...
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.
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...
The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is ever-growing and resolving it is high on the agenda of many international organizations, including the European Commission. They have adopted an action plan against AMR of which the main goals are to make the EU a best practice region and to boost research,...
The Department of PharmacoTherapy -Epidemiology and Economics of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) is responsible for WP6 which is leading the Audit cycles in community pharmacies and adapting the APO Templates to pharmacies in the Target Countries. The members who are participating in the HAPPY PATIENT project come from very different...
