The third EU Homeopathy Day will be hosted by Marian Harkin MEP in the European Parliament on 23 March. Organised by the European associations of patients, practitioners, doctors and pharmacists of homeopathy and the European homeopathic and anthroposophic medicine industry association, the event will focus on the need to respect the choices and preferences of the 100 million users of homeopathy and anthroposophic medicine in Europe and to act on their request for the integration of homeopathy and complementary medicine into health care policy.
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John Dalli, Commissioner-designate for Health and Consumer Policy (SANCO) in President Jose Manuel Barroso’s new Commission, has underlined the important and central role of patients and their organisations in health policy development and the acute need to develop mechanisms to strengthen and support patient groups. A special issue of ECHAMP News focuses on the patients of homeopathy – what they want for their health care, their levels of satisfaction with homeopathic treatment, the EU structures for making their voice heard, and the legal framework within which they have the right to ask for access to complementary medicine including homeopathy.
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ECHAMP’s new publication, ‘Homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products - A call to action: Legislative term 2009-2014 of the European Parliament and the European Commission’ urges politicians and policy makers to support initiatives to give patients, doctors and practitioners access to the homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products of their choice; it provides specific recommendations for an improved legal and regulatory framework for these products.
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