EU4Health 2021 2027: a vision for a healthier European Union

The EU4Health programme is the EU's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which so far has a major impact on healthcare staff, patients and health systems in Europe. It is this crisis that has shown that Europe cannot wait for another pandemic and must invest urgently in health and health systems. The ambition of the new EU4Health programme is go beyond crisis response, link organisationswhich share Europe's vision, where health is a priority, to address resilience of healthcare systems.

EU4Health system establishedRegulation (EU) 2021/522.provide funding to eligible entities, health organisations and non-governmental organisations from EU or non-EU countries associated to the programme. Under EU4Health, the European Union invests EUR 5.3 billion in value-added projects at EU level which complement EU country policies and pursue one or more EU4Health objectives.

Objectives the EU4Health programme:

EU4Health will pave the way for the creation of European Union of Healthby investing in urgent health priorities:

• Response to the COVID-19 crisis and strengthening the EU's resilience to cross-border threats m Health;
• A European plan to combat cancer;
• Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe.

Participants

EU countries participate in consultations on the priorities and strategic direction of the programme and cooperate with the Commission within the EU4Health Steering Group to ensure coherence and complementarity with national health policies. They shall give their opinion in the EU4Health Committee before adopting the annual work programmes.

Interested parties including representatives of civil society and patient associations, academics and health workers' organisations provide information on priorities and strategic orientations and needs to be addressed through the annual work programme.

European Parliament be informed of progress in preparatory work and support activities with stakeholders.

European Commission prepare, adopt and implement annual work programmes and monitor and report on progress towards the objectives of the Programme. It may also at any time request the opinion of the relevant decentralised agencies and independent health experts on technical or scientific issues relevant to the implementation of the programme.

The programme will be implemented Executive Agency for Health and Digitisation (HaDEA).