Month: March 2016

This year, we want World Arthritis Day (WAD) to be more powerful than ever! To do this we are asking people to share their stories about how they have taken action to live their life to the fullest with a rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMD) in order to provide greater education to people both within the RMD community […]

It is starting! After intense preparation, the second LUPUS EUROPE patient panel is now taking place in Brussels. From Friday to Sunday, nine patients from all over Europe will be discussing the theme of living with lupus, with a specific focus on treatment day after day. Several focus groups and workshops have been scheduled, and […]

What does quality of healthcare mean for you? Take the EPF survey! Deadline: 31st May 2016. The survey is aimed at patient representatives: primarily individual patients, their family members or informal carers, and patient organisation representatives across the EU. You do not need in-depth knowledge or experience on quality of care to complete the survey! There […]

In September, during the LUPUS EUROPE convention, we were delighted to welcome Jeanette Andersen to the board. She has written a little introduction for those who don’t already know her from her work in LUPUS EUROPE and Young PARE. “I was diagnosed with SLE in 2011, although I had had symptoms of the disease since […]

A Toolbox of presentations, videos, articles and other resources on patients’ involvement in development of new drugs for treatment was launched on January 27th. The EPF flagship project, EUPATI (the European Patient Academy on Therapeutic Innovation), has lanuched its Toolbox in 7 languages – read more on what fruits this will bring to patients and the research and regulatory […]

  Do you have members in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg or Germany?  This year’s EPF Regional Advocacy Seminar is open to patient representatives from these countries. Make sure you share this opportunity with them! This year’s Seminar is entitled “Getting the patients’ message across to the national and European level”. Participants will take part in […]