Priority Axis 3: Accessible and resilient health services

Specific objective: RSO4.5. Ensuring equal access to health care and fostering resilience of health systems, including primary care, and promoting the transition from institutional to family-care and community-based care

Intro
Programme area has a substantial, but inefficient network of health care institutions, which often cannot provide for satisfactory and equal access to services for the patients. Border areas in particular suffer from poor access to health care, especially in cases where hospital care in one’s country is further away than the health care across the border. The Programme will promote the transition from institutional and hospital-centred model to family-based and community-based care and support primary and integrated health care models.

Types of actions
The Programme aims to contribute to accessibility and effectiveness of the health care system in the border areas by improving infrastructure, skills and organisation of healthcare in the Programme area. The proposed actions will demonstrate their contribution to the resilience and sustainability of health care system.
Examples of cross-border actions to be supported (non-exhaustive lists):

  1. Development and implementation of ICT solutions and (pilot) actions to support digitalization in health care
  2. Improving access to health care services for vulnerable and marginalised groups, such as elderly, children (e.g., children deprived of parental care) and persons with disabilities through investments in equipment, transport means, etc
  3. Improving the accessibility and effectiveness of cross-border public health care services by investing in telemedicine, diagnostics, mobile clinics/infirmaries and mobile assets, including small scale infrastructure preferring nature-based solutions
  4. Transfer of knowledge through exchange of experience, awareness raising, lifelong learning, education and training programmes, and capacity building through online and in-situ trainings to improve skills in the field of health care and enhance the delivery of primary care and family-based and community-based care services
  5. Developing and implementing joint activities/solutions to promote healthy lifestyles and active and healthy aging, disease prevention.

Allocation: 19,250,000.00 €

Main target groups
The programme will directly target health/social-care providers and institutions and organisations that can support them or their patience in the health/social-care access. Therefore, the expected target groups are:
– public institutions dealing with health care and long-term care (e.g. hospitals, clinics, health care centres/facilities)
– education and research institutions
– national/regional/local public authorities and bodies governed by public law
– regional and local development agencies
– civil society organisations active in promoting health care or assisting patients in accessing it, especially patients from vulnerable groups
– organisations providing family-based and community-based care