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The President of the Polish Heart Transplant Association STS, Miroslaw Czechovski, invited EHLTF chairman Arnulf Pohl to attend the STS General Congress, which took place at the Hotel Resort WDW Rynia, on Lake Zegrze, Warsaw. The Polish Heart Transplant A...
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MEPs on Wednesday 19th January approved a new EU law setting out patients' rights to seek medical care in another EU country. The legislation clarifies the rules for reimbursement, including when advance authorisation may be required.
The new rules cla...
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ORGAN TRANSPLANTS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATED NON-GOVERMNENTAL ORGANISATIONS IN SLOVENIA
Anastazija Bizjak and Branko Mrak
Organ and tissue transplants are the most modern method for treating end-state chronic organ failure, and have been cond...
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On 30 October the celebrations of the Finnish Heart and Lung Transplant Association SYKE took place in Helsinki, with lively participation from association members and guests from other Scandinavian countries. At the same time, the anniversaries of the fi...
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Since 1998 the Council of Europe has planned the European Day of Organ Donation, which this year was celebrated on 23 October in Tbilisi, Georgia. The objectives of this event are to raise awareness of Organ Donation and Transplantation in public, to init...
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On 16 October the European Day of Organ Donation, which supported by the EU and the Council of Europe, was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as in a number of other European countries. “Slovenija Transplant” organised this event with an attractive programm...
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The Nordic Heart and Lung Transplant Associations held their annual meeting in Copenhagen last August.
This event, perfectly organized by the board of the Danish Heart and Lung Transplant Association, offered a good opportunity to get a useful overview o...
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You will find this document in the section "Downloads" of this website....
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First public meeting and event of a newly established Slovak national patient group of people after Heart Transplantation took place end of March at the Slovak National Heart Transplant clinic in Bratislava.
Around 30 patients, family members and docto...
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In the course of the 13th EHLTF Games in Växjö, Sweden the Annual General Assembly of the European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation was held on July 2nd 2010.
President Terry Mangan warmly welcomed delegates of 15 of the 16 member countries, repres...
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The following message, which unfortunately arrived a little too late for Games in Växjö comes from Erik Compton from the USA
Erik, a 28-year-old professional golfer on the US PGA tour, who very recently competed in the US Open Golf Championship in Pebb...
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Viking, the Swedish Heart and Lung Transplant Association, hosted the 13th European Heart and Lung Transplant Games, which took place in Växjö, a beautiful town in the heart of the Smaland region, from June 30th to July 4th 2010.
On the first day, in...
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As indicated earlier, the European Parliament adopted on May 19th, 2010 two documents regarding quality and safety standards for organ transplantation:
"Directive on Standards of Quality and Safety of Human Organs intended for Transplantation (COM(2008)8...
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According to the announcement of May 2010 you will find now the "Madrid Resolution on Organ Donation and Transplantation" in the "Download" section of this website....
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Following the Madrid Conference on Organ Donation and Transplantation in March 2010, the recently adopted Resolution WHA63.22 of the Sixty-Third World Health Assembly, endorses the WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation and...
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on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
Participants in the International Summit on Transplant Tourism and Organ Trafficking agreed on this Declaration in Istanbul, Turkey, April/May 2008.
The European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation joined o...
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Organ Transplantations - historical success achieved in quality and safety of transplantation process in Europe
The European Parliament adopted on May 19th, with an overwhelming majority, the Report by Miroslav Mikolásik MEP on the standards of qualit...
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You will find the most interesting WHO report on Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation in the "Download" section of this website including the 11 WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation.
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This conference, organized by the Spanish Ministry of Health, ONT, the European Commission, WHO and The Transplant Society, was focused on European and Universal Challenges in Organ Donation, Searching for Global Solutions and Striving for Self-Sufficienc...
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EPF, the leading umbrella organisation of European and national coalition patient organisations active in the field of public health and health advocacy, has launched a new and enhanced, interactive member-focused website: www.eu-patient.eu.
EPF Presid...
