After the Summer School on HTA organized in Rome last September, Cittadinanzattiva-ACN has joined the Steering Committee of the International Society for the involvement of citizens in the Health Technology Assessment.
With this campaign, Cittadinanzattiva wants to dispel taboos and offer advice, information and protection to citizens on what to do and what to expect, at home, from the family doctor, medical facilities, in order not to suffer needlessly. The campaign also provides instructions for using the Italian Law n.38 of 2010 which is a law forefront in Europe and defends us from unnecessary pain.
The campaign is developing initiatives in 50 Italian cities, where volunteers of the Tribunal for Patients' Rights are available to the public, to give information, advice about their rights and distribute a free practical guide.
Telecommunications and energy in top place for inadequate services. Ever more aggressive commercial practices and unprotected citizens. Companies turned nasty by the crisis and consumers thrown into the fray of the economic front and that of citizen protection.
Cittadinanzattiva (Active Citizenship) and SiHTA (Italian Society of HTA)have signed an agreement for the promotion of a summer school for civic leaders HTA in November 2011. The agreement is focused on three shared issues: 1) the need to support the development of HTA as a tool of government qualified public spending in a context of strong reduction of resources, 2) the absence in Italy of the citizens' involvement in the processes of evaluation, and 3) the lack of civic leadership aware and sufficiently informed.
In the context of the Cyprus presidency of the EU, the ‘Forum Youth Club’ along with the sector of young people with disabilities, successfully hosted the representatives of the ‘European network of independent living’ of young people with disabilities, from September 4th to September 9th on a fairly tight schedule of meetings.
A journey through the Italian courts. Presented in Itlay the first civic rating on civil courts promoted by Cittadinanzattiva. Very little basic information, to the South the most obvious shortcomings