Patient Empowerment

Objective

The Patient Power programme focuses on promoting the interests of citizens in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (EMR) in relation to cross-border health care.

Activities

Examples of activities within this programme are:

• Jointly developing instruments for the cross-border participation of patients and citizens, e.g. self-help-friendly hospitals.
• Monitoring citizens rights and obligations in relation to cross-border care in the EMR.
• Involving the perspective of citizens and patients in all sorts of on-going cross-border projects in the EMR.