Archive for the category: ‘Health’

Focus On - Health

As a member of the Parliament's committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety I have an interest in health issues. The committee is responsible for all health policy issues which come before the European Parliament.

Some of the issues which I have an interested in and are being voted through the European Parliament at the moment include patient mobility, organ transplants and pharmaceuticals packaging.

Patient mobility is essentially healthcare without borders. The European Parliament approved measures in April 2009 to give Europeans the right to seek healthcare abroad more easily and also be reimbursed for the cost of that healthcare. The aim of the draft directive on cross- boarder healthcare is to ensure that there are no obstacles to patients seeking treatment in another EU member state. For more information, please click this link;

The European Parliament recently voted in favour on rules on organ donation across the EU (19 May 2010). The new directive sets common European quality and safety standards for transplants. Under the new rules EU member states must set up a national authority which will be responsible for maintaining the safety and quality the transportation of organs. The new rules also state that all donations must by unpaid and voluntary.

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Pharmaceuticals package: A major package of measures presented by the Commission to deal with counterfeiting and illegal distribution of medicines, information on prescription medicines and patient protection by strengthening the EU system for the safety monitoring of medicines ("pharmacovigilance"). The EP will vote its first-reading position this term.

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May 15th, 2013

Alcohol-Related Harm

We are all too aware of the harmful effects of hazardous alcohol consumption.
Many people have tragically lost their lives on [...]

April 9th, 2013

DELEGATION FROM INFLUENTIAL EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AND FOOD SAFETY COMMITTEE VISITS GRANGE

MEP for Louth-Meath and Ireland East, Mairéad McGuinness, welcomed members of the influential European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public [...]

March 19th, 2013

Celebrating St. Patrick

March 19th, 2013
March 19th and the European Parliament turned green as we joined with fellow Irish MEPs and colleagues and [...]

February 27th, 2013

Health First.

February 26th, 2013
It was great to listen to Minister for Health James Reilly in the European Parliament on Monday debating [...]

January 25th, 2013

EU to toughen tobacco rules – Mairead McGuinness MEP welcomes determination of Irish Presidency

Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness has welcomed the determination of the Irish Presidency of the EU to work towards agreeing [...]

January 8th, 2013

A secure farming future

 January 8th, 2013 – Securing the economic, environmental and social sustainability of farming is a real challenge for the future, [...]

November 23rd, 2012

MCGUINNESS OPENS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

One is too many, but today in the EU as leaders debate budgets, seven women will die from domestic violence, [...]

November 20th, 2012

MAIREAD MCGUINNESS APPOINTED TO KEY ROLE FOR NEW MEDICAL DEVICE RULES

The EU is set to update legislation on ‘medical devices’, everything from home-use items like sticking plasters, pregnancy tests and [...]

October 30th, 2012

Safety first for medical devices

October 30th, 2012
Every day medical devices are used to save lives and to improve life expectancy and the quality of [...]

October 10th, 2012

Speech to the TOPRA Veterinary Symposium,

TOPRA Veterinary Symposium,
The perspective of the European Parliament on the review of the legislation governing veterinary medicinal products
Mairead McGuinness MEP
October [...]

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