As our world becomes increasingly digital, our healthcare services will adapt and take advantage of the new opportunties this opens up. At the same time, our patients will continue to expect human contact. With the average increase in life expectancy, as well as new...
The call for late abstract submission is now open. Submit your abstract before Monday, 24 January 2022 at 23:59 CET. This will be your final chance to submit an abstract to the largest European congress on pain taking place in Dublin on 27-30 April 2022. Don’t miss...
The newest quarterly newsletter of the European Pain Federation EFIC has just been published. Check out our latest updates on the #EFIC2022 Congress, the EFI Academy, our Research and Advocacy activities, news from our Chapters and much more. Read it...
Dr. Brona fullen & ms. Deirdre ryan – european pain federation efic & pain alliance europe (pae), belgium Dear Reader, As 2021 draws to a close, the Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) would like to thank you for your continued support. The COVID-19 pandemic still...
The OneNeurology European Summit, organised under the auspices of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2021, and the OneNeurology Partnership, will advance the ambition to build a European Health Union in which we address key common EU health...
The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) has published the final compromised amendments on their Report on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan entitled “Strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer”. SIP has engaged with multiple MEPs on this...
The European Pain Federation EFIC is pleased to share recent news and updates from our 38 national chapters below. Belarus The program of the Meeting of the Belarusian Society for the Study of Pain (EFIC National Chapter) – Regional Conference, 20/11/2021...
SIP.be has known a little relapse in the past period. With a well structured model in national chronic pain policy since 2013, it would be too bad to miss the opportunity of an interesting platform. Therefore, Omer Vanhaute, involved at different levels with various...
SIP.be has known a little relapse in the past period. With a well structured model in national chronic pain policy since 2013, it would be too bad to miss the opportunity of an interesting platform. Therefore, Omer Vanhaute, involved at different levels with various...
The Executive Committee of the national platform SIP PT organised an online and face-to-face event to commemorate the National Day against Pain, on October 16th, 2021, after the 2021 APED Congress in Lisbon, with 80 registrations. At this event, we presented to the...
Register for #EFIC2022 NOW! Are you a basic or preclinical pain researcher? Then sign up for #EFIC2022 right away! The next EFIC Congress taking place in Dublin, Ireland on 27-30 April 2022 is a great opportunity for researchers as it provides them with a large...
Update on progress of IMI-PainCare, a public-private partnership supported by the European Union to improve the care of patients with acute or chronic pain. EFIC is one of about 40 partners of this consortium (www.imi-paincare.eu): IMI-PainCare TRiPP (Translational...
International Day of People with Disabilities: 3 December In 1992, the United Nations introduced this International Day of celebration for people living with disabilities to be held on 3 December each year. The theme for this year is “Fighting for rights in the...
On the 1st of December 2021, the SIP team met online with MEP Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, Germany). The team spoke about: Introduction of SIP; SIP’s long-term priorities; SIP’s objectives and SIP’s future plans; SIP Position Paper on Workplace Integration and...
The fourth SIP National Platform call for 2021 took place virtually on the 25th of November. During the meeting, participants had the opportunity to: Welcome the new SIP Belgium colleague; Discuss SIP’s plan for 2022 and; Discuss policy and advocacy activities...
