The World Patients Alliance is the umbrella organisation of patients and patients’ organisation around the globe. The Alliance provides a platform to empower and raise the patients’ voice and ensure that patients have an active role to play in all stages of healthcare and that includes planning, provision, monitoring, research and evaluation of health services. The Alliance represents patients from all world regions and across all disease areas.
The Alliance was founded on the following key principles:
Access to healthcare:
Every patient should have access to healthcare that includes timely, effective, affordable, optimal, and innovative treatments for their condition.
Patient centered healthcare:
Patients and healthcare providers must work in partnership to ensure the patient’s individual specific health needs and desired health outcomes are the focus for all healthcare decisions including physical, emotional, psycho-social, and economic aspects.
Financial hardship:
Patients should have health coverage options that provide them with health care while protecting them from financial hardship.
Empowered patients:
Patients should be supported and empowered to express their needs, concerns, and preferences and provided with the opportunity to have a voice in the decision making of their treatments
Patient safety and quality:
Patients should be provided with treatments that are safe, high quality and appropriately monitored
Patient education and information:
Stakeholders should ensure patients are educated in understandable and accessible ways about their condition and treatment options. They must be provided with information that is simple, relevant and comprehensive.
Partnership and collaboration:
Patients should partner and collaborate with all stakeholders for the provision and access to safe, quality, and affordable healthcare.
Patient engagement:
Patients should be supported and provided the opportunity to be engaged at all levels of decision making concerning their healthcare.
No discrimination:
Patients seeking care must not be discriminated against on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, income, health status, education, geographic location, legal status or other similar factors.
We’re delighted to be a member of the WPA and are looking forward to being a part of this new and growing network of organisations. You can find out more about the WPA by visiting their website or Facebook or Twitter pages
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