Scotland and the Basque Country collaborate to transfer knowledge regarding Innovative Good Practices.

By |2017-03-07T13:33:18+02:007 March 2017|

In December 2016 the European Commission awarded the Basque Country four stars as a “Reference Site”. This status is granted to Regions, Cities, Hospitals, Organisations or Health Services that implement a comprehensive and innovative approach to active and healthy ageing. Thus, the regions granted “Reference Site” status, commit to actively participate in the deployment and [...]

Visits to the three C3-Cloud pilot project regions

By |2017-02-02T09:50:40+02:0030 January 2017|

The project technological partners have visited the 3 pilot regions: the Basque Country, the UK and Sweden, in June, September and November, respectively. The purpose of the C3-Cloud “A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy” project is to provide patients with multiple co-morbidities with continuous personalised [...]

KICK-OFF MEETING JOINT ACTION ADVANTAGE, Madrid 19-20 January 2017

By |2017-08-03T08:34:08+02:0026 January 2017|

On the 19th and 20th of January the Joint Action ADVANTAGE initiative “Managing Frailty. A comprehensive approach to promote a disability-free advanced age” has celebrated its kick-off meeting. This Joint Action on the Prevention of Frailty is co-funded by the Third European Health Programme of the European Union 2014-2020. ADVANTAGE has a budget of 3.5 [...]

The Scirocco consortium meets at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) to hold the first project meeting

By |2016-11-29T17:04:27+02:0029 November 2016|

On 18th and 19th October, Kronikgune hosted the first meeting of the Scirocco European project. The aim of the meeting was to review the project progress, move forward in the decision-making for the next steps and share the Good Practices in integrated care from the 5 participating European regions. The Scirocco European project “SCaling IntegRated [...]

Carewell information video now available

By |2016-10-26T13:13:25+02:0026 October 2016|

Kronikgune and Osakidetza have made an information video about the Carewell project to tell the general public about the work carried out in the Basque Country. The result of the Carewell project in the EC's annual review was excellent. In fact, one of the things that the EC recommended was to let the general public [...]

MasterMind Consortium meets in Bilbao to discuss the project assessment stage

By |2016-10-26T13:10:24+02:0026 October 2016|

The meeting that gathered data managers and methodologists working on the European Mastermind project took place in Bilbao on 6, 7 and 8 September. The leaders of all the pilot regions met to analyse the information collected up until now and move forward in the decision-making process for the final results report for the European [...]

Worldwide interest in the results of the ASSEHS project led by Kronikgune

By |2016-10-05T17:45:18+02:005 October 2016|

Many countries all over the world are interested in the ASSEHS White Paper – it has been downloaded hundreds of times in more than 28 countries in the first few weeks after being published. The knowledge that the European project ASSEHS has generated has been disseminated worldwide. Activation of Stratification Strategies and Results of the [...]

The regions participating in the MasterMind project implement online cognitive-behavioural therapy programmes.

By |2016-07-20T08:50:56+02:0022 August 2016|

The purpose of the European project MasterMind is to deploy an online cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) programme to combat depression within an integrated intervention. Before starting the intervention, all the regions analysed the existing online programmes to ascertain how they should be adapted from a clinical, technical and economic perspective or if a new programme was [...]

The first edition of the programme “Bidasoatik Mundura, Sasio Erronka”, in Bidasoa region, has concluded.

By |2016-07-20T08:44:24+02:004 August 2016|

The programme began in September 2015 in 10 school centres of Irún and Hondarribia, and ended last June 2016 with a large celebration in Ficoba, Irún. The child/youth population does less and less exercise and the nutritional pattern is changing. There is an increase in the prevalence of excess weight and obesity. Schools are a [...]

Professionals of Osakidetza (Basque Health Service) receive training on the basic concepts of risk stratification.

By |2016-07-20T08:28:29+02:0026 July 2016|

This training was developed within the European project ASSEHS in response to one of the areas of improvement detected in the Basque Country. Its purpose is to improve the knowledge of the professionals of Osakidetza on risk stratification and its use in healthcare. ASSEHS is a European project whose aim is to activate stratification tools [...]