EHFCN Activities
EHFCN activities aim to increase public awareness about the risks of healthcare fraud and corruption, influence policy , promote the share of good practice, joint work and development of common working standards, provide high-quality information, tools, training and assisance in fighting fraud and corruption and encourage European healthcare systems improvement by reducing losses to fraud and corruption.
Examples of activities include:
EHFCN Awareness campaign on Anti-Corruption Day
The EHFCN Awareness campaign is celebrated every year on 9th December to tie in with the United Nations' Anti-Corruption Day. It draws attention to various issues related to the prevention and fight against fraud and corruption in the healthcare sector. It is led by the EHFCN Office and its members associations in Europe.
More information about this year's campaign is to come soon.
EHFCN Annual Conference
The EHFCN Annual Conference is usually attended by a range of European representatives from Ministries of Health, sickness funds, healthcare services and political leaders. It is the ideal opportunity to learn, meet other members and make new acquaintances. This year's conference is taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on 6th and 7th October 2009.
If you haven't registered for the conference yet, it is still time to join. Click here for further conference information
Seminars and Trainings
Regular seminars and training sessions are organised twice a year in order to facilitate the transfer of knowledge, share of good practices and new ideas to solve problems. A training syllabus is made available after the session.
More information to come soon
Excellence Award
EHFCN will confer its first Excellence Award at this year's Annual Conference in October 2009. The award is granted to an organisation or individual who has proven excellence in the field of countering fraud and/or corruption in the healthcare sector by means of a particular action or initiative. It aims to stimulate best practices in counter fraud and counter corruption activities in healthcare. Recognising a particular action or initiative and giving it the credit deserved will also help EHFCN promote its aim, which is to improve European healthcare systems by reducing losses to fraud and corruption.
EHFCN is currently calling for nominations, which can be made until 31 August 2009.
For further information on rules and procedures, click here.
To fill in the form to propose a nominate, click here
The results of the Excellence Award will be announced in September 2009. The Award will be presented at the EHFCN Annual Conference in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) on 6 October 2009.
Publications
Information leaflets, brochures, publications are important tools to get the message across.
EHFCN is currently preparing its Annual Report, the purpose of which is to provide up-to-date information on healthcare fraud and corruption losses, on counter-fraud and counter-corruption activities and their resulting effects in Europe.
We require your input! Please assist us in gathering the necessary data, figures and information via our survey: please follow this link to start. We thank you very much in advance.