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In 2015 and early 2016 the Federation sent to the Ministry of Health and the National Authority of Medicines several letters related to the fact that certain diabetes medicines were hard to find in the public pharmacies (allegedly due to the new price policy adopted by the Ministry, that encouraged private companies to export certain medicines to Western markets after they were imported for privilaged prices).
On 3 February 2014, it was launched the ExPAND toolkit for public policy makers. The toolkit is offered in English, in pdf format. The ExPAND Policy Toolkit for Diabetes is the result of discussions between the ExPAND members that occurred over the course of 2012-2013. The development of this Toolkit was overseen by SHW Health Ltd., acting as secretariat for ExPAND. The contents of the Toolkit are fully endorsed by, and are the ownership of, the members of the network. Acknowledgements to Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and Roche Diagnostics for providing support to facilitate the regular meetings of the ExPAND network and for funding the development of this Toolkit. You may see a presentation or download the toolkit from here.
The Romanian Federation of Diabetes Associations was asked to observe the works of the Complaints Commision regarding the newly registered molecules funded by the National Programmes. (10 January, 2014)
The Ministry of Health invited all national patient groups for a consultation regarding the newly proposed package of basic medical services, the national programmes and the new list of compensated medicines. (January 9, 2014)
The Ministry of Health discussed with the representatives of the patient groups the new draft of the National Health Programmes (25 March, 2013)
On February 5, 2013 FADR participated in a consultation organized by the Ministry of Health on the text of the new Frame Contract between the Ministry and the National Insurance House.
On January 10, the Romanian Allinace of Chronic Patients (APCR) organized the conference "An overview of the Romanian Health system and Perspectives for 2013" . The conference was attended by the newly appointed Minister of Health, Mr E Nicolaescu, the President of the Senat Committee on Health, Dr Ion Luchian, representatives of the pharma industry, the media and members of the APCR alliance. There was signed a partnership document between the Ministry of Health and APCR. Notes from the meeting and the text of the signed document are available in Romanian.
