This project would contribute to the ultimate elimination of tuberculosis in the EU by utilising evidenced based interventions to ensure early diagnosis, improve integrated care and support community and prison outreach activities in low- and high-incidence countries. We aim to achieve this by bringing together several EU member states and jointly evaluating evidence based interventions, taking best practice approaches from countries where co-applicants have developed national strategic plans and providing a framework, in collaboration with ECDC, to support the adaptation and implementation of these measures. We will prioritise migrants, homeless persons, prisoners, problem drug users and those with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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Topic: 1.3 Support effective responses to communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis by identifying, disseminating and promoting the uptake of evidence-based and good practices for cost effective prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care.
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ACT@Scale is an innovative partnership of leading European health care regions, industry and academia that have the true potential to transform cure and care delivery services from pilots and experiments to scaled up, routine management of frail elderly and chronically ill. ACT@Scale will develop, test and consolidate “best practice” Care Coordination and Telehealth (CC & TH) concepts that can be leveraged by the participating healthcare regions to expedite scaling-up their services, but also transferred to other regions through Europe and beyond. The scaling-up of “best practice” ACT@Scale CC & TH concepts is fully in line with the EIP on AHA and the EC scaling-up strategy, will facilitates concrete decision-making at EU policy level, and shows payers, practitioners and providers how patient care can be improved in light of an ageing society and under restricted budgets.ACT@Scale is targeting integrated care good practices in Basque Country, Catalonia, Groningen, Northern Ireland and South Denmark that are all in the process of implementing novel CC&TH processes at scale. The target groups are populations of chronic patients and elderly people with special needs including social services, frailty and psychiatric morbidities. The key challenges to be studied are:• Political, legal and financial alignment• Sufficient coverage of dynamic population needs• Coordination between care delivery partners• Commitment to changing care delivery• Patient role is his own care• Monitoring and evaluating scaling-upThese key areas will show over the three year course of ACT@Scale how technology and services can ensure the best clinical and economic outcomes. A holistic assessment will be performed based on an agreed minimum dataset of indicators and with the support of a distributed Evaluation Engine.The ACT@Scale activity builds on the expertise and experiences of the ACT program and will use tested and tried collaborative methods and tools to implement improvements
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Topic: 3.5 Support actions which address health issues in an ageing society, including relevant actions suggested by the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing in its three themes: innovation in awareness, prevention and early diagnosis, innovation in cure and care and innovation in active ageing and independent living.
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