In about two-thirds of EU countries, the responsibility for delivering healthcare services lies not with the central government, but with the regions.

In this episode of Break the Bubble, our Senior Director Valentina Polylas speaks with Michele Calabrò, Director of EUREGHA, the network of European Regional and Local Health Authorities to discuss why regional actors are central to health policy implementation, how EU initiatives can better support and influence what's happening on the ground, and what it really takes to bridge the gap between policy and practice.

How much influence do regional authorities really have when it comes to policy implementation? What can be done at EU level to support what’s happening on the ground? And why should regional voices be at the table when we talk about the future of Europe’s health systems?

Break the Bubble welcomes COCIR’s Secretary General, Annabel Seebohm. Together with our Senior Counsel Hans Martens she outlines COCIR’s vision for the future of health policy in the EU as well as the contribution of its highly innovative members to the improvement and modernization of European health systems. With almost all the pieces of this new European mandate now in place, here is a vision for European Health policy, for patients and for the industry. This is Break the Bubble.

This episode features a great conversation between our Senior Counsel Hans Martens and Anca Toma, Executive Director of the European Patients' Forum. With the uncertainty surrounding a seemingly fragmented health policy portfolio, Hans and Anca look at EPF’s vision for the years to come in the EU, at what the European Health Data Space will change for European patients, and, among other things, how we can ensure that health inequalities don’t become entrenched. This is Break the Bubble.