Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council

Wednesday 6th December 2017 Written Statements

[The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr Philip Dunne)]

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) has made the following statement:

The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will meet on 8 December in Brussels.

For the health part of the meeting there will be three main agenda items on the draft Council conclusions on health in digital society; the draft Council conclusions on the cross-border aspects in alcohol policy; and pharmaceutical policy in the EU—which will cover the following:

Report on the state of paediatric medicines in the EU— 10 years of the EU paediatric regulation—information by the Commission.

Issues related to European patients access to treatment—information from the Romanian delegation.

Lack of drug availability in Greece—information from the Greek delegation.

Under any other business, there will also be reports on:

Valproate and teratogenic medicinal products—information from the Belgian delegation.

State of health in the EU—information from the Commission, OECD, and the European observatory.

Annual growth survey 2018—information from the Commission.

Steering group on health promotion, disease prevention and management of non-communicable disease—information from the Commission.

Outcome of the high-level meeting “AMR: One Health Action Plan and evidence-based policy making” (Brussels, 23 November 2017)—information from the presidency.

Work programme of the incoming presidency—information from the Bulgarian delegation.

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