This may include an assessment by a health professional or healthcare administrator providing services for the statutory social security system or national health system of the Member State of affiliation, such as the general practitioner or primary care practitioner with whom the patient is registered, if this is necessary for determining the individual patient’s entitlement to healthcare.

– having regard to the Ouagadougou international conference of 2008 on primary health care and health systems in Africa and the undertaking given by the Heads of State present to increase the resources allocated to health to a minimum level of 15 % of national budgets,

NOTES that the current trend of shifting care from hospitals to outpatient care, including primary care and home care, can result in an increased amount of care provided by non-hospital healthcare workers, social workers and carers, including informal caregivers.

RECOGNISES that integrated models of care between primary, secondary and hospital care and among health and social care, along with the implementation of ICT innovations and eHealth solutions can improve resilience of health systems, while taking into account patient safety and high quality of healthcare.

4. Calls on the European Union, its Member States and the Accession Countries to meet in full the commitments given by them with regard to the implementation and the financing of the Cairo Programme of Action, including basic, secondary and higher education and training, especially for girls and women, elementary medical services and easy and affordable access for all young people, both women and men, throughout the reproductive phase in their lives, to high-quality health services for the protection of their sexual and reproductive health and of their right to decide equally, freely and responsibly in this field,

4. Calls on the European Union, its Member States and the Accession Countries to meet in full the commitments that they gave with regard to the implementation and the financing of the Cairo Programme of Action, including basic, secondary and higher education and training, especially for girls and women, elementary medical services and easy and affordable access for all young people, women and men throughout the reproductive phase in their lives to high-quality health services for the protection of their sexual and reproductive health and of their right to decide equally, freely and responsibly in this field,