5th Working Group M eeting of the Fund for Bilateral R elations at National Level

1. 5th Working Group Meeting • of the Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level • Programme CZ11 Public HealthInititatives • ActivitiesProposal • Prague, 9. 9. 2015 • Ministry of Finance ofThe Czech Republic

2. BriefProgramme CZ11 Description • Programmearea 27: Public HealthInitiatives • Programme CZ11 Public HealthInitiatives • Allocation: 19 180 000 EUR • The global target of the Programme is „Improving population health and reducing inequalities in access to the health care“ • ActivityI.: Psychiatric care • Activity II. : Health care forchildren • 3 Pre-definedprojects, 26 projects (open calls), 62 sub-projects (small grant scheme)

3. Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level Proposal of focus area 2016 Psychiatric care reform - international expert conference Prevention of mental illness – expert workshop E-health – electronisationof health sector – expert workshop Allactivitieswillbeorganized in co-operationwiththeNorwegian Partner – NIPH (suggestorganizations, experts, topicsofmeetings)

4. 1. PsychiatricCare Reform Reason: Mental hospitals are materially and technically outdated. Mental health care is underfinanced, services network is unevenly distributed with unequal conditions for careproviding, outpatient psychiatrists are overloaded, community care isweak and is not systemically supported Process: The document "Strategy for the reform of mental health care" – 10/2013 The document "National Plan of care for people with mental illness" - strategy implementation - transformationto the tactical plan, communication, coordination, ensuring andallocation of resources, strategiesadaptation Strategy Implementation - implementation of individual projects ensuring the achievement of results - to2020

5. Contextwith the ProgrammeCZ11 (call design) The topicis directly related tothefocusofActivityI. - Psychiatric Care Callswere focused on supporting projects that: preceded the reform of mental health care expertevaluators ensuredthatprojects are in compliancewiththefocusofthereform and not in contrary

6. Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level Proposal of focus area 2016 • 1) Activity I.: Psychiatric care • Conferenceon Psychiatric care reform • international expert conference (ongoing reform in theCzech Republic and experiences from other countries) • Sharing experiences with community-type care for the seriously mentally ill (SMI) in so called Mental Health Center • Benefits for the patient, improving the quality of life (its measurement) • possible risks

7. Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level Proposal of focus area 2016 Possibleparticipants: Czech Republic: Czech PsychiatricAssociation, National Institute ofMentalHealth, public officers (Ministry ofHealth, Ministry ofLabour and SocialAffairs, Ministry ofEducation, Youth and Sports), regional representatives, representatives of care providers, careusers (patient organizations), general public Norway: academics, government officials, service providers, NGOs

8. 2. PreventionofMentalIllness Anessentialpart of the mental health caresystem Objective: to interveneor to take precautionary measures to reduce risksand maximize protective factors in mental health care To Protect, promote and maintain emotional and social well-being and create individual, social and environmental conditions that enable optimal development of mental health. De-stigmatizationisalso a part ofeducation and prevention Situation in CZ: lack of systematic support for the prevention inmentalhealth care

9. Context with the Programme CZ11 Prevention (particularly secondary and tertiary)ofpsychiatric illness is a possible part of ActivityI. Psychiatric Care. Certain forms of preventive activities are partsof the mostof approved projects and sub-projects. Isnot established as a separate sub-activity (except De-stigmatisation).

10. Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level Proposal of focus area 2016 2) Activity I.: Psychiatric care • Expert Workshop on Prevention of mental illness • Possibleparticipants: • Czech Republic: Czech Psychiatric Association, National Institute of Mental Health, public officers (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports), regional representatives, representatives of care providers, care users (patient organizations), general public • Norway: academics, government officials, service providers, NGOs

11. E-health – Electronisationof HealthSector E-health - the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health Provides: Interaction between patients and health providers Communication between health care professionals, medical facilities and patients Electonisationincludes specialized information systems, electronizationof health records andhealth care, telemedicine, personal, portable and mobile communication systems for monitoring and staffsupport

12. Context with the Programme CZ11 E-Health isnot apart of the activities supported by ProgrammeCZ11 Given the importance of the issue and present solutions from the most European countries itwasdecided to include this topic Electronisation in the Czech Republic is a part of the National eHealth Strategyon health promotion and disease prevention: The Action Plan no. 11 Electronisationof Health

13. Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level Proposal of focus area 2016 • 3) E-health – Electronisationof HealthSector • Expert workshop on electronisation of health sector • Workshop on conclusions of the „Recommendations for the strategy of eHealth for the Czech Republic „ • Possibleparticipants: • Czech Republic: representativesof Ministry ofHealth, Czech Medical Society, Platform for e-health and other stakeholders • Norway: WHO ExpertsfromthecollaboratingCentre forTelemedicine and eHealth, theNorwegian Centre forIntegrated Care and Telemedicine (NST) atUniversitetssykehusetNord-Norge (UNN, Tromsø).

14. Thankyouforyourattention

15. Contacts: • Ministry ofHealthofThe Czech Republic • EuropeanFunds Department/FinancialMechanisms Unit • Ing. Martina Juřicová, tel.: 224 972 138, email: martina.juricova@mzcr.cz • Mgr. Petr Čermák, tel.: 224 972 860, email: petr.cermak@mzcr.cz • Mgr. Tomáš Hrůza, tel.: 224 972 135, email: tomas.hruza@mzcr.cz