Working Group Public Health Statistics Item 9.1.2 of the agenda Non-monetary health care: Data relevance for the medium term
Non-monetary health care (NMHC) Background Current data collections Health employment & physical resources: Joint Questionnaire (JQ) with OECD & WHO Common module Eurostat module Health care activities: Additional Eurostat questionnaire 28-29 June 2011 WG PH - 9.1.2 NMHC data relevance for medium term 2
NMHC Background cont. Eurostat Goal Legal basis for implementing Regulation (EC) no 1338/2008 List of mandatory variables from current data collections Quality of current data collection Evaluation by CG CARE interim report Main conclusion: Variables of an implementing regulation should be policy relevant, comparable and available for all Member States Evaluation of the relevance by Commission s main stakeholders DG EMPL and DG SANCO 28-29 June 2011 WG PH - 9.1.2 NMHC data relevance for medium term 3
Relevance CG CARE/TG CARE CG CARE (interim report) All current data on JQNMHC are relevant or partly relevant, except for those on hospitals and on medical technology TG CARE (April meeting) Relevance of each of the variables for an implementing regulation should be discussed by written procedure Conclusion on relevant variables for an IR at a final workshop 28-29 June 2011 WG PH - 9.1.2 NMHC data relevance for medium term 4
Relevance DG EMPL/DG SANCO Current data on health employment Joint Questionnaire: All variables relevant/partly relevant except for graduates in pharmacy, midwifery, {professional nursing and associate professional nursing} (DG SANCO) Eurostat additional module: All variables relevant/partly relevant except for the physician categories microbiology, haematology, dermatology and pathology (non-relevant for DG EMPL, but highly relevant by DG SANCO) Current data on Physical resources All variables relevant/partly relevant except for some technical equipment (digital subtraction angiography units, gamma cameras, radiation therapy equipment and lithotripters: DG EMPL) 28-29 June 2011 WG PH - 9.1.2 NMHC data relevance for medium term 5
Relevance DG EMPL/DG SANCO cont. Current data on health care activities All data already collected by Eurostat or/and WHO and proposed for the Joint Questionnaire s common module are relevant for both of the DGs All remaining activities of the Eurostat additional module are relevant for DG SANCO and partly relevant for DG EMPL Data on health care activities currently collected by OECD and proposed for the JQ Most are essential for DG SANCO (ECHI) except for functioning kidney transplants, patients undergoing dialysis and end stage renal failure patients (however: partly relevant) All partly relevant for DG EMPL 28-29 June 2011 WG PH - 9.1.2 NMHC data relevance for medium term 6
NMHC data collection - the way ahead Exchange of views with WGPH and TG CARE on relevance by written procedure Joint analysis of data on relevance, availability and comparability Stepwise approach: 2011 Focus on human resources 2012 Focus on physical resources 2013 Focus on health care activities Feed back at TG CARE/WG PH meetings 2012/13 Concluding workshop in 2014 The WG PH is invited to discuss those proposals 28-29 June 2011 WG PH - 9.1.2 NMHC data relevance for medium term 7