COVID-19 forced hospitals across Europe to absorb a surge of emergency patients while keeping routine care going, and not all of them bounced back at the same pace. This FLASH policy brief, Strengthening Hospital Resilience: from Measurement to Preparedness, by…
The European Union has more influence on public health than its limited formal competences would suggest, and the idea of a European Health Union is still evolving. The same applies to the EU's shared health values, which date back to…
Last week the FLASH project took part in the European Health Forum Gastein 2026 in Bad Hofgastein with a dedicated session on cross-border patient mobility. Despite an EU legal framework that allows patients to seek care in another Member State,…
Capacity management plays an increasingly important role in healthcare delivery, both at national and supranational level, in increasing value for money. In this paper, we propose using cross-border patient mobility across European Union (EU) countries to pool demand and reduce…
CORDIS, the European Commission's research and innovation news service, has published an article on the FLASH project's work on building more flexible and resilient health financing systems in Europe. The article highlights three dimensions of flexibility the project investigates: the…
FLASH took part in the EUHPP Live Webinar on health system resilience, co-organised with the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) and hosted on the EU Health Policy Platform. The webinar brought together Calogero Guccio and Stefania Fontana (University of…
Worth a read: Flexibility in focus: Transforming healthcare for uncertain times The #FLASH project explores three dimensions of flexibility in health financing: absorbing sudden shocks, enabling cross-border patient mobility, and aligning resources with the health needs of different regions. 🔗…
🔵 How resilient are Europe's health systems — and how do we actually measure it? CLICK TO REGISTER On 11 June 2026, FLASH and the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) are co-hosting a #EUHPP Live Webinar on the European…
📢 We are happy to share some news from the FLASH project 📢 On May 8th, 2026, researchers of Work Package 5 visited local stakeholders to cross-border care provision of inpatient services along the Czech-German border. The hospital Oberlausitz-Bergland qualifies…
An insight on FLASH cross-border healthcare: the project proposes concrete solutions, from direct cross-border contracts to smarter legal frameworks, to address a real and pressing issue. Today, a patient in the Czech border region requiring emergency care in Germany faces…