PHSSR European Union Investing in Health 2025

31 Investing in Health for a Competitive, Secure, and Resilient Europe: A Strategic Call to Action The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resiliencevaluable. Coordinated EU action can provide substantial added value in areas such as health workforce development, crisis preparedness, and digital health solutions like the European Health Data Space, and by ensuring continued access to medicines and medical technologies. Methodology In order to ensure the alignment of the group’s expertise with the theme of this report, the Expert Advisory Group was expanded with additional members. Group members were selected based on their leading expertise in sustainable healthcare financing, bringing important perspectives as policymakers, experts with direct experience from both EU and national health authorities, academics, researchers, and patient representatives. The group participated in three workshops to define the focus of the policy report and to discuss and align on the consensus recommendations. Prior to the first workshop, individual interviews were conducted with each member of the Expert Advisory Group to gather different perspectives and experiences with EU funding instruments’ application and role in health investments. To identify where to focus the report’s recommendations, in the first workshop the Expert Advisory Group reviewed and prioritised the strengths and weaknesses of the EU’s current approach towards investment in health. Taking into account the identified achievements and barriers, the group aligned on a set of principles that would support more optimised application and impact of EU investments in health in the future. Over the course of the second and third workshops, the Expert Advisory Group developed and refined a set of consensus recommendations to guide EU institutions and other key stakeholders in improving the objective setting and implementation of EU investments in health. The secretariat of the group then produced the first draft of the report, based on desk research, the individual interviews conducted with members of the Expert Advisory Group, and the consensus reached during the three workshops. Advisers provided two rounds of written comments on the draft text to the secretariat. Where there were differences of opinion within the PHSSR EU Expert Advisory Group, the Chair guided the group towards a consensus view on the final content of the report, which all members of the PHSSR EU Expert Advisory Group reviewed and approved. The policy recommendations in this report are grounded in the PHSSR research framework developed by the LSE and based on their potential impact and implementation feasibility in consideration of the EU’s competences in health policy and operational capacity. The content of this report represents the views of the authors—the members of the PHSSR EU Expert Advisory Group. The report has been developed with research and advisory support from Charles Rivers Associates and administrative support from Edelman.