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Patient’s Voice 2 Project
Patients’ Voice 2 Project started in December 2018. It is funded by the European Union to help promote and advocate for patients’ rights in the northern part of Cyprus. The focus of the project, which will last for 30 months, includes detailed identification of the problems faced by the marginalized groups and the monitoring and reporting of the rights violations they experience and the advocacy and lobbying efforts to minimize these violations. In addition, in order to monitor and report patient rights violations for all patients and establish a regular database, establishing a patient right unit as a pilot in the central hospital is one of the main objectives of the Patients Voice II project.
Objectives of the Project:
Overall objective of the action is: To support capacity building, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of UPRA, to reinforce its involvement and impact in policy-making by lobbying for the patients’ rights law.
The specific objectives of the action are: Oc1. To establish a mechanism to report patients’ rights violations in order to ensure systematic reporting of patients’ rights violations by health authorities
Oc2. To raise awareness and build capacity for marginalized groups’ patients’ rights and general public in the TCc
Oc 3. To lobby for patients’ rights to ensure the improvement of the legal framework in order to decrease the number of violations of patients’ rights
Estimated results of the project are:
R1. Patients’ rights unit established in main local hospital, 2 persons employed and a minimum of 100 requests processed at all levels
R2. Data and information are available regarding the patients’ rights of vulnerable groups
R3. Awareness rose regarding the responsibilities of the patients
R4. Capacity of legal, media and health professionals and officials are increased by way of advanced trainings
R5. Strategic monitoring, reporting and advocacy of patients’ rights is improved by way of strategic plan, roadmap and progress reports
R6. Best practices in other EU countries observed [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]