- Published: 27 October 2021
- Posted: 11 September 2022
European health systems face unprecedented challenges, especially from the spiralling demand for complex and costly long-term health and social care for age-related chronic diseases, but also from health threats from antimicrobial resistance and climate change. Nevertheless, despite these challenges, EFPIA sees many reasons to be optimistic about a healthier future for Europe. Now is the time to use the lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic, and the renewed political and public prioritisation of health, to ambitiously POWER up our future health systems.