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MOCHA will be well represented in presenting research findings at the Medical Informatics Europe / Informatics for Health conference in Manchester in April. Dr Grit Kuehne and Professor Michael Rigby have had two papers accepted: Why are Children’s Interests Invisible in European National E-Health Strategies? reports on country agent replies on this topic. While, Towards…

Results of a MOCHA survey of all European Union and EEA countries has shown that migrant children’s right to health care is not being met in many cases. Published today in the Lancet, Professor Anders Hjern and team have shown that irregular and destitute EU migrant children are rarely entitled to health care, other than…

A MOCHA Workshop has been confirmed at the European Forum for Primary Care conference in Porto in September 2017. Representatives of the MOCHA project will present interim analyses and seek feedback on our work so far. This will be a valuable opportunity for external discussion about the MOCHA project. The conference will take place in…

Our December newsletter is out today. You can find it in the Publications section of the website, or sign up to receive a copy in your inbox. MOCHA wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Professor Anders Hjern presented his MOCHA work Unaccompanied minors in Europe: implications for the health, social and education sectors, based on the Work Package 7 MOCHA report to the European Commission, completed in August 2016. Professor Hjern was invited to speak at the high level conference: Working together for better health and well-being:Promoting intersectoral and…

MOCHA will be presenting its work to the Quality of Childhood programme in the European Parliament on Tuesday 11th April.

The second Annual General Meeting of the MOCHA project was successfully hosted by CNR in Rome, on the 20th October 2016. We were welcomed by Professor Riccardo Pozzo from the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at CNR. Professor Mitch Blair, Principal Investigator of the MOCHA project welcomed all the participants to the meeting, and…

On 23rd September 2016, MOCHA are co-hosting a study day with the European Association of Children in Hospital (EACH) in Zeist, Netherlands. This will precede the EACH biennial European Network Meeting. The day looks at how children’s health is changing, and we will discuss how this affects children, and national health systems. EACH is an…

Eurochild plays a valued part in the MOCHA external advisory board. This week, Eurochild holds its bi-annual conference under the Patronage of Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of Belgium in Brussels with 250 people from across Europe, including 60 children and young people on the theme of investing in children. “Children’s Rights Matter: Why Europe needs…

MOCHA work package leaders and the External Advisory Board (EAB) held a 2-day meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, on the 12th and 13th April 2016; to discuss progress in the first six months of the scientific work of the project. We were hosted in this beautiful city by one of the MOCHA country agents, Prof Jozef…