EPDA Eastern European Road Shows

Introduction

First Eastern European Roadshow to Hungary

First Eastern European Roadshow to Hungary
Visit at the Neurological Clinic of Semmelweis Medical University

In 2003 the EPDA Board discussed how they, as a European umbrella organisation, could learn more about how the Eastern European patient associations and health service provision functioned, and what could be learned and shared.

This led to the concept of ‘buddying’ whereby a Western European organisation would team up with an Eastern European organisation, taking a ‘road show’ team of healthcare professionals into that country. The first was a partnership between Sweden and Hungary jointly led by Susanna Lindvall, EPDA Vice President and Vice President of the Swedish Parkinson Association, and Dr András Fazekas from the Hungarian Scientific Parkinson’s Association.

Why Hungary? Well when embarking on a new project such as this, language is key and Hungarian born Susanna, fluent in the language, ‘volunteered’!

Report on the first Eastern European Roadshow to Hungary