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Actions meeting the objective laid down in point (b) of Article 4 Strengthening the critical health infrastructure to cope with health crises, by supporting the setup of tools for surveillance, forecast, prevention and management of outbreaks; Supporting actions to foster Union-wide health crisis prevention and preparedness, and the management capacity and response capacity of actors at Union and national level, including voluntary stress tests, contingency planning and preparedness exercises; supporting the development of quality health standards at national level, mechanisms for the efficient coordination of preparedness and response, and the coordination of those actions at Union level; Supporting actions for setting up an integrated cross-cutting risk communication framework covering all phases of a health crisis, namely prevention, preparedness, response and recovery; Supporting preventive actions to protect vulnerable groups from health threats and actions to adapt the response to and the management of health crises to the needs of those vulnerable groups such as actions to secure basic care for patients with chronic or rare diseases; Supporting actions to address the collateral health consequences of a health crisis, in particular the consequences for mental health, on patients suffering from cancer, from chronic diseases and other vulnerable situations, including people living with addiction, with HIV/AIDS, or suffering from hepatitis and tuberculosis; Supporting, in synergy with other programmes, training and educational programmes for the upskilling of healthcare and public health workforces, and programmes for temporary exchanges of staff, in particular with the aim of improving their digital skills; Supporting the establishment and coordination of Union Reference Laboratories, Union Reference Centres, and Centres of Excellence; Auditing Member States’ preparedness and response arrangements, for example regarding health crisis management, antimicrobial resistance and vaccination; Communicating to the public in the context of risk management and health crisis preparedness; Supporting upwards convergence of national systems’ performance through health indicator development, analysis and knowledge brokering and the organisation of voluntary stress tests of national healthcare systems; Supporting investigation, risk assessment and risk management work on the link between animal health, environmental factors, and human diseases, including during health crises.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.