{"id":2466,"date":"2018-12-21T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:38:29","slug":"shca-swiss-hepatitis-c-association-and-11-other-patients-organizations-leave-the-european-umbrella-association-elpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/shca-swiss-hepatitis-c-association-and-11-other-patients-organizations-leave-the-european-umbrella-association-elpa\/","title":{"rendered":"SHCA Swiss Hepatitis C Association and 11 other patients organizations leave the European umbrella association ELPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>New foundation of an international umbrella association under study<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Following an extraordinary members meeting in Ljubljana\/Slovenia on 25th November, the Swiss Hepatitis C Association and 11 other national organizations, declared that they will be leaving the European umbrella association ELPA, effective from 31st December 2018.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The following members have left:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hepatitis C Trust (founding member), UK<br \/>\n\u2022 Deutsche Leberhilfe e.V. (founding member), Germany<br \/>\n\u2022 Sano-Hep (founding member), Romania<br \/>\n\u2022 EPAC (founding member), Italy<br \/>\n\u2022 Dutch Liver Patients Association, the Netherlands<br \/>\n\u2022 Hepatitis Aid Austria, Austria<br \/>\n\u2022 PBC Foundation, UK<br \/>\n\u2022 Hellenic Liver Patient Association, Greece<br \/>\n\u2022 Stop Hepatitis, Ukraine<br \/>\n\u2022 HepActive, Bulgaria<br \/>\n\u2022 Hepatitis, Bulgaria<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Swiss Hepatitis C Association, Switzerland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SHCA had just joined in 2018 the ELPA umbrella organisation created in 2004. The past months revealed a deep divide between a part of members and the board, and also within the membership itself, about fundamental questions regarding governance, transparency and which direction the umbrella association should take in the future. The extraordinary general members meeting in Slovenia could not resolve these differences. Therefore, the 12 organizations decided that they can better serve the needs of patients by leaving ELPA and forming a new organization.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 former members of ELPA declared on 30 November that they will continue to work together for the sake of all liver patients and, in doing so, are determined to follow the highest standards of transparency, patient centricity and good governance. Further steps of a cooperation across borders in a future association are being discussed at this moment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Swiss Hepatitis C Association<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New foundation of an international umbrella association under study Following an extraordinary members meeting in Ljubljana\/Slovenia on 25th November, the Swiss Hepatitis C Association and 11 other national organizations, declared that they will be leaving the European umbrella association ELPA, effective from 31st December 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepc.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}