Building sustainable and resilient health care systems: how ERA -NETS in Horizon 2020 can help.

Currently, a European Research Area network (ERA-NET) research programme – within Horizon 2020 – is being developed in the area of health services and systems research. It focuses on two meta-questions 1) Under what conditions can healthcare innovations be effectively transferred to other countries? 2) How can this enhance health systems performance? In terms of substantive topic areas, ERA-NET will focus on the organisation of services throughout the entire chain of care, ranging from public health and prevention to hospital and long-term care. This article identifies the programme’s focus and how it can build on existing initiatives.