About HOPE

The European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) is a non-governmental European association, which was created in 1966 and has been since 1995 an international association for social gain.

HOPE includes national hospital associations or representatives from the national health systems of the Member States of the European Union (except Poland), plus Bulgaria, Romania and Switzerland as observer members.

The Constitution of 1995 states that it is HOPE's mission to promote, as an NGO, improvements in the health of citizens throughout the countries of the European Union and a uniformly high standard of hospital care throughout the EU and to foster efficiency, effectiveness and humanity in the organisation and operation of hospital services and of the health systems within which they function.