EACH:INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE

Registered charity 1159050 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EACH, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE, THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE

EACH is a worldwide organisation with the overall aim of promoting effective evidence-based patient-centred healthcare communication between patients, relatives and healthcare practitioners. The association is meant for all who are active in communication research and teaching and for patients, practitioners and students with an interest in communication in healthcare.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE AS FOLLOWS:3.1.1 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OF PATIENTS FOR THEPUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF EFFECTIVE EVIDENCE-BASED PATIENTCENTREDHEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PATIENTS, RELATIVES ANDHEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND BEYOND3.2 THESE OBJECTS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY:3.2.1 PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE INEUROPE AND BEYOND AND HENCE IMPROVE THE HEALTH OUTCOMES OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC3.2.2 ENABLING THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION OF PRODUCTS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION RESEARCHERS AND TEACHERS, TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE AND THEREBY IMPROVE PATIENTS’ AND RELATIVES’ EXPERIENCE3.2.3 MORE WIDELY DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PATIENTS, RELATIVES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, EXTOLLING BEST PRACTICES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN EDUCATION TO COMPLY WITH THE CHANGING NEEDS OF HEALTH DELIVERY AND INCREASING MOVES TOWARDS A PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH INCORPORATING SHARED RESPONSIBILITY AND DECISION MAKING.3.2.4 DEVELOPING AN ACTIVE NETWORK OF RESEARCHERS, TEACHERS AND PRACTITIONERS THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND BEYOND, COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made an overall net profit of £42,424.01 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by a successful international conference. The closing bank balance was £176,835.52, and the trustees confirm the charity is in good financial health while maintaining reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Assistant Professor Michael Kaffman
• DR Lorraine Noble
• Dr Andrew Ward
• Dr Conor Leaver
• Dr Frank Vitinius
• Dr Jesus Gonzalez-Lama MD PHD
• Dr Kalli Spencer
• Dr Lauren Hamel
• Dr Marie Morris
• Dr Richard Brown
• Dr Sarah Francesca Maria Bigi
• Dr Shishta Nadda Basu
• Dr Vilmos Warta PhD
• Evelyn Dobie Watson
• Gitte Thybo Pihl
• Jane Ege Moller PhD
• Julia Menichetti Delor PhD
• Kristien Coteur MSc
• Maria-Corina Barbaros
• Professor Chigozie Offiah
• Professor Shakaib Rehman MD MACP
• Sibylle Jeanine Felber MSc

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Belgium · Brazil · Canada · Cyprus · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Greece

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK HEALTH ALLIANCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

• UK HEALTH ALLIANCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE income £132k
• THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT income £1.2m
• ASSOCIATION OF ANAESTHETISTS (GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND) income £8.7m
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH income £2.9m
• THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION income £10.5m
• HEALTH EXCHANGE income £8.1m

Side by side with its peers

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