Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing - Executive summary

Action Plan B3 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) focuses on the integrated care of chronic diseases. Area 5 (Care Pathways) was initiated using chronic respiratory diseases as a model. The chronic respiratory diseases action plan involves AIRWAYS integrated care pathways (ICPs). It is deployed in collaboration with the WHO Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). The EIP on AHA has proposed a 5-step framework for developing an individual scaling up strategy: (i) what to scale up: (i-a) databases of good practices, (i-b) assessment of viability of the scaling up of good practices, (i-c) classification of good practices for local replication and (ii) how to scale up: (ii-a) facilitating partnerships for scaling up, (ii-b) implementation of key success factors and lessons learnt, including emerging technologies for individualised and predictive medicine. This strategy has already been applied to the chronic respiratory diseases action plan of the EIP on AHA.