Newsflash – our faithful news item readers will be aware that we held the final conference for this project, which was a tender from DG-SANTE, in October 2017. As agreed the final report was submitted in January, but SANTE have only just given permission for there to be open access to the report, which is…
Final version of joint statement on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments (SHAFE) presented and published 12 November EHFF is one of a whole group of associated partners who supported the framework policy group on the above subject, which was led by Caritas Coimbra in the person of Carina Dantas and by Willeke van Staalduinen of AFE…
Metaphorum annual conference: Dusseldorf Nov.2-4. Having presented at the previous year’s conference in Liverpool and being interested in Stafford Beer’s model of viable systems, EHFF represented by Sean Conlan and David Somekh attended this year’s event with the aim of using the opportunity to present the EHFF project and seek reflections and suggestions on how…
By Bernard Merkel (EHFF community member) Fifty years ago the World Health Organization agreed the Alma Ata Declaration which among other things emphasized the key role of primary care within health system, not least to help achieve equity in health (which means, very crudely put, ensuring that everyone has fair access to healthcare resources) Since…
As explained in our news item dated 5th June, the SCiE initiative is a voluntary project which follows on from collaboration between partners who completed the two tenders for the European Commission on self-care, PiSCE and PROSTEP (search the website for reports on the two closing conferences during 2017). The SCiE website: http://www.scie.eu identifies that the…
The second meeting of our Robert Bosch Foundation funded project on patient empowerment (www.cempac.org) was hosted by our close colleagues, the Danish Committee for Health Education. The advisory group meets twice-yearly both to review the progress of the project but also to get advice from the experts on the Group and includes representation from both…
The interest for us of this meeting is that the Scirocco project has validated the maturity model that was developed by a group within the B3 integrated care action area of the European Innovation Platform on Active and Healthy Ageing, the area EHFF joined in 2013. We had, like others made a small contribution to…
For EHFF as for other European NGOs and their academic and business associates, the period from August to October can be an intense time because of deadlines for bidding for Commission projects for the following year. For us, this year has been no exception. We can reveal (as the deadlines are now all past) that,…
Since we moved the main office of EHFF to Ireland at the end of last year, in anticipation of the disastrous outcome of Brexit, we did subsequently report in our newsfeed that we had successfully applied for Charity status in Ireland and this was granted in May. After the summer break we have started a…
September 29th Social class in 21st Century Britain: – the NHS@70 – does it meet the needs of everyone? The Birmingham Salon events are public discussions, often on contentious social issues and David Somekh agreed to speak at this small meeting in part because the relevant session was about the current state of the NHS,…