Growing a New Pattern for Health and Care EHFF attendance at the International Futures Forum Health and Care Gathering, Fintry Trust England June 14th 2023 EHFF has participated over the last couple of years in a monthly community of practice meeting focused on the UK NHS, led by Margaret Hannah, Director of Health Programmes at…
EHFF Position Statement EHFF delivered this analysis of its positioning in the course of our transformational catalyst project (phase 1) 2020-2022. We used the Three Horizons tool to examine pathways to transformation of the European Health Ecosystem and the Positioning statement helped us identify the aspects of our own structure and mission which best suited…
Walking backwards into the future, reviewing our first ten years. The early years: 2013-2014 The foresight principle Having worked in the policy field of quality improvement in health but with close links with other European business quality colleagues who were interested in transformational change in organisations, some of us were frustrated at the slow pace…
( A brief ) welcome from the editor As we are well in to the new year rather than offer greetings best wishes for survival in this turbulent world lets carry on as optimistically as we can and review various projects that EHFF is currently engaged in (and a couple we hope to be involved…
Progress of the Covid pandemic The Omicron variant has proved to be more infectious than previous variants but created less morbidity and mortality. In Europe and elsewhere overall it seems that hospital admission rates and deaths attributed to the virus are steadily falling. One caveat however is that the fall isn’t consistent over different countries.…
Now the days are noticeably shorter, we emerge from a rather strange summer to a busy Autumn schedule, still dominated by concerns about the latter phases of the pandemic as well as the UN declaration that the global climate situation is ‘code red’. Most of our meetings continue to be on-line. In this edition we…
Brief report on proceedings: The event drew an online audience of over 120. The event started with gentle guitar music of Paddy Flamenco (Paddy Anderson). Davie Philip ( a member of Hub steering group) introduced proceedings with a poem from fellow Cloughjordan resident, poet Mel White (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMS6VDB5Yys ). Mel’s inspiring poem was followed by…
From the editor: Dear readers! The summer has begun, somewhat reluctantly in parts of Europe, and the pandemic continues to dominate public discussions. We’ve been sending you a number of Newsflashes since the beginning of the year, but no Newsletter. Not because we haven’t been busy, rather the opposite! Prior to the summer break (if…
EHFF and Nordic Health 2030 co-produce five webinars on the future of health and healthcare in Europe. Since the end of last year our two sister organisations (e.g. Lars Munter sits on both the EHFF Advisory group and handles communications for the Nordic movement (http://nordichealth2030.org/ ) have developed a collaboration with Ubiquity University (https://www.ubiquityuniversity.org/about-us/ ),…
EHFF AGM and Annual Strategy Meeting This year’s AGM and Annual Strategy Meeting were, for the second year running, held via Zoom rather than face to face. On March 26th the EHFF formal AGM was held, preceded by the AGM for its not-for-profit subsidiary EHFF.UK. In the interests of transparency, the two Agendas, past year’s minutes, and…