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,…
EHFF is delighted to announce that after a six month probationary period to review embedding of the concept, RBS, our funders for this major project to develop a Europe-wide resource for Patient Empowerment have agreed to release the funding for the remaining two and a half years. Congratulations to Jim Phillips, Jeni Bremner and their…
As many of you will know, as a result of the threat of Brexit (i.e. that being registered in the UK, our work with the European Commission in the future would be compromised) EHFF has relocated its main office to Ireland and since May this year we have been a registered charity there (see news…
For the fourth year running EHFF was very happy to support their partner EHMA in a small way by contributing one of the parallel sessions, this year (no surprises!) a discussion on ‘health futures’. The latter was one of several themes of this year’s conference (for the whole three day programme, see here). Our small…
Health and healthcare enhanced by digital technology is a crucial contributor to the future as EHFF perceives it. The digital sphere in our view is not simply, as some clinicians and many businesses see it, the domain of ‘shiny toys’ that allow you to do the same things but only faster and more efficiently. Nor…