The seventh DHACA day took place on 11th January at the Digital Catapult Centre, Euston Rd., London. A full programme included a review of DHACA’s progress by Charles Lowe here, a review of digital technology by Deborah El-Sayed, Director of Digital & Multi-Channel Development, NHS England here, a report on Digital health in the Accelerated Access Review…
Values in public service: a seminar. A group of a dozen or so individuals met together in December 2015 at the Institute of Directors in Central London. They came from a variety of backgrounds including Ethics, the Law, the Church, and Management Consultancy, but in the main people who had worked in Health and Social…
An excellent end to the working year is provided by the news that a consortium led by EPF and co-managed by EHFF has won the above tender, a project lasting two years valued at over 900,000€. The winning consortium, acronym PROSTEP, consists of the European Patients Forum, (EPF); Fundacion Avedis Donabedian (FAD); the Danish Centre…
On Dec.17th at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, the first meeting of the Design team was convened by Prof Daniel Steenstra and David Somekh. The team comprises, Daniel, David, David Goldberg (EHFF Director); Bernard Merkel (formerly head of Unit, DGSANCO health systems); Maggie Somekh, former CEO of Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust; Veron Lai, Digital…
Reported by Agnieszka Daval-Cichon: EHFF was represented at the 4th Conference of Partners of the EIP-AHA held in Brussels on 9-10 December 2015. The main topic was « Accelerating market uptake of innovation for active and healthy aging across Europe » and it was concluded that the work should continue in the same work streams but with…
Empathie Network update: B3 Action Group meeting Nov.19 Brussels, EHFF and EMPATHiE Network partners bid for Synergies project (upcoming Synergies taskforce meeting Montpellier Dec.7) and upcoming Partners Forum Dec.9/10. In Brussels on Nov. 19 there was a good turn-out of B3 partners. The meeting was chaired by Estaban de Manuel from the Basque country as…
As a final round-up to the year, here are some events that EHFF attended and/or participated in. Some reports are also filed under ‘events’, the Empathie Network or the EVY page. Firstly, this year’s EVY Conference, in Utrecht November 13th; ‘always look on the bright side of change’. This meeting hosted about 60 participants and…
Following the IROHLA final conference (see news item) a two day conference celebrated the third Health Literacy Conference (the previous year being held in Aarhus, Denmark). The full programme is here. There were a rich variety of presentations, all of which can be retrieved from the Conference website, but for ease of reference, here are a…
EU-WISE is an integrated project under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission designed to focus on understanding the contribution of policy, personal and community capabilities and resources to potential changes in health related practices in community and cultural context across Europe. It brought together 7 European countries and 8 organisations that to collaborate…
EHFF has had a friendly association with London-based APF for several years, through its co-manager, Nick Price of UCL. We may well hold a joint event in the latter part of 2016. This is a brief report of an APF meeting held with the POST horizon scanning group. POST is the UK Parliamentary Office of…