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…
EHFF signs contract with Robert Bosch Stiftung for project on barriers to involvement of end-users in eHealth product development We are delighted to report that the bid from EHFF has been accepted by RBS and the project began on Nov.23 and will run through to next summer. In essence Nick Guldemond of UMC Utrecht and…
EHFF is a small partner in a Consortium led by SERGAS of Galicia region that has successfully bid for a Horizon 2020 three year grant on pre commercial procurement entitled ‘Self-management of health and disease and patient empowerment supported by ICT’. The EHFF group, which has as a major player Rosa Sunol’s group from Barcelona,…
Since the Gatwick meeting at the end of January we have been discussing the setting up of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and finally Prof Daniel Steenstra has got this one off the ground. The first meeting at the end of October was recorded and transcribed Disruptive Innovation as applied to Health is a controversial theme…
Funded by FP7, the IROHLA project describes itself as follows ‘IROHLA is a project that focused on improving health literacy for older people in Europe. It took stock of on-going health literacy programmes and projects and identified and validated a set of 20 interventions, which together constitute a comprehensive approach for addressing the health literacy needs of the ageing…
Expert Panel to complete Delphi process on criteria to assess organisational interventions focused on dealing with chronic patients with multiple conditions (multimorbidity) A panel of 14 experts including a representative of EHFF was convened at the CSISC office, Brussels by the Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon as lead of the Chronic Disease Joint Action…
On Oct. 21 David Somekh gave an invited keynote presentation at a seminar on integrated care convened by the Region of Skane in southern Sweden at their office in Malmo. The event represented a coming together of four European regions, Wales, Scotland, Flanders and Skane, to share expertise on integrated care and to consider what…
Earlier this year we got in touch with the organization of the biggest fair venue in the Netherlands (Jaarbeurs, Utrecht). They were charmed by the EVY network concept and promised to look out for opportunities for us to join care conferences and/or other meetings and were also willing to offer us venue space for future…