The latest Festa / EHFF podcast with Caroline Whyte and Sean Conlan. This podcast features Feasta’s summer intern, Nadia Hansen, interviewing Dundalk-based social worker Dr Washington Marovatsanga on cultural competence, enforced absence, the relationship between power and knowledge production, the problematic history and orientation of social work, and how a Global South philosophy of collectivism could…
‘The Wellbeing economy’ In this session the Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), Stewart Wallis talks to David Somekh of EHFF about the origins, work and future plans for their organisation as well as what we understand by the concept of a ‘wellbeing economy’. Hear the full episode here :
Introduction from David Somekh EHFF Network Director: We’re publishing this month’s bulletin a bit earlier, because of upcoming holidays. Again, we have four diverse contributions. 1. Dr Dan Alton’s blog from the UK’s NHS Confederation is reprinted with permission and deals with the benefits of implementing the NHS Population Health Management strategy to tackle COVID-19…
“Partnership based organisation” “Governments around the world are currently rethinking their approach to the economy and reflecting on their overall goals, and this is triggering many questions about how best to structure organisations, large and small, so as to improve our chances of achieving those goals. This podcast includes interviews with people at an international…
“The future of tourism and business travel.” “We interview Manuel Grebenjak of the Stay Grounded network, and Professor James Faulconbridge, head of the Organisation Work and Technology Department at Lancaster University, about the future of tourism and business travel in the wake of Corona virus – bearing in mind the need to urgently reduce travel’s…
It’s over six years since Shawn Day, one of the EHFF Directors, set up our website and helped us to get it going. After a period where we sought and obtained charitable funding for a make-over (thanks especially to Robert Harrison), we were able to agree a contract with Andy Ditchfield of DXP solutions, to…
We would like your attention for the following. A very interesting project called Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH). This is a four-year Wellcome Trust funded project led by Prof Mike Davis (UCL) with Prof Susan Michie (CBC) as a Co-Investigator. The project aims to bring about city-wide transformations to reduce carbon emissions…
From our CHRODIS Partners: The CHRODIS PLUS Joint Action is a high-level response by the EU to alleviate the burden of chronic diseases in the EU Member States and beyond. The 36 month-long project is now in its 16th month with the first solid results, including completed national policy dialogues, ground set for the implementation…
R.I.P. the European Society for Quality in Healthcare by David Somekh Twenty years ago to this month a group of twelve leaders of European national healthcare quality societies met at the ISQuA (International Society for Quality Assurance in health) conference in Budapest. The meeting was convened by Charles Shaw, who at that time was the ISQuA President.…
By Tobias Gantner About the HealthCare Futurists The HealthCare Futurists GmbH was found in April 2013 in Düsseldorf, Germany. We look back at a steady revenue growth and a significant number of satisfied and returning customers from different industry strata that are all interested in healthcare, medicine and life-sciences. Our motto is: We. Safe. Patients. This means, it…