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…
A fascinating one-day symposium, with high quality speakers and presentations which presented a number of examples of current aspirational projects in the digital health field. The programme is here. Just three examples of future vision for the implementation of digital technology and the changes in practice it would introduce (if successful!). First presentation, Liz Mear,…
In this second edition: EHFF supporting it’s partners by David Somekh & Laura Botea (GGI) EHFF and Systems Thinking! by David Somekh Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: An Artificial Debate by Bernie Merkel Whither Healthcare Policy – Views from a Dutch doctor in London by Daniel Steenstra What to expect in the 3rd Newsletter ‘Acte de…
The SCiE initiative is a voluntary project which follows on from collaboation 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/summit2018/ identifies that the lead collaborators are DCHE, the Danish Committee for…
The major project to set up a European Resource Centre for patient empowerment has now been running for nearly six months. Our funders Robert Bosch Stiftung required us to get charity registration, which we sought in Ireland, having registered EHFF as a limited company there last September, in anticipation of Brexit, as we announced at…