London futurists event 17 February 2018 By Prof Daniel Steenstra – EHFF Yesterday I attended London Futurists’ ‘A Future Glimpse into Human Healthcare’ event as David Somekh’s stunt double. For nearly 2 hours Dr Stephen Minger presented a beguiling view of latest developments in medical science. He is a charismatic American scientist with an illustrious…
By Bernard Merkel (EHFF community member) Since the start of the year the NHS in the UK has been in a state of crisis. How do I know this? Well, I am constantly told so by the media, senior health professionals, such as the heads of 67 hospital emergency departments, and assorted politicians. There are…
Further to the news item dated August 27 we’re summarising the outcome of the annual review of strategy. After meetings on July 15 at Gatwick airport and August 12 in Hampstead the management team have collated the several hours of discussion and produced a list of Action points. These have been roughly sorted into four…
Sounds like an oxymoron (a contradiction in terms – you knew that, didn’t you), but our colleague from the Danish Centre for Health Education, Lars Munter who invited EHFF to provide an ending keynote at this meeting is also a Director of the not-for-profit organisation CSR-Link which looks at Corporate Social Responsibility activities of large…
The London branch of the Association for Professional Futurists (a global organisation for such professionals, website url: https://apf.org/ ) has been a source of contacts and information for EHFF over the last three or four years. David Somekh attended this day seminar partly to maintain links but also because one of the speakers, Bill Sharpe,…
Metaphorum is a society, of which most members are experts in systems theory, which commemorates and explores the application of Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems model (VSM). VSM has been one of the constructs which has guided us in the development of EHFF as an agile, network based organisation. An introduction to Stafford Beer and the…
Final conference of PROSTEP (promoting self-management in chronic diseases) project: Brussels October 23-24. EHFF is one of the five partners steering this project, due to finish by January 2018. The final conference represents Work Package 7 of the tender from DG Sante (first reported here January 2016) and brought roughly one hundred people to two…
Estonian Presidency eHealth conference 16-18 October provides full launch of Digital Health Society initiative (apologies again for the two month delay in posting this report!!) Following the announcement at the eHealth meeting in Malta (reported by us May 19) EHFF had been one of a large handful of organisations that where already signed up to…
Newsflash: EHFF to commence major project on Patient Empowerment, going live this month and scheduled to run for three years subject to ongoing scrutiny, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Having incorporated the ENOPE network under our umbrella last year, this is our opportunity to utilise the considerable resources of that network to make an…
Apart from the thoughtful and detailed report on the Gastein Forum from Bernie Merkel in October, visitors to our website may have noticed that news items on events that EHFF has participated in since the summer have been absent. This is not because we have been idle; on the contrary, we have been rather preoccupied…