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…
By Bernard Merkel (EHFF community member) The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) was set up 20 years ago with the aim of becoming an influential conference on health policy in Europe – perhaps the most influential. I suppose the general idea was to create a kind of Davos World Economic Forum for health policy. The…
By Bernard Merkel Nowadays I don’t often get surprised by articles on how national health systems are performing, or how they compare. Usually I find they simply tell me things I already know or suspect: they are all trying to cope with the growing demand for health services, particularly from their ageing populations, they are…
Venue: Hilton Hotel Gatwick South As not all the planning team could make the same date, seven of us, Agnieszka Daval-Cichon, Marius Buiting, Matthijs Zwier, Jeni Bremner, Sean Conlan, Bernie Merkel and David Somekh met for a dinner and following day workshop to develop EHFF’s draft strategy further. Apologies were received from Ales Bourek, Nick…