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…
The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) holds expert workshop related to their Health Futures Project: July 10/11, venue Leuven, Belgium Twenty five experts from various disciplines were gathered by the EHFG team to contribute to a scenarios exercise that would feed in to the upcoming annual Gastein Conference in October. The experts were given…
As a follow-up to the 2nd Summit on patient safety held in Bonn (summary by James Titcombe of Datix) EHFF was invited along with other members of the recently disbanded DG Sante working group on Quality and Patient Safety to this seminar, hosted by the German government in collaboration with representation of the UK Department…
The EHMA 2017 Annual Conference, titled “Health Futures”, was a gathering of healthcare managers, professionals, researchers and educators, held from 13th-15th June at the prestigious Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. With more than 250 delegates representing numerous countries across Europe and beyond, it was a fruitful three days that gave attendees many opportunities to learn from others in the field…
Bromley by Bow, London, 5th June 2017 This was an extremely eclectic day meeting, involving about 50 people at the Bromley by Bow Centre in East London, arranged by the Stockholm and US based Bateson Institute, led by Nora Bateson, daughter of the famous Gregory Bateson and co-hosted by 3RDOPINION. The subject of the discussion…