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…
On the 18 May at BMA House, London the Royal Society of Medicine Telemedicine Section chaired by Charles Lowe (also a member of the EHFF Community) held a joint meeting with the Institute for Engineering and Technology. There was a diverse selection of speakers: the programme is here. We had keynotes from Denis Gilhooly, Global…
This is the third year running that EHFF has attended and contributed to this event, which attracts a wide range of stakeholders in the eHealth business, from users of service, entrepreneurs, large Corporations to providers of services, start-ups and policy-makers. The Agenda and event promo can be accessed here: https://events.bizzabo.com/H2conEurope2017 As an introduction to a…
Dzintars Putnis, President of the Latvian Quality Society is an old friend of EHFF and an EHFF Community founder member. He invited David Somekh to this years conference ‘Changing world’ (programme) and David gave the keynote presentation (see here) The conference, although mainly for members of the Latvian society, drew speakers from UK, Finland, Lithuania…