EHFF Project: Health Futures Scenarios

The methodology of large scale scenario planning has successfully been applied to the problem of AIDS in Africa, to international money markets and to intellectual property rights in Europe. Although there have been nationally based scenarios on health, there has never been a multi-stakeholder scenario project in health with a Europe wide focus. Having established a working relationship with industry-trained scenario planners and having the benefit of the ESQH network of contacts in more than 15 European countries, EHFF is well placed to carry out this exercise, which has enormous potential in terms of information, associated research and influence on thinking in this area. The expected outputs of this work will be to show the likely future of healthcare delivery in Europe given the current realities and trends as well of alternative futures based on changing conditions and assumptions.