Test, test and test With most European countries now opting for some degree of relaxation of their lock-down, inevitably there have been some localised outbreaks of fresh infections. To liken these to ‘second wave’ (which in 1918 killed more people than the first wave) is dubious because a) testing in many places has been variable,…
DetailsEHFF COVID-19 Bulletin for end of May Introduction from David Somekh, EHFF Network Director For our third COVID19 Bulletin we provide another four thought pieces, looking mostly at other aspects of the impact of the pandemic on society, one exception being the follow-up we sought from Dr Tobias Gantner from his ‘Faster than corona’ project.…
DetailsHere’s how some of our projects are progressing: CEMPaC : our European Center for Empowering Patients and Communities We’re now in the third year of our major three year project to develop a resource center for Europe on patient empowerment, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. It’s taken a while, but on our website www.cempac.org…
DetailsIntroduction from David Somekh, EHFF Network Director After our Newsletter n.6 last month which also doubled as our first COVID-19 bulletin, we offer here four thought pieces. The theme is different kinds of learning so far from the pandemic, which link to EHFF’s principal mission, that of supporting transformational change for health and healthcare in…
DetailsWe published our latest Newsletter on April 10th. Find it HERE
Newsflash: EHFF embarks on major strategy exercise with support from Ian Kendrick of H3Uni and SDG Transformations Forum We’ve been acquainted with Ian now for several years and regularly met him at the Metaphorum annual conferences. However, at end 2019 Ian agreed to join the EHFF Community and since then we’ve been working with…
DetailsSean Conlan and Caroline Whyte speak with Dr Evelyn Forget at the University of Manitoba about her research into the health and social effects of a basic income trial that was held in rural Canada in the 1970s. Then we talk to Paul Harnett and Laura Bannister, who are both directors of the World Basic Income, and…
DetailsWe had planned to meet together in London on Saturday Mar 21st, but the pandemic intervened. We were delighted instead to convene a meeting on Zoom which lasted from 9am to 3.30 pm (with breaks!) which at its peak had 17 attendees, with only one member of the Advisory team too ill to attend (fortunately…
DetailsEHFF team has been in intensive discussions about our response to the Coronavirus global pandemic (partly also related to the opportunity of our scheduled AGMs, of course held on-line this year (see related news item, which allowed an extended discussion around strategy for 2020)). As the banner on our front page indicates, we’re now geared…
DetailsDavid Somekh hosts conversation with Richard Turnbull and Henk den Uijl on the ethical issues surrounding the concept of ‘enough is plenty’ (challenging excessive production and excessive consumption and their consequences).
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