Category: WHCCEurope

Sir Muir heads up the Knowledge Service in the UK National Health Service. He gave the opening keynote on the final day of the Congress and here he runs over some of his most salient points, explaining what he means by the third healthcare revolution.
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Dr Kumar attended the Congress from Delhi, India. Here he gives his views on broadening the scope of the conference proceedings and associated conversations beyond European Healthcare Systems.
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Niall Dickson, Kings Fund
A new dispensation - at the time of the creation of the NHS in 1948 the response from the public was gratitude and a huge welcome, but no real expectations of what it would provide and what universality of provision would really look like. One size fits all […]

All the photographs I’ve taken over the last few days are available here.
I’ve shot some video too, so you should see that here on the blog in the next few hours
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Patrice Blemont, Director, Regional Hospitalisation Agency of Franche-Comte, France
[taken from the translation feed so errors of understanding may have crept in]
We often wonder why in High Burgundy how we manage to launch a comprehensive healthcare information system while other regions lag behind. Before our system became a model we had to prepare […]

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Nino Mangiapane, Federal Ministry of Health
We are in the situation in Germany with regard to the objective of our project that i will be able to speak not only about technology, but also a survey of the German health system, because inclusion of stakeholders is important for us.
The objectives are to boost […]

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Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer, DH & NHS, UK
The future is something we make, not something we discover. And the future is easy to make because as William Gibson has said, the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
We’re in the middle of the third Healthcare revolution. The […]

Adapting healthcare strategies to changing demographics.
Ministers from Netherlands (NL), Poland (PL), Russia (RU) and Estonia (EE)
Dr Schneider: Ministers, what are the most urgent issues on your desk?
NL - Biggest question will be demographic change and what we do about it. We’ve tried to make fundamental reform to the structure of insurance to help […]

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Dr Schroeder is the German Secretary of State for Health.
I’m blogging this live from the translation feed so I apologise for some of the disjointed sentences.
From our point of view Health is a value in itself - the WHCC discussing the various challenges.
In the EU of 27 states, we are all facing […]

CPME represents the interests of 2 million doctors in the EU and other european states. For doctors improving healthcare means improving the relationship between doctors and patients.
I’d just like to run through four areas are focusing our attention at the moment.
Do health policies improve health? Do health policies alone improve health? […]