The Universal Health Coverage High-Level Forum (UHC Forum), jointly organized by the Government of Japan, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UHC2030 and JICA, will be held at the Tokyo Prince Hotel in Japan.

Goals and participants

The UHC Forum aims to galvanize the health sector, countries, development partners, civil society and the private sector toward the common goal of UHC, including pandemic preparedness, and highlighting country success and breakthrough experiences to accelerate the progress of UHC.

The agenda will include a mix of plenary and parallel sessions with expected attendance of ...

This webinar is the first of a series organized by the Canadian Society for International Health’s newly established SDGs for Health Community of Practice, organized in cooperation with different partners.

Communities of Practice have existed in the global health landscape for several years, yet many experts are still unclear on their program theory and possible contributions in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Sameera Hussain will begin with an introduction to the SDGs for Health CoP as a follow up to the recent Canadian Conference on Global Health, followed by Pr. Bruno Meessen, who will present some key ...

The workshop is a knowledge exchange activity organised as part of the inter-regional collaboration on digital health and care between TicSalut in Catalonia and NHS 24 in Scotland.

Catalonia developed one of the first regional mHealth strategies in Europe and has many lessons to share with Scottish stakeholders relating to the development, accreditation and implementation of mHealth apps and services.

This interactive workshop will explore:

- mHealth strategies in Catalonia and Scotland
- mHealth accreditation models
- mHealth service models and interoperability
- Co-production and person-centred mHealth

The aims of the session are to:

- raise awareness of mHealth developments in both regions and share ...

As part of Scotland’s engagement in the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) and the Reference Sites Collaborative Network (RSCN), Scotland has lead the development of a tool to assess regions’ progress and maturity in the provision of integrated care and innovative solutions for active and healthy ageing. The online self-assessment tool is intended to stimulate discussion, to encourage stakeholders to share experiences, and to reach out those stakeholders who can help Europe to accelerate its journey towards innovative integrated care systems to meet future demands. Core to this process is the involvement of ...

This webinar in our second series of Integrated Care Matters will focus on Technology Enabled Care for older people. The webinar will take place on Monday, 20th November at 12.00pm at 1.00pm GMT (UK Time) and will last for one hour. The webinar is free to access but places are allocated on a first come basis to a limited number so make sure to book your place early.

Registration

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-integrated-care-matters-series-2-technology-enabled-care-for-older-people-tickets-38534310159 

About the IFIC Webinar Series

The International Foundation for Integrated Care is delighted to introduce the 2nd series of webinars on people-centred ...

The 41st World Hospital Congress (WHC) will take place on November 6-9, 2017 at the Taipei International Convention Centre, and will tackle the theme “Patient-friendly & Smarter Healthcare”. Healthcare leaders and professionals from both national healthcare organizations and hospitals will attend the congress to present case studies, implementation of new technologies and policies.

Tackling current and emerging challenges

The conference is bringing on the forefront representatives of national organizations that will be presenting how in their respective countries they respond to the current and emerging challenges for providing quality and safe health services to the population. Taiwan will share “Patient-centered NHI ...

The International Federation for Ageing's (IFA) 14th Global Conference will be hosted in Toronto, Canada from 8–10 August 2018.  The conference will revolve around four key themes related to the field of ageing, and will feature prominent experts presenting and discussing critical issues.  The conference is proud to be supported by an international network of partners.

The title of IFA’s 14th Global Conference, “Towards a Decade of Healthy Ageing – From Evidence to Action,” is in response to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report on Ageing and Health and the subsequent goals of the WHO Global Strategy ...

The International Foundation for Integrated Care is delighted to introduce the 2nd series of webinars on people-centred integrated care in practice. This series will have a particular focus on active and healthy ageing and preventing and managing frailty. The webinars will be hosted by IFIC Scotland in collaboration with the University of the West of Scotland, the Institute of Research and Innovation in Social Services, and the Health and Social Care Alliance.  Each monthly webinar will feature health and care practitioners from Scotland in conversation with colleagues from across the World and with insights from people who currently use health ...

Whether you’re working on developing new care models, sustainability and transformation partnerships or accountable care systems, this event will provide valuable lessons to help you overcome the issues you face as you work towards integrating health and care services.

Why you should attend

Lessons from international health systems

The Urgent Care: Improving Patient Flow conference agenda has been developed to explore the current patient flow trends within the hospital urgent care system. Delegates will gain a greater understanding of how the problems occur from the start of the process, with the patient having attended the A & E department, through to the discharge process, returning back into the community and home. Our line-up of expert speakers will provide insight, opinion and stimulate debate as to how to relieve the burden on hospitals and reduce the pressures of compromised patient flow. We will showcase a number of initiatives and examples ...