Programme: Common challenges and policy responses: international lessons for the NHS

Dr Hugh Alderwick, Director of Policy and Research, The Health Foundation

This session will provide an overview of the common supply and demand pressures facing high-income health systems across Europe. Speakers will discuss policy responses to these challenges and the implications for future priorities.  

Presentations:  

• Mark Pearson, Deputy Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• Christophe Pedroletti, Chief Executive, Karolinska University Hospitals 

Respondents:

• Dr Penny Dash, Chair, NHS England

• Ewout van Ginneken, Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Chair: Dr Hugh Alderwick, Director of Policy and Research, The Health Foundation

This session will explore what policies have been used by other countries to boost their primary and community services. Speakers will review what progress has been made for out-of-hospital care in England.

Presentations:  

• Martin Hefford, Director, Community and Primary Care Funding, Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

• Mogens Vestergaard, Honorary Professor, General Practitioner, Aarhus University 

Respondents:  

• Dr Minal Bakhai, General Practitioner, Director for Primary Care Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement 

• Richard Kirby, Chief Executive, Birmingham Community Healthcare, and National Advisor, Neighbourhood Health, NHS England

Chair: Sir David Behan, Chair, The Health Foundation 

This session will cover how productivity can be boosted through reforming the training and management of health care staff and by harnessing technology to improve efficiency. Speakers will reflect on what progress has been made in England.  

Presentations:  

• Dr Vincent Liu, Chief Data Officer, Permanente Medical Group, and Senior Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research

• Alexandre Lourenço, Assistant Professor and Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Health Management, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Respondents:   

• Caroline Clarke DBE, Chief Executive, Online NHS Trust

• Philippa Kirkpatrick, Chief Information Officer, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Ruth Robertson, Learning Partner: Prevention Demonstrator, Greater Manchester Combined Authority 

Karin Smyth MP, Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care)

Chair: Dr Jennifer Dixon DBE, Chief Executive, The Health Foundation 

This session will outline the macro policy reforms implemented by other high-income countries to strengthen healthcare amid rising cost pressures and low economic growth. Speakers will reflect on what policy approaches should be taken in England. 

Presentations:

• Stefan Eichwalder, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, Austria 

• Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Head of Financing of Wellbeing Services Counties team and Chief Researcher, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Respondents:

• Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation

• Dr Samantha Roberts, Former Chief Executive Officer, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Chair: Dr Jennifer Dixon DBE, Chief Executive, The Health Foundation 

Dr Jennifer Dixon DBE, Chief Executive, The Health Foundation