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The future of aid funding in African Healthcare post-Covid
Chaired by former UK Health Secretary the Rt. Hon. Stephen Dorrell, this session at the Healthcare World Festival offered valuable insight into the ‘aid and trade cycle’ and the ways in which aid funding can lead to longer term trading relationships, says Fabian...
Perspectives on the rise of global digital healthcare
Data needs to be used purposefully for patients, but there are many obstacles to surmount first, says Sarah Cartledge. One of the few positives of the pandemic was the development and acceleration of digital healthcare creating remote consultation as the future of...
UN procurement opportunities for healthcare companies
Marta Garcia, a team leader in healthcare procurement at the United Nations, explains how the UN operates from a health care point of view, the opportunities that exist, and how to access them, reports Sophia Kurz. The United Nations - an organisation whose sole aim...
Building the hospitals of tomorrow
Healthcare World Editor Sarah Cartledge speaks to Richard Cantlay, Mott MacDonald’s Global Head of Healthcare Facilities, about his vision for a new era of hospital design and planning. As we examine the healthcare needs of the present day, hospitals are facing a...
Meeting consumer expectations in a hybrid health IT landscape
Patients are increasingly expecting a fast, smooth, digital-driven experience with their healthcare providers that resembles what they can do in other aspects of their lives, says Royston Adamson-Green of NextGate One-click shopping, location-based services, and...
Changing attitudes towards value-based healthcare
HWF’s Steve Gardner speaks to Simon Swift, Managing Director of Methods Analytics, about developing an outcomes-based system Value-based healthcare, at its most basic definition, centres on paying for outcomes, the value delivered as opposed to paying for activity. At...
Imperial Private Healthcare launches International Affiliate Network
This week marks the launch of the Imperial Private Healthcare International Affiliate Network. The network has been established to develop relationships with aspirational hospitals across the world, share knowledge and expertise and advance patient care, with the...
Producing doctors – what Africa can learn from Asia
In Asia there has been an exponential expansion in private medical schools over the last decade, says Dr Ken Grant, Technical Director of International Health Mott MacDonald. Africa is short of doctors. Not just short - very short. At the start of the Ebola crisis in...
Building back better
'How do we support peer-to-peer networks as the bedrock of a sustainable global health system?', ask Thomas Hughes, Head of Development Partnerships and Ged Byrne, Director of Global Health Partnerships, Health Education England. Following the global pandemic, we need...
Reducing South Africa’s healthcare burden
The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa aims to improve cardiovascular health through lifestyle and education tools, says Sophia Kurz. In South Africa, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for almost one in six deaths, while 225 people die every day from...
An ironic impact of COVID-19
AXA’s Michal Matul and Niti Pall ask if the pandemic will finally put digital health on the path to reducing health inequalities at scale in emerging markets COVID-19 and its associated lockdowns have worsened access to healthcare and widened health inequalities...
Healthcare for the economy
Paul da Rita, Principal of PdR Infra Advisory, discusses opportunities and barriers to financing healthcare infrastructure across Africa. In looking at the potential for investment, and the need, it is helpful to contextualise the situation across many African...
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