Register for this event by Monday 16 May.
Overview
This event, organised by the Health Economics, Policy and Management Group at Imperial College Business School welcomes Portugal’s Secretary of State for Health, Professor Fernando Araújo, and Professor Lord Ara Darzi, the former Health Minister in the United Kingdom, to discuss examples of value-based care and the role they can play in addressing the quality, equity and sustainability challenges faced by today’s health care systems. Following years of austerity, the Portuguese Government is implementing a range of reforms to revitalise the health care system and improve its long-term outlook. Patient-centeredness, a strengthened primary care, improved coordination of chronic care, a better use of information systems and pay for performance, coupled with health promotion efforts, promise to give new momentum to health systems that have been under severe strain during a prolonged economic crisis.
Biographies
Professor Fernando Araújo – Professor Araújo is the Secretary of State for Health, Portugal. He is Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto and Physician at the St. John’s Hospitals Center, Oporto.
Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS FMedSci HonFREng – Professor Darzi holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research. He is Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College Hospital NHS Trust.