This event serves as the informal launch of ECHAA and provides participants with an opportunity to engage with decision-makers on the impact of the credit/economic crisis on hospital and healthcare infrastructure development.
To reserve your place please contact: Bora Trimçev on b.trimcev@imperial.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0) 20 7594 3084.
Programme
8.30 Registration and coffee
Theme One – Introductory session
08.50 Welcome from Chair (Marinus Verweij, Chairman of ECHAA)
09.00 Causes, severity and duration of the recession (Marcus Miller, Professor of Macroeconomics, Warwick). Discussant (Vanessa Rossi, Senior Research Fellow, International Economics Programme)
10.00 Impact of the recession on health (Marc Suhrcke, Professor of Public Health Economics, UEA). Discussant (Anders Olauson, President, European Patients’ Forum, tbc)
11.00 Coffee
Theme Two – Discussion & short presentations, sector representatives:
Theme Two – Disscussion & short presentation , sector representatives
11.30 National ministry of health (Slovenia, tbc)
12.00 Social health insurance agency (Marcel Smeets, Director-General International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies)
12.30 Private hospital group
13.00 Lunch
Theme Two (continued)
13.45 Commercial bank (Michel van Schaik, Rabobank)
14.15 Public services industry contractor (Bouygues, tbc)
14.45 Coffee
15.15 Plenary discussion – how bad, and what to do?
16.45 Sum-up and close (Marinus Verweij)