EUREGHA’s high-level annual conference

Brian O’Connor will participate on the session “Paving the way towards health systems transformation: reinforce the regional ecosystem” at 14:35hrs

While the COVID-19 pandemic is still on-going, it is tie to build on the lessons learned from the emergency and to start re-designing the health and social care systems of the future. One of the key aspects will be to ensure the resilience of the health and social care systems. This means that we must improve their capacity to foresee, absorb and adapt to shocks, sustain operations, resume optimal performance, and transform structures and functions.

Health and care systems are complex and to ensure their profound transformation we need to work parallel on several matters: healthcare workforce, community carers, medical products, infrastructures, technology, governance, and leadership.

Regional and local health authorities have been working on the transformation of the health and social care systems over the years to promote this shift towards a sustainable approach that leaves no one behind, especially the most vulnerable groups. Many innovations, both in terms of policies and services, are happening at territorial level: Value-Based healthcare, integrated care, eHealth, reform of the primary care, and cross-border cooperation in the health field, to name only a few. Yet there is the need to scale-up this knowledge at the EU level and to reinforce governance and leadership at all the government levels.

To discuss tools and strategies to ensure this transformation, EUREGHA’s Annual Conference will bring together regional policy makers, researchers, EU civil servants and representatives of the health eco-systems.