Programme

Registration and coffee  

Introductions and keynote speeches

How can EU take a leading position in further developing healthcare quality and patient safety?

Moderator: Nina Rehnqvist, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Chair of the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care

Speaker: Johan Sauwens, member of the Committee of Regions

Speaker: Andrzej Jan RYS, Director of  Public health and risk assessment , DG Sanco, EU Commission

Speaker: Maria Åsenius, State Secretary to the Swedish minister for EU Affairs Cecilia Malmström

Speaker: Jo Leinen, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Speaker: Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize laureate year 2000, Professor Emeritus at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Speaker: Jonas Andersson President of the Regional Subcommittee of Health, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden

 Coffee break

Session 1

"Expectation of tomorrow´s health consumers in a global
interactive society"
Keynote speaker: Mats Olsson, Business concepts strategist, Director Health & Healthcare, Kairos Future International, Sweden

Session 2

"Quality in European health care - what we have and head for" 
Keynote speaker: Kieran Walshe, Professor, Health Policy and Management, Manchester Business School, UK

1. Patient involvement and patient centred care
Moderator: Inger Ekman, Professor, Head of the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg, Sweden

• What do the European patients see as their priorities?
  Speaker: Anders Olausson, President, European Patients´Forum
  
• Patient involvement in EU policy making: The example of patient safety and healthcare quality
  Speaker: Katja Neubauer, responsible for the work on patient safety and quality in the Health Strategy and Health Systems Unit of Directorate-General Health and Consumers
  
• Learning and Mastery Centres: Patient involvement as means and a method: Speaker: Ann Britt Sandvin Olsson, Special Advisor, MHSc, Learning and Mastery, Norwegian Centre for Patient Education, Research and Service Development, Oslo University Hospital, Norway.
  

• Speaker: Josep Figueras, MD, PhD, MSc, is the Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
  
• Speaker: Paolo Tedeschi, PhD in Economics and administration of public services
• Speaker: Dr Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir, MD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden

3. Healthcare management, design and delivery
Moderator: Jacki Davis, Communications Director at the European Policy Centre

• Speaker: Mr Martin Andreasson (m), vice chairman of the Regional Subcommittee of Health, Region Västra Götaland
• Speaker: Mr Pascal Garel, Chief Executive of HOPE, the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation 
• Speaker: Dr Francois Decaillet, Senior Policy Adviser and Representative of the WHO Regional office for Europe to the European Union