Applications are now open for a 12-month fellowship programme starting in September 2016 and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Chatham House are seeking applications from individuals from West Africa with a background in public health or senior management who wish to enhance their policy-making and leadership skills and effect change. For more information, including potential research topics for 2016, see the link …
PMAC 2016 report published
The Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2016 report is now available to download from the PMAC website, along with the program, and materials from the plenaries and panels. The theme for this year’s conference was Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Discussion focused on how countries can make “better decisions about priorities in the context of UHC, regardless of how rich …
NICE International engagement with Chile
NICE International is a partner on a project led by the Division of Health Planning, Ministry of Health of Chile relating to “Building capacity on health technology assessment (HTA) processes in Chile”. This project is being pursued within the context of the Institutional Skills programme, an initiative of the Newton Fund administered by the British Council. The Newton Fund is …
First steps towards HTA and priority setting in Ghana
Dr Francoise Cluzeau, Associate Director NICE International and Prof Jo Lord from Southampton Health Technology Assessment Centre ran a workshop in Accra with a multi stakeholder working group to help them develop a health economics model for the pharmacological treatment of hypertension and using the Ghana national Standard Treatment Guidelines. The workshop was coordinated by the Directorate of Pharmaceuticals of …
Musings and Mopeds in Vietnam – Part 2
This is a guest post by Maggie Helliwell, retired English general practitioner and former Vice Chair of NICE. See also Part 1. We visited five different types of primary care health clinics, one in central Hanoi and four in the provinces and villages. They were immaculately clean, reasonably well-appointed facilities – with good basic equipment including simple laboratory machines, ultrasound, …
Workshop Maternal health Quality Standards in the South African Context
Maternal Health is a major health priority in South Africa. The National Department of Health’s National Maternity Guidelines provide a comprehensive guide to all aspects of maternity care, from early prenatal care, acute management of delivery and post-partum care. It is expected that adherence to the guidelines would have substantial impact on maternal and new-born outcomes, however, nationally consistent implementation …
HTA Workshop Indonesia 25 – 29 April 2016
The Ministry of Health, Indonesia, and the WHO, with support from the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), are organising a workshop titled “Health and the Wealth of Evidence: Using Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for Priority Setting in Indonesia” from 25th to 29th April, 2016 in Jakarta, Indonesia. During the workshop, participants will learn about how to conduct HTA, how evidence is used for making policy decisions and how HTA …
Musings and Mopeds in Vietnam – Part 1
This is a guest post by Maggie Helliwell, retired English general practitioner and former Vice Chair of NICE One morning early in 2016, an email popped into my inbox from NICE International: Would I like to go to Vietnam in March to help the Ministry of Health develop their primary care strategy? At first I had to say no as …
Quality Standards for Maternal Care in India
Between 2012-2014, NICE International (iDSI), the Government of Kerala and the Kerala Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (KFOG) worked in partnership to develop and implement quality standards for maternal mortality. Future work under iDSI will continue to explore opportunities for development of evidence-based guidance and policies through established links with local and national level organisations. See below for latest news, further background …
Quality Indicators in Mexico
About the project Between 2001 and 2006, a national set of quality indicators known as INDICAS (Sistema Nacional de Indicadores de Calidad en Salud) were developed by the Mexican government. The government has implemented many initiatives on the use of quality indicators and their role in performance monitoring. A key aim of the governments initiatives is to support the use of INDICAS within institutions …