Work in the Philippines 2012 – 2014

Nov. 30, 2014

Following the award of a 2-year grant by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2012, a scoping visit to the Philippines involving HITAP and NICE International took place in December 2012 to explore possible areas of support. The visit identified a number of specific activities relating to vaccine evaluation techniques, Z-package optimisation and the processes and methods used by the Formulary Executive Committee …

NICE International meets with the Iraqi Deputy Health Minister  

Nov. 2, 2014

November 2014 Kalipso Chalkidou met with the Iraqi Deputy Health Minister, Dr Sattar Jabbar Al-Saedi along with a senior delegation from the Iraqi  Ministry of Health as part of the Ministry’s mission to improve bilateral relations regarding healthcare with the UK. During the meeting they discussed NICE International’s work on maternal mortality in India and work in China on pathways …

Priority-setting and HTA workshop, Delhi, October 2014

By Françoise Cluzeau Oct. 8, 2014

To raise awareness of the principles of active priority-setting, NICE International organised a high-level workshop in New Delhi, co-hosted with the World Bank and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), India, with funding from the DFID Health Partnership Scheme. Over 100 stakeholders from India’s health sector attended the workshop, “Better Decisions for Better Health: Priority Setting & Health …

Health Insurers from India visit NICE

Sep. 2, 2014

A delegation of Health Insurers from the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) and the Megha Health Insurance Scheme spent five days on a study visit learning about the role of NICE in Health Technology Assessment and priority setting in the NHS. “Thank you for the excellent study tour organized at Nice UK which was indeed …

International knowledge network for nutrition in Africa  

NICE International attended the kick off meeting of the International knowledge network for nutrition in Africa, of which it is a partner. This initiative builds on a previous EU-funded project SUNRAY (Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the years to come) that showed that knowledge on nutrition needs to be strengthened, formalized, shared, and used as the basis for setting priorities in …

Project work in Ghana 2012 – 2014

Sep. 1, 2014

click here for the latest on iDSI activity in Ghana. Between 2012 and 2014, the Rockefeller Foundation funded NICE International to support a series of initiatives with the Ministry of Health and associated agencies, including The National Health Insurance Agency (NHIA), The Ghana Health Service (GHS, the largest provider agency) and the Ghana National Drugs Programme. The key objective of this …

Asia-Pacific Regional Capacity-Building for HTA Initiative (ARCH)

Aug. 24, 2014

Final Asia-Pacific Regional Capacity-Building for HTA Conference in Singapore The ARCH initiative for 2014 came to a close at a one-day conference attended by representatives from all the countries that participated in the initiative November 2014 The ARCH initiative for 2014 came to a close at a one-day conference in Singapore on the 21st November. Representation from all the countries …

Quality Standard for the Hospital Management of Acute Stroke in Vietnam 

Developing a Quality Standard for the Hospital Management of Acute Stroke in Vietnam July 2014 View pictures of the launch of the quality standard On 16-17 July, the Ministry of Health Vietnam launched the Quality Standards for the Hospital Management of Acute Stroke (“the Stroke QS”). This is the first set of evidence-informed quality standards developed locally in Vietnam, with technical …

Philippines

Transforming Health Systems – Philippines NICE International was awarded a 2-year grant, starting in 2013, by the Rockefeller Foundation. The focus will be on strengthening priority setting methods and processes in the Philippines. A scoping visit to the Philippines took place in December 2012 to explore possible areas of support. The visit identified a number of specific activities relating to …

Turkey

Aug. 1, 2014

Developing a clinical guideline in Turkey  Assessment of a performance-based contracting scheme in Turkey February 2012 Francoise Cluzeau conducted three focus groups with the World Bank in Ankara, Turkey as part of the programmatic assessment of performance based contracting scheme in Family Medicine Practice. The focus groups gathered 30 participants from various provinces in Turkey and included: Family Medicine physicians, …