Connecting at #MEF2024 Doha!

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)'s Kedar Mate, MD & @DonaldBerwick & I discussed:
-Equity & patient experiences as drivers for quality in healthcare
-Focusing on outcomes that matter to patients
-Innovation to ⬆️quality & patient safety
-Closer WHO/Europe-IHI work relationship

An honor meeting Qatar Public Health Min. Hanan Al Kuwari @ #MEF2024 on Quality & Safety in Healthcare.

We discussed:
- Working through WHO Centres of Excellence on quality of care
- Collaboration on tackling NCDs
- Qatar's key role in #HealthForPeace amid conflict & war.

A great dialogue with my WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean counterpart Dr HananBalkhyحنان بلخي in Doha.

We'll boost inter-regional collaboration, including on emergencies & antimicrobial resistance.

I look forward to welcoming Dr Balkhy to WHO/Europe this week for our global conference on NCDs in emergencies!

🏥🌟 Quality care and patient safety are indispensable for accessible, equitable, and patient-centred healthcare, forming the foundation of robust health systems and #UHC .

Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/QoCAutumn2023

#UHC #HealthcareQuality #PatientSafety #QoC PSchool #QoC

At the international conference celebrating the 45th anniversary of Alma-Ata and 5th anniversary of Astana declarations, 600+ delegates from 70+ countries convened today to underline the importance of #PHC to achieve #HealthForAll .

1978: Alma Ata Declaration shows how Primary Health Care drives #HealthForAll .
2018: Astana Declaration reinforces this.
23 Oct 2023: WHO/Europe UNICEF Europe C.Asia & The Ministry of Health 🇰🇿 Conference in Astana - spelling PHC's role in Universal Health Coverage, amid the permacrisis of our time.

The big day is finally here!

We’re about to begin WHO/Europe’s 73rd Regional Committee in Kazakhstan!

Join us live for #RC73Astana , our most important meeting of the year, as our 53 Member States chart the future of health for our Region!

Watch: who.int/europe

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Today, WHO/Europe launches its 1st European Autumn School on Quality of Care and Patient Safety in Lisbon 🇵🇹 Co-organized w/ ENSP NOVA, it aims to advance scientific knowledge & proficiency in #QoC & patient safety in the Region.

Learn more: bit.ly/QoCAutumn2023

#QoC PSchool

Tackling the public health challenges of today and charting a healthier tomorrow requires visionary leadership.

Thrilled to announce WHO/Europe's 2nd European Public Health Leadership Course this November, in partnership with Université de Bordeaux!

bit.ly/PHLC2023

#PHLC2023

WHO/Europe stands in solidarity with Greece amid its biggest-ever evacuations linked to wildfires at a time of extreme heat regionwide.

The #BudapestDeclaration on climate & health spells out concrete action 🇬🇷 & other Member States can take to mitigate the #ClimateCrisis .

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Stark manifestations, more than ever, of the ravages being wrought by the #ClimateCrisis in the WHO/Europe Region and beyond.

Our Member States have committed to key measures under the #BudapestDeclaration on climate and health.

Now we need action.

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Key WHO/Europe events for rest of 2023:

Partners Forum – Istanbul, June
Ministerial Conf. on Env & Health – Budapest, July
Digital Symposium – Porto, Sept
Health diplomacy – Brussels, Sept
Int. Meeting on PHC – Astana, Oct
#RC73Astana – Astana, Oct
Health Systems – Tallinn, Dec

We are starting Monday 5 June 7:30 am CET See ⬇️ For further information & livestream link who.int/europe/news-ro…

Delighted to be the first registration for our ⁦WHO/Europe⁩ regional meeting on hospitals #futureofhospitals #Baku

'Inflation, multiple health threats, conflict and pandemic recovery: it’s an age of permacrisis, but also unique unprecedented opportunities in public health.' Hans Kluge

This is the closing ceremony of the #WCPH2023 !

Without health there is nothing.

Equity is at the ❤️ of the Global Goals and World Health Organization (WHO)'s mission.

But the goal of leaving no one behind is far from being reached.

Our panel on #DigitalHealth equity @ #HIMSS23 :
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HIMSS Päivi Sillanaukee Conny Helder Hal Wolf

Health as a human right is at the heart of World Health Organization (WHO)’s mandate as we too mark our 75th year of existence - guided by our Constitution, in turn drawing inspiration from the United Nations Charter & the Universal Declaration of #HumanRights .

World Health Organization (WHO)_Europe #WHO75 #HealthForAll #StandUp4HumanRights

Today at #TimeToACT2023 WHO regional meeting, co-organized by WHO/Europe and the Romanian Ministry of Health.
Discussing strategies for improving healthcare services by investing in education, mental health and empowerment of health & care workforce.
The time to act is now!

Trust & transformation.

Two words that should guide us in shaping the future of health systems across WHO/Europe & beyond.

In The BMJ, Martin McKee 🇺🇦, Natasha Azzopardi Muscat & josep figueras join me in describing how to move from concepts to reality.

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#TimeToAct2023

Devalued and demoralized, health providers in country after country need our help.

Our landmark WHO/Europe Meeting on the Health & Care Workforce seeks to galvanize government actions to support and protect all health and care workers.

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