SUNDAY, July 17
RECEPTION AND WELCOME
17:00 – 19:00
Arrival of participants
19:00-21:00
Registration and informal cocktail reception at the hotel
MONDAY, July 18
(Chair: Guillem Lopez)
8:40
Meet at the Hotel lobby to walk to Barcelona GSE
9:00-10:30
Introduction
Welcome and presentation of the program
Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas and Jaume Puig-Junoy, Pompeu Fabra University and Richard Scheffler, University of California at Berkeley
A briefing on Part II, Berkeley 2012
Meg Kellogg, Program Director
Presentation of participants: Background, strategic challenges, professional profiles and expectations of program
10:30-10:45
Coffee break
LESSONS FROM EUROPE: HEALTH SYSTEMS, FINANCE AND DELIVERY
10:45-11:30
"Social Health Insurance versus National Health Service type of models. Are the systems converging?"
Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas, UPF professor
11:30-12:00
"A case study of a Social Health Insurance model: The Dutch Reforms and Innovation towards Managed Competition" Bernard van den Berg, University of York
12:00-12:30
Group discussion of social vs. national health service examples and convergence theory
12:15-13:45
Light lunch (lunch to be served at UPF-GSE)
14:00-15:00
Josep Figueras Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and head of the WHO European centre on health policy
15:00-16:00
Group discussion of applications (based on the first three talks):
"What aspects might I choose to adapt for my country and how?"
Facilitators: Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas / Josep Figueras / Richard Scheffler
16:00-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-16:30
Explanation of Participant Project Concept
16:30-17:00
Participant project
17:00
End of session
19:30
Bus pick-up at Hotel H10 Marina
20:00
Dinner at Collegi de Metges de Barcelona (Barcelona's Medical Assocation)
Health in Catalonia: A Physician's perspective Guest Speaker: Berenguer Camps and Marc Soler, COMB
TUESDAY, July 19
(Chair: Vicente Ortun and Beatriz Gonzalez)
8:40
Meet at the Hotel lobby to walk to Barcelona GSE
SPENDING FOR HEALTH AND WEALTH
9:00-9:45
"Health and Wealth of Nations" Vicente Ortun, Pompeu Fabra University
9:45-10:45
"Health spending in less developed countries. Where financing priorities should go: Some specific country experiments"Koldo Echevarria, General Manager, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)
10:45-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:30
Group Discussion on first two talks: "What aspects might I choose to adapt for my country? How?"
Facilitator: V. Ortun
12:00-13:00
Participant project
12:00-14:00
Lunch at Restaurant AB Skipper Hotel
Group Discussion: Beatriz Gonzalez / Nuria Mas
Three tables with different faculty to discuss topics:
(i) Strategies for controlling health spending
(ii) Strategies for increasing public revenues
(iii) Strategies for raising private finance
INTERNATIONAL LESSONS ON DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH SYSTEMS
14:00-14:40
How to design and improve public health systems. Some specific examples. Nuria Mas, IESE Business School
14:40-15:20
"How to sustain performance of public health system: some case studies" Beatriz Gonzalez Lopez-Valcarcel, University of the Canary Islands
15:20-15:45
Coffee Break
TUESDAY, July 19 (continued)
15:45-16:45
Panel and Group Discussion -- Suggested questions:
- It seems that health determinants are universal, but there are important differences in health systems delivery performance among countries. What do you think are the most important factors in creating good performance?
- What measurement systems and data elements have provided important feedback for performance improvement?
- What historical and cultural backgrounds have shaped your delivery systems?
-What policy initiatives or delivery innovations in your country do you think can act as a beacon for other countries or would you like to import for yours?
16:45-17:00
Group discussion of key learnings from the day
FREE EVENING
WEDNESDAY, July 20
(Chair: Beatriz Gonzalez)
8:40
Meet at the Hotel lobby to walk to Barcelona GSE
EQUITY AND INEQUALITY IN THE HEALTH CARE
9:00-9:45
"Tackling inequalities in health: international examples of evidence, what is being done and what is working" Marisol Rodriguez, Barcelona University
9:45-10:15
Questions & Answers
10:15-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-12:00
Small group discussion on "Tackling inequalities in health: What aspects might I choose to adapt for my country and how?"
Facilitators: Beatriz Gonzalez &
Marisol Rodriguez
12:00-13:00
2 project presentations
13:00-14:00
Lunch at UPF
HEALTH AND LIFESTYLES
(Chair: Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas)
14:00-16:30
Joint Session: Dr. Ellen Nolte, Director Health and Healthcare RAND Europe, and Rafael Bengoa Consejero de Sanidad y Consumo del Pais Vasco (Regional Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, Basque Government)
Individual healthy behaviour and healthy lifestyles
Advances in prevention and Chronic Care Management
17:00-20:00
Barcelona Tour: Lifestyles related tour (walk or bike ride)
20:00
Dinner - Paella at the Beach at Restaurante Litoral, Barceloneta
THURSDAY, July 21
(Chair: Jaume Puig-Junoy)
8:40
Meet at the Hotel lobby to walk to Barcelona GSE
PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE CROSSROADS
9:00-9:45
"Cost containment strategies for controlling pharmaceutical costs" Panos Kanavos, Senior Lecturer in International Health Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Merck Fellow in Pharmaceutical Economics at LSE Health
9:45-10:15
'Q&As' with Panos Kanavos
10:15-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-11:15
"The Biotechnology Market and Venture Capital Funds" Josep Lluis Sanfeliu, Partner, YSIOS
11:15-13:00
Panel Debate: "Innovation, access and globalization"
Discussants: JL Sanfeliu, Panos Kanavos, and Jordi Marti (Amgen Spain): Facilitator: Jaume Puig-Junoy
Suggested Questions:
- Is it compatible to provide increased incentives to innovation and to increase access to medicines in developing countries?
- What are the economic consequences of value based insurance for innovation?
- What is the role of regulation and competition in generic markets? The role of pharmacists vs. the role of physicians?
- What is the future of the pharmaceutical industry? -- big firms vs. innovative firms; more expensive drugs vs. more cost-effective drugs, etc.
13:00
Portable lunch distributed amongst participants
FIELD TRIP (on a voluntary basis)
14:00-16:00
Field trip by bus with the presentation on the Catalan Health System: Josep Argimon, SCS, to CASAP - Castelldefels Primary Care Unit: A self managed primary care facility. A Pilot case. Antoni Peris, CASAP - Castelldefels Director
16:30-19:00
Field Trip and panel discussion in a Public High-Tech Hospital: Hospital del Mar - IMAS. Pedro Garcia, Clinical Operations Manager, Hospital del Mar Clinical.
FREE EVENING
FRIDAY, July 22
(Chair: Ivan Planas)
8:40
Meet at the Hotel lobby to walk to Barcelona GSE
HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP
9:00-10:00
"Autonomy vs. regulation, is it a ncessary trade-off" Steve Bundred, Chair of the NHS Monitor
10:00-11:00
"Human Resources for Health -- What's next?" Richard M. Scheffler, University of California Berkeley
FRIDAY, July 22 (continued)
11:00-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:15
"Governance in Health Systems: Structure, strategies, styles to achieve transparency and accountability" James Rice, Senior Vice-President Integrated Health Strategies
12:15-12:45
2 project presentations
13:00-15:30
Lunch at Agua Restaurant. It includes 15 minutes 'siesta' close to the beach
FROM THEORY TO REALITY: ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FINANCING AND HEALTH DELIVERY PRIORITIES
15:30-16:15
"Using health services research for priority setting in health care: UK's NICE and other models" John Cairns, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and member of NICE Appraisal Committee
16:15-17:00
"Spending on Health Care, How much is enough?" Lise Rochaix, Chair of the French Senate for Health Care priority setting
17:00-18:00
Group discussion on previously structured questions with
John Cairns / Lise Rochaix / Richard Scheffler / Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas
Suggested Questions:
- What type of evidence do you think has the most significant impact on priority setting in health? Can you provide some examples?
- For countries with successes in prioritization (e.g. for benefit package and treatments), what are their admirable methods/structures for both analysis and decision-making?
- What do you think the priorities should be in Europe for health spending over the next five years? And where will "the bang for the buck" in prevention strategies be?
- Comments on the roles of politics or on consumer involvement methods
17:30-18:00
Participants learnings: Key learnings of the day and feedback for 2012 sessions
20:30
Bus pick-up at Hotel H10 Marina
21:00
Gala Dinner and Graduation Ceremonyat Xalet de Montjuic
END OF THE BARCELONA SESSION