Mental Health Conference - The Forgotten Children

by: Noel Harrington. on 11-11-2009

The ESQH Barcelona Office on improving the quality of elderly, mental health and social care in Europe, would like to draw your attention to A major European Conference addressing the subject of children of parents with a mental illness Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Dates: 26th and 27th November ...
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Patient Safety: the position of the Netherlands in Europe

by: Noel Harrington. on 07-10-2009

Symposium: A platform for international knowledge exchange Tuesday 10th November 2009 9.30 – 16.00
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ESQH e-Newsletter No.5 - July 2009

by: Noel Harrington. on 17-07-2009

Please click on the attached pdf to read the latest ESQH e-Newsletter.
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International course on Risk Management and Patient Safety Improvement

by: Noel Harrington. on 15-06-2009

Medical Diagnostic Centre (Lithuania) participates in an international patient safety course
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Progress to Quality: A UK Health Strategy Summit

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-02-2009

*** Discount available through this site - see brochure for details*** The Nuffield Trust's Annual Health Strategy Summit Progress to Quality: a strategic lens on the latest evidence Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th March 2009. The Health Strategy Summit convened by the Nuffield Trust on March ...
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS - Deadline Extended

by: Noel Harrington. on 14-01-2009

E-Health Systems Quality and Reliability: Models and Standards A book edited by Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou and Dr. Anastasia Kastania Call for Chapter Proposals: DEADLINE EXTENDED - to 15 March 2009
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ESQH Rome Conference - Patient Participation

by: Noel Harrington. on 23-12-2008

This is a preliminary announcement of some events on the theme of Patient Particpation that will be held in Rome on 23rd and 24th of April 2009.
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ESQH e-Newsletter - Dec 08

by: Noel Harrington. on 22-12-2008

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ESQH opens Vienna & Utrecht Offices

by: Noel Harrington. on 15-12-2008

ESQH is delighted to announce the opening of two new Offices, in Vienna and Utrecht.
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International Quality Improvement Exchange - Patient Safety

by: Noel Harrington. on 01-12-2008

In January 2008 The Health Foundation (UK) and the Danish Society for Patient Safety co-hosted an exchange between healthcare leaders from eight European countries and invited speakers. This was the third meeting between countries actively driving quality improvements. The issue considered in the ...
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www.isquaresearch.com launched

by: Noel Harrington. on 28-11-2008

ISQua, the International Society for Quality in Health Care, in partnership with Accreditation Canada, has launched a new website focused on research: www.isquaresearch.com.
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Patient Safety Workshop - Presentations Available

by: Noel Harrington. on 21-11-2008

All of the Presentations from our recent Patient Safety Workshop have now been posted on this site. Click on the 'ESQH Presentations' link on the left of your screen and look for the 'Patient Safety Workshop 2008 - London' folder.
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World Health Care Congress 2009

by: Noel Harrington. on 18-11-2008

GREEK HEALTH MINISTER, LEADERS FROM ACROSS EUROPE TO CONVENE IN BRUSSELS FOR 5th ANNUAL WORLD HEALTH CARE CONGRESS EUROPE, 13-14 MAY, 2009. Once again, ESQH is a VIP partner for this event.
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ESQH Presentation - Paris 14-10-08

by: Noel Harrington. on 17-10-2008

Defining European Healthcare through Innovation and Quality - Developing the Debate
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ESQH Jubilee Events - Nov 2008

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-09-2008

ESQH is delighted to announce the hosting of several events to mark our 10th anniversary. All events and meetings will be held in the Cavendish Conference Centre in London on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th November.
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IV International Conference on Patient Safety

by: Noel Harrington. on 18-09-2008

IV International Conference on Patient Safety: Finding the best clinical practices for safer care Madrid, Nov 25-26 2008
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Call for Abstracts - International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care

by: Noel Harrington. on 29-08-2008

International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care 17 - 20 March 2009, ICC, Berlin Germany http://internationalforum.bmj.com/ Call for Abstracts Now Open Submit your abstract by 5pm GMT 26 September 2008
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Ready for the future - Defining European healthcare through innovation and quality

by: Noel Harrington. on 12-05-2008

The 'Ready for the Future' conference will be held during the Presidency of the Council of the EU by the Republic of Slovenia. The event is organised under the patronage of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Society for Quality in Healthcare. The main topics ...
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Patient Safety Presentation - Antalya

by: Noel Harrington. on 08-04-2008

The Presentation given by Piera Poletti at the Patient Safety Conference in Antalya, Turkey has been placed on our Presentations page. You will find the link to this in the left-side menu - "ESQH Presentations." Dr Poletti's talk is in the Patient Safety/Empowerment/Partnership folder.
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Doctors & Nurses Working Together - European Conference

by: Noel Harrington. on 07-03-2008

ESQH and the German (speaking) Society are delighted to announce they will be hosting a joint conference with the theme "Doctors and Nurses – Innovative approaches to team-oriented Cooperation" to be held in Hamburg, Germany on Friday 30th May.
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World Health Care Congress - ESQH Members' Discount

by: Noel Harrington. on 16-01-2008

ESQH Members may avail of a 25% discount when attending the World Health Care Congress that takes place in Berlin from 10th - 12th March 2008. Click on the attachment to view the ESQH Members' Promtional Code.
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The ESQH e-Newsletter No 2 - Jan 08

by: Noel Harrington. on 10-01-2008

Click on the attached pdf to read the latest ESQH e-Newsletter.
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2nd International Conference on Healthcare Quality, Accreditation and Patient Safety

by: Noel Harrington. on 10-01-2008

This International Conference will be held in Antalya, Turkey from the 20th to the 23rd February 2008.
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Job Vacancy - WHO, Barcelona

by: Noel Harrington. on 20-11-2007

Title: Regional Adviser, Hospital Services and Reforms (BARCELONA) Grade: P5 Contract type: Fixed-term appointment Duration of contract: two years Deadline for application : 9 December 2007 Currently accepting applications Duty Station: BARCELONA Spain Organization unit: Regional ...
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Patient Safety Master Class - Ireland

by: Noel Harrington. on 05-11-2007

Patient Safety: Designer Label or Outlet Store? The Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Health Care In association with Pfizer Healthcare Ireland Presents: Patient Safety: Designer Label or Outlet store? A Master Class with John Reiling - Safe by Design
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Symposium: Indicators for Patient Safety and Quality

by: Noel Harrington. on 05-11-2007

In the last few years clinical indicators have moved from tools for monitoring progress in internal improvement activities to play a major part in the external evaluation of professional institutions and national health care systems within patient safety and quality improvement.
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Education workshop - Presentations Available

by: Noel Harrington. on 24-10-2007

ESQH has just held a very successful Workshop with the title "New Competencies for Healthcare Systems", attended by healthcare professionals from 14 countries across Europe. You can find the presentations by clicking on the 'ESQH Presentations' link in the left-hand menu of this website.
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Chronic Care Conference - Discount for ESQH Members

by: Noel Harrington. on 05-10-2007

Following the notable success of the World Health Care Congress Europe, The European Leadership Summit on Chronic Care is the forum where government and industry leaders share successful initiatives and global best practices in the implementation of chronic disease management programmes. ESQH ...
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ESQH e-Newsletter No 1 - Sept 07

by: Noel Harrington. on 20-09-2007

Here is the 1st Issue of the new ESQH e-Newsletter.
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HEPS 2008 - International Conference

by: Noel Harrington. on 17-07-2007

HEPS - Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics and Patient Safety. The 2nd International HEPS Conference will take place next week in Strasbourg - June 25 - 27, 2008.
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Educating for Quality – Workshop for Professionals & Academics

by: Noel Harrington. on 20-06-2007

ESQH is delighted to announce the theme for its autumn Workshop 2007 – "New Competencies for the Quality of Health Care Systems" This special one-day Workshop will be held in Barcelona on Saturday 20th October, in co-operation with the Spanish Society for Quality in ...
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Patient Safety Practicum - Training the Trainers

by: Noel Harrington. on 07-06-2007

Invitation and information on 1st International Summer Practicum on Patient Safety Krakow, 17 – 21 September 2007
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In Memoriam Frank Verheggen 1965 - 2007

by: Noel Harrington. on 11-05-2007

Frank Verheggen, a much loved and admired colleague in the Quality field, died suddenly on Wednesday 9th May.
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JCI Practicum on Quality Improvement and Accreditation

by: Noel Harrington. on 04-04-2007

All the details regarding the Practicum, taking place in Prague on a number of dates in May 2007.
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ESQH Annual Report 2006

by: Noel Harrington. on 29-03-2007

Here you will find the Annual Report for the year 2006, as approved by the ESQH Council in Porto on 15th March.
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Announcing ESQH’s new President!

by: Noel Harrington. on 23-03-2007

At our recent Annual General Meeting the two year term of the Executive Board 2005 – 2007 came to an end. Accordingly, there was an election for President, and Ms Basia Kutryba was elected unanimously. There were also three new members elected to the Executive Board.
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ISQua Conference - Call for Papers

by: Noel Harrington. on 02-03-2007

The closing date for abstracts for ISQua's Boston Conference has been extended 'till Monday 12 March.
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ESQH Meetings, Porto, March 2007

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-02-2007

ESQH will host its Annual General Meeting, Council Meeting and Spring Workshop in Porto, Portugal on the 15th and 16th March 2007.
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The World Healthcare Congress 2007

by: Noel Harrington. on 14-02-2007

A three-day networking opportunity, the World Health Care Congress Europe 2007 is the most prestigious gathering of industry and government healthcare decision-makers in Europe.
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ESQH to welcome Associate Members

by: Noel Harrington. on 22-01-2007

ESQH has recently opened a new category of membership to its organisation – Associate Membership. This is in response to the Society’s ever growing profile in Europe’s healthcare field and the desire of other organisations to work more closely with us.
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Patient Safety Research - shaping the European Agenda

by: Noel Harrington. on 12-12-2006

Call for abstracts - deadline 9 February 2007 Patient Safety Research - shaping the European Agenda 24-26 September 2007 Porto, Portugal www.patientsafetyresearch.org
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MARQuIS Newsletter - Issue V

by: Noel Harrington. on 21-11-2006

Here you can find the 5th Issue of the MARQuIS Newsletter.
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SImPatiE Consensus Conference – Papers Published

by: Noel Harrington. on 04-10-2006

The SImPatiE Project, of which ESQH is a partner, recently hosted a conference 'BUILDING A STRATEGY FOR PATIENT SAFETY IN EUROPE' - 18/19 September 2006.
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Compassion in Healthcare - Programme Now Available

by: Noel Harrington. on 14-08-2006

Dear Colleagues, Attached you will find the Programme for the 5th ESQH SummerCamp – Compassion in Healthcare. Below you will find some instructions on how to get from Berlin to the Hotel Herrenstein. If you would like to take one of the last remaining places, or if you would just like to be kept ...
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Finnish EU Presidency health priorities

by: Noel Harrington. on 11-07-2006

Professor Pekka Puska, the Director-General of the Finnish National Public Health Institute / Ministry of Social Affairs & Health says that health in all policies and health of workers will be the two main health themes of the upcoming Finnish EU presidency. (This interview is taken from ...
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MARQuIS Newsletter

by: Noel Harrington. on 04-07-2006

The 4th Issue of the MARQuIS Newsletter. See www.marquis.be for more details of the MARQuIS Project.
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Compassion in Healthcare - SummerCamp - Now Only 5 Places Left!

by: Noel Harrington. on 30-06-2006

ESQH will host its 5th SummerCamp this coming August. The theme of the camp will be “Compassion in Healthcare – professional care that comes from the heart”.
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ESQH Athens Conference – Final Programme Now Available

by: Noel Harrington. on 09-05-2006

All the details for the special One-Day Conference are here...
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UK Conference – Care Quality – Post Modernisation

by: Noel Harrington. on 25-04-2006

Quality has been trailed as the lever for systems reform since the white paper, ‘A First Class Service’, but will the new structure envisaged in ‘Commissioning a patient-led NHS’ deliver better, more effective and cost effective care to patients? This conference brings together NHS, social ...
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ESQH Meeting in Haarlem 23-25 March

by: Noel Harrington. on 29-03-2006

The ESQH Council and friends met in Haarlem, the Netherlands at the weekend, with a view to creating a new Vision for the years 2006 to 2009. I believe I am being 100% accurate when I say everyone enjoyed it, each in their own way of course, and that a definite substance was created there on which ...
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50th Quality Congress - Healthcare stream

by: Noel Harrington. on 12-02-2006

Dear Colleagues, With our theme “Reaching the essential from a health perspective”, VCK (Vlaams Centrum voor Kwaliteitszorg – Flemish Centre for Quality Management), organiser of the European Quality Congress, wishes to illustrate the fact that quality in health care should be a European priority. ...
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Designing Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes in the Healthcare Curriculum

by: Noel Harrington. on 27-01-2006

JOIN US FOR THE SECOND MULTIDISCIPLINARY ROUNDTABLE ON DESIGNING PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY OUTCOMES IN THE HEALTHCARE CURRICULUM A long title for what we hope will be a very fruitful coming together of minds – the workshop will be a continuation of the exchange of ideas inaugurated in 2003 at the ...
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ESQH has become a partner for the upcoming World Health Care Congress – Europe.

by: Noel Harrington. on 25-01-2006

Join over 400 health care leaders from key organisations in Europe: providers, payers, suppliers, customers, policy-makers and health officials.
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EMPowERing Patients

by: Noel Harrington. on 19-01-2006

The empowerment of patients is a key element of health quality and there is good evidence that care is more effective when patients are well involved and informed. ESQH is working together with other key organisations around Europe to begin a project that will promote this agenda. The project will ...
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ESQH opens Aarhus Office.

by: Noel Harrington. on 23-12-2005

ESQH is delighted to announce the official opening of its Office for Quality Indicators, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Patient Empowerment

by: Noel Harrington. on 16-12-2005

Below you will find a presentation given by the ESQH President, Dr David Somekh, at the 2nd National Conference of the Hellenic Society for Quality in Healthcare, held in Athens on December 8th.
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Stakeholder’s Position Paper on Patient Safety

by: Noel Harrington. on 02-12-2005

The following Position Paper on Patient Safety was presented at the "Patient Safety Summit", held as part of the UK Presidency of the EU, in collaboration with the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety. More details to follow...
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eHealth Conference Report

by: Noel Harrington. on 08-11-2005

Improving Care for Chronic Conditions - the added value of eHealth: was the title of a conference hosted recently by EHTEL, the European Health Telematics Association.
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Reducing Surgical Site Infection

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-10-2005

The following article is reprinted from www.IHI.org with permission of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), ©2005.
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The MARQuIS team is pleased to present the first MARQuIS-newsletter.

by: Noel Harrington. on 21-10-2005

This newsletter will be issued on a three monthly basis and will provide an overview of relevant topics with links to more information on the MARQuIS website - www.marquis.be
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UK News: NICE seeks lay patient representatives to join a Programme Development Group

by: Noel Harrington. on 21-10-2005

NICE's Patient and Public Involvement Programme and Centre for Public Health Excellence are looking for nominations for lay people to sit on the group developing public health guidance on the most appropriate generic and specific interventions to support attitude and behaviour change at population ...
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3rd Network Conference a Great Success

by: Noel Harrington. on 07-10-2005

ESQH’s 3rd Network Conference took place in Zagreb, Croatia from 22nd – 24th September 2005.
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Improving Care for Chronic Conditions - the added value of eHealth

by: Noel Harrington. on 02-09-2005

EHTEL International Conference Rome, Italy 10-11 October 2005 National Research Council – Headquarter Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, I-00185 Rome Conference jointly organised by EHTEL and the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Biomedical Technology in co-operation with ESQH and NIZW
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A New Kind of Quality Conference

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-07-2005

Dear Colleagues in Quality, As newly elected President of ESQH, I am asking you to imagine a new kind of conference. A healthcare Conference dedicated to applying quality practices to your everyday work, with some of Europe’s most expert speakers.
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Zagreb Conference Programme Announced

by: Noel Harrington. on 24-06-2005

ESQH will hold its 3rd Network Conference in Zagreb, Croatia, in partnership with the Croatian Society for Quality in Healthcare. Dates: Sept 23rd & 24th, with pre-conference events beginning on the 22nd. The Conference is open to all, and delegates from Eastern and Central Europe are ...
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Italian National Conference

by: Noel Harrington. on 24-06-2005

The Italian Society is delighted to announce the programme for its National Conference.
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"Accelerating Quality Improvement"

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-04-2005

ESQH recently held its 13th International Workshop in Hannover, Germany, with the title “Accelerating Quality Improvement.”
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New ESQH Board Announced

by: Noel Harrington. on 26-04-2005

Following Elections for the Presidency and Executive Board in Hannover, Germany, ESQH is delighted to announce the composition of its new Board.
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Patient Safety - on the EU Agenda

by: Noel Harrington. on 14-04-2005

Patient Safety is fast becoming a hot topic on the EU Agenda.
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ESQH Workshop - Announcing the Programme!

by: Noel Harrington. on 23-03-2005

We are pleased to announce the full Programme for the upcoming one-day Workshop.
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The World Health Care Congress - Europe

by: Noel Harrington. on 02-03-2005

The World Health Care Congress - Europe Thursday 7 April and Friday 8 April 2005 in Chantilly (near Paris), France, with a pre-conference session and welcoming reception on Wednesday 6 April 2005 sponsored by the Financial Times and CNBC, the conference will focus on best practices for improved ...
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International Conference - Hannover

by: Noel Harrington. on 24-02-2005

The German (speaking) Society - GQMG - is holding a two day International Conference on 21st & 22nd April 2005, in Hannover.
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Article from BMJ re Private Healthcare Insurance - An Australian Experience

by: Noel Harrington. on 11-02-2005

Healthcare lessons from Australia: what can Michael Howard learn from John Howard? Australia is held up as a model of how to increase use of private health care in the United Kingdom, but the effects of its reforms are not all beneficial... Open attached PDf for full article. Jane Hall & ...
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The IHI's "100,000 Lives Campaign"

by: Noel Harrington. on 24-01-2005

The IHI has launched a new Patient Safety initiative which it is claiming will save 100,000 lives in US hospitals over the next 18 months.
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Council Members Invited to Join Website

by: Noel Harrington. on 11-01-2005

Some info for our new members regarding the potential of this website.
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ESQH Response to Commissioner Byrne's Reflection Paper

by: Noel Harrington. on 08-12-2004

Prepared on behalf of the ESQH Executive by David Somekh, Board Member.
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Education Summercamp

by: Noel Harrington. on 08-12-2004

This summercamp was jointly organised by the UK's NHSU and ESQH, and held at Hastings, England. Previous Summercamps were held in Limerick, Ireland, (2002) and in Stockholm, Sweden (2003).
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