DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF) is bringing celebrated experts and research content to APAC Forum 2015, Asia-Pacific Region’s premier healthcare forum.
WISH will present its research on ‘Delivering Affordable Cancer Care and Transforming Patient Safety’ in two special break-out sessions tomorrow in Auckland, New Zealand.
WISH CEO Egbert Schillings, Professor Robert Thomas, Chief Cancer Adviser at Victoria Department of Health and Human Services, with Gianluca Fontana, Director, Imperial College’s Centre for Health Policy, are among speakers at the world’s third largest healthcare conference later this year.
Cancer is a global health priority and new figures show there were 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths attributable to the disease in 2012, an increase of over 10 percent in four years. And the cost of treating cancer is rising at a faster rate, reaching $300bn
Over 50 percent of all new cancers and two-thirds of the annual cancer mortality worldwide happen in low-income and middle-income countries.
Without profound change, cancer care is too expensive for most patients, many payers and nearly all governments.
Professor Thomas, who led WISH research effort on ‘Delivering Affordable Cancer Care’, will present actionable recommendations that will help policymakers ‘bend the cost curve’ and ensure sustainable access to cancer care.
Tackling the persistent belief that patient harm is inevitable in health, Schillings will head a panel comprising Gianluca Fontana, Senior Policy Fellow, Imperial College London, and Director of Operations, Centre for Health Policy, and policy fellows Jessica Prestt and Didi Thompson from the centre.
The session will highlight key findings of this year’s WISH report, ‘Transforming Patient Safety: A Sector-Wide Systems Approach’.
The panel will focus on critical issues in patient safety and present innovative efforts to address them, in particular outlining Leading Health Systems Network, a joint initiative of WISH and Imperial College London.
The forum opens today at SKYCity Convention Centre, Auckland, and end on Friday.
About 130 speakers across 42 sessions are scheduled for the event, including Ruby Wax, Professor Charles Vincent, Professor Jonathon Gray, and Itay Talgam.
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