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interest, and disseminate their own information. The newsletter
is published five times a year. The first issue was published in
March 2009.
Activities
The diverse and various initiatives include:
✚ IHF Leadership Summit:
The Leadership Summit is an invitation-only event, organised by
the International Hospital Federation (IHF), for top level decision
makers on hospital issues from National Hospital Associations,
Ministries of Health and IHF Governing Council members.
Industry representatives are also invited, with whom discussions
are held on the needs and motivations of both suppliers and
consumers in a non-commercial environment.
The Summit marks the beginning of a new direction for the IHF
and for its members, as it provides an initial opportunity for the
leaders of IHF’s constituent organizations to reflect together on
their individual and common goals and on the problems they
collectively confront. The inaugural event was held in Paris,
France, in May 2009. The next meeting is to be held in USA, in
June 2010.
✚ Development of a Training Manual for Tuberculosis (TB) and
MultiDrug Resistant-Tuberculosis (MDR–TB) Control for
Hospital/ Clinic/Health Facility Managers. The target audience
of this manual are managers of hospitals, clinics and health
service facilities, to prepare them to make informed decisions
to support therapies and drugs used in the treatment of TB
and MDR–TB; and to train them to implement infection control
programmes so as to protect both staff and uninfected
patients from TB transmission within healthcare facilities. This
project, which remains ongoing, is part of the Lilly MDR –TB
Partnership (www.lillymdr – tb.com) in which we became a
partner in 2004.
✚ MDR-TB Workshops:
• TB Hospital Managers Training Seminar—Pretoria, South
Africa (2006); Beijing, China (2008); Mumbai, India (2009)
• Inter-professional MDR-TB Infection Control Training
Seminars —Cape Town, South Africa (2007); Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (2009); Durban, South Africa (2009).
✚ First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health—GHWA,
Kampala, Uganda (2008).
✚ Geneva Health Forum of the Hôpitaux Universitaires de
Genève (HUG) - Switzerland (2006, 2008).
✚ Representations:
• Regular participation in conferences and workshops
organised by the WHO, to represent interests of the hospital
sector.
• Regular participation in conferences and workshops
organised by the WHO, to represent interests of the hospital
sector.
✚ Technical Assistance Programmes:
• Collaboration with the Health Strategy Committee for Kuwaiti
Health Care to articulate a long term vision for the healthcare
system in Kuwait and to propose incremental steps in
support of this vision (2008).
• Mobility of Health Professionals (Mohprof), a European
Comission – sponsored collaborative project, which brings
together a partnership of expert scientific institutes and
international healthcare and professional organisations to
undertake research and policy development on health
professional mobility, guidelines and recommendations
(2009).
• Collaboration with the Taiwan Export – Import Bank to under
take an evaluation mission for a 600-bed university hospital
project in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) (2009).
• Collaboration with the International Association for Infant
Food Manufacturers (IFM) to develop a safe food
preparation, handling and feeding practices programme in
healthcare facilities. This will involve field missions to
hospitals/healthcare facilities in Peru and Indonesia (2009).
• Collaboration with the Hamdan Bin Mohammed E-University,
Dubai, UAE, to conduct a long distance and face-to-face
accredited Senior Hospital and Health Services Managers
course (2009).
• Positive Practice Environment Campaign (PPE), a five-year
partnership campaign of health professional organisations to
improve well-being, health and safety in work environments
and aid in recruitment and retention of health workers.
National PPE campaigns are planned. y
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