July 28, 2009 -
Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of the U.K.'s Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), observes that NICE has "increased the new drugs available to patients and patients are getting a lot of benefit from it....So we're not saving anybody any money, we’re just making sure the money is well spent."
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July 28, 2009 -
Peter Sawicki, M.D., Ph.D., director of Germany's Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, reviews how his agency aims to inform policy, as well as patients and doctors.
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July 28, 2009 -
Laurent Degos, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the French National Authority for Health (HAS), outlines the four principles of comparative effectiveness research in France, beginning with the principle that comparative effectiveness research is independent of decision makers and payers.
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July 28, 2009 -
Kalipso Chalkidou, M.D., Ph.D., director of policy consulting for the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), discusses how NICE works and highlights the importance getting "buy-in" from industry, the public, health professionals, and others, "bringing together people and trying to involve them meaningfully."
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July 28, 2009 -
Professor Emeritus Lloyd Sansom, AO, Chair, of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), looks at how comparative effectiveness research helps give Australians "access to drugs that work at a cost they as individuals and we as a country can afford."
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June 24, 2009 -
Vidhya Alakeson, a 2006–07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy from the U.K., was placed in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this video, she discusses her Harkness project, "Transforming Healthcare into a Patient-Led Service: Giving Individuals Greater Choice and Control over Their Treatment."
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June 24, 2009 -
Katharina Janus, a 2006–07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy from Germany, is an assistant professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In this video, she discusses the impact of the Harkness Fellowship on her research and career.
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April 17, 2009 -
Watch the highlights of the ministers' roundtable from The Commonwealth Fund's 2008 International Symposium, "Toward a High Performance Health Care System: Best Practices for Achieving Access to Care and Value for Money." Participants included Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; The Rt. Honorable Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health, England; The Honorable Ab Klink, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands; The Honorable Thomas Zeltner, Secretary of State for Health, Switzerland; Franz Knieps, Director-General of Health Care, the Federal Republic of Germany; Stephen McKernan, Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health, New Zealand; Laurent Degos, Chair, Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS)/French National Authority for Health; Karen Dodds, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Canada; and David Learmonth, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing, Australia.
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April 4, 2008 -
Watch a trailer for a Commonwealth Fund-supported episode of FRONTLINE, where correspondent T.R. Reid examines the health care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies--U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan--to see what tried and tested ideas might help the U.S. reform its health care system. The show began airing April 15, 2008. To watch the program online, go to the FRONTLINE Web site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/.
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December 5, 2007 -
The 2007 Commonwealth Fund International Symposium on Health Care Policy brought together health ministers from seven countries to discuss cancer care, patient safety, and more. The following slides offer highlights from the Washington, D.C., event.
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November 20, 2007 -
Watch a presentation of the survey results by the Fund's Cathy Schoen and Robin Osborn, given at the 2007 International Symposium on Health Care Policy.
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November 20, 2007 -
Watch introductory remarks by Karen Davis, president of The Commonwealth Fund, given at the 2007 Commonwealth Fund International Symposium on Health Care Policy.
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November 20, 2007 -
Watch the health ministers' queries and reactions to the 2007 International Health Policy Survey of Patients in Seven Countries.
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November 20, 2007 -
Watch a video of the Ministers' Policy Roundtable, "Top Priorities for Achieving a High Performance Health Care System," from the 2007 International Symposium on Health Care Policy, as well as the formal letter signing of the "Action on Patient Safety: High 5's Project."
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November 30, 2006 -
This Ministers' Policy Roundtable was conducted at the 2006 International Symposium on Health Care Policy. It was moderated by Gail Wilensky, Senior Fellow, Project HOPE, and features The Honorable Patricia Hewitt, MP, U.K. Secretary of State for Health, The Honorable Pete Hodgson, Minister of Health, New Zealand, and The Honorable Johannes F. Hoogervorst, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.
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