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Healthcare
The Healthcare policy group exists to develop proposals for solutions to improve patient access to modern, effective medical therapies. Exchange of best practice between the UK and Poland, and between BPCC members and the Polish public sector is crucial as ageing populations will place ever-greater demands for health services on an already over-stretched state budgets. Innovation in healthcare technology, management and systems is part of the answer. Growth in demand for healthcare is not coupled to a sufficiently rapid increase in spending; little effort is being made to improve the efficiency of spending. The Healthcare policy group focuses on the relationship between healthcare expenditure and effects; coordinated care and healthy ageing policies; and additional (top-up) private healthcare insurance. These issues are discussed with decision-makers and experts - domestic and foreign, from the public and private sectors.
Healthcare - events
New technologies in healthcare
The healthcare sector is on the verge of a revolution led by information technology. The ability to gather and process patient data on an unprecedented scale, using wearable technology to monitor biological parameters and cloud computing to process the data, has the potential to greatly enhance doctors' access to real-time information.
Start date: 2015-10-01 Venue: British Embassy in Warsaw (ul. Kawalerii 12) Time: 10:00
Personalised medicine and molecular diagnostics: cornerstones of modern oncology
Personalised medicine is based on examination of subtle differences between patients suffering from the same disease.
Start date: 2015-10-13 Venue: British Embassy in Warsaw, ul. Kawalerii 12 Time: 10:00
Healthcare - event coverages
IT in healthcare – the promises and barriers
The BPCC's Healthcare policy group met at the British Embassy on 1 October to discuss the implications of advances in IT for Poland's healthcare sector.
Opportunities and threats for Poland’s renewable energy sector to 2050
The BPCC’s CleanTech & Energy policy group met at the British Embassy in Warsaw on 15 October for an overview of where Poland stood in the area of renewable energy.