Patient-centric care - New pathways for sustainable healthcare

Nicola Bedlington leads the European Patients’ Forum (EPF), an umbrella organisation that works with patients’ groups in public health and health advocacy across Europe. Its mission is to ensure that patients with chronic or lifelong conditions have access to high-quality, patient-centred equitable health and social care. Bedlington also led the Environment and Schools Initiatives Secretariat, an OECD-initiated international governmental network on education and sustainable development.

Alberto de Rosa has over 25 years of experience in the health sector. In 1998, he was appointed managing director of the La Ribera de Alzira Hospital in Valencia, the first public hospital in Spain managed under a public–private partnership model. Since 2007, he has been the head of the Ribera Salud Group, a Spanish company specialised in developing new models of care and integrated management of health and social services. The group was notably a key player in developing the ‘Alzira Model’, a world-renowned model of vertical integration that provides incentives for out-of-hospital care.Nicola Bedlington leads the European Patients’ Forum (EPF), an umbrella organisation that works with patients’ groups in public health and health advocacy across Europe. Its mission is to ensure that patients with chronic or lifelong conditions have access to high-quality, patient-centred equitable health and social care. Bedlington also led the Environment and Schools Initiatives Secretariat, an OECD-initiated international governmental network on education and sustainable development

Since 2009, Frederic Hoffmann has worked at Baxter, a leading healthcare and medical technology company specialised in the treatment of medical conditions such as kidney disease and haemophilia. He began as Strategic Projects Director in charge of transforming programmes such as Key Account Management, Home Channel and Customer Value-Added Services. From there, he went on to lead the Hospital Care Business Unit for Baxter Belgium and Luxemburg before being appointed General Manager for Benelux.

Andrzej Rys has held several key positions in local and national health institutions, notably serving as the Director of the Health Department of the City of Kraków, President of the Polish Public Health Foundation and Polish Deputy Minister for Health, a role which put him on the negotiation team for Poland’s accession to the EU. He later founded and led the School of Public Health and the Centre for Innovation Technology Transfer at Jagiellonian University. In 2006, Rys joined the European Commission as the Director for Public Health and Risk Assessment and was later appointed Director for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, where he works on improving EU healthcare systems for citizens.