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The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The WEF engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. ... ref

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Leadership

  • The following is taken from here: [1]

The three components of the World Economic Forum are organised in an hierarchy:

  1. Foundation Members (transnational business): the CEOs of the top 1,000 transnational corporations occupy key positions;
  2. World Economic Leaders (governments): key policymakers from national govts and international organisations;
  3. Forum Fellows (media/intelligentsia): select academics and experts.

These distinctions were reflected in the composition of the 3 groups assigned to study the 2012 Healthcare Sustainability reports:

  1. A Steering Board comprising "eminent health systems leaders and experts" provided "overall direction", with a predominance of health corporations;
  2. A Working Group of experts "supported the project's approach and methodology", collating the material from various national workshops held in England, Germany, Spain, Holland, and China.

The members of these two groups remained the same throughout the project's life.

  1. Some 200 stakeholders from all three levels of WEF membership who participated in a series of roundtable events in England, China, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.

Simon Stevens at that time was head of UnitedHealth's Global Division. He acted as Project Steward of the Steering Board for the 1st WEF report, working with chief executives of leading healthcare companies including Apax Partners, Novartis, Merck, Medtronic and Kaiser Permanente, as well as the Directors of Health at the World Bank, the WHO, and the European Commission.

Some of the personnel of the WEF's healthcare groups reappear in the policy direction, project support and implementation of both the FYFV and STPs in England. For example, Michael MacDonnell who is now acting as head of policy for the STP framework as a whole, was then a Senior Fellow at Imperial College’s Centre for Global Health Innovation. Among the other workshop participants we can identify Ron Webster and Amanda Doyle, who are leading individual STPs in West Yorkshire, and in Lancashire and South Cumbria, respectively. It seems reasonable to assume that the WEF agenda has been effectively disseminated among other STP 'leaders', with a curriculum that can always be accessed at the various leadership academies offered by global consultancies, domestic think tanks and privately partnered govt agencies.

The list of other UK participants at the Davos meetings reads almost as a Who's Who of the people who regularly win leadership awards from healthcare management journals in England. It also includes ex-health ministers and leading participants in govt reviews, as well as Treasury officials and former members of health committees. Among the prominent figures in recent NHS policy-making who took part are Alan Milburn, Dame Julie Moore, Mark Newbold, Sir Robert Naylor, Sir Bruce Keogh, Niti Pall, Paul Bate, Paul Corrigan, Nick Seddon, and various representatives of the NHS Confederation, not forgetting selected representatives of UK private healthcare companies such as Jill Watts and David Mobbs. Two English MPs were also involved: Stephen Dorrell, who was then chair of the Parliamentary Health Committee, now working for KPMG; and the former Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall.

Health Systems

  • May.23.2017: The truth about Sustainability and Transformation Plans. In early 2012, the WEF considered that national healthcare systems were increasingly caught between a rock and a hard place. Fiscal crises were creating pressures to curb expenditure, while it was also acknowledged that countries rely on healthcare systems for economic growth and national development. The Forum also thought there was little agreement about how to progress and "help existing models become sustainable", and set itself the task of building such a consensus. Two reports, co-scripted with McKinsey & Co, were produced. The first, entitled "The Financial Sustainability of Health Systems,"[2] aimed not only to examine this tension between cost and development, but also the extent to which this was compounded by ageing populations, improved technology, and rising consumer expectations, and also by the wider economic context of high levels of public debt and stagnant state revenue. The second, entitled "Sustainable Health Systems: Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios"[3], took this a stage further, examining structural scenarios of the future which could be used to inform present-day thinking. (These will be considered in a subsequent article, particularly as they relate to the evolving shape and content of STPs.)
    Suffice to say that the 1st report was the basis of the "Five Year Forward View"[4] which STPs are set to implement. NHS England's updates on the FYFV are aimed at embedding the WEF's recommended processes. No one believes Jeremy Hunt's claims of "creative input from local communities" because few NHS doctors and even fewer nurses, and certainly no "local communities" have been seriously engaged in the development of STPs. It is clear that the basic strategy now adopted for the NHS in England has its origins in the business-dominated international policy circuit, of which the WEF is the apex, rather than in either the Department of Health or NHS England. Stewart Player, Socialist Health Association.

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Articles

  • Jan.23.2019: Panic is on the agenda at Davos – but it’s too little too late. The results of the rampant inequality engineered by the global elite are finally catching up with them. The gulf between the super-rich and the rest of us has been decades in the widening and it was done deliberately. The UK was the frontline of the war to create greater inequality. They care about other people’s problems – so long as they get to define them, and it’s never acknowledged that they are a large part of the problem. If they want capitalism to carry on, the rich will need to give up their winnings and cede some ground. That point evades them. Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian.
  • Jan.2016: The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics. The circular economy is gaining growing attention as a potential way for our society to increase prosperity, while reducing demands on finite raw materials and minimizing negative externalities. Such a transition requires a systemic approach, which entails moving beyond incremental improvements to the existing model as well as developing new collaboration mechanisms. The report explores the intersection of these two themes, for plastics and plastic packaging in particular: how can collaboration along the extended global plastic packaging production and after-use value chain, as well as with governments and NGOs, achieve systemic change to overcome stalemates in today’s plastics economy in order to move to a more circular model? WWEF.

References

  1. ^ The truth about Sustainability and Transformation Plans. Stewart Player, Socialist Health Association, May.23.2017.
  2. ^ The Financial Sustainability of Health Systems. A Case For Change. In collaboration with McKinsey & Company. WEF, 2012. Accessed Apr.10.2018.
  3. ^ Sustainable Health Systems: Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios. A report from the World Economic Forum. Prepared in collaboration with McKinsey & Company. WEF, 2013. Accessed Apr.10.2018.
  4. ^ Five Year Forward View. NHS England. Accessed Apr.10.2018.
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