Charles Dalton’s Post

Please see below. We are looking to expand our Life Science team.

Please take a look below and watch the video. So important. The work and focus of Health Governance International is what we need to foster the strengthening of health systems globally. A really great initiative.

Please see below. An excellent insight how incentivizing healthy living can have significant health benefit. At a time when the world is waking up to the fact the next pandemic is already here and has been for a while in most countries (NCDs), the type of approaches being adopted by Vitality can demonstrate how public and private insurance can benefit from this data mindset. A major concern for me is that many governments are missing a huge opportunity. Integrate Social and National Health Insurance into the overall health system as a catalyst to drive change, actively manage disease risk and not just a mechanism for financing and payment. Social and National Health systems sit on data and with good coding and accurate analysis the disease risk profile of a population can be better understood and managed. Couple this with programmatic activities and incentives for prevention care you benefit your population from the potential of either not getting sick or better managing those that are sick. The population management benefits are huge and you can derive better value for every $1 spent if you look at population health on a rolling basis and not an “annual result”. The approach and methodology being adopted by Vitality can be used in all population income group settings it is not just for the private sector. At IFC we have investments serving mid to low populations that are helping individuals to better manage their illness through wellness like approaches. Our client in Mexico Clinicas Del Azucur is demonstrating amazing results for its patients in managing diabetes and hypertension. Again like Vitality they are using data to understand disease risk and tailor individual solutions seeking to actively manage their condition and live better.

Please see below. Our latest quality webinar. A great topic!

Please see the link below to an excellent interview in our April newsletter. There is also a link to sign up to the newsletter.

This really is a game changer. The added good news it is also going to be manufactured in Ghana. BBC News - Ghana first to approve 'world-changer' malaria vaccine https://lnkd.in/eUuxcAXE

This World Health Day, lets make a vow To help those who need care right now Let's not forget the ones who lack Access to healthcare, that's a fact. Let's strengthen the systems, make them great Improving value, don't hesitate Coordinating care, for everyone So that health for all, can be won We must thank the professionals who work day and night Their commitment to health is quite the sight Let's give them the praise they deserve For their tireless work, let's preserve Integrated systems, the way to go Public and private, they'll help us grow Collaboration is the key To build a care jigsaw, that's the guarantee Innovation is the name of the game To bring new solutions, it's not lame Let's support entrepreneurs with the right idea And investors who can bring them near So let's think out the box, and finance new ways To bring better health, all our days This World Health Day, let's work as one To make sure better health is for everyone. (My words with creativity from ChatGPT!)

Amazing insight into how drones can shape the future. The video is not sponsored by the manufacturer and because it is Mark Rober the insight is delivered in a fun and understandable way. I still have questions over long term commercial viability for these types of initiatives when grant funding stops but that's a conversation for another day. The video confirms the huge potential benefit for health services in emerging markets when planned as an integrated part of the health system.

A link below to an excellent report talking about the State of Women and Leadership in Global Health. Women account for 70% of the health workforce but less than a 1/4 of senior leadership roles! https://lnkd.in/e2gHkjfm

HANDS-OFF? The growing exodus of health professionals from Africa. The shortage of health professionals in Africa is a huge problem and it is likely to worsen in the coming years. Wealthier countries are actively -- some would say aggressively – recruiting African health workers through special visa and licensing programs. The UK, for example, offers a “health and care” visa for foreign health professionals; and Canada has a special process for certain skilled professions, like nurses. But in an attempt to fill their own shortages, wealthier countries are making things worse for poorer countries in Africa, creating a "brain drain" as nurses, doctors, and other health professionals emigrate for new opportunities. This exodus is exacerbating in Africa existing healthcare shortages that are having a negative impact on public and private health service provision. A WHO survey released last year found that the ratio of health workers to people in Africa is about a quarter of what is needed to provide essential healthcare and achieve universal health coverage. The loss of health professionals makes already weak health systems – like in Africa – even worse. In the UK, the lack of sufficient nurses may create a backlog for some treatments, but patients still have a place to go. In some parts of Africa, when a nurse leaves, the whole clinic can be at risk. There is no easy solution. Everyone has the right to try to improve their lives and emigration certainly can help the person who is being recruited and their family. But shouldn’t wealthier countries hiring these workers also take steps to strengthen the health system that helped train and develop the person that’s being hired? For example, what about contributing to more training schools, creating online programs, and supporting partnerships with other medical schools to expand capacity? My view is -- and I am happy to be proved wrong -- that the UK's scarce skills visa to encourage health worker migration, along with the efforts by other countries to target the continent, will have a significant long-term negative impact on Africa by exacerbating existing shortages of skilled professionals and impeding economic development. We all need to be more vocal on these issues and I call on stakeholders to move this discussion forward given how the developed world continues to undermine health service provision in Africa through these types of initiatives. Africa has suffered too much from the imbalance of dealing with Western nations that have often taken and not equally given back. Africa can become the global training ground for health professionals, but the developing world has to help these countries put in place the building blocks that can benefit the local health system first and support health worker training.