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INDIA HEALTHCARE
SUMMIT 2017
P R O P E R T Y O F
M A D I S O N W I L L I A M S
Post Meet report
INDIA HEALTHCARE SUMMIT 2017
UK Parliament, London, UK
TUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 2017
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The meet
The healthcare system in India is vastly different from that of the UK, not just from the
perspective of government spending, but also from the perspective of consumer
preferences. While the Indian government spends 4.7 % of the GDP on healthcare, the UK
government’s total expenditure on healthcare as a proportion of GDP is 9.1%. The people in
India prefer to go to a private healthcare provider, despite the high cost and the presence
of government hospitals in all districts, which are supposed to offer free healthcare. This is
because there is a major gap between the quality and access to facilities and therefore,
people prefer to spend their life savings in private hospitals so as to get better healthcare
facilities. In the UK, the majority of the people prefer to go to publicly funded National
Health Services (NHS) for the majority of their treatments, as people seem to be satisfied
with the quality and access to the facilities provided by the NHS.
Healthcare service providers from UK and India, policymakers from UK and India, Members of
House of Lords & House of Commons gathered at the UK Parliament on 12th September to
exchange healthcare related information as the two nations seek ways to extend access,
improve quality, and lower the cost of care to their citizens.
Panel discussions during the summits focused on opportunities that are available in Indo UK
healthcare corridor, role of medical apps in health care reforms, necessity of developing
world class healthcare in tier 2 and 3 cities in India, innovations in healthcare which can help
healthcare providers to optimize their resources, improving patient outcome and experience,
benefits of Ayurveda and ethical sustainable healthcare. Some of the British MPs who
participated in the summit included Lord Swraj Paul; Mr.Virendra Sharma MP ( Ealing
Southall ); Baroness Verma - Former Energy & Climate Change Minister and former
International Development Minister, United Kingdom and Mr.Bob Blackman MP (Harrow East).
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Programme summary
Mr.Virendra Sharma MP, the Chairman of Indo British All
Party Parliamentary group, welcomed the delegates
attending the business meet. EICB Chair Mr Sujit Nair and
Anchor Pallavi sundareshan hosted the meet.
The panel discussion on opportunities for India UK
healthcare partnerships looked at various scenarios for
healthcare providers from UK and healthcare partnerships looked at various scenarios for
healthcare providers from UK and India to work together. Experts who were part of the
panel discussion also mentioned about their current work in UK and India. The panellists
included Dr Sushma Acquilla - Vice Chair - Global Health Committee, Faculty of Public
Health; Mr.Mike Nithavrianakis - Group International Advisor, Aster DM Healthcare; Dr Umesh
Prabhu - Former Medical Director of NHS; Mr.Marc Ramaer - Group Commercial Director –
Industry, Indo UK Institute of Health;
This session was followed by presentation by Dr Sachin
Gothi – Founder, Happy Pregnancy Global initiative/
Consultant Gynaecologist on how medical apps can help
to close the gap between doctors and patients and
thereby, play a lead role in health care reforms. The next
presentation by Dr. Mayank Somani - CEO, Medics Super
Speciality focused on those opportunities which are
available for healthcare providers so as to develop world class healthcare in tier 2 and tier
3 cities of India. Following this, the next panel discussion focused on how innovations in
healthcare can help healthcare providers in making better use of their resources. The
panelist discussed about various healthcare mobile applications which they are working on
in order to enable healthcare providers to optimize their resources. The panelists included
Dr. Claire Novorol - Founder and Chief Medical Officer,
Ada Digital Health Ltd; Dr Sheldon Steed – Founder –
Mumoactive; Dr Asif Qasim - Founder & CEO, MedShr;
Mr.Ghalib Khan - Co-founder, Written Medicine and Dr
Sachin Gothi – Founder, Happy Pregnancy Global initiative.
The following panel discussion looked at how healthcare
organizations focuses on sustainable development,
respecting the needs of the individual, society and the environment and also support good
business practices. The panelists included Dr. Sukhbindar Singh Sibia – Director, Sibia
Medical centre; Mrs Nadra Ahmed OBE – Chair, National Care Association and Dr Helen
Susan Crawley– Medical Director, Royal College of General Practitioners International,
South and South East Asia; The next panel discussion focussed on various initiatives
followed by organisations to improve patient outcome and enhance their experience while
visiting a healthcare provider. The panellists included Ms.Jean Hardiman smith - Hon
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Event Partners
Secretary, Socialist Health Association; Mr.Harish Haridas –
Founder , MobD / Vice Chairman, Lords Hospital; Mr Peter
Bailey - Technology and Process Lead, Circle Health and
Dr Amita Agarwal – Head, Dr Batra’s Clinic UK. The final
panel discussion at the summit focussed on Ayurveda and
its benefits. The panel discussion was led by Dr.Amarjeet S
Bhamra - Lead Secretariat, All Party Parliamentary Group
on Indian Traditional Sciences and included Ayurveda experts including Prof Madan
Thangavelu and Prof Venkat Joshi
The summit aimed to establish an understanding of major health industry challenges and
opportunities in India and UK/ Europe. The objective of the summit was achieved as the
conversation during the summit helped to promote the exchange of knowledge, ideas and
experiences among current and future healthcare service sector leaders from India and
U.K/ Europe.
‘India Healthcare Summit' was 19th summit of the business meet series which have been held
at UK Parliament, London over the last years and these summits has so far engaged more
than 2700 delegates from more than thousand companies and institutions.
We thank our event partners , who played a key role in helping us to organise a successful
summit. The event partners for the summit were as follows
Happy Pregancy App - http://happypregnancy.co.in/
Mitra Hermitage Ayurveda Hospital - http://mitrahermitage.com/
Taxbell - http://taxbell.co.uk/
Empact Ventures - http://www.empact-ventures.com/
Kerala link - http://keralalink.co.uk/
APPG Indian traditional sciences - http://itsappg.org/
Orthomedical - http://orthomedical.co.uk/
Doctorpreneurs - http://www.doctorpreneurs.com/
Singhania & Co - http://singhaniauk.com/
Vibgyor Adverts - http://www.vibgyoradvents.com/
Healthcare Executive - https://www.healthcareexecutive.in/
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looking to start, scale up or expand into the UK and Indian markets
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to give a fair overall view of the meet and is believed to be correct at the date of
publication.
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