The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage

1. Taking action
Second part
• Co-development
• Building a health creating society
• Global policy and choices
Turning the world upside down
Nigel Crisp
The UK contribution to
Universal Health Coverage
THET Annual Conference
24th October 2017
Nigel Crisp

2. One World Health
•Interdependence
•Integration
•Right to health
•Implementation
•………… and co-development
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

3. Interdependence
• New and resurgent infectious diseases
• Non-communicable diseases
• Universal Health Coverage
• Climate and environmental change
• Staffing and shared resources
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

4. The UK contribution in the
future
• Funding and partnerships – co-
development and mutual interest
• People – education, skill mix
change, the diaspora
• Technology and innovation
• Health-creation – and communities
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

5. Triple Impact of nursing
• UHC will not be achieved without
strengthening nursing
• Nurses are systematically under-valued
and underutilised
• Developing nursing will address 3 SDGs
– improving health, promoting gender
equality, and strengthening economies
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

6. Nursing Now!
• To launch in January 2018 for 3 years
• In association with WHO and the
International Council of Nurses
• Based on principles of teamwork, co-
development, the right to health, and
country focus
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

7. Nursing Now!
To raise the status and profile of
nursing globally and maximise the
contribution that nursing makes to
UHC, women’s empowerment and
economic development
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

8. 5 programmes
• Universal Health Coverage
• Leadership
• Evidence
• Nursing as a route to women’s
empowerment
• Exemplar countries and organisations
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

9. Universal Health Coverage
• Continuity of care – quality and safety
• Of the community – and mobilising
community assets
• Central to the team – in touch with top
and bottom
• Particular role in health promotion and
creation, community and primary care
The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
Nigel Crisp

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The UK contribution to Universal Health Coverage
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