Plenary
Health in Europe - Ready for the future?
Friday 8 October 2010 13:00 – 15:30

Are we developing today the health policies and systems needed to respond to the greater challenges of tomorrow? What can we learn from past experience to make ourselves ready for the future?
• Future patient & changing health workforce
• Aging population and new health challenges
• Healthcare in a digital age
• Sustaining health systems in a post crisis era 

Video reflection & introduction
Chair: T Rose, Independent EU Health Advocate, Brussels, Belgium

Policy visions
J Dalli, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy
W Haslauer, Deputy Governor, Salzburg, Austria
Z Jakab, Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization

Panel discussion:The lights of the future are on, but are the policy-makers at home?
P Garel, Secretary General, HOPE
R Madelin, Director General for Information Society and Media, European Commission
M Mckee, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
ES Mesthenios, President, Age Platform Europe
H von Wulfen, COCIR Chair, Head of Siemens Healthcare

Simultaneous interpretation in English and German