Program HCR Conference

 

 Program Health Rationing Conference 9-10 December 2010
 
Thursday 9th December
8.30 – 9.30       Registration and coffee
9.30 – 9.45       Opening of the conference by Prof. Dr. W.F.N. Notten, chairman of the Institute of Health Policy & Management 
 
9.45 – 10.30      Keynote Lecture Professor Leonard Fleck, Centre for Ethics and Humanities in the
                            Life Science, Michigan State University, USA.
                           ‘Just Caring: In Defense of the Role of Democratic Deliberation in health Care Rationing
                            and Priority-Setting’
10.30 – 11.00    Discussion
 
11.00 – 11.30    Coffee & Tea
 
Session I ‘Rationing based on economic evaluation: balancing efficiency and equity’
Chair:                
11.30 – 13.00     
11.30 - 12.00     Professor Werner Brouwer, Institute of Health Policy & Management,
                            Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
12.00 – 12.30    Dr Erik Nord, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Norway)
12.30 – 13.00    Discussion

Parallel session I        
Chair:
11.30 – 13.00
11.30 – 12.00    Dr. Carina Fourie, Ethics Research Institute, University of Zurich.
                          ‘What does social justice have to say about health care rationing?’

12.00 – 12.30   Arne Bjornberg Ph.D, Health Consumer Powerhouse, Sweden

                          ‘Properly Financed and Managed Healthcare – the biggest European Engine
                           for Economic Growth’
12.30 – 13.00   Discussion
 
13.00 – 14.00  Lunch
 
14.00 – 14.45    Keynote lecture Professor Norman Daniels, Department of Global Health and
                           Population, Harvard University, USA.                   
                          ‘Accountability for Reasonableness in Priority Setting: Theory and Applications'

14.45 – 15.15     Discussion

15.15 – 15.45     Coffee and Tea
 
Session II ‘Fairness in Rationing Health Care’  
Chair:
15.45 – 17.15
15.45 – 16.15   Professor Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Institute for Ethics, History and Theory
                          of the medicine, Münster University, Germany
                                       “Rationing health care according to thresholds of clinical benefit: a fair and
                          feasible approach?"
16.15 – 16.45   Professor Martin Buijsen, Institute of Health Policy and Management
                          & Law Faculty, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
16.45 – 17.15   Discussion
           
Parallel session II
Chair:
15.45 – 17.15               
15.45 – 16.05   Ondrej Dostal, Ph.D., Czech Replic
                          ‘Health Care Rationing in the Czech Republic’
16.05 – 16.25   Dr. Pawel Bialynicki-Birula, Cracow University of Economics, Poland.
                          ‘Health Care Rationing in Poland’
16.25 – 16.45   Vasiliy V. Vlassov, MD. Society for Evidence Based Medicine, Russia
                          ‘Building expensive programs while on tough budget in Russia’
16.45 – 17.15    Discussion
 

Friday 10th December 
8.30 – 9.00       Coffee (& registrations)
 
9.00 – 9.45      Keynote lecture Professor John Harris, Institute for Science, Ethics and
                          Innovation, University of Manchester, UK.
                          ‘The Fair Innings Approach to Rationing’ (preliminary title)

9.45 – 10.15      Discussion

 
10.15 – 10.45    Coffee and Tea
 
Session III ‘Law and Ethics of Health Care Rationing’
Chair:
10.45 – 12.15
10.45 – 11.15      Professor Colleen Flood, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada.
11.15 – 11.45      Professor Frances Kamm, Faculty Arts & Sciences, Harvard University, USA
                            ‘Allocating Resources to the Disabled’
11.45 – 12.15      Discussion
 
Parallel session III
10.45 – 12.15     
10.45 – 11.05     Dr. Rob Janknegt, Orbis Medical Centre, Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands.
                            ‘Safe Therapeutic Economic Pharmaceutical Selection (STEPSelect). 
                            Development, introduction and use in Northern Ireland’
11.05 – 11.25     Dr. Keith Syrett, School of Law, University of Bristol, UK
                                         'Ruminations on the future of rationing in the English NHS: no more Mr NICE guy?'
11.25 – 11.45     Prof. David Hughes, Swansea University, School of Health Sciences, UK
                                         ‘Deliberating Tarceva: a case study of how NHS managers decide whether to
                            purchase a high-cost drug in the shadow of NICE guidance.’
11.45 - 12.15      Discussion
 
12.15 – 13.30     Lunch & Poster presentations

 

 
Session IV ‘Choices in health decision-making’
Chair:
13.30 – 15.00     
13.30 – 14.00      Professor Chris Newdick, School of Law, University of Reading, UK.
14.00 – 14.30      Dr. Bert Boer, Executive Manager of the Board, Health Care Insurance Board (CVZ),
                             The Netherlands.
14.30 – 15.00      Discussion

Parallel session IV
Chair:
13.30 – 15.00     
13.30 – 14.00     Karl Persson Ph.D, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science,
                            University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
                            ‘Sizing, Slicing and Dynamic Effects: A Neglected Aspect of the Ethics of Rationing
                            Health Care Resources’
14.00 – 14.30     Daniel Sperling, School of Public Policy and Government & Braun School of
                            Public Health & Community Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
14.30 – 15.00     Discussion
 
15.00 – 15.30      Closing session, Prof. Martin Buijsen.
 
15.30– 17.00       Reception @ Bar the Smitse (groundfloor, T-building)