HPH Coordinators Workshop

Technical Officer Thor Bern Jensen, MA (Comm)

The International HPH Secretariat

Clinical Health Promoting Centre – WHO-CC for Evidence-based Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Services

Welcome

Thank you all for attending this year HPH Coordinator Workshop.

Today, we will discuss the possibilities and challenges met by the National/Regional HPH Networks.

Margareta Kristensson (Swedish HPH Coordinator), Thor Bern Jensen (Technical Officer HPH Secretariat)

Program

Secretariat – challenges experienced (TBJ)Swedish Network – Challenges faced and met (MK)RE-vitalisation of French Network (AL)Work with achieving the HPH goals – Catalonian network (MS)Workshop and Discussion – where?AOB

Experience and update from the HPH Secretariat

Update on networks and membersNew networksCeassed and suspended networksProblems and reactions & solutionsRe-organising of networksInvolvement of Ministeriel level

Member and Network Update

957 member Hospitals and Health Services34 N/R HPH Network• Asia (4 N. & 1 R. Netw) + 6 count. Indv. memb.• Australia (1 R. Netw) + 4 Indv. memb.• Europe (17 N., 6 + 1 R. Netw) + 11 count. Indv memb.• North Americas (4 R. Netw) + 2 indv memb.

• South Americas and Africa No Networks 2 Indv members (Nigeria & Brasil)

Affliated members in process: Austria, Macedonia and rep of Korea

New networks in the process

• National Network in Japan• Regional Network in Hong Kong

• From India (Official delegation from Andra Pradesh – Min Level)

• SEEHN (South-eastern European Health Network ) – 8 new countries. Pilot project with one HPH hospital and a few Health Services in each country.

SEEHN

Ceassing and suspended netw

• 2 Regional Networks in Italy are suspended (on own request)

• The German & Swiss Network will be re-organised (Klaus Hüllemannn & Nils Undritz)

• 2 Networks have decided to split up (Tuscany (Ita))

– the secretariat have begun contacting each member to become individual

members – eventually new network!

Ceassing network - Reasons

• Financially – budget cuts• Re-organisation of Organisational

structure• New management• Network coordinator stops• Missing membership benefits • Shift in focus (other HP focus)

Reactions & solutionsFinancially – Save money, not spend moneyRe-organisation – See the possibilities, a new start invites for participate in shaping the organisation New management – Low fee, only need a little persuasion/ few arguments Coord. stops – For the existing coord. it is important to start out simple, engage a new coord.Missing benefits – Coord & Sec work on articulating benefits (higher level of service)Shift in focus (other HP focus) – difficult

Re-organised Networks

Scotland ceassed as a Network, and have re-organised a NEW Scottish Network (Re-start with 3 members)GermanySwitzerland – New focus! RE-start with Nils Undritz.

Network Agreements due for renewal

BulgariaFranceGreeceIrelandIreland, NorthernItaly, TrentinoItaly, VenetoLithuaniaSwitzerlandUSA, Pennsylvania

GA Meeting May 22 – 2013 Gothenburg, Sweden

Ministerial Involvement

Scotland, Poland & Hungary

Top down approach. Strong ministerial support ease the way and an articulation of a national interest and engagement often gives better circumstances for the networks. The experience is, that the Ministries often find the HPH concept is good publicity for small money, and they therefore can sometimes be persuaded to giving a national support and taking a part in the establishment.