Lottie MurphyHealth and Social Care Team

British Embassy

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• Introduction• Our goal• Who we work with• What we work on• How we use the Strategic Prosperity

Fund• Business Engagement

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Health Team’s Goal

• To be China's partner of choice for policy and commercial cooperation in health and social care issues in order to:– Unlock commercial opportunities for UK

businesses;– Further UK global health policy objectives.

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Who we work with

• UK side in China– Outreach team, SIN, UKTI, Healthcare UK, CBBC, CBI, DFID, Scottish

Office• UK side in UK

– DH, FCO, PHE, Healthcare UK, NICE, Royal Colleges, Chief Medical Officer

• Chinese side– Ministries -National Health and Family Planning Commission,

Ministry of Civil Affairs– Think tanks -China National Health Development Research Council,

Development Research Centre for the State Council, National Institute of Hospital Administration

– Int organisations – WHO, WB

Areas of work• China’s National Health Reform – link up UK

expertise– Elderly – Pharma – UK primary health care model

• UK global health priorities– Antimicrobial Resistance– Ebola

• Support other teams– DFID (global health support programme)– PHE and CDC on cooperation (salt, sugar, climate change)– Climate Change team (climate change and growth)– Urbanisation team (green hospitals)– Dementia (round table on drug development)

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How we use the Strategic Prosperity Fund

• There is a pot of money. Two criteria:– Influence policy– UK commercial outcomes (or v strong UK priority)

Looking back at the areas of work – Elderly care – Pharmaceutical policy – UK primary care model – Green Hospitals– Working up a project on diabetes (with CBBC)– Antimicrobial Resistance

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Events coming up

• Project seminars • PHE coming out in July• Health Dialogue in September• State Visit in October

Business Engagement

• Whenever we start a project, we engage with UKTI, Healthcare UK and CBBC

• Very happy for suggestions from business about policy blockages. Projects can be large or small

• Monthly newsletter, annual factbook• Would be happy for suggestions of how to

work together more closely

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