5th Expert Meeting on Health Management and Health Economics

The UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM) is organising, within the framework of the Almirall Chair for the Management of Innovations in Pharmaceutical Policies in the National Health System, the 5th Meeting of Experts in Health Management and Health Economics. This is a virtual forum of reference structured in three webinars that, edition after edition, brings together hundreds of healthcare managers from the main hospitals in Spain to debate on the management and evaluation of innovations in the National Health System (NHS). 

The first session, scheduled for 15 November, will feature a presentation by Jaume Puig-Junoy, Distinguished Professor at UPF-BSM and director of the Online Master in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics, and Lluís Segú Tolsa, primary care pharmacists and lecturer on the Online Master in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics and the Online Postgraduate in Pharmacoeconomics at UPF-BSM. 

After an initial institutional intervention, the debate «The evaluation model of health interventions in Spain and Europe: where do we stand?» will begin, with the participation of Pedro Serrano, Head of Evaluation and Planning Service of the Canary Islands Health Service; Fernando Ignacio Sánchez, Profesor of Applied Economics at the University of Murcia; and Maria Antònia Mangues, Director of the Pharmacy Service of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Juan Oliva Moreno, professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, will moderate the webinar.

The second day, scheduled for 22 November, will focus on «The efficient incorporation of innovation in hospitals: what have we learned from flexible purchasing models?», and will feature reflections by Isabel Pineros, Director of the Access Department of Farmaindustria; Caridad Pontes, Manager of the Medicines Area of the Catalan Health Service; Miguel Ángel Calleja, Head of the Pharmacy Service of the Virgen de la Macarena University Hospital in Seville; and Sílvia Rebordero, Deputy Director General of Pharmacy of the Directorate General of Health Care of the Galician Health Service. Professor Segú will moderate the session. 

To conclude the fifth edition of the Meeting, on 29 November, César Hernández, Director General of the Common Portfolio of Services of the National Health System and Pharmacy; Jaime Espín, Professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP); Manuel J. Cárdenas, Head of Section of the Pharmacy Service of the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Cordoba; and Mónica Povedano, Coordinator of the Functional Motor Neuron Unit and Head of the Neurophysiology Section - Neurology Service, will debate on «IPTs and REvalMed: evaluation of the road travelled and proposals for improvement». The session will be moderated by Pedro Gómez, a civil servant on leave from the General State Administration. 

Program

11/15: «The evaluation model of health interventions in Spain and Europe: where do we stand?»

• Pedro Serrano, Head of Evaluation and Planning Service of the Canary Islands Health Service
• Fernando Ignacio Sánchez, Profesor of Applied Economics at the University of Murcia
• Maria Antònia Mangues, Director of the Pharmacy Service of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
• Moderates: Juan Oliva Moreno, Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha

11/22: «The efficient incorporation of innovation in hospitals: what have we learned from flexible purchasing models?»

• Isabel Pineros, Director of the Access Department of Farmaindustria
• Caridad Pontes, Manager of the Medicines Area of the Catalan Health Service
• Miguel Ángel Calleja, Head of the Pharmacy Service of the Virgen de la Macarena University Hospital in Seville
• Sílvia Reboredo, Deputy Director General of Pharmacy of the Directorate General of Health Care of the Galician Health Service
• Moderates: Lluís Segú Tolsa, Profesor at the UPF-BSM

29/11: «IPTs and REvalMed: evaluation of the road travelled and proposals for improvement»

• César Hernández, Director General of the Common Portfolio of Services of the National Health System and Pharmacy
• Jaime Espín, Professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP)
• Manuel J. Cárdenas, Head of Section of the Pharmacy Service of the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Cordoba
• Mónica Povedano, Coordinator of the Functional Motor Neuron Unit and Head of the Neurophysiology Section - Neurology Service