5th European Healthcare Design 2019 Congress & Exhibition

Accessible health systems that provide timely, affordable, high-quality care are a cohesive, binding force. The future promises huge benefits but the intervening journey may test our political, economic and social fabric. Amid such upheaval, can our health systems meet both our current needs and future demands?

Ten years since the global financial crisis, economic and social insecurity remains rife amid a widening gulf in wealth distribution across the world. Consequently, societies are polarising in many countries and established political orders and values are fracturing. Never has it seemed more timely to improve and transform health systems that provide security and underpin economic productivity at the same time as continuing to demonstrate the value of investing in science and technology for the public good. We’re also at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, which is blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological worlds. As advances in AI and personalised medicine create enormous benefits in diagnosis, pharma and treatment, as importantly, we now have the digital capacity to connect and integrate healthcare systems, allowing population and place-based models of care to evolve fully. Providing an interdisciplinary global forum for researchers, practitioners and policy advisors, the 5th European Healthcare Design 2019 Congress & Exhibition will be held on 17–19 June, 2019 at the Royal College of Physicians in London, UK. Organised by Architects for Health and SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, the Congress adopts a whole-system approach to redesigning international health systems, services and infrastructure through the exchange of knowledge, research and best practice