Workshop: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The potential for mutual learning between Japan and the UK

Conveners: Professor Roger Goodman, Professor Naoki Ikegami, Professor Catherine Pope

Speakers: Professor Haruko Akatsu, Dr Sharon Dixon, Professor Richard Hobbs, Dr Taroh Kogure, Professor Nicholas Mays, Mr Ryoji Noritake, Professor Meghana Pandit

This event will bring together Japanese and UK healthcare professionals, policy and decision makers, politicians, commercial and regulatory stakeholders and scholars to explore similarities and differences between these two health systems and examine what we might learn from each other to address the pressing challenges facing healthcare and health services.

Day 1 (28th Feb) will comprise a series of paired talks exploring the policy and organisational landscape in both countries, frontline community-based service provision and the delivery and management of acute care, followed by talks looking at national policy challenges for Japan and the UK. We will encourage discussion and exploration throughout the day as the foundation for Day 2 (1st March) where participants will work together to unpick ‘knotty’ and ‘wicked’ healthcare and health service challenges, drawing on the knowledge and input from our invited guests from across the UK and Japan.

This event is jointly convened by the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences from the University of Oxford, together with Keio University.

Register for this workshop here.

Programme

Day 1 (Friday, 28th February)

8.30 Registration — Nissan Institute Foyer

9.15 Introduction and Overview of the Aims of the Workshop — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Roger GOODMAN (Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, Oxford)

9.45 Session 1: Scene setting: the ideology and development of contemporary healthcare in Japan and the UK — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

JAPAN: Naoki IKEGAMI (Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, Keio University)

UK: Nicholas MAYS (Professor of Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

11.15 Coffee break — The Buttery, Hilda Besse Building

11.40 Session 2: Tales from the front line (1): The theory and practice of primary care in Japan (clinics) and the UK (General practice) — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

JAPAN: Taroh KOGURE (Owner and Director of Kogure Clinic, Saitama Prefecture)

UK: Sharon DIXON (NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and General Practitioner, Oxford)

13.10 Lunch @ St Antony’s College for all registered workshop participants — St Antony's Dining Hall, Hilda Besse Building

14.10 Session 3: Tales from the front line (2): The theory and practice of secondary care services in Japan (hospital chains) and the UK (hospital trusts)— Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

JAPAN: Haruko AKATSU (Professor and Vice President, International University of Health and Welfare)

UK: Meghana PANDIT (Professor and Chief Executive Officer, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

15.40 Tea break — The Buttery, Hilda Besse Building

16.00 Session 4: Current debates in healthcare reform in Japan and the UK — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

JAPAN: Ryoji NORITAKE (Chair of the Health and Global Policy Institute, Tokyo)

UK: Richard HOBBS (Mercian Professor of Primary Care and Director of Oxford Institute of Digital Health)

18.00 Reception & Greetings from H.E. Hiroshi Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to the UK— The Combined Common Room, Hilda Besse Building

Day 2 (Saturday, 1st March)

Workshop with faculty and students from (but not limited to) the following University of Oxford programmes:

MSc/MPhil in Japanese Studies

MSc in Applied Digital Health

MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership

MSc in Translational Health Sciences

Master of Public Policy (MPP)

DPhil students of medical sciences, health policy, Japanese studies and allied subjects.

and the following programmes at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

MSc Public Health

MSc Public Health for Global Practice

MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing (joint with LSE).

9.00 Session 5: Small groups working on how different systems respond to different symptom presentations — Breakout rooms

10.00 Session 6: Small groups working on Grand Challenges: hospital to home OR analogue to digital OR treatment to prevention — Breakout rooms

11.00 Coffee break — The Buttery, Hilda Besse Building

11.15 Session 7: Reconvene for feedback from Sessions 5 & 6 — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

11.45 Session 8: Roundtable discussion among the speakers from Day 1 on the potential for mutual healthcare learning between Japan and the UK — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

Chair: Catherine POPE (Professor of Medical Sociology, Oxford)

12.30 Session 9: Group reflection: what have we learned/takeaways from the event — Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

13.00 Farewell lunch — St Antony's Dining Hall, Hilda Besse Building