Shifting the burden of healthcare from the state to the market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This article focuses on the factors that have promoted transferring the responsibility of providing healthcare from the government to market forces. This has allowed the private sector to grow in Saudi Arabia. It also discusses other factors that contributed to policy...
Healthcare Finance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Study of Householders’ Attitudes
This study examines how satisfied the Saudi people are with their public sector healthcare services and assesses their willingness to contribute to financing the system through a national health insurance scheme. The sustainability of the public sector healthcare...
Health Tranformation Strategy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This document gives an overview of the health care transformation envisioned in Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”, spelling out the underlying national goals. Led by the Ministry of Health and developed in close collaboration with the National Transformation Program, it...
BURUNDI: TFP-Government collaborative process
The implementation of public health programs and policies in Burundi is supported by development partners, and this support represents the country's primary source of health funding. This collaboration slackened with the difficult socio-political situation of 2015. In...
CSU BURUNDI: National meeting of health financing stakeholders
From November 10 to 12, 2021, some forty national players involved in health financing and social protection in health in Burundi met in the political capital Gitéga. The meeting was divided into two parts: firstly, data consolidation and analysis of strengths and...
Presenting documents on health financing/social health protection in Saudi Arabia
Here are a group of five documents on the sustainable financing of healthcare in Saudi Arabia, prospects of a national health insurance system to extend the scope of health coverage and the country’s healthcare transformation strategy. Two research papers look at the...
BURUNDI: Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting September 2021
Minutes of the Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting on September 15, 2021. Agenda: 1. Adoption of last meeting's minutes 2. Review of action points from last meeting 3. Epidemiological update (WHO) 4. Presentation of health programming in Burundi...
BURUNDI: Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting October 2021
Minutes of the Health Funding Partners Group meeting on October 18, 2021. Agenda: 1. Adoption of last meeting's minutes 2. Review of action points from last meeting 3. Epidemiological update (WHO) 4. CPDS debriefing and actions for next CPSD meeting 5. Miscellaneous
BURUNDI: Groupe des Partenaires Financiers en Santé (GPFFS) meeting November 2021
Minutes of the Health Funding Partners Group meeting on November 17, 2021. Agenda: 1. Adoption of last meeting's minutes 2. Review of action points from last meeting 3. Epidemiological update (WHO) 4. Presentation of the conclusions of the workshop on the development...
Reforming the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia
The Government of Namibia provides a significant proportion of funding to subsidize the PSEMAS for public servants. As part of efforts to ensure value for money, the Government is pursuing reforms to the scheme. A technical committee was set up early in 2021 to...
7th General Assembly of the National Commission for Social Protection chaired by the President of the Republic of Burundi
Ahead of the CNPS AGM scheduled for December 20, 2021 in Bujumbura, the Technical Committee of the Commission's Permanent Executive Secretariat will be held this Wednesday, December 15. Topics to be submitted to the AGM will include the move towards Universal Health...
BURUNDI: WORKING WITH FINANCIAL PARTNERS
Through the CFP, P4H takes part in the monthly meetings of partners supporting the health sector in Burundi, chaired by the European Union. Together with the World Bank, P4H coordinates the working group on health financing, which includes other partners such as...
Saudi Arabia to invest USD66 billion in healthcare by 2030
Saudi Arabia has set out plans to invest $66 billion in healthcare infrastructure and boost the private sector participation by 2030. The Kingdom plans to boost private sector participation from 40% to 65%. This comes after the Saudi Council of Cooperative...
From telemedicine to manufacturing, a look at the growth opportunities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s top priorities in the healthcare sector are enhancing the role of the private sector through privatisation of government healthcare services, increasing public-private participation (PPP) healthcare delivery models, scaling up education...
Saudi Arabia plans to attract 7.3bn USD into health from private investors
The Saudi Ministry of Health aspires to increase the private sector’s participation in the sector from to 35 percent by 2030 from 25 percent. The ministry is working with partners in the private sector and across government to implement a package of initiatives...