Adrian Watts is CEO & Managing Director of the National Health Co-op, the largest health co-operative in Australia. In this interview, he explains how co-operatives can help optimise the provision of basic services, including healthcare.
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Kathmandu hosted APHCO meeting
Asia-Pacific Health Cooperatives Organization (APHCO) met in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 13. APHCO President Dr Takaaki Fujiwara gave opening remarks, thanking phect-NEPAL for hosting the meeting and for the generous donation in the wake of the Kumamoto Earthquakes that hit Japan in April 2016. He also expressed his condolences over the sudden loss of IHCO Presidente Dr José Carlos Guisado. All the meeting participants took a moment of silence to remember and honour him. Continue reading
World Cooperative Monitor: figures of the health sector
The health sector ranking of 2016 World Co-operative Monitor includes user, producer and multistakeholder social and health cooperatives which seek to provide high-quality, cost-effective community health care and social services. Overall, data pertaining to this sector was collected for 158 co-operatives distributed in 18 countries, with a total turnover in 2014 of 36.91 billion US dollars. Continue reading
«Our priority is to “educate” the authorities as to the potential of co-operatives in the health sector»
Interview with Vanessa Hammond, chair of the Health Care Co-operatives Federation of Canada and member of the Board of the International Health Co-operative Organisation
Passing of Dr José Carlos Guisado, leader of the international health cooperative movement
Dr José Carlos Guisado, President of the International Health Co-operatives Organisation, IHCO, passed away on 14 October in Quebec City, Canada, at the age of 61. The co-operative leader suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday, 12 October, while taking part at the International Summit of Co-operatives being held in the Canadian city. He was hospitalised in a very serious condition, and failed to recover. Continue reading
Australia’s health cooperatives join IHCO
The delegates of the member organisations of the IHCO met on October 11, in Quebec City, Canada. Within the framework of the International Summit of Cooperatives 2016, IHCO welcomed as a new associated member organisation, Australia’s National Health Cooperative and their delegates Adrian Watts and Blake Wilson. The NHC is a not-for-profit consumer co-operative established to provide affordable and accessible medical and health services to the local community where it operates. This health co-operative uses a proactive and integrated partnership approach between the members and the doctors, nurses and other health providers and educators to form a comprehensive health care team. The NHC is Australia’s largest health co-operative and the largest provider of primary health care in the Canberra region. Continue reading
