Let’s face it, this Decide Insight newsletter has a definite fragrance of public-private partnerships. It is not the first time that your Decide Hub brings you news, perspectives and analytics about complex contracts (see our recent PPP newsletter).
Truth be told, PPPs are part of the Decide DNA: one of the core areas of work of the network is Capital Investment in Health, with the design of a unique tool to help health stewards make the right decisions about their infrastructure investment plan.
Also, one of our working groups is named “relax, it’s just a contract”. Typical law specialists’ unapologetic sense of humour, trying to entice our ecosystem to delve into the alphabet soup of procurement options for health services and offerings transformation
Why this reminder? Simply because it explains the telluric enthusiasm of the Decide stakeholders for the groundbreaking -and potentially game-changing- Policy Brief that was published this month by WHO Barcelona Office for Health Financing and written by world class Health PPP expert Dr Mark Hellowell from the University of Edinburgh.
For the first time, WHO offers what the PPP world was lacking for a long time: an expertise on health financing that marries the knowledge of public-partnerships as well as the idiosyncrasies and complexities of health systems.
These complex contractual arrangements have been at the forefront of infrastructure modernization for over 30 years since the launch of the Private Finance Initiative in the UK in 1992!- but the health sector was structurally lacking documented evidence, guidance and perspective on the optimal use of PPPs to strengthen health systems.
This is why this report is a net contribution to health policy as much as healthcare organization: it adds considerable value by clarifying concept, options, routes and highlights opportunities and potential pitfalls.
Make sure you read the policy brief: click here as well as this new year’s gift which honours and excites us tremendously: Dr Hellowell’s blog on your Decide platform! Click here to read the blog
Enjoy this snapshot of news about PPPs illustrating how vibrant this scene needs, requiring understanding of complex contract models, their use case, but also the risks for decision makers if they are not equipped to make the right decision: at Decide, we are happy to share the goods and the bads about PPPs!
A much-needed perspective for MICs decision makers!
The WHO Europe Office for Health Financing in Barcelonareleased on 18th January a policy brief that was much expected by the community of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) practitioners, and more broadly by the ecosystem of experts working on project finance, procurement, contract arrangements, as well as capital investment in health.
This unprecedented document named “Public–private partnerships for health care...
Rebuilding Ukraine’s health systems: how could PPPs help?
Back in November 2022, leading PPP publication Partnership Bulletin wondered if the PPP industry could help rebuild Ukraine’s infrastructure (click here to read the article)
Before the war, Ukraine adopted specific PPP legislation and set up a PPP agency to tap into complex contracts and private finance to transform its infrastructure across sectors. Advised by the IFC (part of...
DBFOM model to deliver better services in Portugal
The Government of Portugal decided earlier in 2022 to use a complex contract to procure hospital infrastructure services to the population of the Algarve region.
Portugal, like most Latin countries in Europe whose legal systems are based on Roman law, are familiar with “traditional” Public-Private Partnerships, i.e. concessions to entrust the private sector with the operations of public infrastructure and...
World Bank bolsters Public-Private Partnerships against NCDs
The International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank Group) announced last week the outcomes of its support to the Ministry of Health and the PPP Development agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Already in 2021, your Decide Hub drew your attention onto this “buoyant market”: click here to read our news on Uzbekistan PPP. Committed to using Public-Private Partnerships...
EIB funding PHC strengthening through PPP: environment clauses
It starts to look as though your Decide Hub is undertaking a tour of the Celtic lands to check their health policy towards PPPs.
Decide informed you extensively about the progress of the Mutual Interest Models or MIMs in Wales (click here to read the news). Insight was also shared about the behemoth investment in a health PPP in...
Many governments are interested in using public-private partnerships (PPPs) to increase the rate of capital investment in their health systems.
But what are the main costs, benefits and risks of using PPPs in the health sector? And what conditions need to be in place for their successful application? In this blog, Mark Hellowellsummarises the findings of a recent policy paper by the the WHO Barcelona Office for Health...
