Oslo Norway-Spring 2015
April 16th - 17th , hosted by the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision (Statens helsetilsyn)

You can download the Program here:
Programme 19th EPSO conference Oslo 16-17 April 2015 .pdf
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The main topics of this Conference were:
1. Evaluation , based on
a. the Peer evaluation of the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision;
b. the Peer evaluation Reports on the Danish Health and Medicines Authority;
c. ‘Visitatie’ of the Netherlands’ The Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ);
d. the Landscape Review of the Northern Irish Board of Health;
e. Experience of Accreditation by ISQua;
f. Development of Norms and standards in Europe;
2. Towards evidence-based supervision, "Studies on the effectiveness of supervision in healthcare";
3. Regulation/Supervision of alternative Medicine;
4. Towards a professional Health Inspectorate in Kosovo, supported by TAIEX and European partners of EPSO.
Presentations :
1.The EPSO Peer Evaluation of the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision (Helsetilsynet):
Presentation by the EPSO Peer evaluation team- Jooske Vos
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2. The EPSO Peer Evaluation of the Danish Health and Medicine Authority (Sundhedsstyrelsen):
Presentation by the EPSO Peer Evaluation team- Jan Vesseur
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Experience in practice by Anne-Marie Vangsted (director)
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3.The Evaluation of the English Regulator CQC
(The Evaluation of the Care Quality Commission’s acute hospital regulatory model)
Presentation by prof. Kieran Walshe, Head of the Evaluation team of Manchester Business School and The Kings Fund
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Experience in practice by Anna Beckett, Strategy Lead, Policy & Strategy Unit, Care Quality Commission, England, UK
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4.Evaluation (‘Visitatie’) of the Netherlands’ Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ) in the Netherlands:
Presentation by the Dutch Evaluation Commission (‘Visitatie Commissie’) by Winnie Sorgdrager, State Councillor at the Dutch Council of State and Head of the Research team evaluating IGZ
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Experience in practice by Ronnie van Diemen, General Inspecteur IGZ, the Netherlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEnFRplsJNg
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5.The Independent Evaluation of the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) in Northern-Ireland commissioned by the Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety in 2014:
Presentation of the methods norms and standards used by RSM McClure Watters to Evaluate the RQIA introduced by Glenn Houston with a short presentation in co-operation with Jenny Irwin, Head of the research team of RSM McClure Waters
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6. Methods Norms and Standards (Europe wide and worldwide):
European developments in evaluation and standardisation. by Jean Bacou, France representative of HAS
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ISQua: worldwide healthcare accreditation by Elaine O’Connor (the request for an ISQua audit, the ISQua norms and standards, the ISQua audit team, the ISQua audit report – aimed at whom?, examples of ISQua accreditation, co-operation ISQua-EPSO)
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7.Towards evidence-based supervision: studies on the effectiveness of supervision in healthcare:
Effectiveness of supervision in healthcare in the Netherlands Presentation by Sandra Oude Wesselink, Researcher at Erasmus Medical Centre Department of Public Health(since april 2015 IGZ)
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8. Regulation/Supervision of complementary and alternative Medicine:
Legal status and regulation of Complementary and Alternative medicine in 27 member states and 12 related countries in Europe, by Solveig Wiesener, NAFCAM, Norway
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9.Kosovo TAIEX project:
Towards a professional health inspectorate in Kosovo supported by TAIEX and European partners of EPSO by Ardita Baraku, Chief Inspector Shëndetësor, Kosovo
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10. Next EPSO conference in Helsinki September 2015 (Riita Aejmelaeus, Finland)
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11.EPSO working groups:
E-Health – preparing for the Helsinki conference -proposal and call for a new working group (Mari Murel)
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Effectiveness and Added Value of Inspectorates (Hanna Ahonen, proposal and call for a new working group)
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Risk - presentation by Bruno Lucet based on the outcomes of the pre-conference meeting of the Risk working group (Wednesday 15th of April) and to illustrate and explain the idea of the risk working group
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Restraints and Coercive methods further developments since Dublin presented by Jooske Vos
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