Ladies and Gentlemen!
On behalf of CEESTAHC we heartily invite you to take part in:

which will be held in Cracow on October 5-6, 2020.
Park Inn hotel, ul. Monte Cassino 2.

Preliminary programme | Application form

Over the years, members of CEESTAHC have created hundreds of papers: analyses, recommendations, guidelines and reports. In theory, we have developed and disseminated thousands of pages of useful knowledge which may improve the effectiveness of the Polish healthcare system. Unfortunately, practically only a fraction of this knowledge has been applied in real actions aimed at improving the situation. Our experience shows that studies adapted for the needs of simple initiatives performed at lower levels of the healthcare system (e.g. health programmes) are the only ones which have some sort of effect on reality.

The remaining knowledge exists and expands thanks to new primary studies; it is also repeatedly processed in subsequent secondary studies. However, an average participant of the system is not aware of the existence and scale of new information which is constantly becoming available. The ever growing collection of data (Evidence) is like a mycelium which covers an entire forest – it remains virtually invisible and the desired effects spring up like mushrooms only in specific places and conditions. These external manifestations of that mycelium’s life are our Actions undertaken within the healthcare system: health programmes, system reforms, implementation of solutions. Only ideas which face favourable circumstances have a chance to succeed. The question is, is this how it is supposed to be?