Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 17:30-18:30 \u00a0<\/p> In the complex world of healthcare, where lives depend on timely innovation and evidence-based change, politics often emerges as a formidable barrier. This debate explores the provocative assertion that politics – through bureaucracy, partisanship, and short-term agendas – undermines genuine improvement. While healthcare professionals strive for patient-centered progress, political interference can stall reforms, divert resources, and prioritise optics over outcomes. Yet, is politics truly the enemy, or a necessary framework for accountability, investment and equity?\u00a0 Can improvement thrive without political will, or does it require a radical reimagining of how policy and practice intersect? Join us as leading voices from healthcare improvement – all of whom have held roles that interact with politics in the pursuit of improvement – debate this topic. We promise it will be lively, fun and interactive! \u00a0<\/p> After this session, participants will be able to:<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Amar Shah<\/a><\/strong> National Clinical Director for Improvement, England, NHS England; England<\/span> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 17:30-18:30Stream: Leading\u00a0In the complex world of healthcare, where lives depend on timely innovation and evidence-based change, politics often emerges as a formidable barrier.This debate explores the provocative assertion that politics – through bureaucracy, partisanship, and short-term agendas – undermines genuine improvement.While healthcare professionals strive for patient-centered progress, political interference can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Inge Kristensen<\/a> <\/strong>CEO, Danish Society for Patient Safety; Denmark<\/span>
Jason Leitch<\/a><\/strong> Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); Scotland<\/span>
Christina Krause\u00a0<\/a><\/strong> Chief Executive Officer, Health Quality BC; Canada<\/span>
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