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APPG Global Health Report, 2017/18
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Annual Report
and Accounts
27th
June 2017 – 26th
June 2018
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health
2017-2018
Officers
Staff
The Annual Report and Accounts The report covers the period from 27th June 2017 to 26th June 2018. However, group activity
doesn’t fit neatly into this period with activities continuing over the year ends. The report
therefore may make some reference to events both before and after this period. The accounts,
however, refer exclusively to this period.
Publications by All-Party Parliamentary Groups This is not a publication for the House of Commons or the House of Lords. It has not been
approved by either house or its committees. All-Party Parliamentary Groups are informal groups
of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues. The views expressed in
this report are those of the group.
Chairs
Daniel Poulter MP (Conservative)
Lord Crisp (Crossbench)
Vice Chairs
Lord Darzi (Labour)
Baroness Northover (Liberal Democrat) Lord Ribeiro (Conservative)
Meg Hillier MP (Labour) Norman Lamb MP (Liberal Democrat)
Treasurer
Lord Kakkar (Crossbench)
Co-ordinator Johanna Riha
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Overview of the year
This has been an unusual year for the Group with much of it spent in following up the 2016
report Triple Impact of Nursing and developing the global campaign Nursing Now which
resulted from it. As a result, there were no other reports undertaken during the year and there
were fewer meetings than in previous years.
We would, however, draw attention to the UK launch of the Lancet Commission on Palliative
Care which was hosted by the APPG on 25th
June. This very important work is likely to have
major impact globally over the next few years.
Alongside this work, the APPG commissioned a review of its work to date and options for its
future direction and organisation. This will be published in the autumn with decisions taken as
appropriate. The APPG did not seek to raise any funds over the course of the year because of
the review and the relative lack of activity in the year.
Looking forward the APPG is undertaking two reports. Firstly, it was requested by various
groups to re-visit and update its 2015 report, The UK’s Contribution to Health Globally, in part
because Brexit has made it even more relevant. This is being researched by the same team
based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as prepared the original and will
be published at a suitable point in the first half of 2019. The second report is on mental health
nursing and follows on from the APPG’s 2015 report Mental Health for Sustainable Development
and the Group’s 2016 nursing report. It will be published in late 2019 and tie in with both the
Nursing Now campaign and a new global campaign on Mental Health which is due to be
launched.
We are very grateful to Dr Johanna Riha for her excellent work as Coordinator of the Groups’
activities.
Dan Poulter MP (Chair) Lord Nigel Crisp (Co-Chair)
1st October 2018
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Report
Nursing Now
The report Triple Impact of Nursing published in October 2016 was very well received in the UK and
around the world. Following a great deal of discussion, it was decided in April 2017 to launch a
global campaign – Nursing Now - to improve health globally by raising the profile and status of
nursing.
The APPG received £40,000 to fund the development of the campaign, as shown in the 2016/17
accounts. The APPG ceased its direct involvement when the campaign became part of the Burdett
Trust for Nursing on 1st October 2017.
The Nursing Now campaign aims to raise the status and profile of nursing. Run in collaboration
with the World Health Organization and International Council of Nurses, Nursing Now seeks to
empower nurses to take their place at the heart of tackling 21st Century health challenges.
The campaign was launched on 27th
February 2018 by the Duchess of Cambridge in London; and
Dr Tedros, the Director General of the WHO, and Princess Muna Al Hussein in Geneva; with
simultaneous events in Jordan, South Africa and the USA. By June there were campaigns active
in more than 40 countries.
Running until the end of 2020, the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, the campaign
aims to improve perceptions of nurses, enhance their influence and maximise their contributions
to ensuring that everyone everywhere has access to high quality health and healthcare.
More information is available at http://www.nursingnow.org/
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Events
Improving mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries: the
Emerald Project
Monday 16th October 2017
This event was focused on the key findings from the Emerging Mental Health Systems in Low-
and Middle-Income Countries (EMERALD) project. This strong global mental health research
partnership was launched in November 2012, funded by the European Commission for 5 years.
Based on a strong partnership between mental health research experts from Europe and from
six African and Asian countries, the EMERALD is an important approach towards improving
mental health systems and capacity building in South Africa and other low and middle income
countries.
The project has some of the most renowned mental health experts worldwide and in their
countries, from the World Health Organization, to King's College London, and experts from
Uganda, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Nepal, The Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa and Spain.
Panellists during the event included Dr Daniel Chisholm, Programme Manager for Mental Health
at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Prof Sir Graham Thornicroft, coordinator of the Emerald
programme and Professor of Community Psychiatry and founder of the Health Service and
Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at
King's College London, Ms Sumaiyah Docrat, South African health economist and PhD candidate
at the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Prof Fred Kigozi,
Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and Principal Investigator, Emerald (Uganda site) and formerly
Senior Lecturer Dept. Psych, Makerere University, Executive Director, Butabika National Referral
& Teaching Mental Hospital and Advisor to the Top Management Committee of the Ministry of
Health Uganda, Dr Mark Jordans, child psychologist and is a Reader of Child and Adolescent
Mental Health in Humanitarian Settings at the Centre for Global Mental Health, King’s College
London and works as Director of Research & Development for the NGO War Child in the
Netherlands, and Prof Atalay Alem, one of the pioneers of mental health research, service
development and capacity-building within Ethiopia and brings a wealth of expertise to the
Ethiopia Emerald team. The event also included participation of three Emerald PhD students:
Shalini Ahuja, Sandesh Samudre and Nicole Votruba.
Launch of Global Citizenship in the Scottish Health Service Report
Monday 27th November 2017
An evening launch of the policy report titled “Global Citizenship in the Scottish Health Service”
produced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG). The report
explores how the Scottish health service can better encourage, support and coordinate Scottish
health service workers to undertake international development work.
The report addresses the common challenges of global health work, provides evidence of the
mutual benefits to individuals and the Scottish NHS, and sets out eight recommendations for
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action. These suggested areas for action take into account the views of all Scotland’s territorial
and special Health Boards, alongside many other key organisations and individuals. Speakers at
the event included the authors of the report, Dr Stuart J Fergusson, 2016-17 Clinical Leadership
Fellow at RCPSG, and Dr Michael J McKirdy, Director of Global Health at RCPSG, with comments
from Ben Simms, CEO of the Tropical Health and Education Trust.
Co-hosted an event with the APPG on Malaria and NTDs on the G-Finder 2017
Report
Wednesday 13th December 2017
The APPG co-hosted the launch of the 10th annual G-FINDER report with the All-Party
Parliamentary Group on Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases. Since 2007, the G-FINDER report
has provided policy-makers, donors, researchers and advocates with the only comprehensive
analysis of global investment into R&D for new products to prevent, diagnose, control or cure
neglected diseases in developing countries.
The event featured a presentation of the report's findings by Dr Nick Chapman, Executive
Director, Policy Cures Research, followed by a moderated discussion with a panel of global
experts including Dr Sue Kinn, Team Leader and Research Manager at UK Department for
International Development, Dr Ashley Birkett, Director of PATH's Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Dr
Lutz Hegemann, Global Head of Development Unit Established Medicines & Anti-Infectives at
Novartis and Dr Samia Saad, Head of Global Health R&D Policy & Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
UK Launch of the Lancet Commission Report “Alleviating the access abyss in
palliative care and pain relief – an imperative of universal health coverage”
Monday Monday 25th June 2018
Palliative care and pain relief remain are some of the most neglected dimensions of global
health today despite an immense burden of serious health-related suffering reported
worldwide. Furthermore, with over 80% of those affected living in low and middle income
countries, those most in need have limited or no access to pain relief or palliative care.
This event was the UK launch of the Lancet Commission seeking to address this gap by bringing
palliative care and pain relief to the forefront as global leaders plan for Universal Health
Coverage (UHC). The Commission presents an essential package of palliative care services –
including medicines, equipment and staffing models – to be made available by health systems
worldwide, and call for more balanced global policies to facilitate access to opioid analgesics to
meet medical need, while limiting non-medical use.
Speakers at this launch included Professor Felicia Knaul, Director, University of Miami Institute
for Advanced Study of the Americas and Chair of the Commission, Richard Horton, Editor-in-
Chief of the Lancet, Professor Aisha Holloway, Head of Nursing Studies at the University of
Edinburgh, Lucy Watts, Founder of Palliative Care Voices, and Dr Julio Frenk, President,
University of Miami.
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Accounts:
Period Covered by this statement: 27th June 2017 to 26th June 2018
A. Balance brought forward from previous year:
B. Income received during the year:
i. Membership subscriptions (Parliamentarians) 0.00
ii. Monetary donations (Note 1) 0.00
iii. Trading income 0.00
iv. Interest received 0.00
v. Other 0.00
TOTAL income
C. Expenditure during the year:
i. Employment costs (salaries, NI, pensions costs) 0.00
ii. Costs of contractors and freelance staff (Note 2) 22940.58
iii. Visits and events (UK) 2101.25
iv. Visits and events (abroad) (Note 3) 5503.46
v. Cost of generating income 0.00
vi. Office and communications costs 143.72
vii. Other (Note 4) 1000.00
TOTAL expenditure
D. Balance carried forward (A+ total B- total C) (Note 5)
55354.47
31689.01
55354.47
23665.46
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E. Value of benefits in kind received from each source during the reporting year (in bands of up
to £1,500; £1,501-£3,000; £3,001 to £4,500; £4,501 to £6,000)
Note 1: the APPG did not seek to raise any funds during the year.
Note 2: The APPG contracted Dr Johanna Riha as Coordinator for the whole year and Emily
Measures and Dr Catherine Hannaway as Project Managers for Nursing Now for part of the year.
Note 3: All the visits and events abroad were part of the development of Nursing Now.
Note 4: This was the final sum left over from the grants of £40,000 received in 2016/17 for
developing Nursing Now and was paid back to the Burdett Trust for Nursing.
Sponsors
The APPG on Global Health is very grateful to the following organisation which have sponsored
it during the year.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
George Institute, University of Oxford
Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
Kings Health Partners, Kings College London
The Lancet
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester
University College London
In addition, the Burdett Trust for Nursing and Health Education England each provided £20,000
in 2016/17 for the development of Nursing Now.
0.00
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Contact Information
Elaine Bryce
Office of Dr Daniel Poulter MP
Member of Parliament for Central Suffolk & North Ipswich
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
Constituency: 01728 726588
Westminster: 0207 219 7038
www.appg-globalhealth.org.uk
