DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE – organization and administration HEALTH CARE REFORM HEALTH POLICY

This expert meeting on implementation of health system transformation took place in Madrid, Spain, 17–18 December 2015 with the following specific aims: ʆ To identify lessons learnt in the implementation of health system reforms at policy level which could serve as an evidence base ʆ To provide advice to health system policy-makers on how to initiate reforms and/or how to accelerate or improve implementation ʆ To identify steps the WHO Regional Office for Europe could take to develop a health system policy level implementation agenda and potential mechanisms of collaboration This meeting was framed in a context where health systems in Europe and beyond are either already undergoing extensive macro level reforms or are in great need of undertaking these.