The Graz Agenda - Affordable capital investment
This Agenda provide a practical response to the ‘health equals wealth’ challenge first set out at the European Health Policy Forum in October 2003.The Graz Agenda puts forward a range of capital investment policy actions for localities, regions, and the European Commission. The Agenda has been shaped by the practical experiences, evidence and insights generated by regions from across the EU and beyond who are partners in Health ClusterNET. Importantly, it also reflects how partner regions are currently progressing in terms of economic performance and Lisbon Agenda orientation.
Agenda aims
- To enable regional health systems to more positively engage with regional development through capital investment policies, planning and actions that contribute to affordable, flexible, possibly intersectoral and dynamic health care infrastructure and IT-based services.
- To redefine ‘value for money’ (or national equivalent term[1]) to include outcomes that connect health sector capital investment to the achievement of intersectoral regional development priorities.
- To enable European regional health systems to have flexible options regarding approaches to capital investment that ensure capital investment is affordable and capable of allowing health care to adapt to changes in service priorities reflecting local health and well being needs.
[1] Other words used across partner regions that are equivalent to ‘value for money’ are: best value, total economic benefit, best offer.