May I offer a cordial invitation to all those intending to come to Seoul, Republic of Korea, in August 2023 for ISQua’s 39th International Conference. 

Mark your calendars for the 39th International Conference of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), which will be held in Seoul, South Korea from August 27th to 30th, 2023!

We would like to offer our sincere congratulations to Ron D. Hays, PhDDistinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA School of Public Health; Senior Social Policy Analyst, RAND who has been awarded the 2022 Health Assessment Lab/Medical Outcomes Trust* John Ware and Alvin Tarlov Career Achievement Prize in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs).

Watch the recordings of ISQua Learning Journeys from #ISQua2021 and submit a reflection for Fellowship credits.

Introducing the ICIC20 Virtual Conference taking place over 4 days in September 2020. The ICIC20 Virtual Conference is a relaunch of the 20^th International Conference on Integrated Care that was due to take place in Šibenik, Croatia in April.

In 1778, John Newton, a slave trader, was in a vessel hit by a terrible storm. John Newton had a conversion that lead to his writing of “Amazing Grace”. Despite his spiritual conversion, it took John Newton another eight years to end his slave trading. He wrote,

We are aware of the concerns raised by the Coronavirus outbreak (also known as COVID-19), and our thoughts are with all those, who have been directly affected, in Italy, China, South Korea, and all other affected countries.

We invite healthcare professionals, students, patients, policymakers to share their ideas, successes and achievements at ISQua’s 37^th International Healthcare Conference in Florence, Italy from 30^th August to 2^nd September 2020. Submit by 30th January 2020 for a chance to present in Florence.

We were delighted to host Dr Paul Batalden for the third episode in the ISQua Podcast series, and the second ISQua Ask the Expert session.

The topic for this episode was: “Co-production of healthcare service: assumptions and invitations”

Last year ISQua and the International Ergonomics Association IEA ( https://www.iea.cc/) signed a cooperation agreement which aims to build on the commonality of our respective missions – to improve the safety of patients.