Prosperity Fund Business Engagement Brief – August 2018

Prosperity Fund Better Health Programme – Headline Summary

 An FCO-led cross-Whitehall programme to improve health outcomes, increase

productivity and deliver economic growth in South East Asia, South Africa, Brazil and
Mexico.
 Health outcomes and in turn growth will be achieved by tackling non communicable
diseases and improving access to safe, quality care.
 The programme will create opportunities for international business, including UK
business. UK organisations and business possess distinctive and world leading
capability and would be well placed to seize downstream opportunities in these fast-
growing markets.
 The programme has been developed in consultation with the UK Departments of
Health, International Development and Trade, with the assistance of UK government
health organisations.
 These organisations are currently consulting in partner countries to finalise the specific
interventions that the programme will deliver. We expect to procure delivery partners
for the programme from September and to launch the programme from February 2019.
 The programme is subject to Ministerial approval.

What will this programme achieve?

This programme will address a range of key obstacles – as revealed by diagnostic and scoping
work – that target countries face in creating a healthier population and workforce. These
constraints are particularly rooted in capability and capacity gaps, but also a need for stronger
co-ordination and implementation of clinical best practice in health systems. There was a high
level of overlap with constraints identified by UK organisations: regulatory certainty and clarity;
the strength of local relationships; a lack of consistency in health care delivery; health system
fragmentation (including integration of systems); and a lack of local capability and capacity.

Since the programme will also specifically target lower socio-economic groups and women
(e.g. increasing exposure to care and public health initiatives), it will address barriers and
enable a step change in the sustainable and inclusive growth of their economies,
simultaneously creating a pipeline of projects in areas where the UK has competitive
advantage and export readiness.

Which countries will the programme focus on?

The programme will work in Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, South
Africa, Brazil and Mexico, and in partnership with the governments in those countries.

What will the programme do?

The programme will deliver interventions through 5 key areas to significantly reduce morbidity
and mortality in the target countries. The following provides an indication of what each of these
could cover:

(1) NCD Strategy: coordinated, comprehensive approach to reducing NCDs via strategies for
prevention and treatment, tailored clinical guidelines and training for primary care staff.
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(2) Provider Quality Improvement: reducing deaths due to avoidable errors by developing
quality indicators to monitor the performance of hospitals and health systems; setting up
monitoring and improvement functions; and training on data and performance management.

(3) Digital Health: initiating telemedicine services that increase access to care by developing
and delivering enablers such as training, governance, guidelines, referral systems, information
flows and technical assistance in support of implementation.

(4) Education and Training: providing targeted primary and secondary care education and
training covering NCD prevention, diagnosis and treatment; avoidable clinical errors,
infections and injuries due to sub-optimal patient safety; clinical leadership; and data analytics.

(5) Life Sciences R&D Partnerships: raising local clinical development competences and
regulatory standards in support of joint partner country-UK research on diseases prevalent in
MICs.

What will the delivery model be?

The FCO will be seeking delivery partners for the following roles:

– Strategic partner (likely to involve government or multilateral organisations)

– Intervention delivery (procured via the Prosperity Fund Framework)

Contracts for delivery of the programme will be along geographical lines. The programme is
expected to be delivered over 3 to 4 years.

Who do you contact?

Daniel Grzenda – Better Health Programme Lead

Daniel.Grzenda@fco.gov.uk
Alejandra Salas – Better Health Contracts Manager
Alejandra.Salas@fco.gov.uk