Today, we stand at a crossroads of time which is ready for change. The path to achieve this holistic goal hinges on collaboration, where all the health industry stakeholders can come together, deliberate, cooperate, and work in tandem to bridge the vital gaps in service delivery. Public and private stakeholders both need to rethink how we are going to address systemic issues in India, look at investing in and rebuilding healthcare infrastructure as a strategic asset. As a nation we must look at planning the next 5 years in the first phase and perhaps decades ahead of putting back together the pieces and adding more elements to enable all of us to live the new normal.

The Private Sector is an important and a legitimate stakeholder in this journey ahead. At NATHEALTH, we believe that there is a compelling need to create a unique platform conducive to meaningful dialogue that paves the way for collaboration among various stakeholders. With this objective, the theme of the forthcoming NATHEALTH Summit 2023 is Redefining the Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Universal Health Coverage while addressing current barriers and unlocking critical pathways. We believe that this will further strengthen and reinforce the new post pandemic national healthcare agenda, for us to unite the healthcare ecosystem especially at a time when the world finds itself at a challenging crossroad.

Supporting the national agenda - Actioning upon some of lessons post pandemic and harnessing the true potential of the private sector therefore implies:

• Effectively collaborate on the national UHC agenda: Successfully integrating into the ecosystem envisioned as Arogya Bharat where both public and private sector deliver their responsibility while fulfilling their key obligations to key stakeholders.
• Demonstrate real demand and innovate in channelizing this demand to scale hyper efficient models of care delivery.
• Leapfrog with use of digital technologies to tackle the need for integration (of public with private, of cities to remote villages, of patients to care, of physical with remote).
• Embrace Continuum of care – appropriate care delivery for patient needs.
• Reinforce Regulatory Clarity and shaping an effective architecture - tied to long term vision and build quality technical capacity to enforce
• Revolutionaries Medical Education and enable the Private Enterprise in strategic areas where private participation is a policy priority