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4th Edition Of Patient First Summit

The 4th Edition of the Patient First Summit & Awards is a national platform rooted in compassion, dignity, and the unwavering belief that patients must always remain at the heart of healthcare. Now in its fourth edition, the Summit brings together healthcare leaders, policymakers, public health experts, pharmaceutical innovators, and patient advocates to explore transformative solutions and policies that are reshaping patient care in India. It serves as a catalyst for multi-stakeholder dialogue and action, uniting voices across the ecosystem to advance a future where healthcare is not only effective but deeply human-centered.

The Summit will address systemic gaps and emerging opportunities across the healthcare landscape, particularly around accessibility, equity, quality, and innovation. From next-generation diagnostics and digital therapeutics to breakthrough treatments and policy reforms driving Universal Health Coverage, the platform will spotlight scalable models and real-world innovations already improving patient outcomes. It fosters a collaborative environment involving government bodies, healthcare institutions, the pharmaceutical industry, med-tech innovators, and civil society, encouraging alignment of efforts and shared responsibility for putting patients first.

This year’s edition is strategically aligned with key national health priorities including Ayushman Bharat, the Digital Health Mission, eSanjeevani, and the broader Health for All vision. These flagship programs are transforming India’s healthcare delivery by advancing inclusive, accessible, and technology-enabled care models. They reflect the government’s commitment to citizen-centric healthcare, where every public initiative and private collaboration reinforces the centrality of the patient.

A key highlight of the event, the Patient First Awards, will celebrate healthcare professionals, institutions, public programs, and innovators who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to patient care, health equity, and community outreach. From frontline workers and policy architects to pharma-led health programs and digital health pioneers, these changemakers embody the spirit of service and innovation.

Globally, patient groups are emerging as core health actors actively shaping policy, innovation, and care pathways. The Patient First Summit brings this vision to India by putting patient voices at the centre of every healthcare transformation.

This Summit reaffirms one powerful truth: From vision to impact, the patient must remain at the heart of every healthcare journey.

This year, the Summit will introduce and build around “TENxCARE: Guiding Principles for a Patient-First Future” — a bold and original framework from IHW Council that defines the 10 essential values of truly people-centered care. These principles reflect both national health priorities and global best practices in people-centered care.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

TENxCARE

Guiding Principles for a Patient-First Future

A Framework by the Integrated Health & Wellbeing (IHW) Council

About TENxCARE

TENxCARE is IHW Council’s original framework outlining the 10 essential principles that define a truly patient-first healthcare system. Unveiled at the 4th Patient First Summit & Awards 2025, TENxCARE serves as the foundation for reimagining healthcare delivery that is compassionate, equitable, and empowering.

These principles are designed not only to guide hospitals, health systems, and policymakers, but to center the voices and rights of patients in every decision, at every level.

The TENxCARE Principles

Why TENxCARE Matters

Provides a measurable framework for hospitals and systems to assess patient-centricity
Bridges gaps between technology, care delivery, and lived patient experiences
Aligns with global best practices (WHO, OECD, patient safety charters)
Drives IHW Council’s commitment to health equity and universal access

Agenda

Session I :- CANCER CARE – CREATING COMPASSIONATE PATHWAYS

An immersive panel on how technology, pharma innovation, and patient navigators are redefining cancer care outcomes.

Session II :- RARE DISEASES – AWARENESS, POLICY & PATIENT VOICE

Tackling delays in diagnosis and drug accessibility with collaborative action from pharma, government, and rare disease alliances.

Session III :- STROKE & NEURO HEALTH – TIME IS BRAIN

Breaking the silence around stroke awareness, emergency access, and neuro-rehab models across India.

Session IV :- OBESITY – REFRAMING INDIA’S LIFESTYLE HEALTH CRISIS

A proactive dialogue on how weight management, nutrition, and long-term behaviour change can be made scalable.

Session V :- REVERSING THE CURVE – DIABETES IN A NEW INDIA

How digital tools, patient education, and treatment adherence are transforming diabetes care.

Session VI :- WOMEN’S HEALTH – DIGNITY, DIALOGUE & DATA

Centering conversations around menstrual equity, maternal health, and menopause—where are we, and what’s next?

Session VII :- HEALTH INSURANCE & ACCESS – CLOSING THE GAPS

Can inclusive insurance models reshape how India accesses outpatient, chronic, and preventive care?

PAST SPEAKERS

To recognize the efforts and unflinching dedication of the whole healthcare ecosystem for focusing and advocating patient – centricity while empowering patients in the whole process, the IHW Council initiated The Patient First Awards in 2025, at a time when the whole world was bearing the brunt of the pandemic.

The commemoration from India’s premier health awareness and advocacy, aims to bring forth credible and outstanding contribution of institutions, organizations, healthcare services providers, patient’s groups and individual for bringing patient – centricity and advocacy to the core of health & healthcare ecosystem.

The 4th Edition of the IHW Patient First Awards would highlight the positive change and focus on unprecedented innovations and exemplary technologies that organizations, groups and individuals initiated and brough in healthcare thus reducing health disparities, and providing much needed care & guidance to the patients at all stages.

4th Edition Of IHW Patient First Awards 2025

Past Jury

AWARD CATEGORIES

PAST WINNERS

Where solutions meet compassion, and collaboration leads to better care.

The Care Connect Zone is the dedicated exhibition experience of the 4th Patient First Summit and Awards — a thoughtfully curated space where leading pharmaceutical companies, diagnostics innovators, med-tech pioneers, digital health platforms, hospitals, and public health institutions will come together to present solutions that are reshaping patient care in India.

It urges industry to move beyond short-term campaigns and co-develop long-term solutions that genuinely address patient needs and health system gaps

More than a traditional expo, the Care Connect Zone is a platform of purposeful engagement — designed to foster meaningful connections among industry leaders, policymakers, clinicians, and patient advocacy groups. It reflects our shared mission: to create a healthcare system that listens, responds, and evolves with the needs of every patient.

THE PURPLE BOOK
STORIES THAT PUT PATIENTS FIRST

At the Heart of Every Healing… There’s a Story of Care and Commitment.

The Purple Book is aninitiative by the Integrated Health & Wellbeing Council — a professionally curated compendium of 21 patient-centric case studies that highlight how access, compassion, and innovative care can transform lives.

These stories will be contributed by hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, med-tech innovators, and digital health platforms who wish to demonstrate real-world impact through patient-first healthcare interventions. This is not a retrospective publication — it is an open call to leading healthcare organizations to participate in this landmark initiative.

Each story will reflect the core principles of TENxCARE, IHW Council’s 10-point framework for measuring and embedding patient-centric values. Every narrative will be structured, reviewed, and presented in a professional, human-interest format — blending emotional depth with strategic replicability.

The Purple Book is a tribute to the courage of patients and a showcase of the collective commitment of those striving to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and humane.

IHW Council is a not for profit organization that works towards creating awareness and advocacy for a healthier world. Set up in response to a strong call to bridge the gaps in preventive healthcare and environmental protection, the Council advocate’s adherence to the highest standards accepted internationally in healthcare. With the core belief that health is a human right and not only the responsibility of the individual, the Council raises pressing concerns in the healthcare fraternity and engages policy makers, key government officials, academia, industry, health care experts and civil society.