'UK can learn from low-cost innovation in Indian institutions'

Low cost innovation and complexity in the health-care sector in India offers answers that the UK is keen to learn, British Deputy High Commissioner Bharat Suresh Joshi said today.
"The health care environment in UK is changing rapidly with significant medical and scientific advances, coupled with changes in demands on the system, higher patient expectations, a growing and ageing population, and increasingly complex medical conditions.
"India offers answers and we are keen to learn from India's complexity and scale," Joshi said, noting that there was much to learn from low-cost innovation in institutions that India is known for.
Joshi said UK wants Indian-trained doctors to continue practising and honing their skills there. "We welcome the fact that so many are now returning to India to share that learning. UK doctors also have much to learn from their colleagues here and there is a significant increase in travel in this direction too," he claimed.

"The UK is not only committed to India but my government is investing heavily in the future, investing money and people while in other countries we look to reduce costs after the economic crisis," he said, addressing the fifth convocation of Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research.
Joshi said UK is the third largest investor in India and India has invested more in his country than in the rest of the European Union combined, and claimed that Tata was the largest UK manufacturing employer with 45,000 jobs.

He said there were 30,000 students from India studying in UK and the British government would offer more than 1,000 scholarships to Indian students this year with many more to come.

Joshi said health-care is a people's business aimed at making people's lives better. "After all health-care is about healing people, not ailments."
A total of 368 graduates and post graduates were conferred degrees and awarded medals at the convocation.