There has been a major shift in thinking at the European Union and the World Health Organisation in the last three years, says David Boyd, head of European Government and Public Policy at GE Healthcare. He points out that at Davos, John Dalli, commissioner of DG Sanco, talked of "smart finance" and he says that there is a growing acceptance at EU and national levels for the need to look for new forms of non-governmental finance to help provide much needed healthcare infrastructure....