Call for abstracts: European Health Management Association annual conference

Deadline for submissions - 21st January 2013

The European Health Management Association is seeking proposals for oral presentations and posters from researchers, managers and policymakers on the theme 'What healthcare can we afford? Better, quicker, lower cost health services.' They invite both research abstracts, presenting the findings from research and evaluation studies, and practice abstracts, presenting the results of management projects and initiatives.

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Event: European Health Management Association annual conference

26th-28th June 2013 - Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

The title of the European Health Management Association's annual conference is "What healthcare can we afford? Better, quicker, lower cost health services."

Read more here.

Webinar: Can clinical decision support technology help hospitals deliver their QIPP goals?

12:30-13:15 - 12th December 2012 - online

This free Health Service Journal webinar will look at the impact clinical decision support software can have in hospitals, featuring real-world examples and cases.

Click here to find out more and to register for this free event.

Event: Joined-up solutions to joined-up problems - if integration is the answer what was the question?

4th March 2013 - Health Services Management Centre, Park House, University of Birmingham, UK

This event will be chaired by Jon Glasby, Professor of Health and Social Care and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Care. After an initial introduction to key policy debates, frameworks and concepts, the bulk of the day focuses on learning from a series of local case studies, sharing what worked, what didn’t work and how they got to where they are now.

More information available here.

Event: Improving patient care in the office practice and the community

7th-9th April 2013 - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

This is the Institute for Health Improvement's 14th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community.

More information available here.

Event: Introduction to service user and citizen engagement and involvement

15 November and 13th December 2012 - Hilton Stansted Airport

This is a two-day course, aimed at frontline staff and will help all learners involved in patient engagement to understand the issues faced in engaging the public in services and to build confidence in engaging with the public.

More information available here.

Conference: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

16th-19th April 2013 - Excel, London, England

The theme for the 2013 conference is "Improving quality, reducing cost, saving lives", and confirmed keynote speakers include Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano, Dame Ruth Carnall, Dr RD Ravindran, and Dr Devi Prasad Shetty.

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Call for abstracts: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Deadline for abstracts - 29th October 2012 - 5pm

Submit a poster abstract for this conference, the theme of which is "Improving quality, reducing cost, saving lives".

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Conference: Better, quicker, lower cost health services

26th-28th June 2013 - Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

The European Health Management Association is holding their 2013 Annual Conference "What healthcare can we afford? Better, quicker, lower cost health services", the purpose of which is to search for better and more effective ways to deliver care, to shape cooperation between stakeholders, and to provide patients with the care they want and need.

Find out more here.

Call for abstracts: Better, quicker, lower cost health services

Deadline for abstracts - 21st January 2013 - midnight CET

The European Health Management Association is seeking proposals for oral presentations and posters from researchers, managers and policymakers on the theme What healthcare can we afford? Better, quicker, lower cost health services. They are inviting both research abstracts, presenting the findings from research and evaluation studies, and practice abstracts, presenting the results of management projects and initiatives.

Find out more here.

Event: The King's Fund Annual Conference 2012

28th November 2012 - 10am-5pm - The King's Fund, London, England

The conference will provide delegates with a better understanding of what constitutes a high-performing health care system and what needs to be done to sustain the future of the NHS.

Find out more here.

Webinar: Why research matters to service leaders

12th November 2012 - 16:30-17:30 - online

Dr Tara Lamont will conduct conversations with prominent service leaders: to hear their stories, to learn what research informs their practice, and to discover how they and their teams support research.

Find out more here.

Event: Transforming patient experience annual conference

8th November 2012 - 10am-4.45pm - The King's Fund, London

This conference will look at best practice in patient experience and explore how high-quality, patient-centred care is already being delivered in the UK and abroad.

Find out more here.

Event: The limits of market-based reforms and the future of commissioning

1st-2nd October 2012 - Health Services Management Centre, Park House, University of Birmingham, England

The Health Services Management Centre and the Nuffield Trust are jointly holding two seminars on the limits of market-based reforms and commissioning in health and social care. Find out more here.

Event: Better commissioning through effective procurement

29th November 2012 - Victory Services Club, London, England

This event for commissioning staff directly involved in or responsible for procurement will help them understand how to develop and manage the market, and take the most appropriate procurement routes.

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Event: Progressing health care in London

11th October 2012 - The King's Fund, London, England

This conference, for health and social care managers and leaders in London, will give you an understanding of how services in London will be led and delivered in the future.

Find out more here.

Event: Improving population health through primary care

27th November 2012 - Holiday Inn Kings Cross, London, UK

This event will discuss effective collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups and local authorities, looking at what is working well, what are the barriers, and how they can be overcome.

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Event: Beginners Guide to Knowledge Management (KM)

2nd November 2012 - 08.30-5pm London, England

Additional seminars will be held in Peterborough (5th October 2012) and Newcastle Upon Tyne (7th December 2012), and dates in Europe are currently being finalised.

Find out more about the London event here.

This one day seminar, delivered by Ron Donaldson is about setting knowledge management into the framework of the Innovation Ecosystem and how it needs to be understood in the context of a complex adaptive systems thinking with a strong emphasis on narrative (ie storytelling) based methods.

Event: Transforming healthcare infrastructure and austerity

19th-21st September - Cardiff, Wales

The Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre delivers world class research to support better healthcare through better infrastructure. The conference will include more than 25 new research presentations plus top level speakers looking at the UK, European and Welsh perspectives of how infrastructural and service innovation can deliver higher quality, more cost-effective healthcare in this age of austerity.

To find out more about this event, click here.

Webinar: Using social investment to scale high impact innovation in healthcare

23rd August 2012 - 10am-11am - online

This webinar is for prospective Academic Health Science Networks on the potential for using social investment to help scale innovation in healthcare.

Find out more and register here.

Webinar: Why research matters to managers

10th September 2012 - 4.30pm-5.30pm - online

This webinar explores the interface between researchers and service leaders.

Find out more and book your place via HSR Live.

Implementation clinic workshop

26th September 2012 - 4pm-7pm - London

This workshop will explore learning from two implementation case studies to tease out different models and approaches and implications for those leading or supporting integrating research and practice.

Find out more here.

The Pathology Services Commissioning Toolkit

19th September 2012 - Holiday Inn Oxford Circus, London, UK

Click here to find out more and book a place on this event.

"The toolkit is a "how to" manual supporting the commissioning of community pathology services, produced by the Department of Health working with NHS Midlands and East. It will enable to ensure local negotiations or competitive tenders are based on a robust process, and aligned with developments elsewhere in the system.  This event outlines the challenges and opportunities, and presents the Pathology Services Commissioning Toolkit."

Webinar: Quality through a patient's eyes - the 15 step challenge

19th July 2012 - 4pm - online

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The 15 Steps Challenge is a tool to help staff, patients and others to work together to identify improvements that can be made to enhance the patient experience.

Transforming local health services

11th September 2012 - The King's Fund, London, England

More information available here.

This conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the current health care landscape and the upcoming challenges and opportunities of transforming local health services.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) research conference

22nd November 2012 - The King's Fund, London, England

More information available here.

The conference is for all those interested in researching the ways PROMs data can be used to improve the quality of health care, from methodological developments through methods of dissemination of outcomes to implementation of improvement initiatives based on PROMs data.

Lean government

10th September 2012 - The Barbican, London, England

More information available here.

Public Service Events' fourth annual Lean Government conference will offer practical sessions showcasing lean thinking in a public sector setting, sharing experiences and best practice.

Building an integrated system of care: key factors for success

18th September, 2012 - The King's Fund, London, UK

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This conference will explore the key factors that will enable integrated care to be successfully implemented. It will bring together those who have experienced success and have made a difference to individual patient experience and the quality and efficiency of care across whole populations.

World congress leadership summit on shared decision making

20th-21st September 2012 - Crowne Plaza Boston, Newton, Massachusetts, USA

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Patient centered care has the potential to lower cost, improve quality of care and increase patient satisfaction but why hasn’t there been a more widespread adoption? This keynote will identify the drivers behind shared decision making and demonstrate how to unlock its potential benefits.

Supporting the commissioning workforce through transition

5th July 2012 - The Met, Leeds

More information available here.

The event will help you to understand how to align your needs to those of potential future employers, whether you aspire to a role in a CGG, commissioning support organisation, the NHS Commissioning Board, a local authority or elsewhere.

The presentations will also include information from legal experts around employment law and TUPE with coaches on hand to give individual information regarding career planning and provide information for future development.

Integrated commissioning for better health outcomes

11th July 2012 - Thistle Marble Arch, London

More information available here.

This event will challenge clinical commissioning groups, PCTs, SHAs and local authority representatives to achieve the very best care for their population by more effective collaboration at every stage of the commissioning process.

Advancing Quality and Safety for All: now and in the future

21st-24th October 2012 - Geneva, Switzerland

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This is the conference for the International Society for Quality in Health Care, which is a non profit, independent organisation with members in over 70 countries.

HSRN Symposium: Delivering better health services

19th-20th June 2012 - Manchester Central

 

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The HSRN annual Symposium is the premier knowledge event for Health Services Research. The event offers presentations and discussions at the leading edge of evidence-informed healthcare and an unparalleled interface with managerial and clinical communities of practice. 

Lean Government: improving productivity, quality and public service

20th September 2012 - The Barbican, London

More information available here.

With a keynote address from Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, Public Service Events' fourth annual Lean Government conference will offer practical sessions showcasing lean thinking in a public sector setting, sharing experiences and best practice. Delegates will receive an understanding of lean and its principles, a review of efficiency and lean initiatives in the public sector and lessons learned, and a range of case studies from central government, local government and the NHS.

A practical guide to patient safety indicators and dashboards

14th September 2012 – Hallam Conference Centre, London

More information available here.

The morning sessions provide a national update on developments in patient safety, including
the development of national patient safety dashboards. This is followed by a case study based
session on developing patient safety dashboards in your organisation or service with examples
from both an acute trust and a primary/community organisation.
The afternoon sessions focus on case studies of patient safety indicators and dashboards in
practice including sessions focusing on essential improvement areas.

Next generation healthcare: smarter, integrated, personal

28th June 2012 – University Place, Manchester

Booking form available here.

More information available here.

The purpose of this event is to provide delegates with a clearer understanding of how the new systems will function in 2013 and beyond. The objective of the programme and showcases will be to consider the framework for the future along with the strategies and practical concepts and innovations in service delivery, that can enable the next generation health and care service to be better integrated and personal, using smart technologies and smarter ways of working.

Making health care safer: learning from social and organisational research

25th-26th June 2012 – University of St Andrews, Scotland

More information available here.

A two day conference to explore key questions facing us as researchers, practitioners and policy-makers: questions that address better collective learning, sustainable quality improvement and safer patient care.

Webinar: Fit for Purpose – is your organisation ready to deliver a positive patient experience?

21st June 2012 - online
Register here.

Expert on Call is a monthly webinar, freely provided by the NHS Institute, where leading thinkers in the NHS Institute and beyond share their insights from research or product development via WebEx. NHS staff then have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss how they can put these insights into practice. Expert on Call takes place on the 3rd Thursday of the month, between 4pm and 5pm unless otherwise stated.

Delivering better health services – Health Services Research Network Annual Symposium

19th-20th June 2010 – Manchester Central
More information available here.

Day 1: Evidence for innovation - highlights new and emerging HSR, and considers the research landscape.
Day 2: Knowledge and practice - explores the application and spread of innovative practice.