Call for abstracts: Health Services Research Network Symposium 2013

Deadline for submission: 8th March 2013

You are invited to submit abstracts for presentation and/or poster display.

HSRN are keen to receive abstracts on the following:

• Patient experience
• Workforce
• Leadership and organisations
• Methods research
• Commissioning
• Access and equity of services
• Keeping people out of hospital
• Self-care and self management
• Quality and safety
• Productivity
• Innovation and knowledge translation
• Improvement Science

The Health Foundation invites abstracts on the theme of Improvement Science, that is new approaches to achieve measurable and timely improvement in care processes; development of the underlying theory and evaluation of methods to improve quality, safety and value; implementation of evidence-based healthcare.

The HSRN welcomes submissions relating to both quantitative and qualitative research and embraces work across all health care professions including nursing, pharmacy, medicine, management, physiotherapy, midwifery and all relevant disciplines including sociology, economics, epidemiology, health policy, statistics, psychology, history.

The scope of the Symposium covers all aspects of services including primary care, community care, social care, hospital care, health promotion and disease prevention, through curative services to long-term, rehabilitative and custodial care.

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Event: Health Services Research Network Symposium 2013

3rd-4th June 2013 - Liverpool AAC, UK

The Health Services Research Network Symposium, now in its sixth year, is the field’s premier knowledge event. It features presentations and discussion at the leading edge of UK and international health services research. Building on a very successful event in 2012, the Symposium will again be followed by the NHS Confederation Annual Conference and Exhibition, bringing together researchers, practitioners, senior managers and policy makers. Find out more here.

Event: Understanding the fundamentals of Information Governance

25th March 2013 - The Studio, Birmingham, UK

This event will involve the presenters working with delegates to ensure their knowledge, strategies, policies and systems are compliant with laws such as the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act and Caldicott.

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Event: Understanding the fundamentals of Information Governance

8th February 2013 - Manor Mills, Leeds, UK

This event will involve the presenters working with delegates to ensure their knowledge, strategies, policies and systems are compliant with laws such as the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act and Caldicott.

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Webinar: What the NHS can learn about strategy from leaders of social movements

17th January 2013 - 4-5pm GMT

During this session, the NHS Institute's Chief of Service Transformation Helen Bevan will explore the important lessons that social movement thinkers can teach us about building power for transformation through different levers for change and new and additional leadership capabilities.

Register for the session here.

Webinar: Capturing patient experience

25th January 2013 - 10-11am GMT

Join this webex to find out how organisations across England are capturing and using patient experience to improve their services, and how you can apply their good ideas to your organisation.

More information available here.

Event: How to deliver quality and value in chronic care

21st February 2013 - Guoman Tower Hotel, London, UK

This one day event will give you an opportunity to learn from others on how they have improved respiratory services locally, and will be of use whether you are working in respiratory disease or in long term conditions management more generally.

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