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."

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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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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.

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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.

Integrated commissioning for better health outcomes

11th July 2012 - Thistle Marble Arch, London

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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.