Event: Improving patient care

Tuesday 25 November 2014, The Mermaid, London

"Improving Patient Care is Govtoday’s 2nd annual national conference examining culture, compassion and patient safety in the NHS. How can healthcare in England become the best in Europe?

With top level speakers, including key policy makers and those at the forefront of patient care, this event will question the current direction of the NHS and look at the different paths that could be taken after May 2015."

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Event: Tackling Long-Term Conditions: Coordinating Care, Delivering Improvements

October 29 2014, America Square Conference Centre, London

"A whole system approach is required to tackle the scale and prevalence of long-term conditions. It will require service transformation, integration of care and innovative systems to meet the pressing challenge. At Tackling Long-Term Conditions: Coordinating Care, Transforming Services our expert speakers will explore how to drive improvements in care, coordinate services to achieve quality outcomes and help make life better for people with long term conditions."

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Event: Increasing value, reducing waste - The Lancet Series on Research

8th January 2014 - University College London Institute of Child Health

"On 7th January 2014, The Lancet will publish a series of papers documenting waste from principle sources - ranging from waste in deciding what research to do, through to waste because of unusable reports of research.

This free to attend Lancet Symposium is supported by the Department of Health for England and is of particular relevance to research funders, research regulators and academic institutions, but it is likely to be of interest to research users (including the public), researchers and journals."

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Event: High quality care for all, now and for future generations

17th May 2013 - Bristol City Council, Bristol, England

"This NHS Values Summit will challenge and inspire you to think about the role of collaboration in improving the health and wellbeing of local communities, staff and patients and how the NHS can achieve high quality care for all."

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Event: Improving the public's health: the key roles of nurses and midwives

26th June 2013 - venue to be confirmed

This conference brings together nurses and midwives to discuss the professions' contributions to improving health.

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Event: Setting up tele-dermatology services: new guidance for commissioners

17th May 2013 - Willan House, London, UK

This event provides an opportunity to hear about the evidence that was used to develop the guidance, examples of models of established teledermatology services and a case study from a commissioner that has implemented a teledermatology service. Find out more here.

Call for abstracts: Health Services Research Network Symposium

Deadline 22nd March 2013

The organisers are keen to receive abstracts on the following themes:

• 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

More information about abstract submission available here.

Event: Health Services Research Network Symposium

17th-18th June 2013 - EMCC, Nottingham, 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. The Symposium will bring together services leaders, services users and carers, researchers, practitioners, senior managers and policy makers."

Find out more here.

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.

Find out more here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Find out more here.

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".

Find out more here.

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

19th July 2012 - 4pm - online

Click here to register for the seminar.

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.