Event: Digital Healthcare 2014

Wednesday 3 September 2014, The Mermaid, London

"At the Digital Healthcare conference we will explore how moving the NHS into a digital era can impact on the provision of cost-effective services. Expert speakers and panellists will discuss the possible benefits, whilst considering the risks to highly sensitive information. Case studies will share best practice initiatives, allowing delegates to assess how digital services may enhance both their professional roles and patient experience."

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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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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."

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Building an integrated system of care: key factors for success

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

Find out more here.

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.

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.

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.