Event: Shaping pharmacy for the future

10 December 2014, 9:00 - 14:00, Church House Conference Centre, Westminster, London, SW1P 3NZ

"Pharmacists are the third largest NHS health profession, see more patients each day than any other part of the NHS, and unlike GPs and nurses, their numbers are on the increase. As the NHS and social care system tackles the increasing pressure caused by constrained funding, an ageing population with multiple long term conditions and concerns to sustain and improve care quality, there is a major opportunity to develop further the role of pharmacists, including finding ways of enabling them to assume a greater role in direct patient care."

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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: 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.

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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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.

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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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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.

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.

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.