Event: Health Commissioning 2015: Efficient and Effective

12 March 2015, Mermaid Centre, London

"Health Commissioning 2015: Efficient and Effective will be an essential opportunity for commissioning and procurement professionals from across the health landscape to come together and discuss how they can achieve these mandatory savings targets. Regardless of the results of May’s general election, it extremely unlikely that austerity will come to an abrupt end. Our event will provide commissioners with the tools to plan for the future and get better value for better care outcomes."

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Event: Transforming Primary Care: The Hub of Care

16th July, Chadwick Court, London

The Primary Care Commission is "bringing together leading GP groups and commissioners to debate the provider development needed to underpin primary care transformation. Speakers from leading GP federations and NHS England will discuss how providers can work together to respond to commissioners who are increasingly focusing NHS resources on value and outcomes. The workshop will include sessions on developing business capability and legal considerations in developing new provider models." 

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Event: Future of Health

November 21st 2014, London

"Future of Health aims to create a new way of working across health, social care and the third sector. It takes an holistic, person-centred approach, to help deliver parity for mental and physical health and reduce inequalities."

Early bird discount ends at Monday 30th June.

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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: 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.