Free Event: Safety Connections 2015

Thursday 9 July 2015, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London

"A one day conference to promote patient safety and quality improvement, to help staff, students and trainees develop new skills and to share innovations that are already in place or under development."

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Event: Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015

2-3 September 2015, Manchester

"At Innovation Expo attendees can:

• Be immersed in the latest thinking in health and care and hear from leading experts in transformation, innovation and health policy
• Take effective innovative ideas back to their organisations and communities
• Develop the tools they need to make changes to the commissioning and provision of services to provide the highest quality care and better outcomes for patients
• Discover the latest technological innovations and how these are improving health and wellbeing
• Experience and learn how to support NHS renewal and improvement
• Explore how new approaches to patient participation are transforming commissioning
• Learn more about integrated approaches to health and care
• Build meaningful connections and grow their network"

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Event: International Digital Health and Care Congress: Improving health through the use of technology

10-12 September 2014, The King's Fund, London W1G 0AN

"What is the future for health and social care? Find out at this three-day event that brings together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and innovators to explore how the innovative use of technology is supporting improvements in the care of people with long-term conditions and other health and social care needs."

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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: 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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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.

Event: Beginners Guide to Knowledge Management (KM)

2nd November 2012 - 08.30-5pm London, England

Additional seminars will be held in Peterborough (5th October 2012) and Newcastle Upon Tyne (7th December 2012), and dates in Europe are currently being finalised.

Find out more about the London event here.

This one day seminar, delivered by Ron Donaldson is about setting knowledge management into the framework of the Innovation Ecosystem and how it needs to be understood in the context of a complex adaptive systems thinking with a strong emphasis on narrative (ie storytelling) based methods.

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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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.

Next generation healthcare: smarter, integrated, personal

28th June 2012 – University Place, Manchester

Booking form available here.

More information available here.

The purpose of this event is to provide delegates with a clearer understanding of how the new systems will function in 2013 and beyond. The objective of the programme and showcases will be to consider the framework for the future along with the strategies and practical concepts and innovations in service delivery, that can enable the next generation health and care service to be better integrated and personal, using smart technologies and smarter ways of working.

Delivering better health services – Health Services Research Network Annual Symposium

19th-20th June 2010 – Manchester Central
More information available here.

Day 1: Evidence for innovation - highlights new and emerging HSR, and considers the research landscape.
Day 2: Knowledge and practice - explores the application and spread of innovative practice.