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"

Find out more here.

NHS Leadership Academy Programmes

The Leadership Academy provide a number of courses designed to develop better leadership for NHS employees at all levels of experience, many of which are free or fully funded. These includes programmes specifically designed for nurses and midwives, as well as those for clinicians.

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Event: Mental Health: Better, Faster and Earlier Help

March 4, 2015 (8:30 am - 4:45 pm) Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester

"Mental Health: Better, Faster and Earlier Help will explore how public services can better meet the needs of people experiencing mental health problems, help support recovery and improve outcomes."

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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."

Find out more here.

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: Health Policy Summit 2015

26 - 27 February 2015, London

"Our Health Policy Summit aims to provide a forum for health care experts to assess evidence and experience from home and abroad. We will discuss and explore solutions to the challenges facing the NHS ahead of the General Election in May." 

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Event: Cooperation, collaboration and competition in the NHS

Wednesday 22 October 2014, London

"As well as addressing the issues of specification, co-ordination and integration of services, commissioners need to consider the implications of the competition rules. Integration raises a number of issues including the risk of conflict of interest where primary care services are part of the mix."

Find out more here.