Conferences

What the heck is going on in the NHS? - 21 Jul 2010

Resources wasted on NHS “regurgitation” - Lynn Young  Speaking at an event entitled ’What the heck is going on in the NHS?’, Lynn Young, Primary Healthcare Adviser for the RCN had a blunt message to politicians who have undertaken expensive re-organisations of the health service. Describing the process as “regurgitation”, she said that billions of pounds had “gone down the... more details / book

5th International Carers Conference - 08 Jul 2010

New frontiers in caring: 2010 and beyond. Held at Leeds Royal Armouries

This conference brought together the international community of researchers, practitioners and those with an interest in caring to debate critical issues and exchange expertise and experience. more details / book

Higher Education for the Health Workforce - 01 Jul 2010

5th annual conference. Held at Hallam Conference Centre, London

With the focus on high quality of care for all, this conference explored how institutions can combine their efforts by improving flexible health education, enhance healthcare staff engagement and encourage continual professional development and lifelong learning. more details / book

Annual Health Strategy Summit 2010 - 24 Mar 2010

The Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services. Held at Wotton House, Surrey

This high-profile health strategy summit, now in its second year, brought together senior managers and clinicians, policy makers and analysts from across the health services in the UK and internationally. Dr Denis Cortese Emeritus President / CEO, Th... more details / book

Sexual Health - 04 Mar 2010

3rd Annual Brook Conference and Awards. BoyGirlManWoman: Putting gender at the heart of improving sexual health and reducing teenage pregnancy. Held at Arsenal Football Club, Emirates Stadium, London

This conference discussed the important role that gender plays in supporting young people in understanding themselves and making informed choices about their relationships, sexual health and contraception. more details / book

Future of Nursing Workforce - 09 Feb 2010

Taking centre-stage in health leadership. 4th national conference. Held at The King’s Fund, London

This conference brought together nursing leaders from both education and practice and was an opportunity to network, share best practice and discuss concerns and thoughts about change. more details / book

Delivering Quality Care - 27 Jan 2010

Counsel and Care 5th National Conference. Held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London

This year's conference addressed the six key elements that people can expect from a national social care service: access to prevention services; a joined up service; appropriate information and advice; personalised care and support; and fair funding. more details / book

Improving Services for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis - 08 Dec 2009

Held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London

Bringing together senior policy makers, academics, clinicians and major stakeholder organisations, this conference considered the systemic improvements needed to manage and control rheumatoid arthritis. more details / book

Pioneering the Mother and Baby Pathway - 27 Nov 2009

The Royal College of Midwives Annual Conference. Held in central Manchester

This event brought together those working in midwifery and with mothers and babies to learn about, debate and discuss the key challenges and opportunities midwives face as a profession. RCM Workplace Representatives' Conference Student Midwives conference more details / book

RCM Workplace Representatives' Conference - 27 Nov 2009

This event took place concurrently with day two of the RCM Annual Conference at Manchester Central. This training day was open to all accredited RCM stewards, health and safety representatives and union learning representatives. Pioneering the Mother and Baby Pathway more details / book

Student Midwives - 26 Nov 2009

Royal College of Midwives 19th Annual Conference The New Generation: Stepping Stones to the Future Held in central Manchester

This event brought student midwives across the UK to meet together, hear from leading experts and discuss the latest developments and challenges facing midwifery education and practice. Pioneering the Mother and Baby Pathway RCM Workplace Representatives' Conference more details / book

Positive Ageing - 11 Nov 2009

Discussed the challenges of delivering the government's Strategy on Ageing. Held at Cavendish Conference Centre, London

This timely conference assembled a panel of leading policy makers, health and social care managers and practitioners and representatives from the voluntary sector to deliver multi-agency working. more details / book

London Health - 10 Nov 2009

Strategies and commissioning for better outcomes. Held at London Hilton Metropole

London Health 09 is a major two day conference and exhibition bringing together the capital's health community to share learning, showcase best practice and stimulate ambition in embracing the unique challenges and exciting opportunities that London presents. more details / book

London Health 09 Exhibition Seminars - 09 Nov 2009

London Health 09 was a major two day conference and exhibition bringing together the capital's health community to share learning, showcase best practice and stimulate ambition in embracing the unique challenges and exciting opportunities that London presents. more details / book

Adults with autism - 15 Oct 2009

National conference held at the Bloomsbury Hotel in London

This conference focused on the National Audit Office Supporting People with Autism through Adulthood report which explores the longer-term health and economic impacts of failing to cater for adults on the autistic spectrum. more details / book

Pandemic: Does the Global Media spread Information or Panic? - 18 Sep 2009

An Editorial Intelligence event in association with and kindly hosted by BBC Global News. Held at The Council Chamber, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA.

Chair: Zeinab Badawi, Presenter - World News Today, BBC World News & BBC Four Panel: David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca Simon Jenkins, Commentator, The Guardian Catherine Mayer, London Bureau Chief, TIME Magazine Professor Peter Openshaw, Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection (CRI), the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London Paola Totaro, London correspondent for... more details / book

Virtual conference for commissioning teams - 16 Sep 2009

World class commissioning assurance - launch of Year 2 16 September 2009, London

Welcome to the virtual conference for world class commissioning assurance - launch of Year 2 Nearly 400 SH... more details / book

End of Life Care - 17 Jun 2009

Keynote speakers: Edward Leigh MP (pictured) and Prof. Mike Richards CBE Chair, End of Life Care Strategy Advisory Board

This conference came in the wake of Lord Darzi's High Quality Care for All: Next Stage Review, which identified end of life care as one of the eight care pathways that the NHS will focus on. The Department of Health published its End of Life Care Strategy more details / book

RCN Congress - 14 May 2009

Held at Harrogate International Centre

The theme for this year's event is Counting on Care and its choice reflects how nursing is key to both public health and to service delivery. Patients count on the skills and compassion of nurses; the Government counts on their hard work and dedication; and communities count on their professional expertise and spirit of public service. We’ll be broadcasting all plenary sessions from Harrogate live and all the content will be archived on both o... more details / book

Advocacy: Real Choice, Voice and Control 2009 - 12 May 2009

National conference held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London

This conference brought together commissioners from health and social care, providers from the voluntary and community sector and stakeholders, to discuss how to work together to enable vulnerable people to access advocacy services. more details / book

New Challenges for Care Homes - 29 Apr 2009

Capacity, Competence, Commitment

The care home sector is going through a transformational change and is ill prepared for the pressures of increased regulation, limited finances, more complex workloads and the need for a larger skilled workforce. The Putting People First agenda calls for more personalised care where the person maintains independence, choice and dignity in all decisions throughout their care pathway. Coupled with the integration of health and social care regulatio... more details / book

Health Strategy Summit - 24 Mar 2009

Progress to Quality. Held at Latimer Place Hotel, Chesham, Buckinghamshire

A conference for policy makers, senior management and senior clinicians from across the health services in the UK and internationally. This participative and networking conference examined the progress of the NHS towards higher performance and explored how health care organisations might accelerate the path to good quality and efficient care. Using a synthesis of evidence, this conference examined progress in key areas and the strategic, cl... more details / book

Brook Annual Sexual Health Conference - 05 Mar 2009

Safeguarding young people’s rights to confidentiality:The law and best practice. Held at The Brit Oval Conference Centre, London

Working with young people to meet their sexual health needs requires relationships built on trust, confidentiality and understanding. Policies around mandatory reporting, the establishment of child protection protocols and the creation of multi-agency information and sharing databases has raised concerns around young people's trust in services. As a knock on effect there are also concerns about the potential delay in which young people may seek p... more details / book

Counsel and Care - 25 Feb 2009

4th Annual Conference held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London

This conference looked at personal budgets, information and advice, joint working, care trusts, regulation and the development of the new personalised care market. It also considered the impact of the credit crunch on the economics of older people and carers, their capital assets, pensions and entitlements, public contributions and top-ups. How will hard-pressed authorities ration personalised budgets in under-funded areas? The event was for ... more details / book

Future of Nursing Summit - 10 Feb 2009

3rd annual conference - Shaping education for contemporary career pathways. Held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London

In 2006, the Department of Health published Modernising Nursing Careers, a document proposing radical changes to the role of nurses in the delivery of healthcare and to the development of a future nursing workforce. The workforce must be fit for practice and able to face the challenges and needs of an ageing population and the continued drive towards care closer to the home. More recently the Nursing and Midwifery Council have been reviewing p... more details / book

Next Steps on Integrated Care - online seminar - 15 Jan 2009

Sponsored content

This online seminar looked at the opportunities offered to those GP practices which were not chosen to participate in the Government's national pilot for Integrated Care Organisations. Specifically this live two-way event, hosted by integrated care specialists IHP, explained to GPs how integrated care could be delivered in phases, over time, where GP practices would assume greater responsibility and, potentially, reap greater rewards. The ... more details / book

London Health 08 - 10 Dec 2008

Innovating for a World City

This two day conference, open exhibition and masterclass provided an opportunity for the capital’s health community to come together to consider the delivery of health and healthcare in London. This was the first in a series of annual events to encourage both the NHS and its partners to share learning, showcase best practice and stimulate ambition in embracing the challenges and opportunities that London presents. ALL CONTENT APPEARS IN THE... more details / book

London Health 08 - interactive practitioner seminars - 10 Dec 2008

Innovating for a world city

This two day conference, open exhibition and masterclass provided an opportunity for the capital’s health community to come together to consider the delivery of health and healthcare in London. This was the first in a series of annual events to encourage both the NHS and its partners to share learning, showcase best practice and stimulate ambition in embracing the challenges and opportunities that London presents. more details / book

Promoting Responsible Drinking - 04 Dec 2008

3rd Annual Conference to be held at Cavendish Conference Centre, London

The culture of binge drinking amongst young people has in many places created a fear of crime and unsafe town centres. Research shows that pre-teens and teenagers in some areas frequently consume over 20 units a week, prompting them to become involved in violence, vandalism and sexual risk. This, combined with high levels of alcohol consumption amongst everyday social drinkers has seen the amount of people admitted to hospital with alcohol relate... more details / book

Delivering Lifetime Homes and Neighbourhoods - 02 Dec 2008

2nd Annual Conference held at the Barbican Centre, London

Through Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods the Government put in place a new strategy to give older people greater choice and independence in their housing needs and within their neighbourhoods. This conference looked at how to improve current housing stock and services and rise to the challenges for new housing. Delegates explored how to meet the targets to ‘future proof’ all new homes so that by 2011 all new social housing meets the Li... more details / book

Towards a New Care and Support System - 20 Nov 2008

2nd Social Care Pre-Green Paper

The Department of Health pre-Green Paper consultation has promised to change the way social care services are funded. This conference offered delegates a final chance to benchmark consultation responses against colleagues whilst hearing the latest government policy. Discussion around emerging evidence was highlighted through best practice case-studies and delegates were offered an early opportunity to hear the results of the national IB evalua... more details / book

Minding the Gap: Achieving Integrated Care - 19 Nov 2008

NAPC Annual Conference - Towards World-Class Commissioning

World class commissioning will have a direct impact on the health and well-being of the population, driving unprecedented improvements in patient outcomes and ensuring the NHS remains one of the most progressive and high-performing health systems in the world. Ultimately, world class commissioning will deliver better well-being for all, better care for all and better value for all. The NAPC ’07 Annual Conference attracted over 300 GPs, PCTs an... more details / book

Health Forum. The NHS: Healthier at 65? - 11 Sep 2008

Building a patient powered NHS

Following the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the NHS this Think:Public Forum looked ahead to the challenges in NHS commissioning, management and professional, and discussed how the NHS might look at 65. The forum considered the solutions to the challenges and debate and how to maintain a decade of reform. Personalisation and patient choice are now integral to policy; but patients want power to choose a provider and see indicators of provi... more details / book

Transformimg Social Care - 15 Jul 2008

Putting People First. Held at Jurys Great Russell Street Hotel, London

The work currently underway to ‘transform' social care through individual budgets marks the start of a whole system change for all those working with adults in need of care. An extra £520 million for councils over the next three years through the Social Care reform grant will lead to more personalised and preventative care services and more power and control to service users and their carers. New, closer relationship between the health servic... more details / book

Higher Education and Health Services - 25 Jun 2008

Held at the British Library, London

Universities make an essential contribution to the NHS by educating future healthcare professionals. The NHS and social care sector spend more than £5bn annually on staff training and development. Matching supply and demand between higher education and health services is one of the most important challenges for both sets of institutions in the coming decade. Planning to avoid future disruption or shortfalls of professionals educated with highe... more details / book

Strategies for End of Life Care - 12 Jun 2008

Held at Jurys Great Russell Street Hotel, London

A £50 million capital investment programme for hospices was annnounced in 2006 along with a commitment to review long-term funding for children's hospices. From 2008 the Government expects everyone with a long-term condition and/ or a long-term need for support routinely to receive information about their condition and have self care support services more widely availiable. This conference discussed what healthcare professionals can expect fro... more details / book

Personalising Health and Social Care - 13 May 2008

Held at Jurys Great Russell Street Hotel, London

The Spring Conference of the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) examined the biggest change coming in the financing and delivery of health and social care. GPs are set to be central to these reforms and the nature of practice business will change significantly. Resources will be available for more tailored services and the public will look to their GP both to provide some of the services they want and to guide them through the system... more details / book

Improving Primary Care Services: innovation and patient access - 03 Apr 2008

A CBI Services Public Forum Event held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London

Innovation and personalisation are driving the policy debate on primary care services. Realising patient choice, out-of-hours access, new delivery models such as walk-in centres and successfully implementing practice-based commissioning are the new challenges facing clinicians and managers in the NHS. Taking into consideration the recommendations of the Darzi Report and the CBI report - Just what the patient ordered - the government’s plans t... more details / book

The Dignity Challenge for Care Homes - 03 Apr 2008

Living well and maintaining choice and control for older people. Held at Cavendish Conference Centre, London

The care homes industry is at the heart of care services for older people with 450,000 currently resident in care homes across the UK and with figures set to rise considerably especially amongst the very old (those over 80) in the next two decades. With 20% of care homes delivering below minimum standards of care, Local Authorities have been called on to use their £14 billion buying power to drive poor quality care homes out of business and u... more details / book

Personalised Care and Support - 27 Feb 2008

3rd Annual Counsel and Care Conference held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London

In one of the biggest welfare reforms in a generation, Alan Johnson has announced that older people will be given money to pay for their own care. Choice and control is becoming a reality for older people as they, or a chosen relative, will have the right to spend cash – worth £8 billion a year – allocated to them as they choose. How can older people, their families and carers be supported to make the most of personal budgets and exercise real ch... more details / book

NHS Direct National Stakeholder Conference - 21 Feb 2008

Help shape the future of NHS Direct event held at Kings Fund, Cavendish Square, London

NHS Direct is the first national organisation to apply for Foundation Trust status. So far, the only Foundation Trusts are hospitals and mental health services. Becoming a Foundation Trust would allow NHS Direct to work more closely with its users. The organisation is actively looking for people to play a vital role in developing its services and to help shape the future of NHS Direct. NHS Direct would like the views of its stakeholders on... more details / book

Making Partnerships Work in Health and Local Government - 14 Feb 2008

A joint Integrated Care Network / NHS Networks event held at Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel, London

Partnerships between health and local authorities remain high profile in government policy to achieve improved commissioning and better service outcomes. This CSIP and NHS Networks event enables people involved in integrating health and social care at all levels to receive a common perspective on key policy issues from a range of high quality speakers. It also provides an excellent opportunity to engage in stimulating discussion, sharing idea... more details / book

Future of Nursing Summit: Workforce futures - 24 Jan 2008

2nd Annual Conference held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London

Brings together statutory and professional bodies, directors of nursing, clinical managers, primary care, secondary and acute care nursing managers, healthcare professionals and policy experts to hear from government and major nursing bodies who will provide a snapshot of where nursing stands in 2008. After a difficult 18 months, is nursing at a turning point as service delivery increases the focus on care in the community and quality of car... more details / book

IPSOS Mori Health Conference 2008 - 24 Jan 2008

held at the Kings Fund

Of interest to anyone involved in the NHS and the delivery of Health Care. After a 93% funding increase, why do nearly 40% of people still think the NHS is in decline? What's going wrong and what can the NHS do about it? Ipsos MORI looks at what's going well, what's not, and why in today's NHS. Many trusts are under-investing in communications, so what are the benefits of doing more? Speakers: Anna Walker, Healthcare Commission: The im... more details / book

NHS Centre for Involvement - 28 Nov 2007

Over the last decade, patients and the public have been integral to health decision making in one form or another. With the introduction of key legislation such as the NHS Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2001, NHS organisations are now finding themselves placing patient, carers and users at the heart of service change. Further change is expected as the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill gathers momentum and new str... more details / book

Promoting Responsible Drinking - 20 Nov 2007

This event heard from Vernon Coaker MP who is a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime Reduction as well as leaders in the health and community safety fields. It was chaired by Srabani Sen Chief Executive of Alcohol Concern and other speakers included Professor Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians and Ben Baumberg from the Institute of Alcohol Studies. more details / book

Knowledge-driven healthcare solutions - 06 Nov 2007

improving patient outcomes and service delivery

Chaired by independent health expert Roy Lilley this event heard from IT specialists, medics and a patient on their experiences on and with high tech computing projects within the NHS. more details / book

Global Safe Abortion - 23 Oct 2007

The Marie Stopes Global Safe Abortion Conference 2007, in association with Ipas and Abortion Rights, built consensus and momentum around international efforts to reduce the unacceptable toll on women’s health and lives caused by unsafe abortion, through increasing access to safe services, recognising women’s right to self determination and encouraging legal reform. The conference was a seminal event and a call to action to move the domestic and g... more details / book

Re-designing Services in Primary Care - 18 Oct 2007

Leadership and Innovation in Health and Social Care

This two day, podcast and document only conference heard from distinguised speakers including Health Minister Ben Bradshaw MP, Mark Britnall, the NHS Director General for Commisioning and System Management and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Fiona Adshead. The selection of Podcasts also incudes a debate entitled 'Who can be trusted with the service re-design necessary to truly modernise the NHS?'. more details / book

Association of Healthcare Communicators - 17 Oct 2007

Their Annual Conference was held in Sheffield.

The Association of Healthcare Communicators (AHC) is the primary independent network for healthcare communications professionals working in, or mainly with, the NHS. Ben Page of IPSOS Mori addresses the conference with a presentation entitled 'How good is our reputation and what should we be doing to improve it? more details / book

The Future of Nursing - 23 Jan 2007

Re-empowering the Nursing Workforce

Both the Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Leader of HM Official Opposition and Lord Philip Hunt of King’s Heath, the newly appointed Minister of State for Quality, Department of Health addressed leaders and key practitioners within the nursing and health environs at the Future of Nursing Conference. Britain’s nursing organisations including the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Royal College of Nursing, and the Council of Deans alongside the National Audit... more details / book