Events 2008

Events 

The Nuffield Trust is considered a 'Chatham House' for healthcare policy; a neutral place for small group discussion, often with an international audience. Its highly regarded seminars attract leading experts in health policy across the UK, Europe and North America.

As the Trust needs to gauge views from specific groups, the majority of our events are by invitation only.

Devolving Policy: Diverging Values? Scotland

Location: Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
Date: 09/01/2008 17:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Launching a major new report on NHS Values. Discussion will be chaired by Chief Medical Officer, Dr Harry Burns.

Research & Development

Date: 21/01/2008 17:30:00
Organisation: The Department of Health and the Nuffield Trust

Summary:
The Department of Health and the Nuffield Trust are collaborating on exploring the development of metrics for research and development.

Devolving Policy: Diverging Values? England

Date: 24/01/2008 17:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Launching a major new report on NHS Values. Discussion will be chaired by David Walker.

Clinically Integrated Systems: Integrated care for people with diabetes - The Bolton Story

Date: 07/02/2008 17:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Exploring the facilitators and barriers to clinical integration by drawing on the experience of managers and clinicians who are already working in this way.

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Clinically Integrated Systems: Working together for health in Birmingham: Adapting lessons from Kaiser Permanente

Date: 20/02/2008 17:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Exploring the facilitators and barriers to clinical integration by drawing on the experience of managers and clinicians who are already working in this way.

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Direct payments & individualized budgets: how could they work in health care?

Location: The Nuffield Trust
Date: 28/02/2008 08:15:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Vidhya Alakeson, Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, will be reviewing the evidence to date drawing on experience in the US where she is monitoring the introduction of direct payments and individualized budgets in health care.

Clinically Integrated Systems: The Epsom Downs integrated care service - Moving services out of hospital from primary care

Date: 12/03/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Exploring the facilitators and barriers to clinical integration by drawing on the experience of managers and clinicians who are already working in this way.

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Transitions in NHS management: taking the long view - Interim feedback

Date: 18/03/2008 16:00:00
Organisation: Nuffield Trust

Summary:
This interim feedback will evaluate progress of a study is looking at the ways in which NHS managers have re-invented their role in response to external policy and organizational change.

Changing Hospital Architecture - Publication Launch

Location: RIBA
Date: 06/05/2008 18:30:00
Organisation: RIBA & The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Written by distinguished experts in the field and edited by the new RIBA president Sunand Prasad, Changing Hospital Architecture, is a timely and important work set to galvanise the debate about design quality in our health buildings.

The publication is available from 30 April 2008

How can integrated care coexist with choice? A US UK dialogue

Date: 14/05/2008 08:30:00
Organisation: Nuffield Trust

Summary:
At this seminar, the key presentation will be given by Alain C. Enthoven PhD, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus at Stanford University, giving reflections on developments in the US and their relevance to the NHS in England. Responding to Professor Alain Enthoven will be Dr Derek Feeley and Professor Chris Ham. View presentations

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Quest for Quality Launch

Location: Nuffield Trust
Date: 20/05/2008 08:30:00
Organisation: Nuffield Trust

Summary:
This event will mark the launch of Quest for Quality, a detailed and authoritative study of healthcare in the UK.

Learning from Differences, Roundtable Discussion

Date: 04/06/2008 10:30:00
Organisation:

Summary:
The event will be chaired by Paul Crawford Walker, Chair of the UKPHAʹs Devolution Strategic Interest Group.

Integrated Care in the NHS

Location: The Nuffield Trust
Date: 05/06/2008 14:00:00
Organisation:

Summary:
The seminar builds on the Trust’s recent work on integrated care Integrating NHS Care: Lessons from the Front Line, and will focus on the opportunities that are likely to arise out of the final Darzi report to establish a number of pilots in the NHS in England to test out different approaches to integration.

Rejuvenate or retire: Views of the NHS at 60

Location: RCP
Date: 03/07/2008 18:30:00
Organisation: Nuffield Trust

Summary:
In honour of the 60th Anniversary of the NHS, the Nuffield Trust will host an evening of seasoned political comment on one of the nation's greatest institutions.

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The Ninth International Meeting on Quality of Health Care

Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Date: 18/07/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust and The Commonwealth Fund

Summary:
The focus of the meeting was on strategies for improving transitions and coordination of care for people with chronic illnesses. Experts from the United Kingdom and the United States were commissioned to write papers in advance of the meeting and these were discussed over the course of three days under Chatham House Rules.

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Changing Values, Changing Professions, Changing Health Care

Location: Nuffield Trust
Date: 24/07/2008 10:00:00
Organisation: Nuffield Trust

Summary:
This symposium explores values in health care professions and how they play out in different contexts and groups.

Sir Roger Bannister Annual Health Seminar

Date: 18/09/2008
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
This will explore the challenges of achieving integration in NHS care to influence the Government's emerging pilot programme ‘Integrated Care Organisations,’ proposed in Lord Darzi's report High Quality Care for All.

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Engaging Staff (1/3) - Employee ownership outside health care

Date: 02/10/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
How to motivate staff to improve quality and performance is one of the biggest questions in the public sector.

The Nuffield Trust has commissioned a project to examine options for engaging staff which might increase performance, including different models of employee ownership.

Integrating Health and Social Care: What Works? Where Next? (1/3)

Date: 06/11/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Building on previous work on integrated care, the Nuffield Trust is organising a series of seminars to identify examples of good practice and to review options for the future.

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Integrated Care Organisations

Date: 11/11/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust & The NHS Confederation

Summary:
Integrated care organisations (ICOs) form part of the Next Stage Review and are seen as a means of achieving improved coordination of care, delivering better services between secondary, primary and social care, and providing improved overall care for patients more economically. But what does the evidence tell us and how can it help us achieve these desired aims?

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Engaging Staff (2/3) - Employee ownership in an new private health care provider

Date: 18/11/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
How to motivate staff to improve quality and performance is one of the biggest questions in the public sector.

The Nuffield Trust has commissioned a project to examine options for engaging staff which might increase performance, including different models of employee ownership.

Implementing Integrated Care: The Montreal Experience Seminar

Date: 24/11/2008
Organisation:

Summary:
This seminar covered the Montreal experience of implementing integrated care. The seminar was presented by David Levine, President and Director General of the Health and Social Services Agency in Montreal, Quebec Canada. Montreal’s health care reform programme seeks to achieve a high-performance health care through integrated service provision on a population basis.

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Integrating Health and Social Care: What Works? Where Next? (2/3)

Date: 03/12/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Building on previous work on integrated care, the Nuffield Trust is organising a series of seminars to identify examples of good practice and to review options for the future.

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Methodology Seminar on the Evaluation of Complex Health Interventions

Date: 09/12/2008
Organisation:

Summary:
The Darzi Report and other recent policy announcements are driving complex, multi-sectoral service developments that aim to improve access and convenience, service integration and patient outcomes. Five poly clinics have been announced for London and invitations to become integrated care pilot sites are due soon.

The seminar will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of leading health services researchers. It will build on recent work by Campbell et al and draw on the experience of researchers involved in evaluating the Evercare care-coordination intervention and the Whole System Demonstrators to support people with long term conditions.

Engaging Staff (3/3) - Social enterprise in practice

Date: 17/12/2008 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
How to motivate staff to improve quality and performance is one of the biggest questions in the public sector.

The Nuffield Trust has commissioned a project to examine options for engaging staff which might increase performance, including different models of employee ownership.

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