Events 2010

Integrated care: Removing the policy barriers (4/5)

Date: 12/01/2010 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
At the fourth seminar in our ‘Integrated care: removing the policy barriers’ series, Dr Martin Connor, Programme Director, Trafford ICO and Dr George Kissen, Medical Director, Trafford PCT, talked about how a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable local services in Trafford, has led the local PCT, provider trusts, and general practice colleagues to work together to try and develop an integrated health system based on new models of care.

Four Nations Predictive Risk Summit

Date: 14/01/2010 09:30:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
A one-day summit to encourage collaboration between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the four home nations with respect to predictive risk modelling.

Integrated care: Removing the policy barriers (5/5)

Date: 11/03/2010 08:00:00
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
At the fifth seminar in our ‘Integrated care: removing the policy barriers’ series, Sue Page, Chief Executive of NHS Cumbria, talked about the new approach they are taking to helping patients with long term conditions manage their own care more effectively.

Where next for commissioning and integrated care: can the NHS rise to the challenge?

Location: The King's Fund, London
Date: 16/03/2010
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust, in partnership with The King's Fund

Summary:
This conference run in partnership with The King's Fund will examine how commissioning can be made more effective and ensure better value for money and in particular how it might enhance the integration of care.

Annual Health Strategy Summit 2010

Location: Wotton House, Surrey
Date: 24/03/2010
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
Our high-profile 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. Using rich evidence from the UK, Europe and the US, the retreat examined the issues confronting health leaders working to improve performance and outcomes for patients.

Bert Vrijhoef Breakfast Seminar

Date: 26/03/2010
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
In this seminar first an overview will be provided of recent studies on the impact of integrated care. Second, attention will be paid to the assessment of the methodologic quality of these studies. Finally, some guidelines for evaluating integrated care will be discussed.

Integrated primary care: lessons for UK health reform from Europe

Date: 15/04/2010
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust

Summary:
This workshop will provide an opportunity to comment on the emerging findings of a current Nuffield Trust‐funded project being carried out by Professor Geoff Meads, Winchester Business School, and Dr Sara Shaw, Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the Nuffield Trust, on the organisation of integrated primary care in Europe. The workshop will also present an opportunity to help shape the project report’s framework and conclusions.

Learning the lessons from the last 10 years of investigations

Date: 18/05/2010
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust, in partnership with the NHS Confederation

Summary:
Over the last 10 years there have been a number of recurring themes found in the different investigations into problems in a number of NHS organisations, including Bristol, Buckinghamshire Hospitals, Mid Staffordshire, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells, Northwick Park and Learning Disabilities in Cornwall. The NHS has also been implicated in a number of different and serious failures in child safeguarding.

This seminar will help to identify the common cultural, governance, systems and other issues that appear in these reports in a format that could be used by Board members as a checklist to see whether they should be concerned and be asking for additional information.

Understanding the growth in demand: An expert seminar on the patterns of increasing activity and demand for urgent care

Location: 28 Portland Place, London W1B 1DE
Date: 08/06/2010
Organisation: The Nuffield Trust and the NHS Confederation

Summary:
The Nuffield Trust and the NHS Confederation hosted an expert seminar designed to bring together researchers, public health specialists, commissioners and health care staff who have been investigating the patterns of increasing activity and demand.

Optimising care in hospital: people, processes and technology

Location: Royal College of Physicians, London
Date: 22/07/2010
Organisation: Nuffield Trust, Cambridge Health Network & the Royal College of Physicians

Summary:
The Nuffield Trust, the Cambridge Health Network and the Royal College of Physicians are working in partnership to host a series of two evening seminars focusing on “high value health care.” The first seminar in the series, on delivering and improving hospital care, explored the techniques used in Kaiser Permanente’s Californian hospitals to improve quality and cost effectiveness.

High value delivery systems: how to achieve them

Location: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 66 Portland Place, London
Date: 07/09/2010
Organisation: Nuffield Trust, Cambridge Health Network & the Royal College of Physicians

Summary:
The Nuffield Trust, the Cambridge Health Network and the Royal College of Physicians are working in partnership to host a series of two evening seminars focusing on “high value health care.” At the second seminar in the series, Dr Denis Cortese, former Chief Executive of the Mayo Clinic, will describe emerging techniques for delivering high value care for people with complex health problems.

Integrating primary care and specialist services – the Mayo Clinic experience

Location: Nuffield Trust, 59 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP
Date: 09/09/2010
Organisation: Nuffield Trust

Summary:
At this breakfast seminar, Dr Denis Cortese, former Chief Executive of the Mayo Clinic, will describe the work that he and his team carried out over many years to better coordinate the work of primary care physicians and specialists in order to deliver high quality and cost-effective care.