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The Health Sector: National Health Symposium and Workshop

This practical Masterclass for all those working across the health sector will look at how the NHS will need to change to meet the needs and expectations of citizens over the next 5 years and whether it can do this, what is happening across Europe and beyond that the NHS needs to learn from to reform, how Lord Darzi's ideas can be taken forward in a time of resource and financial cuts across the public services, as the focus of health and health improvement shifts from the hospital to community services and individual behaviour what will be the future role of the NHS, and how the private sector can develop effectively alongside the NHS without increasing conflict.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand Current Issues and Challenges and Key Policy and Practice Dilemmas
  • Understand what the NHS will need to do to change to meet the needs and expectations of citizens over the next 5 years and how it can go about doing this
  • Understand the importance of the EU in health care provision, and what the NHS needs to learn
  • Understand how Lord Darzi's ideas be taken forward in a time of resource and financial cuts across the public services
  • Understand the future role for the NHS as the focus of health and health improvement shifts from the hospital to community services and individual behaviour
  • Understand how the private sector can develop effectively alongside the NHS without increasing conflict

Programme

9:00
Registration and Refreshments
9:45
Chairman’s Welcome and Introduction
David Hinchliffe, former Chairman, House of Commons Health Select Committee (confirmed)
10:00
Introduction:
Current Issues in the Health Sector
  • Long term care
  • Relationship between the centre and local provision
  • How much can the UK afford to spend on healthcare for all?
  • Applying the ‘fully engaged’ agenda in an age of avoidable chronic disease
  • Modifying individual behaviour: alcohol, drugs, tobacco, obesity
Paul Richards, former Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Health (confirmed)
11:00
Morning Coffee
11:15
Change in the NHS
  • What will the NHS need to do to change to meet the needs and expectations of citizens over the next 5 years and how can it go about doing this?
James Gubb, Director of Health Unit, Civitas (confirmed)
12:15
Regulating the Health Sector, Protecting the Public and Raising Standards in Health Provision
Peter Walsh, Chief Executive, Action for Victims of Medical Accidents (confirmed)
13:00
Lunch
13:45
Afternoon Debate and Discussion Forum
  • How can Lord Darzi's ideas be taken forward in a time of resource and financial cuts across the public services?
  • What will be the future role of the NHS as the focus of health and health improvement shifts from the hosptial to community services and individual behaviour?
  • How can the private sector develop effectively alongside the NHS without increasing conflict?
Lord Darzi of Denham, former Minister, Spokesperson and Adviser, Department of Heath (invited)
David Turner, Committee Specialist, House of Commons Health Select Committee (confirmed)
15:15
Afternoon Tea
15:30
Afternoon Workshop
Group Workshop Scenarios: Uncertain Futures
  • The Personalisation Agenda
  • The future of public health and its organisational location
  • The organisational relationship between health and social care
David Hinchliffe, former Chairman of the House of Commons Health Select Committee (confirmed)
16:30
Feedback and Conclusions and Close

Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice

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Sector specific workshops

Sector specific masterclasses are designed for practitioners, managers, professionals, new starters and business partners who, as well as keeping abreast of developments in their specific area of work, wish to broaden their understanding of the overall structure of their policy sector and learn more about the functions and roles played by each of the delivery partners at both the central and local level.