Events
World TB Day
The TB team at the London Health Programme are holding an event on 22 March to mark World TB Day. Please see flyer attached for more details and contact tb@londonhp.nhs.uk by Thursday 8 March if you are interested in attending this event.
UCLPartners and the Greater London Authority - Meeting to review delivering value based healthcare and maximising outcomes for every pound we spend
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Greater London Authority, City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
Map of location can be found at http://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall/visitor-information/location-map
We will focus on the concept of value - pairing quality expressed as useful outcomes to the cost of delivering care and how to successfully apply this in practice. We have internationally renowned speakers bringing both an international and local persepctive:
- Prof Michael Porter, Harvard Business School
- Prof Tom Lee, Harvard Medical School and CEO, Partners Community Health
- Dr Charlie Davie, Stroke Lead UCLPartners
Flyer and speaker biographies can be found here
There will be a nominal charge of £50 and if you are interested please view the link for additional information and registration http://valueinhealthcare.eventbrite.com
Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Migrant Health evening seminar - Wed 1 February 2012
We are holding a free Migrant Health evening seminar on identification and management of infections related to travel and migration. This will be held on Wednesday 1 February 2012 at the Clark-Kennedy Lecture Hall, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Whitechapel. The details of this event are available on the flyer along with registration instructions and further information on what the evening will consist of can be found on the agenda.
Stroke Training for Primary Care Physicians and Nurses - various dates
Please click here if you would like information on an accredited Stroke Management Programme and if you are interested in attending acute stroke simulation training, please click here. Simulation training is free for NHS staff in London - please click link below for additional information.
http://www.slcsn.nhs.uk/events/events-stroke-sim-course-basic.html
Moxibustion Study Days
Please contact Lizzie Hamilton on lizzie.hamilton@anglia.ac.uk or Louise Jenkins on louise.jenkins@anglia.ac.uk for information on future dates and venues for Moxibustion Study Days.
Spirometry Training - bookings still being taken for New Year courses
Accredited Spirometry courses are being held at the University of East London at Stratford, over the next few months to aid primary care practitioners in the Outer North East London area to maximise their skills in diagnosing and supporting patients with COPD. If you work in this clinical area, you may wish to attend one of these.
Courses consist of a training day with a half day assessment taking place some time later. October and November courses are full, but further courses are planned. Please contact Kirsty Barnes on kirstybarnes@hiec.org.uk if you would like further information on this and click here for the booking form.
Asthma Half Day Event, Wednesday 2 November 2011
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Garrod Building, Turner Street, Whitechapel E1 2AD
For details of the programme for this half day event, please click here. Put the date in your diary now and come along and join us and help support development of better Asthma services for our children and young people! To book a place contact Carolyn Evans at carolyn.evans@hiec.org.uk
Maternity Conferences:
Working in partnership, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, NECLES HIEC Maternity Pathway and Anglia Ruskin University invite you to attend Anglia Ruskin's Postgraduate Medical Institue, Chelmsford Campus, for the national conferences listed below:
Wednesday 19 October 2011
The Newborn Infant from - the outside in
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Making High Risk Birth Normal
For further information click here and to pay and register contact https://store.anglia.ac.uk
Detailed programmed for each day's activities, please click here
Optimizing Opportunities for Normal Birth Network Event - Tuesday 8 November 2011 -
Please note that this event is to be rescheduled and you will receive information on the reconvened date in due course.
Innovation Unit Offices - CAN Mezzanine 49-51 East Road, London, N1 6AH. The nearest tube station is Old Street.
If you have anything that you would like to share with the community on this occassion, please email Astrid (astrid.osbourne@uclh.nhs.uk) and Claire (claire.mceneaney@innovationunit.org) so that they can compile the agenda.
We hope to see you all there, and please feel free to forward this invitation on to any of your colleagues who you'd like to come along.