International Symposium on
Improving Long-Term Conditions

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Long-term conditions will become the leading cause of disability by 2020 and the most expensive problem for healthcare systems in both developed and developing countries (WHO). This one-day symposium provides practical learning and exemplars of best practice from around the globe to help you improve your care and patient outcomes.

In the morning, the programme will cover the broad principles and global thinking in care for people with long term conditions. This will be followed by breakout sessions that explore specific clinical areas.

By attending this symposium you will:

•    Understand the future impact that long-term conditions will have on your organisation
•    Learn practical skills to improve your patient care and clinical outcomes
•    See how clinical teams have used improvement methodology to make real impacts in the management of long-term conditions

This session uses diabetes, cancer and dementia as workshop topics but the learning is designed to be applied across all long-term conditions and we welcome delegates from across all clinical areas.

Programme

08:00-09:00: Registration
09:00-09:15: Introduction
09:15-09:45: Improving the quality of life for patients with long-term conditions, Sir John Oldham
09:45-10:30: Keynote
10:30-11:00: Refreshments

Attendees can then attend one of three workshops sessions outlined below:

11:00-12:30: Workshops 1-3: Practical approaches to improving care for long-term conditions

Workshop 1) Cancer, Gunilla Gunnarsson, Sweden
Workshop 2) Diabetes, Anna Morton, UK
Workshop 3) Quality and safety in health care for patients with dementia, Prof Marieke Schuurmans & Prof Jan Hamers, The Netherlands

12:30-13:30: Lunch

Attendees can then attend one of three workshop sessions as outlined below:

13:30-15:00: Workshop 4-6: Cancer, Diabetes, Dementia

Workshop 4) Cancer
-    Improving cancer care through public reporting of meaningful quality measure, Tracy Spinks, United States
-    Engaging patients in maintaining safety in long-term cancer care, Louise Smith, UK
-    Lessons from using audit in quality monitoring and steering, Prof Tollenaar, Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit, The Netherlands

Workshop 5) Diabetes
-    A novel approach to reducing the burden of appointments in long term conditions, Nick Lewis Barnard, UK
-    Learning from a 12 year follow-up of a population-based primary care diabetes programme, M Goldfracht, Israel

Workshop 6) Dementia
-    End of life care interventions for people with dementia and their carers
-    Improving the care of in patients with dementia, Anna Waugh, University of the West of Scotland
-    Antipsychotics' risk reduction in dementia: combining expertise to address this health and ethical issue, Alcove European Joint Action on Alzheimer Disease,  Nathalie Riolacci, France

15:00-15:30: Refreshments

15:30-16:30: Panel Discussion

16:30-17:00: Final plenary

17:00: Close