The Health Systems Research Centre,
Dept of Sociology,
University of Limerick
Presents
‘Evidence for Healthcare Reforms’
Friday 17th October, 2008
CastleOaks House Hotel,
Castleconnell,
Limerick
How is evidence generated for policy and practice? Does it inform the
philosophy, organisation and delivery of health care in Ireland?
We
experience change and note the media reports. Do we know if there is reliable
and valid research to support specific reforms and changes?
This Conference offers perspectives from the Irish, UK, European and
Canadian and Media experiences that will enable you to assess or query the
contribution of evidence to current debates on key issues.
‘Evidence for Healthcare Reforms’
Annual Conference:
The Health Systems Research Centre,
Department of Sociology, University of Limerick
Venue:
Castle Oaks House Hotel, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick, Ireland
Date: Friday 17th October 2008
Time: 09.00-16.00
Time
Title & Chair
Speaker
9h00
Opening Address & Welcome
Prof. Roger Downer, former President of UL
9h05
Dominant Issues in Healthcare Reform
Stiofan de Burca, Prof/Dir. Health Systems
Research Centre, UL
9h20
“Evidence, policy and management in the NHS”
Chair: John Cullen, Dir. Gen., IPA
Kieran Walshe, Prof.
Health Policy & Management
Manchester Business School
10h00
“What do we mean by Evidence? Some
pointers from the Irish reform experience”
Chair: John Cullen, Dir. Gen. IPA
Richard Boyle, PhD
Senior Research Officer, IPA
10h45
A Europe-wide Perspective
Chair: John Cullen, Dir. Gen. IPA
Charles Normand, Prof.
Chair Steering Committee, WHO European
Observatory on Health Systems and Policy.
11h30
Tea / coffee
11h45
Mythbusters: Using evidence to debunk popular
myths in Canadian healthcare
Chair: Dr. K. Kelleher, AND, Population Health,
HSE
13h00
Lunch
14h00
Myths, misconceptions and the media- Irish
heath policy through the lenses of the media
Chair: Eoin Devereux, Head Dept of Sociology,
UL
Sara Burke,
Journalist & Health Policy Analyst,
14h45
Impact of Change on the Attitudes and
Behaviour of Staff in the Health Services
Chair: Denis Doherty, President HMI
Edel Conway, PhD
Learning, Innovation and Knowledge (LInK)
research centre at DCU
15h30
Evidence- So what?
Chair: Stiofan de Burca
‘Speaker Panel’
Jennifer Thornhill, Senior Advisor,
Canadian Health Service Research
Foundation
Prof Kieran Walshe,
Professor of Health Policy & Management
Kieran Walshe is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Manchester
Business School. He is a senior academic with nineteen years experience in
health policy, health management and health services research. He has
previously worked at the University of Birmingham, the University of California
at Berkeley, and the King's Fund in London, and has a professional
background in healthcare management. He is an experienced researcher, who
enjoys working at the interface between theory and practice and values the
opportunities it offers to engage with the policy and practitioner communities
and to put ideas into action.
He has particular interests and expertise in public services regulation; the governance, accountability and
performance of public services; and policy evaluation and learning. He writes regularly for a wide range of
journals including the British Medical Journal, Health Service Journal, Health Affairs, Milbank Quarterly,
Public Money and Management, and Quality and Safety in Healthcare. He is on a number of editorial
boards, and is the deputy editor of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. He has advised
the Department of Health, National Audit Office, Healthcare Commission and other bodies. He is an
appointed member of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, and is the Research Director of
the Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research service delivery and organisation
research programme.
Richard Boyle
Senior Research Officer, IPA
Dr. Richard Boyle, BA (Hons.), MTD, PhD, is a Senior Research Officer with the
Institute of Public Administration. He has worked with the IPA since 1986. His
research interests focus on public service modernisation, managing for results
in the public sector and developing and implementing effective performance
management and evaluation systems.
He has researched and written
extensively on public service reform, performance measurement and evaluation.
He is the author of many reports on public service modernisation, including Comparing Public
Administrations (2007) and A New Change Agenda for the Irish Public Service (2001, with Peter
Humphreys). He has also written extensively on evaluation, including Making Evaluation Relevant (1993)
and Evaluating Public Expenditure Programmes (1997). He has worked with the OECD and the World
Bank in promoting performance monitoring and evaluation procedures. He has assisted the Irish
government in reviews of evaluation practice, both for European and national programmes. He is chair of
the Irish Evaluation Network, was on the Board of the European Evaluation Society (2002-2006), and is a
member of the International Evaluation Working Group on Policy and Programme Evaluation.
Professor Charles Normand No
Chair of Steering Committee for European Observatory on Health Systems
and Policies & Edward Kennedy Chair in Health Policy and Management.
Charles Normand was born in Kuala Lumpur and spent his childhood in Kenya
and Scotland. He studied economics and has worked at the universities of
Stirling, York, the Queens University of Belfast and the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was Senior Research Fellow and Deputy
Director of the York HEC.
His interest in the economics of health started when he worked for four years as
the Principal Economist for Health and Social Services in the Northern Ireland
Civil Service. He was appointed Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy
and Management in 2004. He is on the Board of St James's Hospital.
He lectures on health economics for the Master's programme in Health Services Management and Global
Health and the Master’s programme in the School of Dentistry.
He is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK, a Board
Member, St. James's University Hospital, Dublin and Visiting Professor of Health Economics, London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Recent Projects he has worked on include the Study of economic impact of gastroenteritis in Ireland
(“Safefood”) and Scoping study on social health insurance for Ireland (Adelaide Hospital Society).
He is also co-investigator on Cervical cancer screening collaboration (HRB), Impact of demographic
change in need for health services (HRB), Electronic Patient Records in Epilepsy (HRB) and Maximising
Human Resource Capacity for Health (ABIA).
Sara Burke
Sara Burke is a journalist and health policy analyst. Her writings on
health appear in the Sunday Tribune, Village magazine, national daily
newspapers and health sector magazines. She contributes to national radio
and TV programmes, including Questions and Answers and Primetime, on
health and social policy issues. Recently, she worked on a Primetime
Investigates on children at risk. She is currently writing a book on the Irish
health system.
From 2004 to 2006, Sara worked as managing editor in Village magazine, a
weekly political magazine edited by Vincent Browne.
She has worked in, researched and written on inequalities in public health
and the health services for over ten years.
From 2000 to 2004, she was a policy analyst in The Institute of Public Health, an all Ireland organisation,
which advises governments, North and South, on strategies to reduce health inequalities. For two and half
years in the late 1990s she worked as a researcher and policy officer in the Department of Health.
From 1992 to 1997, Sara worked an outreach street worker for Focus
Ireland with homeless teenagers in Dublin's city centre.
Jennifer Thornhill
Jennifer Y. Thornhill holds a Master of Science in Medicine in Applied Health
Services Research from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Before
enrolling in her masters, Jennifer completed a combined honours degree in
journalism and biology from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova
Scotia. Currently residing in Ottawa, Ontario, Jennifer works as the Senior
Advisor, Knowledge Summaries in the Knowledge Exchange branch at the
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Her primary role involves
creating user-friendly summaries of research for health systems policy
makers and managers.
EDEL CONWAY, PhD, Dublin City University
Edel Conway is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at DCU
Business School. She is Director of the Masters in HR strategies programme
and is a member of the Learning, Innovation and Knowledge (LInK) Research
Centre. Edel's expertise lies in the areas of human resource management
and organisational psychology. Her research primarily focuses on HRM in
knowledge intensive organisations, particularly in the health, financial
services, software and pharmaceutical sectors. She is especially interested in
employee perspectives on HRM including high commitment management and
HRM in a change context.
Edel is a former recipient of the European Young Psychologist Award (awarded by the European
Congress of Work and Organisational Psychology) and a DCU Albert College Fellowship. She previously
worked for Citibank as a HR consultant, and on the “Leading Edge” HRM project at the London Business
School. Edel sits on the council of the Irish Academy of Management. She is a member of the European
Association of Work and Organisational Psychology, the Irish Academy of Management, the European
Academy of Management and the Psychological Society of Ireland.
Professor Stiofan de Burca, Director, Health Systems Research
Centre, University of Limerick
Stiofan de Burca, PhD (Brunel, London), FCIPD, was CEO of the MidWestern Health Board and had a strong association with the development of
R&D in the healthcare system during the course of his career. He was Irish
Project Representative for three European conjoint action programmes for
quality in health care and a founding member and first President of the Irish
and European Societies for Quality in Health Care, Chairman of the Irish
Clearing House on Health Outcomes, and a former Chairman of the Institute
of Public Administration. More recently he is Health Management Section
President Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland, founding member of the
Institute for Change Management. UK and Chair, Bros of Charity Ltd.,
Limerick.
His research interests include leadership, change management and quality improvement in health
systems. Current research projects include a national study on Adult Community Mental Health Teams,
Quality Management in Clinical Directorates and Older Persons Experience of Ageing in the Community.
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‘Evidence for Healthcare Reforms’
Annual Conference
The Health Systems Research Centre,
Department of Sociology,
University of Limerick
Venue:
Date & Time:
Castle Oaks House Hotel, Castleconnell,
Co. Limerick, Ireland
Friday 17th October 2008 @ 09.00-16.00
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