Westminster Health Keynote Seminar
Early diagnosis and prevention:
technology, social marketing and
primary care
with
Dr David Colin-Thomé
National Director for Primary Care, Department of Health
and
Christine Bamford
Director of Leadership and Organisational Development, National
Leadership & Innovation Agency for Healthcare, NHS Wales
and
Colin Callow
Lead Associate, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and
NHS Technology Adoption Centre
and
John Henderson
Economist, Health Protection and International Healthcare,
Department of Health
and
Professor Alan Maryon-Davis
Honorary Professor of Public Health Sciences, King's College London
This seminar is supported by
GE Healthcare
Morning, Tuesday 20th July, 2010
Central London
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I am writing to invite you to the above seminar, which examines the role of early diagnosis and
prevention in the delivery of healthcare. Please note there is a charge for most delegates, although
no one is excluded on the basis of ability to pay (see below).
Seminar
This seminar will look at what more can be done to improve the early diagnosis and prevention of
illness - focusing on the role of new technology in diagnosis and monitoring, on what more can be
done to encourage research and innovation in healthcare, and the challenges faced in technology
adoption.
Further sessions also examine the role of primary care in early diagnosis, including opportunities
through increased access to diagnostic equipment in GP-led health centres and Polyclinics, and what
more can be done to get across healthy living and prevention campaigns to the general population,
with reference to expected pressures on government social marketing budgets.
Planned sessions will focus on:
Public health, early diagnosis and prevention: current issues and challenges;
Early diagnosis and prevention: the economic case;
Social marketing and prevention of lifestyle-related disease;
Early diagnosis and cancer;
Early diagnosis and prevention: primary care and improving the patient pathway;
New technology and NHS staff: awareness, training and empowerment;
Technology adoption: working through the system;
Innovation and technology: improving the early detection and treatment of disease; and
The next steps in the delivery of the early diagnosis and prevention agenda.
The agenda is copied below my signature, and a regularly updated version is available to view online.
Supported by GE Healthcare, this seminar is organised impartially and independently by the
Westminster Health Forum.
Speakers
We are delighted to be able to include in this seminar keynote presentations from:
Dr David Colin-Thome, National Director for Primary Care, Department of Health;
Christine Bamford, Director of Leadership and Organisational Development, National
Leadership & Innovation Agency for Healthcare, NHS Wales;
Colin Callow, Lead Associate, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and NHS
Technology Adoption Centre;
John Henderson, Economist, Health Protection and International Healthcare, Department of
Health; and
Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, Honorary Professor of Public Health Sciences, King's College
London.
At this early stage Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular
Medicine, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester; Martin Scarfe, Director, Whole
System Demonstrator Programme, London Borough of Newham and Pritpal S Tamber, Publishing
Director, Map of Medicine have also kindly agreed to speak. Further senior speakers are being
approached.
Attendees
We have already had good interest in this seminar, with places booked on for several senior officials
from the Department of Health. At this early stage places have also been booked for representatives
from: All Wales Ethnic Minority Association, Care UK, Clinical Solutions, Humber and Yorkshire
Coast Cancer Network, iPLATO Healthcare, Map of Medicine, Men’s Health Forum, Middlesex
University, National Cancer Action Team, NHS Westminster, North London Cancer Network,
Primary Care Neurology Society, Royal National Institute of Blind People, SCoR and Tunstall
Healthcare. Press passes have also been issued to British Journal of Healthcare Management and
Informa Healthcare.
All told, we expect attendees to be a senior and informed group numbering around 120, including
Members of both Houses of Parliament, senior government officials involved in this area of public
policy, NHS and other healthcare professionals, management consultants, pharmaceutical
representatives, charities, community support groups, other interest groups, think-tanks, academia
and other related industries, together with representatives of the trade and national press.
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opportunities for networking with pre-seminar and mid-seminar coffee breaks, giving delegates the
opportunity to mix with speakers, Parliamentarians and other key stakeholders.
A key output of the seminar will be a transcript of the proceedings, sent out within a week of the
event to Ministers and officials at DH and other departments affected by the issues,
Parliamentarians with a special interest in these areas, and other agencies. It will also be made
available more widely. It will include transcripts of all speeches and questions and answers sessions
from the day, along with access to PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ biographies, an attendee list,
an agenda and sponsor information. It is made available subject to strict restrictions on public use,
similar to those for Select Committee Uncorrected Evidence, and is intended to provide timely
information for interested parties who are unable to attend on the day.
All delegates will receive free PDF copies and are invited to contribute to the content.
Booking arrangements
To book places, please use our online booking form.
Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be subject to our terms and
conditions below.
Please pay in advance by credit card on 01344 864796. If advance credit card payment is not
possible, please let me know and we may be able make other arrangements.
Options and charges are as follows:
Places at Early diagnosis and prevention: technology, social marketing and primary care
(including refreshments and PDF copy of the transcripts) are £190 plus VAT (£223.25);
Concessionary rate places for small charities, unfunded individuals and those in similar
circumstances are £80 plus VAT (£94). Please be sure to apply for this at the time of booking.
For those who cannot attend:
Copies of the briefing document, including full transcripts of all speeches and the questions
and comments sessions and further articles from interested parties, will be available
approximately 7 days after the event for £95 plus VAT (£111.63);
Concessionary rate: £50 plus VAT (£58.75).