This one-day event produced by the NHS Confederation and the Department of Health offers delegates the opportunity to access critical learning from the field of Community Hospital development.

Please note this event is now full but if you would like to be put on a waiting list for future events please contact our events team.

The Our health, our care, our say White Paper set out a vision for the future where an increasing share of healthcare is provided locally in the community as a result of new models of care, new technology, and public preference. The Department of Health is supporting this shift through a £750m investment fund available to PCTs to help develop capital projects that deliver this vision. We have designed Community Hospitals: the secret of success to support all those with an interest in developing their work in this field.

Presentations now available to download.

When and where?

Thursday 25 October 2007
Congress Centre, London

What will you get out of it?

• Develop your knowledge and understanding of:
• making a successful bid for public capital to support proposals for community facilities
• improving the effectiveness, safety, and productivity of the care delivered by community hospitals
• designing sustainable, accessible and flexible community facilities

Benefit form a varied programme including:

• Leading speakers
• Focused presentations
• Round table discussion
• Facilitated debate
• Excellent networking opportunities
• The opportunity to meet NHS and private organisation partners and advance policy around the Community Venture funding model

Who should attend?

• Chief executives
• Chairs
• Non-executive directors
• Commissioning directors
• Estates directors
• Strategy and commissioning directors

Attending solution providers

There will be the opportunity for delegates to engage in direct confidential discussion with the following attending solution providers:

• Arkanum works with public and private sector organisations to develop new capabilities. Our successes include public, as well as public and private, partnerships across all market sectors, planning and implementing change programmes, setting up and disposal of companies as well as directly managing a wide range of services.
• http://www.arkanum.co.uk/
• Assura Group is a health provider organization, listed on the London Stock Exchange. We invest in and develop primary health care property, community hospitals, integrated pharmacy and related medical businesses incorporating joint venture partnerships with GPs, consultants, diagnostic and service providers.
• www.assuragroup.co.uk
• Avanti Architects has over twenty years experience in the health care sector and a reputation for innovation and award winning design quality. We are delighted to co-sponsor this seminar and will be attending with North Bristol NHS Trust with whom we are currently developing a community hospital.
• www.avantiarchitects.co.uk
• Ryhurst Innovative and progressive, Ryhurst has for a decade worked in partnership with the NHS to develop bespoke solutions for the provision, management and maintenance of health and social care facilities
• www.ryhurst.co.uk
• The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement supports the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working, new technology and world class leadership. Further to the Institutes launch of the 'The Productive Community Hospital', this initiative will build on existing knowledge of best practice to improve the effectiveness, safety, reliability and productivity of the care delivered by community hospitals.
• http://www.institute.nhs.uk/quality_and_value/productivity_series/productive_community_hospital.html
• Tribal Leading provider of professional and consultancy services in health - employing 2,000 staff with expertise across health, social care, education and housing - developing community based options for joined up service delivery.
• www.tribalgroup.co.uk/health