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Health Services Research Network and National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Programme 2009 joint annual conference.

Following on from the extremely successful 2008 joint conference and in celebration of SDO's tenth anniversary, the NIHR SDO and HSRN are again joining forces to offer two days of presentations and discussions at the leading edge of evidence-informed healthcare.

When and where?

Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 June 2009

Holiday Inn, Birmingham

£80 plus VAT for both days, £60 plus VAT for one

Call for abstracts

Visit our Call for abstracts page to learn how to contribute and participate in this conference. Call closes 14 January.

What you will get out of it?

• Participate in a unique meeting of key stakeholders from health services research, health policy and health management
• Hear about rigorous, cutting edge research and policy analysis
• Debate crucial health care policies
• Network with leaders in the research field

Who should attend?

• Health services researchers
• Policy analysts
• Health service managers
• Decision makers in NHS
• Anyone with an interest in health services research

Programme

The programme includes debates and presentations, parallel sessions, workshops, poster displays and social activities. Day one will feature invited presentations of current SDO funded research and day two will present the leading research selected from HSRN's call for abstracts. Plenary speakers already confirmed include:

Steve Shortell, Ph.D., FACHE

Dean and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health, and professor of organisation behaviour at Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Allan Best, Ph.D.

Past President, Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research, and Senior Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Kevin Woods

Director-General Health, and Chief Executive, NHS Scotland, Scottish Government

Ray Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford and (from April 2009) Programme Director, NIHR Health Service Research.

John Ovretveit Ph.D.
Director of Research and Professor of Health Innovation, Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.