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> MARK YOUR DIARIES FOR 'PRIORITIES 2008'
> Conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care
> 29th-31st October 2008, Sage Concert Hall, NewcastleGateshead, UK
>
> "Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and
> practice-to-theory"
>
> In October 2008, the conference of the International Society for
> Priorities in Health Care returns to the UK, this time to the
> north-east
> of England. Formed in 1996, following the first international
> conferenceon this topic held in Stockholm, the purpose of the
> Society is to
> provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners involved in
> priority setting can exchange ideas and experience. Particular
> importance is placed on: getting research into practice; learnings
> across poorer and richer nations; and encouraging practitioners to
> learnabout approaches to priority setting and researchers to learn
> from real
> practical experience.
>
> Much has changed in the eight years since the Society was last in the
> UK. Building on this, the main theme of this conference is very much
> about achieving greater action on priority setting and improving
> frameworks used for this purpose across lower and higher income
> countries. Thus, we aim to:
> * achieve participation from practitioners at all levels of
health
> care (from national through to local) as well as the public;
> * create a vibrant environment for two-way learning, from theory
> to practice and practice to theory;
> * enhance learning about managing scarcity in more equitable and
> efficient ways, and, thus, for the greater benefit of the
> populations we
> serve.
>
> Key topics for discussion and presentation will be as follows:
> * theoretical and methodological advances in priority setting
> (reconciling health system objectives, the ethical and the economic,
> understanding how organisations learn and how organisations can
> change,developments in health technology assessment, evaluating
> pubic health
> interventions)
> * practical advances in priority setting (accounting for the
> politics of health care, managing scarcity in resource-deprived
> environments of lower-income countries, achieving disinvestment in
> health care)
> * achieving real solutions (handling the 'media storm', legal
> issues and conflict resolution in priority setting, meaningful public
> involvement, making the 'academic' practical)
> * knowledge transfer and exchange (working across sectoral and
> disciplinary boundaries, learning from the private sector,
> barriers to
> engaging in knowledge transfer research)
> * information to underpin decisions (can we make decisions with
> little evidence? what are the informational requirements of decision
> makers both at a national, local and individual client levels? Can
> thesebe met?)
>
> You will soon be hearing form us about keynote speakers and the
> processof abstract submission and workshops. Until then, please
> mark this
> exciting event in your diaries. The conference has a Local Organising
> Committee which is being convened by the Institute of Health
> Society at
> Newcastle University by Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson.
>
> To receive regular updates please register your interest with Eileen
> Coope ([log in to unmask]). We look forward to seeing you in
> NewcastleGateshead in 2008.
>
>
>
>
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