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Only 1 Month To Go! - Have you booked your place at this year's Championing
Improved Practice Conference?
We are pleased to provide full details of the forthcoming Championing
Improved Practice Conference to be held on Wednesday 16th June 2004 at the
Oxford Hotel, Godstow Road, Oxford.
This will be the 10th Annual Conference organised by the Public Health
Resource Unit (PHRU) who are hosted by Milton Keynes PCT.
The programme will be relevant to you if you are:
* involved in delivering the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme
(CASP) workshops
* involved in delivering Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) training
* involved in CASP and/or PPI and would like updated materials and
information
* in health and social care services and are interested in updating
your own skills in critical appraisal and/or patient & public involvement
* interested in learning more about what learning opportunities exist
for your staff
The cost of the day is £100. This will include ALL materials you receive on
the day (a comprehensive resource pack, including new CASP slides and
appraisal tools amongst other things), refreshments upon arrival, mid-day
and afternoon and a 2-course lunch.
A list of overnight accommodation is available for direct bookings,
alternatively we can book a room at the Oxford Hotel at an additional cost
of £120 and will include an evening meal on the night of your arrival.
Championing Improved Practice Conference
The Oxford Hotel, Godstow Road, Oxford
Wednesday 16th June 2004
Programme
9:15 Registration, Coffee/Tea & Biscuits
9:45 Welcome to the Championing Improved Practice Conference
Jenny Wright, Director of the Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford
10:00 From Research to Practice: the evidence pipeline
Paul Glasziou, Department of Primary Health Care & Director, Centre
for Evidence-Based Practice, Oxford
10:30 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 - e-learning
Take a tour of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), a multi-media CD-ROM and
workbook new from CASP and discuss how this resource could be used in your
organisations' learning initiatives to supplement your work.
EBP is a comprehensive journey through the skills, knowledge and resources
underpinning the practice of 'evidence-based' health and social care.
Sections include finding the evidence, critical appraisal of qualitative,
quantitative and economic research evidence, management of change and
implementation of evidence in practice. EBP is designed on the interactive
and fun CASP model of evidence-based learning methods utilising multi-media,
video streaming, self-assessment exercises, a full glossary of terms and
links to key Internet sites.
Session 2 - Patient & Public Involvement in Research
An introduction to PHRU's work to support this important area for
involvement
PHRU's Patient and Public Involvement Programme contends that Critical
appraisal and the judicious commissioning and application of research in
practice is as much the domain of patients and the public as it is of
professional researchers and practitioners. In this workshop we will
discuss the involvement of patients and the public throughout all stages of
the research cycle, and demonstrate a range of tools and approaches that
PHRU has developed to support involvement.
This workshop will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and
commissioners who have an interest in involving patients and the public in
evidence based practice.
12:00 Lunch in the hotel restaurant
13:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 - CASPuk Calling all 'CASPers'
CASP has trained 1000's of people throughout the UK and across the globe
with the help of CASP International and its members.
The 'CASPuk collaboration' would like to invite you to this session which
aims to: identify the network of UK 'CASPers', map CASP-type activity in the
UK, discuss the benefits of such a collaboration, formulate aims and
objectives and discuss mechanisms of communication to facilitate
inclusivity.
This session is aimed at people already involved in planning the
implementation of, or facilitating, CASP-type training within their
organisation, profession or locality. If you are involved in running these
sessions we would like to invite you to discuss the benefits of such a
collaboration and become a member of CASPuk.
Session 2 - Development in training and support for Patient and Public
Involvement - Part 1: Where are we now?
Updates on PHRU's work, and participatory session on their applications.
The Patient and Public Involvement Programme aims to promote communication
and partnership between patients and the public, and professionals. This
workshop will review recent applications of IMPACT, a programme that aims to
foster partnerships at a strategic level. We will present a case study as a
basis for discussing how IMPACT can be used as part of a wider programme of
support for patient and public involvement at all levels
14:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:00 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 - Management of Change
An interactive workshop that will cover putting evidence into practice
through understanding the psychology of change and change management
processes.
This session is a taster for a workshop on change management that we have
developed and successfully piloted. The workshop will address the
psychology of change and managing transitions. We will also describe the
different tools and techniques that are available to support change, and
plans for taking the workshop forward. As with all our CASP products the
workshop is highly interactive and will be fun.
Session 2 - Developments in training and support for Patient and Public
Involvement - Part 2: Where next?
Participatory session considering recent approaches to support for patient
and public involvement and their applications.
As patient and public involvement in organisations develops, the need to
support that involvement grows. In this workshop we will discuss two more
recent approaches: The use of patient stories to promote partnership; and
the applications of learning sets in this field.
Session 3 - Gov! Game
Your chance to play a tool, developed by the Public Health Resource Unit,
that gets groups talking and thinking about the principles of clinical
governance. The game aims to raise awareness of the main topics/areas of
clinical governance. GOV! promotes useful discussion and develops awareness
of important concepts.
It provides an opportunity for participants to:
* consider the issues surrounding clinical governance, both the
problems that might be encountered and topics for strategic planning.
* work together as a group to develop solutions for the problems
encountered during the game.
* Identify the broader lessons learned in working through the issues
raised.
* engage in discussion about the concept of clinical governance.
16:30 Feedback, Evaluation & Raffle
17:00 CLOSE
A printable version of the above programme and the flyer used to advertise
the day can be found at www.phru.nhs.uk/casp/annual%20conference.htm
Please forward this on to any of your colleagues who may be interested in,
or would benefit from, attending this day.
Organiser Contact Details:
Michelle Talla
Learning & Development, PHRU
Email: [log in to unmask]
Please note that we will be relocating on May 24th & 25th 2004 to the Oxford
Business Park South.
Our new address will be: Public Health Resource Unit, 4150 Chancellor Court,
Oxford Business Park South, Oxford, OX4 2JY
Contact numbers to follow soon.
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