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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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