Do not forget to register for a truly international conference with participants from over 15 countries and all continents (except Antarctica).
Our keynote addresses include:

	Dr Charles Alessi	Implications of personalisation. The new health care
	Professor Stephen E. Chick	New challenges and opportunities for health modelers
	Dr David Paynton	Leading System Change - the Challenge facing Clinical Commissioning Groups
	Dr Geoffrey Royston	Measures, models and management - who cares?
	Professor Peter Smith	Quantitative modelling and health policy: mutual friends or hard times?
	Professor Martin Utley	TBC

We look forward to seeing you in London, UK.
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Subject: Correction: REMINDER: 7TH IMA QUANTITATIVE MODELLING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE CONFERENCE, Woburn House, Central London, UK, 25-27 March 2013 - Registration Open
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Please note that registration for 7TH IMA QUANTITATIVE MODELLING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE CONFERENCE is open. 
Dr Charles Alessi, Chairman of the National Association of Primary Care, and Dr Geoff Royston, President of the OR Society will give keynote addresses
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7TH IMA QUANTITATIVE MODELLING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE CONFERENCE
Monday 25 – Wednesday 27 March 2013
Woburn House Conference Centre, London

Aim and Scope
Health and Social Care systems are facings major challenges worldwide, due in part to changes in demography and advances in technology and in part to changes in the structure and organisation of the system whether they are hospitals, general practitioners or long-term care settings. Yet running health and social care systems efficiently and effectively is crucial to improving or even maintaining our quality of life. Over the years, extensive research has been conducted to find immediate and long-term solutions to issues that are routinely faced by health and social care professionals, such as waiting lists and bed capacity, hospital redesign, workforce planning and scheduling, patient flow, performance management, disease monitoring, and health care technology assessment. Mathematical modelling and computer simulation techniques (statistical analysis, stochastic processes, queuing theory, mathematical programming, heuristics, discrete event simulation, system dynamics, etc) have shown to be increasingly valuable in providing useful information to aid planning and management. The aim of the conference is to bring together health care managers, clinicians, management consultants, and mathematicians, operational researchers, statisticians, health economists, computer scientists etc from across the world with a view to bridging the gap between the respective communities and to exploring recent developments and identifying fruitful avenues for further research.

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Professor Stephen E. Chick, Professor of Technology and Operations Management, Novartis Chair of Healthcare Management, INSEAD, France; Dr Charles Alessi, Chairman of the National Association of Primary Care and former Director of Medicine and Clinical Governance for the British Armed Forces; Dr David Paynton, FRCGP, DMS, MBE, Practicing GP, Clinical lead for Out of Hospital care at Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group and National Clinical Lead for the Royal College of General Practitioner's Centre for Commissioning; Dr Geoffrey Royston, President of the Operational Research Society and former Head of Strategic Analysis and Operational Research in the Department of Health for England, and Professor Peter Smith, Professor of Policy and co-Director of Centre for Health Policy, Imperial College London.

Selected papers presented at the conference (whether orally or as a poster) will be published in special issues of journals, including Health Care Management Science (Springer).

For more information visit www.healthcareanalytics.co.uk/conferences/imahealth2013/

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Prof T.J. Chaussalet
Department of Business Information Systems
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish Street
London W1W 6UW
Tel: +44(0)207 911 5000 ext 64575
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www.healthcareinformatics.org.uk