Patient Leadership Summit 2018

Patient Leadership Summit is organized by Healthcare (HC) - UK Conferences and will be held on Oct 15, 2018 at De Vere West One, London, England, United Kingdom. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 5 Credits.

Conference Description :
The concept of patient leadership is emerging as one important new way of working collaboratively with patients and carers. Patient and carer leaders can raise the profile of improving experience of care and can have a real impact on action being taken in response to patient and carer feedback.

Patient leaders bring a credible voice, and can work with system leaders to create a compelling case for change. This gives the system ‘permission to act’. Patient leaders influence health services’ priorities, placing a greater emphasis on the experience of care. Patient leaders can help to design services on the ground, and when system leaders involve patient leaders and carers in this service design, they are able to focus more closely on what patients and carers want.”

This national summit chaired and co-produced with Jonathon Hope MBE will focus on the important issue of Patient Leadership and how you can support patients in your organization to co-design and improve services, how you can help patients to develop patient leadership skills and how to effectively work with patient leaders.

However, since the concept and practice of Patient Leadership is still an emerging field in healthcare science, and as is often the case with any new ideas, is only spreading in isolated pockets of best practice across the NHS, there remains a very significant number of staff and organisations who are unfamiliar with what a Patient Leader is and of the potential patient-centred leadership skills, roles and capabilities they can bring to the NHS. There is also a lack of understanding of the considerable strategic advantages of involving Patient Leaders, especially, but not exclusively, in future strategic planning, areas such as assurance and validation and service delivery and design at Board level or below.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.