Patient Leadership Summit 2019

Patient Leadership Summit is organized by Healthcare (HC) - UK Conferences and will be held on Mar 29, 2019 at De Vere West One Conference Centre, London, England, United Kingdom.

Conference Description:
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.

Increasingly, in response to this call to action and the growing pressure on services, charities, think tanks and organizations across the NHS are turning to patients to gain irreplaceable insight into how organizations, services, and cultures need to be changed. Increasingly, Patient Leaders are at the forefront of this change, building collaborative relationships with fellow patients, trusts and community services, especially in areas of patient experience and patient engagement. Work is being done by the King’s Fund, the NHS, the Coalition for Collaborative Care and many trusts across the NHS to explore the concept of Patient Leadership and to develop Patient Leadership programmes.

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 organizations who are unfamiliar with what a Patient Leader is and of the potential patient-centered 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.

In addition, another barrier to building a broader momentum behind Patient Leadership approaches is that large areas of the NHS England and the NHS are still focused strategically on a PPI mindset rather than a ‘Patient Leadership and Public Involvement’ (PLPI) mindset with only a few organizations putting together comprehensive organization-wide patient leadership strategies to effectively recruit, support and collaborate with emerging local Patient Leaders. Thus many trusts Patient and Public Involvement Strategies do not yet specifically highlight the potential of Patient Leaders.

If you feel that your organizations or key members of your staff such as Patient & Public Engagement Managers, Service-Design Leads, Assurance Leads, Directors of Patient Experience, Governors, Non-executive Directors or others need to be brought up to date on emerging best practice in this area then this national summit will provide essential advice, tips and practical solutions to implement patient leadership within your service. The conference features presentations and extended workshops from patient leaders who have made a difference in practice, and organizations that have established patient leadership as a core part of their culture. There will also be an extended focus on developing training in patient leadership and implementing a patient leadership programme in your service.  

A 20% discount is available by quoting ref: hcuk20emed when booking.  (Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full T&Cs available upon request.)

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