The program available for download was last updated on 9 January 2012. This program will be regularly updated as more information becomes available.
Conference goals:
The Conference will:
- bring together general practice, health and social care managers and leaders – both clinical and managerial – with an interest in comprehensive primary health care reform to share ideas and experiences about how health networks in their various forms can strengthen prevention and primary health care and drive health improvement
- grow the World Health Care Networks movement by continuing to foster global and in-country network connections for future ongoing collaboration.
Conference theme:
Health Care Networks: Leading, Linking, Innovating, Transforming
Conference streams and outcomes:
Clinical and provider networks
“Service-level innovation”
Ageing populations and changing disease patterns are the impetus behind the growing interest in integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care approaches. This stream will explore the benefits that clinical, provider and practice networks offer in support of best practice clinical care, quality and improvement in general practice and primary health care, and the design and implementation of innovative service delivery models, giving delegates tangible ideas and examples of how this can be achieved in the context of a comprehensive primary health care model.
Health governance and leadership networks
“Systems-level change”
Driving a progressive comprehensive primary health care agenda requires renewed health governance and leadership skills. This stream will examine the concept of ‘managerially-intelligent clinicians’ and ‘clinically-intelligent managers’ as a way of exploring the skills sets and leadership qualities required for shaping systems-level change in a new health care environment. It will specifically demonstrate how networks have been, and can be, utilised to drive systems-level change effectively and efficiently across settings.
Multi/cross-sectoral networks
“Health in all policies: networking across sectors”
The best population health outcomes cannot be achieved by the health system alone. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and is determined by many social, economic and environmental factors beyond the scope of the traditional health system. Multiple sectors must therefore forge sustainable, collaborative networks to achieve health in all policies. This stream will provide delegates with the latest in research and evidence, examples and ideas on how networks have been, and can be, utilised to achieve cross-sectoral collaboration across respective settings.
Table Top Presentations
Abstracts are being sought for the two Table Top sessions – for the second year we’ve included this highly popular means of sharing a broad range of information in a short period of time. Table Tops will involve multiple presenters, with each presenter at a round table of up to nine participants. Presentations will be a total of 10 minutes’ duration, with five minutes to present, and five minutes for extension, adaptation and discussion of the presentation. Presenters move tables at the sound of the music, and repeat their presentation. This gives participants a chance to hear about a number of innovative approaches, to ask questions for follow up and application in their local environment and to test their own ideas.
The two Table Top sessions will be a mix of three themes:
- Clinical and provider networks: service-level innovation
- Health governance and leadership networks: systems-level change
- Multi/cross-sectoral networks: health in all policies – networking across sectors
For more information on submitting a Table Top please click here.