Upcoming events

Conferences and events of interest to dementia care professional

Service User Experience in Mental Health: Meeting the National Quality Standard

Date: Tuesday 15 January 2013
Location: London

This one day conference provides an important update on service user experience in mental health with a focus on meeting the new national NICE quality standard for Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health. The quality standard outclines the level of service that people using NHS mental health services should expect to receive.

The conference will also take an indepth look at the role indicators, dashboards and metrics in monitoring and measuring service user experience, and has an extended focus session on improving the service user experience of control and restraint (standard 14).

For more information visit the Healthcare Conferences UK website, or email gemma@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk

Writing Reports for Mental Health Tribunals

Date: Friday 25 January 2013
Location: London

Facilitated by Kate Hill, Solicitor RadcliffeLeBrasseur Solicitors and Senior Trainer, InPractice Training this training day will assist delegates with time management and provide formats to ensure a consistently high standard of report production and presentation. The emphases of the day will be confidence, clarity and compliance.

For further information and to book your place visit their website or email gemma@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk

A 15% discount is available to by quoting ref: hcuk15 when booking.

Control and Restraint Conference

Date: Thursday 7 February 2013
Location: London

This conference is a practical guide to managing Control and Restraint - meeting the National Quality Standard, Legal Requirements and Implementation in practice. Through legal updates, service user perspectives, and practical case studies of implementation in practice the conference will provide a practical approach to ensuring the standards are met in your practice and organisation, whilst ensuring respect for service users.

For further information and to book, please visit the Health Conferences website or contact kerry@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk

Safeguarding Alerts: Referral, Investigation and Improvement

Date: Wednesday 27 February 2013
Location: Manchester

This conference focuses on developing effective systems and process for managing safeguarding alerts from alert, to referral, investigation and improvement. The conference opens with a presentation focussing on what should be reported as a safeguarding alert, and continues with an update from The Care Quality Commission and their role in monitoring safeguarding and safeguarding alerts.
The rest of the day will take a more practical look at case studies on the patient perspective, developing an effective safeguarding alert policy, training, educating and empowering frontline staff in safeguarding alerts, managing a safeguarding alert, and learning from safeguarding alerts.

For further information and to book visit the Health Conferences website or contact kerry@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk

Improving Outcomes for People approaching the End of Life

Date: Wednesday 27 February 2013
Location: London

Chaired by Eve Richardson Chief Executive The National Council for Palliative Care and Dying Matters Coalition this conference focuses on improving outcomes for people approaching the end of life. The recently released Department of Health Fourth Annual Report on End of Life Care focuses on the successes that have been seen to date in delivering the end of life care strategy but also the challenges that still remain in improving outcomes in particular ensuring people spend the last days of life in their place of choosing. Dr Martin McShane End of Life Care Champion NHS Commissioning Board will give a national update on continuing the improvement of end of life care into the new healthcare landscape.

For further information and to book visit the Health Conferences website or contact kerry@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk

A Practical Guide to Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults in Mental Health Services

Date: Tuesday 26 March 2013
Location: London

This conference is a practical guide to improving the safeguarding of vulnerable adults in mental health services, and includes an opening address from Claire Crawley Senior Policy Manager-Adult Safeguarding Department of Health who will look at; what should be included under Safeguarding and which incidents should be put through the safeguarding system and which should be put through standard management and risk processes.

Mental health service practitioners and managers will hear how they can make improvements in practice to ensure effective safeguarding of vulnerable adults within their care.

For further information visit the Health Conferences UK website or contact kerry@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk