20-24 October 2014
Runnymede Hotel, Runnymede-on-Thames, Windsor Road, Egham, Surrey TW20 0AG
What is Festival of Evidence?
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See ‘Festival of Evidence Programme’ to find out more about the schedule and about the ‘Plenary speakers’.
Why is it needed?
Unlike Evidence Based Medicine, with decades of development and investment, care process engineering is still in its early stages. This might be surprising, given the sophistication of modern medicine and the systems used elsewhere in the economy. However, even the concept of evidence varies, quite apart from having agreed standards to integrate outcomes and operational measures, financial analyses and indicators of patient satisfaction. Thus, using evidence reproducibly to deliver higher quality care with greater efficiency at scale remains a major challenge. Moreover, the literature is fragmented with various ways of presenting different types of evidence, spread across journals, websites, Annual Reports, guidance documentation and held in people’s memories.
This is an opportunity to identify what evidence there is, how it is being generated, and what should be done to make it more systematic.
Registration 2014
A day or multi-day pass will be non-refundable, although you may change your days or purchase more days up until 20th September. Thereafter there will be an administrative charge of £20 to change the days, although extra days may be purchased at the prevailing rate. The costs of passes are as follows:
Attendance rate
1 – day pass £150
2 – days pass £240
3 – days pass £330
4 – days pass £400
5 – days pass £450
Venue
For directions to the venue please visit www.runnymedehotel.com/. If you would like to book a room at the hotel, email Jenny Evans or call 01784 220 780. There is a special hotel rate for attendees who register for the event.
Call for Papers
Deadline for Papers: 6th OCTOBER 2014. We anticipate a high acceptance rate, since the conference itself will be used to assess the submitted evidence.
The papers of interest should be on process engineering in health and social care, including:
– Simulation and modelling and evidence of effectiveness
– Concepts of evidence and their use in process improvement
– Risk quantification and stratification methods and tools and their use in process improvement
– Systems thinking in operational design, roll-out and improvement of health and social services
– The relationship between models, evidence, risk and decision-making in health and social care
You can submit:
– Personal story
– Review
– Unpublished research
Submitted papers should provide evidence in a structured way and should not exceed 8 pages in length. In addition, all submissions should be accompanied with a compulsory summary using the template ‘Proforma for Evidence Document’.
Submissions are by e-mail to: [email protected].
All accepted contributing papers will be presented as posters during the appropriate session of the conference. Posers should be on A1 size paper (594mm X 841mm). Selected personal stories will be presented orally during the afternoon session on Thursday 23rd, as 10 minutes pitches.
I met Terry Young at the HSJ Innovation Summit where he was inviting people to submit evidence. We have a number of new classes of evidence:
Operational data extracted from GP clinical systems which show for example demand patterns by month/week/day/hour, waiting times and response times, consultation durations, demographics and continuity.
Real time online data capture from receptionists and clinicians during consultations, showing what happened and how the call was resolved
Patient survey data gathered same day from patients who have used the service, showing the link between speed of response, choice of doctor and patient satisfaction.
All this evidence is to understand general practices as a system.
Analysed and presented, is this the kind of thing which is of interest?