Auckland Hosts Australasian Long-Term Conditions Conference
Auckland to Host Australasian Long -Term Conditions Conference 29-30 July
Delegates challenged to rethink prevention and treatment of long-term conditions in the broader context of healthcare
17 June 2014 – The Long-Term Conditions Clinical Network and The Health Navigator Charitable Trust will host the second international conference championing new models of care for people and communities with long term conditions.
There is increasing recognition among clinicians and policy makers about the impact of long-term conditions on acute demand, escalating healthcare costs and overloaded hospitals. Over the last forty years, the health needs of our population have changed dramatically, yet the health system remains predominantly focused on acute conditions and the provision of acute, episodic care.
The Conference, entitled ‘Health – the art of the possible’ will canvas local and international experience in integrated care, some of the wide range of technology enablers, the positive elements of healthy aging and strategies for living well with long-term conditions.
Over 40 speakers are confirmed from the USA,
Europe, Australia and New Zealand, including:
• Dr Nick
Goodwin, CEO, International Foundation for Integrated Care,
UK
• Professor Chad Boult – an expert in models of
care for persons with complex health needs
• Dr Sue
Wells and Dr Robyn Whittaker, both recent Harkness Fellows
and experts at applying new technology tools to help support
people and their health.
• Ross Dawson, business
commentator and futurist.
‘Long-term conditions (such as diabetes, arthritis, recurrent depression, heart disease, chronic lung disease and many more) have a major impact on families, communities and the country as a whole through premature morbidity and mortality as well as escalating costs and overloaded hospitals’ says Dr Janine Bycroft, Clinical Director of Health Navigator Charitable Trust and co-convenor of the Long-Term Conditions Conference . ‘ A major paradigm shift is needed in how we (as clinicians) work with patients so people with long-term conditions become more like partners in their own healthcare; and we also need aligned incentives to integrate community and hospital services to improve patient experience and safety, health outcomes, efficiencies, effectiveness and equity.’
Health – the art of the possible will appeal to health professionals, funders, researchers, consumers, policy makers and all those with an interest in long-term conditions.
For more information on the programme and speakers, and to register http://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/conference/
Speakers bios:
Dr Nick
Goodwin, CEO, International Foundation for Integrated
Care & Senior Associate, The King's Fund,
London, UK
Nick is a social scientist, academic
and policy analyst and cofounder/CEO of the International Foundation for Integrated
Care (IFIC), a notforprofit membershipbased
foundation dedicated to improving the science, knowledge and
application of integrated health care across the world. He
is EditorinChief of its scientific periodical the International
Journal of Integrated Care. Nick also works as a Senior
Associate at The King’s Fund, London and previously
led its programme of research for improving and integrating
care to older people and those with longterm conditions.
Nick's current portfolio of work includes UK, US and
Europeanbased casestudy research examining the
development and impact of integrated care to people with
complex and longterm health problems. Nick supports
international commitments to the application of integrated
care as part of the European Innovation Partnership on
Active and Healthy Ageing and is leading work for the World
Health Organisation to support the development of a global
strategy for personcentered and integrated
care.
Dr Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA
Chad
Boult is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr Boult
holds joint appointments on the faculties of the Johns
Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing. A
geriatrician for more than 20 years, he has extensive
experience in developing, testing, evaluating, and diffusing
new models of health care for older people. As an expert on
chronic care, Dr Boult has spoken at meetings and
conferences throughout the world. He teaches two
graduate-level courses Innovations in Health Care for Aging
Populations and New Frontiers in Gerontology and is author
of a 2009 book Guided Care: A New Nurse-Physician
Partnership in Chronic Care. From 2000-2005, he edited the
Models and Systems of Geriatric Care section of the Journal
of the American Geriatrics Society, and he has reviewed
manuscripts for 20 scientific. During 2009-2010, Dr Boult
served as a “Health and Aging Policy Fellow” at the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS).
Dr Susan Wells, Senior Lecturer at the
School of Population Health, University of
Auckland
Susan was a GP for 10 years before
becoming a public health medicine specialist and moving into
a research career focusing on improving care for heart
disease and diabetes via ehealth initiatives. She
coordinated the content of the web-based decision support
tool, PREDICT, for assessing and managing cardiovascular and
diabetes risk and also pioneered the tool “Your Heart
Forecast” to facilitate CVD risk communication.Sue has
just come back to New Zealand after a 12 month U.S Harkness
Fellowship in Health Policy and Practice. Her main focus of
research in USA was patient engagement and interaction with
health services via patient portals and how organizations
were maximizing the benefits for those with chronic
disease.
Dr Robyn Whittaker, Public Health
Physician, Researcher and Mobile Health
Specialist
Health programmes can be integrated
into daily life…they are proactive and there at the
‘right’ times, can be personalised, interactive and
provide a level of social support for self-management of
long-term conditions and chronic diseases. Robyn Whittaker
has led the development of multimedia mobile phone
programmes for smoking cessation and depression prevention
and is Principal Investigator on studies (STUB IT and
ADAPT). She is programme leader, Health Informatics and
Technology in the National Institute for Health Innovation,
University of Auckland and Clinical Leader research and
innovation at Waitemata DHB and its Centre for Health
Technology and Creative Design. Robyn graduated in medicine
from The University of Auckland and worked in hospitals and
Family Planning Association clinics before undertaking a
Masters in Public Health. Her experience in long-term
conditions has included establishing and implementing a
Cardiovascular Health Project for Waitemata, involving
tobacco control, improving nutrition and physical activity,
electronic decision support, cardiac rehabilitation and
organised stroke care. Robyn's wide experience in
developments arising from mobile phone text messaging
programmes has included implementation as a national smoking
cessation programme in New Zealand ‘Txt2quit’; licensing
for international use to HSA Global; and collaboration with
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Robyn
spent a year in Washington DC, USA as a Harkness Fellow in
HealthCare Policy and Practice and has been consulting to
the WHO tobacco free initiative, IBM, the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services Text4Health Taskforce. She is a
Fellow of the New Zealand College of Public Health
Medicine
Ross Dawson, leading futurist,
entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and
bestselling author
Ross Dawson is globally
recognized as a leading futurist. He is Founding Chairman of
four companies, including the leading future research and
strategy firm Future Exploration Network. He contributes to
events around the world. He is a best-selling author of
books including the prescient Living Networks, which foresaw
the social networking revolution, as well as Trends in the
Living Networks, ranked as one of the top business blogs in
the world. Ross’s media appearances include CNN, Bloomberg
TV, SkyNews, ABC TV, Today and Sunrise shows, Washington
Post and many others. Ross sees healthcare as one of the
most uncertain futures of any industry today as health
technologies are developing beyond our pace of
understanding, systems are so complex and there potential
for new kinds of health risks (and wellness benefits) to
emerge and unpredictable social responses to these
changes.
ENDS