This one day conference is a unique learning opportunity and provides an important update on how the act of Involvement and engagement can empower Service Users and improve the quality of service delivery and care in mental health.
Venue: 76 Portland Place, London
Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399
Go to www.healthcare-events.co.uk (click here) for more information and to book a place
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London 11th February 2010 and Manchester 1st March 2010
Are you someone who likes taking initiative and longs to change the world around you? Do you want to influence the way your NHS provides services in your area? If only you knew where to start? RADAR and the Appointments Commission are running two seminars in early 2010 to support and equip people living with Ill health, Injury or Disability (IID) to successfully apply for Non Executive Director roles with their local NHS services – this could be with your Primary Care Trust, your Ambulance Service Trust, your Acute or Foundation NHS Trust or Strategic Health Authority.
Venue: London and Manchester
Contact: Click here for more information and application form
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Independent Living Alternatives' philosophy is based on the fundamental principle that Personal Assistance Users directly manage the day-to-day personal assistance required to live independently. However, what happens when people acquire a secondary impairment or illness and therefore cannot directly manage their personal assistance?
Venue: 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9
Contact: email PAServices@ILAnet.co.uk for more information
Focusing on Improving Outcomes through Care Pathways in Mental Health, this one day conference opens with a keynote session presented by Jim Symington Head of External Commissioning and Improved Care Pathways Programmes National Mental Health Development Unit who will introduce the subject of Integrated Care Pathways for Mental Health and where to start: process mapping and assessing the current service.
Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399,
Venue: 76 Portland Place, London
Go to www.healthcare-events.co.uk (click here) for more information and to book a place
The 4th Folk.us Conference. 'Turning the Tide' seeks to bring together service users, carers and patients involved in changing research culture in Devon. It charts progress on our journey to meaningfully influence and control health and social research.
More information, registration details and 'call for papers' is available at www.folkus.org.uk (click here)
A mental health service users' conference with historians -The Report Part of the ongoing work of the Survivors History Group to record and document the history of the survivors' movement.
Event date: This was in May 2008
