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Joint Department of Health, NHS NW and VSNW conference in Manchester
10 October 2009
Delivering Social Value: Strengthening our Communities, a national conference exploring how NHS and third sector organisations can work together to improve the quality and value of services will take place on Friday 6th November in Manchester.
Delivering Social Value: Strengthening our Communities
NHS & third sector organisations improving quality and value through working together
Friday 6th November, 10am to 4pm
Midland Hotel, Manchester
In April 2009, eight senior NHS and third sector managers from North West England participated in a study tour to Heartland Health in the US state of Missouri. The group chose to visit Heartland because of its outstanding reputation as a leader in promoting community health and well being in economically deprived circumstances. In November, a team from Heartland Health will be participating in a study tour to NHS North West to learn about partnership initiatives in the region aimed at promoting community health and wellbeing – often also in deprived circumstances.Their visit will conclude with this event.
- Provide an opportunity to hear what both teams believe they have learned and how they are applying that learning to improve community health and well-being
- Highlight partnership initiatives in the North West that promote Social Value
- Compare the approach to delivering Social Value in the North West with that being pursued elsewhere in the country
- Showcase learning from the Missouri study tour for NHS and Third Sector Partners
- Compare UK and US approaches to partnership working to improve community health and well-being
- Discuss with an invited panel how Social Value can best contribute to national policy
- Mike Farrar, Chief Executive, NHS NW
- Lowell Kruse, Senior Fellow, Heartland Foundation
- Nigel Edwards, Policy Director, the NHS Confederation
- Richard Caulfield, Chief Executive, Voluntary Sector North West
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