This event saw the health services research community to address the critical challenges confronting health care delivery in the UK and abroad. The meeting provided delegates with the chance to hear about rigorous, cutting-edge research and policy analysis, debate health care policies and to network with leaders in the field.
The meeting covered the breadth of health services research and health care policy, including (but not exclusively) the following themes:
- Patient experience
- Workforce
- Measuring outcomes
- Commissioning
- Improvement science
- Quality and efficiency
- Research implementation
- Health equalities
The scope of the conference extends:
- From quantitative to qualitative research
- Across all health care professions including nursing, pharmacy, medicine, management, physiotherapy, midwifery
- Across all relevant disciplines including sociology, economics, epidemiology, health policy, statistics, psychology, history
- Across all aspects of services including primary care, community care, social care, hospital care
- From health promotion and disease prevention, through curative services to long-term, rehabilitative and custodial care
For more information about the programme and a summary of the conference, please visit our event web page.
Prizes
The prize of £250 for the best research presentation went to Catherine O'Donnell, Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, University of Glasgow for ‘The role of primary care organisations in governing health care: lessons from the GMS contract’.
Rachel Cope from MRUK research won a prize of £150 for the best poster for ‘Research to establish smoking prevalence among young people in a Merseyside borough’.
A new £200 prize, sponsored by the Health Foundation, was awarded for the research (presentation or poster) that has made the best contribution to the field of improvement science. The winner was Dr Thomas Yates from the NIHR CLAHRC for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland. His presentation was on ‘Risk score data from the Walking Away from Diabetes study’