11.30 Shifting chronic care into the community: what works?
Dr Debbie Singh Senior Associate, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham

12.00 Improving the care experience for patients with long term conditions: the whole systems approach
Richard Smith Chief Executive Office, UnitedHealth Europe

12.30 Beyond Evercare: implementing the long term conditions agenda in Luton, England
Wendy Walker Senior Project Manager, Patient Services Directorate, Luton teaching Primary Care Trust

11.30 What do we know about communities and successful aging?
Dennis Kodner Professor of Urban Public Health, New York, USA

12.00 Home hospitalisation across sectors: emerging problems and solutions
Birthe Dinesen Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg Universit

12.30 Integrated care for people with long-term neurological conditions in the UK: evaluating the impact of the National Service Framework
Gillian Parker Director, Social Work Research and Development Unit, University of York

11.30 New technologies to support long term care for the elderly and disabled
Heinz Wolff Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering, Brunel University

12.00 Improving COPD management: linking health forecasting with anticipatory care
Mark Smith The Met Office

12.30 E-health diabetes co-management
Donal Flynn Manchester University

11.30 - 1.00
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s Primary Care/Long Term Conditions Priority Programme has been working with five local health and social care communities in the UK to understand how to make a sustained shift in care from hospital to community-based settings that make a real difference to patient care. Drawing on the practical experiences from these field sites, this symposium session will provide a unique insight into ‘how to’ deliver the shift.

The symposium session will be led by Gary Lucking Head of Primary Care/Long Term Conditions Programme. NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

2.00 The nursing contribution to chronic disease management: unravelling what kind of nursing achieves what kinds of patient outcomes
Claire Goodman Professor in Healthcare Research, University of Hertfordshire

2.30 Towards a theory of nursing care integration
Denise Malo Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal

3.00 A community nurse-directed heart failure management program for patients at low risk in an Italian general practice setting
Lorenzo Roti Public Health Department, University of Florence

2.00 Promoting integrated care for people with multiple sclerosis
Josh Wiener RTI International, Washington, DC, USA

2.30 The role of scientific evidence in the development and implementation of the Ontario stroke system
Jill Cameron Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto

3.00 Avoiding hospital admissions in COPD: an innovative project for home-based COPD care
Darren Gibbons Project Lead, High Impact Programme Manager, Cannock PCT

2.00 Six years of continuity of care research: Emerging lessons from the English NHS
Maria Woloshynowych Lecturer in Clinical Safety, Imperial College London

2.30 Synthesizing evidence and best practice on continuity of care
Jeannie Haggerty University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

3.00 An exploration of health and social care service integration in a deprived South Wales community
Carolyn Wallace Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sport & Science, University of Glamorgan

2.00 - 3.30
Many elderly persons have complex and severe acute and chronic conditions and/or disabilities leading to them being frequent and costly users of acute care. This symposium session draws on British and international experiences to explore the characteristics of the very frail older person, the nature of specialized geriatric services, and the role of primary and community care in meeting their needs.

The symposium session will be led by:
Howard Bergman The Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor and Director Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University, Montreal
Dennis Kodner Professor of Urban Public Health, New York, USA
Rebecca Rosen Fellow, Health Policy, The King’s Fund