Your chance to tell Patricia Hewitt what she is doing wrong – and right
 Kay East, Chief Health Professions Officer, outlines the themes of next month’s conference for AHPs:
The Chinese proverb ‘may you live in interesting times’is true of the NHS now more than ever. Many AHPs have been in touch to let us know that life is difficult as people face change in every part of the care system. The architecture of health and social care is challenging established practice.
With this in mind, our forthcoming conference – ‘New directions, challenges and choices’ – on 5 July, will address the reform agenda, giving AHP leaders the information they need to do things differently. This year the aim is to attract leaders from all areas, not just managers, but also clinical champions and others who aspire to lead. Support workers have leadership roles in their work areas, and those who are educating the next generation of leaders are nurturing practitioners who will work in a very different world. We want to attract everyone who has an active role in influencing the future.
Last year’s feedback has helped us to make sure our workshops reflect the relevant issues: practice based commissioning; business planning; managing finance; and integrated service improvement partnerships, will be some of the topics covered. We will address leadership issues to help you deliver quick wins, and cover the public health agenda, which needs to be part of everything we do in both health and social care. We will also be addressing new approaches to services through social enterprise approaches.
The conference is designed to help you influence those making local commissioning and delivery decisions. Patricia Hewitt will present her vision for health and social care, and Chris Beasley, the Chief Nursing Officer, will speak about the critical relationship between nursing and the allied health professions. Alan Doran will discuss his leading role in delivering the changes identified in the Our health, our care, our say White Paper and the move of services from secondary to primary care.
So whether you like to consider experiences and are enthusiastic about change, want to reflect and learn from others before embracing change, or to think about the complexities underpinning the changes, there will be something for you.
For AHPs, ‘wait and see’ is no longer an option. We know from surveys that patients value the changes that have been made in the NHS. We need to build on this and actively lead change across the whole health and social care landscape.
I look forward to seeing you on 5 July 2006 at the Royal College of Physicians, London. Click for details and to register, or telephone 0845 363 1478.
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