The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Consumer Engagement Team is providing funding to help consumers attend and participate in the Second Australasian Long-Term Conditions Conference: Health - the art of the possible at Waipuna Lodge and Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland.
There is a growing interest and sense of urgency in the area of long‐term conditions – the contribution to acute hospital demand, escalating costs and overloaded hospitals, yet there are few opportunities for clinicians, funders, programme managers, service providers, community organisations, researchers, consumers and policy analysts to meet and share ideas, knowledge and learnings. There are also few opportunities to look at the wide range of technology enablers, the positive elements of healthy aging and strategies for living well with long-term conditions. This conference aims to provide some opportunities to do this.
Some of the themes of the Conference include:
- People, health and technology
- Integrating policies and systems for health and whānau ora
- Changing paradigms – healthcare – consumers - communities – partnering - health providers and consumers as partners
- Bridging science, technology, design and services.
You can view the full programme for the conference and workshops on the website: http://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/conference/
The purpose of the Commission's sponsorship for consumers is to ensure consumer/service -user, family/whanau and community network perspectives are included throughout. The registration fee is $595 including GST for the two day conference 29-30 July and pre-conference workshops range from $95 to $300. Please check these out on the above website.
To be eligible for partial or full-funding assistance, sponsored registrants must be attending in their own right and not as a paid employee (unless they are attending in their own time). It will be particularly beneficial to have consumer participants in workshops on 28th July and throughout the Conference 29-30 July. There is also scope for half day participation. Please let HQSC know how you would like to participate.
Brief email applications should be sent to Gary Sutcliffe at garynsutcliffe@gmail.com
Please include:
· Your name
· Email address
· Telephone contact number
· Preferred method of contact (email, phone, text message)
· An indication of the consumer/community perspective(s) you bring
· What you would like to participate in: workshop(s) on 28th July, Conference 29th July, Conference 30th July.
· What financial assistance you are seeking.
Please email your application by 8am, Friday 18 July. You will be notified via your preferred method of contact by 5pm, Monday 21 July.
