Plenary Session 1: Access and Pathways back into work

While policies and prevention of work related injury should be paramount to any organisation, healthcare workers are recognised as being at higher levels of developing certain types of injury due to their work and interaction with people who are often incapacitated. When injuries occur organisations have a responsibility to manage and support the worker in getting them back into work. The presentation will consider what support the DWP can provide and the schemes (Pathways to Work, Access to Work etc) available to help and enable organisations and workers in returning to work.

Jonathan Shaw MP, Minister for Disabled People

Plenary Session 2: Professional Debate and Discussion Forum - How do we engage people in safer practice/people handling?

Each member of the panel will have 5mins to present a response to the question posed and then questions will be taken from the floor to discuss how safer practice can be achieved in the future.

The Panel will include:

Dr Kit Harling: Chair

Health Care representative: Dr Angela Grainger, Assistant Director of Nursing & Research Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

HSE representative: Amanda James, Health & Social Services, Health Unit & Public Services Centre

Informal Carer's representative: Alex Fox, Director of Policy and Communications, The Princess Royal Trust of Carers

Moving & Handling Advisor: Charmian Romano, Hemel Hempstead General Hospital

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Steve Hawe, Head of Marketing and Fundraising, DLF

Plenary Session 4:  Healthy workforce, healthy patient

A well-managed and healthy workforce is crucial to the well being of the organisation. Key to the well being of workers is the occupational health service with involvement in assessing and managing risk, reducing levelsof sickness absence and long-term absence in managing rehabilitation and the retention of staff who might otherwise be lost. The presentation will discuss how a good occupational health service, coupled with good human resources management and health & safety, has a measurable effect on improving patient morbidity rates.

Julian Topping, Head of Workplace Health, NHS Employers

Plenary Session 5: Personal Health Budgets

Following the commitment in High Quality Care for All, a pilot programme is underway that builds on experience with individual budgets in social care to test personal health budgets as a way of giving people greater control over the NHS services they use. The move towards more personalised, responsive services has the potential to radically improve patient experince but is associated with considerable challenges to the service and to staff. This presentation will set out progress to date and examine some of the key themes arising.

Nicola Watt, Head of Department, Personal Health Budgets Team, Department of Health