Change Champions Call for papers
Dates: 3 June - 4 June 2010
Due by: 15 March 2010
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Seminar Aims
Highlight strategies for:
- Improving access to and managing demand for public oral and dental care
- Integrating oral and dental care into general healthcare and well being
- Improving preventive oral and dental care programs
Showcase innovations programs and projects with demonstrated outcomes that have:
- Impacted waiting times for oral and dental care
- Improved quality, safety and efficiency of service delivery with a particular focus on service integration and co-ordination of care
- Focussed on preventive programs
- Addressed workforce challenges including recruitment, retention, education and training
Dates: 5 August - 6 August 2010
Due by: 15 April 2010
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seminar Aims:
To share information about climate change and its impact on human health and healthcare planning and service delivery
To show case innovative initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have reduced the carbon footprint in health care at any level of the organisation, including what worked well and what could have worked better.
To showcase innovations projects that have focussed on reducing the impact of health service delivery on the environment including those that focus on:
o Improving patient care by improving energy efficiency anywhere in/ at any level of the organisation
o Engaging staff, patients and communities in initiatives to address climate change as it relates to health service delivery, now and in the future
o Greening operations at any level of the organisation
Dates: 26 August - 27 August 2010
Due by: 30 April 2010
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Seminar Aims
- Highlight strategies, systems, structures and redesigns that have resulted in improvements in the safe and timely delivery of emergency care
- Showcase models of care/service delivery/clinical practice improvement and other innovations projects with demonstrated outcomes that have improved patient flows
- Showcase patient centred approaches to the design, management, co-ordination and delivery of improved services for outpatients.This seminar is collaboration of Change Champions P/L and Queensland Health
Dates: 2 September - 3 September 2010
Due by: 15 May 2010
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Seminar Aims
• Highlight strategic directions and policy initiatives that focus on the patient at the centre of care
• Showcase development programs that focus on patient empowerment and patients as leaders of quality improvement initiatives
• Showcase innovations programs where learning from the patient experience has improved service delivery and practice
• Share information on approaches to measuring the impact and outcomes of patient involvement in service delivery and practice
Dates: 9 September - 10 October 2010
Due by: 15 May 2010
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Seminar Aims
• Highlight strategies, systems, structures and redesigns that have resulted in improvements in the delivery of emergency and elective surgery.
• Showcase models of care/financial models and models of service delivery and practice in emergency and elective surgery.
• Showcase innovative projects with demonstrated outcomes that have resulted in improvements the improved balance of emergency and elective surgery.