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Forthcoming Conferences and Events

The European Society for Person Centered Healthcare organises: (A) its own Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony; (B) topic-specific European conferences (illness-related and non illness-related) & (C) week long intensive residential training courses for (i) clinical practitioners engaged in everyday care and (ii) clinicians wishing to become trainers/mentors.

A.     ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND AWARDS CEREMONY

The first Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony of the ESPCH will be held in Madrid on 3 & 4 July 2014. The Conference is designed to look critically at the concept and practice of PCH and to map the best ways forward accordingly.  At the Awards Ceremony, the Annual Oration of the Society will be delivered by the President, Professor Sir Jonathan Asbridge DSc (hc), at which new Fellows, Members, Associates and Students of the Society will be formally admitted. The winners of the ESPCH Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be announced at this time, with winners presented with their medal and certificate. The winner of the Platinum Medal will deliver a Lectio Magistralis on Day 2 of the Conference. The award ceremonies will be formal and academically robed, with members of the Medical and Popular Press in attendance for photographic opportunities, journal and newspaper coverage and interviews. The Conference Dinner follows the Awards Ceremony. 

B.     EUROPEAN CONFERENCE SERIES ON PERSON CENTERED HEALTHCARE

The European Conference and Publication Series on Person-Centered Healthcare (‘The Series’) is a major developmental initiative of the new Society. It will function to provide detailed reviews of recent advances in biomedicine and technology and expert clinical interpretation/opinion for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of a wide variety of chronic malignant/non-malignant conditions and diseases and to examine how these advances in science can be delivered to patients within models of practice which take due account of the patient’s broader needs and circumstances, including his/her lifestyle, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual requirements in addition to his/her physical needs.

Structurally, conferences in the Series will take the form of intensive 2-day events, commencing at 08.30 hours and concluding at 18.30 hours, with some 24 – 26 presentations delivered over this time by leading clinicians, academics and patients/patient advocacy organisations brought together from all over Europe (and elsewhere). A case-based Masterclass has been built into each conference in order to demonstrate the application of general person-centered care principles and methods to individual and complex patients.

Delegates attending these conferences will receive an intensive and data-rich update on new scientific and technological advances for the investigation, management and follow-up of the given illness/disease, but also - and importantly - knowledge of how to address with the multidisciplinary team the needs and circumstances of the ill patient viewed as a whole person.

The illness-specific conferences are supplemented by other European conferences which focus on clinical education, health information technology, implementation science and change management strategies – et cetera.

C.     INTENSIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING COURSES ORGANISED BY THE ESPCH

The Society has engaged in the organisation of two specific types of intensive training courses:

(a)  An intensive 7-day residential course for the education of practising clinicians in person-centered healthcare (Introductory).

(b) An intensive 7-day residential course for the formation of clinical mentors/leaders in person-centered healthcare (Advanced).

These two types of courses will be delivered at recognised, State-accredited academic and clinical educational establishments across Europe. For further information on content, fees and to book places, please e-mail Professor Andrew Miles at:  andrew.miles@pchealthcare.org.uk