Nicholas Mays, Professor of Health Policy, Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Visiting Professor of Health Policy, Health Services Research Centre gave a lecture on "Emerging findings from the English NHS Health Reforms Evaluation Programme" in Sydney on Tuesday, 16 March 2010.

A copy of the abstract for the lecture is attached. Mays Sydney Lecture.pdf

 For more information on the English NHS Health Reforms Evaluation Programme visit www.lshtm.ac.uk/hsru

The 2009 Conference was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and lived up to the very high standards set over the past ten years.  The conference provided a great forum for the presentation of the latest research in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the opportunity to receive updates from key international speakers about developments in other parts of the world and the opportunity to hear from and exchange views with policy makers.  

This year’s theme ‘Health Services Research – Reforming, Responding, Rewarding’ reflected the fact that in Australia we have seen the Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report,  together with proposals for the future of both primary and preventive health services. And in New Zealand, incremental change and innovation continues apace, while memories of earlier radical restructuring and subsequent reform fatigue still lingers. 

The 2009 conference saw an exceptional group of international visitors headed by James Marone, Professor of Political Science at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. James lived up to his reputation as an entertaining speaker and an original thinker and kicked the event off with a thought provoking look at healthcare and politics in the United States. His new book, the Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office from Roosevelt to Bush and an earlier publication Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American Society (2003) which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction,  were in huge demand from the Co-op Bookshop who had a stand at the event. 

Andrew Bazemore, the second keynote speaker was sponsored by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Andrew is the Assistant Director of the Robert Graham Center in Washington, DC and a leading researcher in primary health care and under-served populations.  The third keynote international speaker was Gert Westert, Professor of Health Services Research at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Gert led the team which produced the Dutch Health Care Performance Report in 2006 and 2008 and he outlined how the Dutch, currently the most reformist health system, are doing health reform.

International Keynote Speakers: Andrew Bazemore , Jame Marone and Gert Westert

There was also a great line up of speakers from Australia and New Zealand and a range of special sessions, including one on Harkness Fellowships in Health Policy and Practice sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund and special sessions and workshops for early career researchers, including a presentation from the NHMRC on grant and fellowship opportunities and developing an HSR career, and new activities for corporate members. The innovate approach to the presentation of posters, which allowed poster presenters an opportunity to talk on their research for 5 minutes, was well received. 

The Association was also very lucky to have the Hon Paul Lucas MP, Queensland Deputy Premier and Minister for Health speak at the Welcome Reception on 25 November.

And an excellent Conference Dinner was held at the picturesque Customs House.

There was a great atmosphere at this year's conference, which was attended by over 250 delegates and a strong feeling that the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand. (which was an initiative that grew from the very fist conference) has come of age and that there is now a very strong and vibrant health services research community in Australia and New Zealand.  The Association is looking forward to a very busy and successful two years, in the lead up to the next conference, which will be held in Adelaide in late 2011. 

To view photographs from the conference go to http://www.hsraanz.org/Events/Photographs.aspx

For more information visit http://www.healthservicesconference.com.au

Final handbook.pdf

PHCRIS conference report.  

A special corporate members dinner was held prior to our 6th Biennial Conference on 24 November 2009.  This was a new initiative to thank our corporate groups for their continued support and provide them with an opportunity to network with each other and to the meet keynote speakers from the conference.  The dinner was held at the Point Restaurant and Bar in Brisbane and was attended by the international keynote speakers James Morone, Gert Westert and Andrew Bazemore and by representatives of Queensland Health and the New Zealand Ministry of Health. 

There was a friendly atmosphere at the event and corporate members reported that it was useful to have an opportunity to meet their counterparts from other universities and centres, keynote speakers and government representatives away from the pressure of the full conference.  The keynote speakers thought that this was a unique event, a great way to start the conference and useful introduction to HSR in Australia and New Zealand.  All agreed that similar events should be organised in the future.

Below Jane Hall, Chair of the Conference Organising Committee directs proceedings.

The Association ran a Seminar at Melbourne University on the 4th of September. This seminar discussed the different methodologies used to elicit citizen’s preference for treatment and services and their place in health services research.

final program

Slides

Colleen Doyle_Comumers in the too hard basket.pdf

Jackie Street _FluViews community engagement.pdf

John McKie Who Decides.pdf

Rosalie Viney_Discrete Choice Experiments.pdf

Paying for Performance – Understanding the Impact of the UK NHS GP

Contract Quality and Outcome Framework Since 2004 - Professor Nick Mays
The presentation for these events is now available.

5th Health Services & Policy Reserch Conference 2007

More Information
Conference hanbook (including Abstracts)

HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING & THE PRODUCTION OF HEALTH: DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTENDED ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR NEEDS-BASED HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING - Dr Stephen Birch, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lecutre

Stephen Birch, George Kephart, Gail Tomblin-Murphy, Linda O'Brien-Pallas, Rob Alder, and Adrian MacKenzie: Human Resources Planning and the Production of Health: A Needs-Based Analytical Framework, pp. 1-16. Canadian Public Policy Volume 33 Supplement 1 January 2007 Link

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Annual General Meeting 4pm on Wednesday 3 December 2008, at the Offices of CHERE in Mary Anne House, Faculty of Business, UTS, Level 4, 645 Harris Street, Haymarket, NSW 2000 

The 2008 AGM was held at 4pm on Wednesday 3 December 2008.  Agenda items included the election of the Executive Committee for 2009. 

Agenda

HSRAANZ Public Lecture "Using Routine Data to Measure and Improve Safety and Quality of Hospital Care ".  Dr Stephen Duckett, Chief Executive of the Centre for Healthcare Improvement in Queensland Health

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