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March 29, 2010
Sixth IMA International Conference on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care: The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Location: Mary Ward House, London
Conference dates: 29 - 31
March 2010
Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2009
Health and Social Care systems are undergoing major changes worldwide, due in part to changes in demography and in part to increased competition between parts of the system whether they are hospitals, primary care trusts, or general practitioners. Yet running health and social care systems efficiently and effectively is crucial to improving or even maintaining our quality of life. Over the years, extensive research has been conducted to find immediate and long-term solutions to issues that are routinely faced by health and social care management professionals, such as waiting lists and bed capacity, hospital redesign, workforce planning and scheduling, patient flow modelling, performance management, disease monitoring, and health care technology assessment. Simulation and modelling techniques (statistical analysis, stochastic processes, queuing theory, mathematical programming, heuristics, discrete event simulation, system dynamics, etc) have shown to be increasingly valuable in providing useful information to aid planning and management.
The aim of the conference is to bring together health care managers, clinicians, management consultants, and mathematicians, operational researchers, statisticians, economists, computer scientists etc from across the world with a view to bridging the gap between the communities and to exploring recent developments and identifying fruitful avenues for further research.
We invite researchers in all relevant problem domains and methodologies to submit abstracts of 300-500 words online at http://online.ima.org.uk/ or to Amy Marsh at Amy.Marsh@ima.org.uk by 20 December 2009. Case studies and methodological papers are both welcome. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by the end of January 2010. Authors should indicate whether they wish to make an oral or a poster presentation. Poster presentations are particularly welcome as they stimulate discussion and feedback.
We are also planning a special poster presentation session for PhD students to show their work in progress. Selected papers presented at the conference (whether orally or as a poster) will be published in the Springer journal Health Care Management Science or the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.
Keynote Speakers
The keynote talks will be given by health services leaders as well as prominent academics involved in health operational research.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh (NHS Medical Director)
Prof William Pierskella (UCLA Anderson School of Management, USA)
Dr David Worthington (Lancaster University Management School)
Kate Silvester BSc MBA FRCOphth (Clinical Systems Improvement) originally trained and practised as an ophthalmologist. In 1991 she retrained as a manufacturing systems engineer and spent seven years in management consultancy transferring manufacturing principles to service industries such as banking, airlines and healthcare. In 1999 she rejoined the UK’s National Health Service and worked on many national programmes improving the flow of patients through the system, thus addressing timeliness, cost and quality. Kate’s specific area of expertise is in the management of organisational systems to address the variability in demand and capacity. In November 2007 she joined the EU-Japan World Class Manufacturing Programme to translate the Lean Thinking approach into Healthcare. She was appointed an Honorary Associate Professor, in the Health Sciences Research Institute at Warwick Medical School in January 2009. She is currently sponsored by The Health Foundation and leads an ‘Inquiry into Flow, Cost and Quality’ with South Warwickshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Organising Committee
Thierry Chaussalet (Chair), University of Westminster
Rose Baker, University of Salford
Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton
Peter Millard, St George’s Hospital Medical School
Martin Pitt, Peninsula Medical School
Martin Utley, CORU, University College London
Registration - Is now open at http://online.ima.org.uk/
Early Bird Conference Fees (before 22 February 2010):
Non IMA Member: £375
IMA Member: £310
Student: £250
Day delegate
rates are available.
Late Conference Fees (after 22 February 2010):
Non
IMA Member: £400
IMA Member: £335
Student: £250
Further information from:
Amy Marsh, Conference Officer
The Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications
Catherine Richards House
16 Nelson Street
Southend-on-Sea
Essex SS1 1EF
United Kingdom
T: 01702 356104
F: 01702 354111
E: amy.marsh@ima.org.uk
W: http://www.ima.org.uk
Charity Registration Number: 1017777
Analysing Patient Data: how to use the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) to evaluate health care policy and practice
Location: York, UK
Dates: 29th-30th March 2010
Workshop at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York: 29th - 30th March 2010
The Hospital Episode Statistics contains details of all admissions to NHS hospitals and all NHS outpatient appointments in England. This intensive workshop introduces participants to HES data and how to handle and manipulate these very large data sets using computer software. Participants will engage in problem-solving exercises, analysing the information in highly interactive sessions.
The workshop is suitable for analysts working in Strategic Health Authorities, hospitals or Primary Care Trusts, and for health care researchers and PhD students.
Places are limited, so please register early to ensure your place. Full details and registration forms are available here: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/training/analysing.htm