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Westminster Health Forum policy conference announces Webinar for Older People’s Care
Westminster Health Forum policy conference announces Webinar for Older People’s Care
Next steps for improving older people’s care – integration, managing the impact of COVID-19, and driving forward preventative healthcare
Dateline Morning, Wednesday, 28th April 2021
The conference will be an opportunity to assess proposed reforms affecting the future care of older people in the Government’s Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all white paper.
Delegates will also consider what can be learned from the management of care through the pandemic – and the policy support required to tackle the critical challenges currently being faced around community support, integrated care, and managing and preventing long-term conditions.
Areas for discussion include:
• progress on integrated care systems and community care – and the potential impact of proposals in the Future of Health and Care white paper
• rollout of urgent rapid response teams and reducing the length of hospital admissions
• delivery of care during the COVID-19 crisis, and the vaccination programme
• digital remote management of long-term conditions
• self-funding of older people’s care
• prevention, including weight management services
• tackling loneliness
The discussion is bringing together stakeholders with key policy officials who are due to attend from DHSC and The Scottish Government; as well as parliamentary pass-holders from the House of Lords.
The meeting will be chaired by:
Baroness Pitkeathley
Speakers are:
Dr Adrian Hayter, National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Person-Centred Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Dr Michael Dixon, National Clinical Lead, Social Prescribing, NHS England and NHS Improvement; Co-Chair, Social Prescribing Network and Chairman, College of Medicine
Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive, Care England;
Anna Dixon, Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better;
Professor Paul Gately, Professor of Exercise and Obesity, Leeds Beckett University and Chief Executive, MoreLife;
Jamie Innes, Product Director, Inhealthcare;
Professor Martin Knapp, Professor of Health and Social Care Policy, Health Policy Department, LSE, and Director, School for Social Care Research, NIHR;
Dr Lizzie Ward, Principal Research Fellow, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton
Jennifer Gardner, Stroke Association;
Adrian Hopper, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust;
Gareth Lyon, Associated Retirement Community Operators;
James Roach, Conclusio
