Nice for NIHCE in Nice

A friend sent me this link, it seems that Quality and Safety Healthcare is holding an international forum on the 20th to the 23rd of April 2010.

“The 2010 International Forum comes to the city of Nice, located on the French Riviera in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Blessed by a temperate climate and exceptional sunshine, Nice attracts visitors from around the world. Set on the coast with stunning hilltop villages that dot the surrounding countryside, Nice offers lovely seaside promenades, numerous museums and amazing architecture.”

“In view of the current economic climate, the main focus for the 2010 Forum is on "Improving quality, reducing costs". There are more than 80 sessions across four days, from Tuesday 20 April to Friday 23 April. To help you get the best of out the Forum, these sessions are organised into content areas or "streams". You can choose to either register for sessions individually, by day, or follow a specific stream over a few days.

On the first day of the Forum, Tuesday 20 April, there will be four full day mini-courses running concurrently with a full day event, the Global Patient Safety Summit.”


2010 Confirmed keynote and headline speakers include:

Don Berwick, MD, FRCP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. International expert in innovation and leadership, author of “The Change Masters”

Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Founder of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden

Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University, leading health policy expert for various bodies including the World Bank

Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

Laurent Degos, MD, PhD, is Chairman of the Board of the French National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS)

Brent James, Chief Quality Officer & Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare

Bernard Crump, CEO, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, England

Brenda Zimmerman, Professor of Strategic Management, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.

Emily Friedman, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University and Independent Health Policy and Ethics Analyst

Improving quality, reducing costs

In view of current economic climate, this is the Forum's overarching theme. View the conference format and the Forum's six programme streams.

Fees for the ‘event’ are:

Attendance

Early Bird* fee Standard fee You save

4 days, including either full day mini-course or Global Patient Safety Summit

£1,244 £1,396 £152


3 days, including either full day mini-course or Global Patient Safety Summit
£897 £1014 £117


3 days general conference
£837 £954 £117


2 days, including either full day mini-course or Global Patient Safety Summit
-
£823
-
2 days general conference
-
£763
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1 day, either full day mini-course or Global Patient Safety Summit
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£441
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1 day general conference
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£382
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Or if you are in a group the fees are:

Attendance

4 days group, including full day mini-course or Global Patient Safety Summit
Fee (per delegate) You save
£1,330 £66



3 days group, including full day mini-course or Global Patient Safety Summit
£948 £66

3 days general conference
£889 £65


So a “nice” little holiday for the biggest knob at “NIHCE” and the CEO of the Institute of Innovation and Improvement, England, who will be “speaking” at our expense and in our time.

Not to mention of course all the NHS Trust CEOs that will be attending at our expense and in our time.

In this digital age what are all these “experts” doing flying into Nice at a huge cost to the public and a huge cost to the environment when video conferencing is widely available?

Let’s hope that they enjoy the “temperate climate and exceptional sunshine, Nice attracts visitors from around the world. Set on the coast with stunning hilltop villages that dot the surrounding countryside, Nice offers lovely seaside promenades, numerous museums and amazing architecture.”

While there are thousands of patients dying needlessly in our hospitals and wards are understaffed of Nurses.

Jealous? Bloody right, maybe they could invite me speak at their conference about the piss poor attitude of the senior management and even more piss poor treatment doled out by ‘Foundation trusts’.

But then that would be upsetting the applecart wouldn’t it, because these types of Numptys don’t really want to know the truth.

Maybe I should renew my passport just in case.

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