EVENT REVIEW
Putting integration on centre stage
Health+Care 2016
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The Health+Care conference returned to London’s ExCeL on 29-30 June, providing a world class teaching and networking for healthcare professionals. Health Business reviews the show Health+Care is the most comprehensive event for health and care professionals and takes visitors from vision to implementation. With a focus on integration, Health+Care 2016 comprised of four events, running in tandem, and included: The Commissioning Show, Technology First, The Residential Care Show and The Home Care Show. This year’s show satisfied the needs of all key health and care system stakeholders and fulfilled all learning needs to disseminate transformation and deliver best practice in a senior peer to peer environment, enabling visitors to meet and network with like‑minded professionals facing similar challenges. In the face of social care funding cuts that are
leaving care business, big, small and council reliant, struggling to keep afloat, Health+Care brought all of the stakeholders together to discuss preventative steps to ensure the situation does not get any worse, providing a dedicated programme with hard-hitting advice to help care businesses cope with the mounting pressure. TRANSFORMATION HUB Across England, local leaders of public services are now facing up to the challenge of meeting the needs of their local populations with significantly less
resources. The government has embarked on the process of devolving decision making powers and control of available resources to local areas, and the pace is set to quicken. For local areas, the challenge of truly transforming how services are delivered is immense. Not only do new service delivery models need designing, but new organisational models that threaten the existence of existing organisations may be needed. The 2016 Health+Care presented the E
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