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An Overview: Provisional Programme

Detailed Programme

Conference aimed at:
Health care researchers, policy makers, economists, managers & decision makers, Health care industry strategists and analysts.

Major issues:
Health care policy, financing, organisation & governance, development, evaluation, quality, efficiency, equity and access.

The Programme:
The programme will consist of over 130 oral presentations and 40 plus poster presentations from more than 20 countries. Likely streams of papers are:

International health care reform - Consequences of health care reforms - Health care organisations - Innovative service delivery - Managed Care, health care insurance & financing - Cost, quality & efficiency - Containing demand - Contracting models - Evidence based purchasing - Economic evaluation - Purchasing from Primary Care - Budgets & GP commissioning - Issues across the interface - Management costs & Management performance - Making sense of routine data - Using health outcomes - Making performance indicators effective - Audit & Quality - Quality: new perspectives - Changing the culture on evidence & quality - Consumer issues - Technology assessment - IT assessment - Payment & Employment - Tele medicine - Healthcare and Ageism - Waiting Time - Organisational Design and Hospital Performance.

Click here to see some of the papers already accepted.

Call for further posters
Abstracts for poster presentation are still being considered. Please send title, authors, affiliation and an abstract of not more than 250 words as soon as possible. If papers are to be considered for publication in the conference proceedings then full papers are required by 31^st March 2000 (see Instructions for Authors). Abstract submissions are welcome on paper, on disk (PC or Apple Mac, with paper copy) or by email. Please include full postal and email address (where possible).

Key note Speakers include:
Sir David Carter, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland.
Professor Andrew Bindman, University of California, San Francisco.
Professor Thomas Rundall, University of California, Berkeley.

Conference proceedings
Selected papers from the conference will again be published in an edited volume of conference proceedings, or may be eligible for inclusion in a special issue of the journal Health Care Management Science. The conference proceedings will be provided free to all attending delegates.

For further information, registration forms or abstract submission:

SIHCM2000

Department of Management

University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK

Tel. (++44 1334) 462877

Fax. (++44 1334) 462812

Department of Management, University of St Andrews