Conferences

	Forthcoming Conferences Location: Holiday Inn, Camden Lock Click here for more information London - 13th & 14th May 2010 Focus on “Policies, Practice & Politics in a New World”
	Directions to the Holiday Inn can be found here.

13th May 8pm- Pre-conference dinner. £30 pp - click here to download a dinner response form.

14th May Main Event 09.15 – 16.00

Full members – Free

Associate members £100

Non members £170

To book please email forum.admin@koiosgroup.com with your name, email and invoice address, stating if you would like to attend the whole event of just the conference. All bookings will be confirmed by email, and all further details will follow by email. (so please ensure all delegate email addresses are given)

	Forthcoming Conferences Location: The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London Click here for more information

Due to popular demand, the SDO Network, in association with the Mental Health Network, is hosting an additional acute mental health ward seminar on Wednesday 24 March 2010. We will showcase some of the latest research on how we can improve the acute mental health ward experience for service users, carers and staff as part of our interactive learning seminar series.

This free one-day event will be held at The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London SE1 (near Waterloo Station) from 10am-4pm. Click here for directions.

	Forthcoming Conferences Matrons Network - TBC

 
For further details please contact forum.admin@koiosgroup.com

	Previous Conferences
	Venue: Palace Hotel, Manchester, 9th October   The Fifth National Conference for Matrons & Clinical Leads in Mental Health & Learning Disabilities. “Responsibility & Accountability – Responsible & Accountable to Whom?” Click Here to View Flyer

	Previous Conferences Venue: Makeney Hall, Derby 26th & 27th November 09 Pre conference dinner at Makeney Hall 26th Nov. Click Here for Agenda

Previous Conferences Spring Conference, 24th April Venue: The Marriot, Liverpool 24th April 2009 “Nursing Leadership in a Quality Led NHS” Presentations from the day included “Vision for the future of mental health and learning disability nursing” Dr Ben Thomas - Professional Adviser for Mental Health and Learning Disability in the Professional Leadership Team at the Department of Health “Political Influencing in today's NHS” Ian Hulatt – Mental Health Advisor Royal College of Nursing “Personal Reflection of Nursing Leadership” Lis Jones - Director of Nursing & Performance/Service Director Concurrent sessions: Safeguarding Children “Lessons from Serious Case Reviews” Peter Hasler Mental Health Consultant Embedding Quality—“A whole Organisational Approach” Kay Darby Director of Nursing & Strategy & Andrew Skelton Deputy Director Nursing & Clinical Governance Infection Control— “An inspector calls - Unannounced Health-care Commission visit: Before, during and after” Professor Rachel Munton Executive Director of Nursing & Allied Health Professionals Afternoon Debate: “Will Associate Practitioners replace Mental Health Nurses” To view the agenda for this conference please click here

	Previous Conferences Autumn Conference, 21st November Venue: The Jury’s Inn , Birmingham

21st November 2008 “Inspiring nurses to lead”

Feedback from members has emphasised a desire to reflect contemporary challenges for nurses in the context of a rapidly changing service environment. The Conference therefore considered:

1. Service Redesign

2. Releasing time to care – Productive ward

3. Nursing Leadership

	Previous Conferences
	Mental Health & Learning Disability Nurse Directors' and Leads' Conferences - Spring Conference 2008 Venue: Holiday Inn, Camden Lock
23rd May 2008 “Care For People Of All Ages, Is There Equality For All?” Presentations from the day included the challenges and opportunities for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities in response to the Darzi Report, ‘Our NHS Our Future’, given by Nick Morris, Director of Strategy & Nursing, Bradford District Care Trust.
To view the agenda for this conference please click here Presentations are available to view in the member’s enclosure.