Now the conference is over – here is the feedback form in case you have not had a chance to do it… your thoughts will help us shape the next one – Feb 25..
and here are links to the docs from the day..
Everything you need to know about our next gathering in person….
The Theme is ‘ regional approaches to : funding (especially health and care services) : helping each other out (hubs and spokes) : decision making ( CA protocol) and some other stuff….’
Here is all you need to know about our wonderful plans to meet on 16th October 2024
working together :making things better………
The event will be open to all local CA service CEOs and Operations Directors and we will be joined, as usual, with some colleagues from Citizens Advice to chat about strategy and plans for the future. NB please come ready to share your local Health Strategy if you have one- no need for docs, just the ideas and framework will be fine to help pool thoughts
Here is the conference pack so you can see the FAB stuff that is lined up…
Andy, Chris, Jan, Carol, Tracey, and Neil ….. the dream team
Where?
This time we will be in Leamnington Spa, Warwickshire at the Woodland Grange hotel and conference centre.. You can book your place by clicking on the button at the top of the page – this is through Eventbrite. If you want to stay overnight, then you can contact the hotel directly to book a room. They have reservwed 30 for us on a first come, first served basis and it is £130+VAT for dinner bed and breakfast. The discount code is 218072
We plan to have an informal get together the night before so there will be a chance to meet, chat, have a drink and we hope, dinner together..
How Much?
The cost to you will £65 -day delegate fee, inc VAT and Eventbrite admin. The cost of your room and travel will of course, be on top of the day delegate fee.
and look at the next toy I found – a countdown counter ….
What’s on the agenda?
Again, building on what you told us before, there will be more time for networking and sharing ideas between ourselves and fewer formal presentations. It will be interactive and we will swap ideas about things that work and pitfalls to avoid. A key theme will be thinking about regional working – for funding bids (especially on how to be better prepared to work in the world of health and care services ) and for the hubs and spokes ideas of sharing various functions between us as well as to support an effective decision making protocol within the network (as being discussed in the wider CA Transformation work)
We will be building on work we have been doing for a while, both in the CA led Community of Practice and in the peer group ‘Healthy bunch’. This also follows on from our June Conference where establishing and sharing resources for securing and running health/care funded projects was noted as our top priority.
We hope we will also have time to chat through the wellbeing survey report and definitely will be thinking more about the decision making protocols with CA – exploring further the regional representation model we discussed at the June conference and that sits well with both the increased need for regional working driven by the funding for health and care as well as our shared understanding of the need to have a mechanism for swift decision making within the network so that we can rise to new challenges and opportunities.
You will come away with loads of ideas and having had a chance to chat to people facing the same challenges as you – who ‘get it’ so a bit of offloading and some companionship and some new perspectives and insights all round – should make for a lovely journey back to your base, refreshed, renewed and uplifted..
And here is a link to the wellbeing survey report for CEOs that we will be using as a basis for our action plan on this..
and here is the Regional Approaches survey report