Royal College of General Practitioners, 30 Euston Square, London, NW1 2FB
11th Health & Justice Summit
Championing Excellent Care & Empowering Teams
17th - 18th October 2024
Championing excellent, safe healthcare for patients in contact with the justice system
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about the event
THIS YEAR’s THEME
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Over the two days, we will be exploring how excellent care can be championed and patient safety maintained when teams are empowered and enabled to embrace reflection, learning and improvement as part of daily care provision, within a culture of psychological safety.
This theme is highly relevant in the changing and challenging political and financial landscape of 2024, as clinical and operational teams face sustained and increasing pressure with stretched budgets accompanying critical capacity pressure across the secure and detained estate.
Delegate Pricing
1 Day Pass: £155 | 2 Day Pass: £305
Dinner ticket prices TBC.
The annual two day Health & Justice Summit is the key event of the year for anyone working to champion excellent, safe healthcare for patients in contact with the justice system. This year we are inviting you to join us at the stunning Grade II listed 30 Euston Square, London. The home of the Royal College of GPs, it is a fitting venue for the 11th Health and Justice Summit, in celebration of 20 years of the Royal College of General Practitioners Secure Environments Group (RCGP SEG), the founders of this conference.
Delivered in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), the Health and Justice Summit brings together teams and individuals representing all areas of the health and justice sector, including:
Service users and people with lived experience
Primary care
Secondary care
Substance use
Mental health
Voluntary and community sector enterprises
Commissioners and policy makers
Prisons and probation
Public health
Scrutiny bodies
The event will feature keynote speakers, panel discussion & interactive seminars, enabling rich opportunities for discussing the latest in clinical practice and research.
Attendees will be provided with innovations and solutions to share, together with a springboard for supportive networking all year round.
Highlights from the 10th Health and Justice Summit, Belfast 2023
KEY TOPICS
Listening and learning from the experts: patient perspectives, co-production and peer-led health improvement programmes.
Safeguarding approaches: Do current systems protect patients from institutional harm? Lessons from Inquiries, the importance of clinical independence, external scrutiny, and speaking up to protect patients and staff.
Suicide and self-harm: promoting learning from deaths in custody, Coroners’ Inquests and Prevention of Future Death Reports.
Empowering teams and promoting psychological safety: Promoting civility, kindness and compassion. Balancing the humanity of teams with operational targets and financial pressures. Handling burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, managing violence and abuse, and the problem of staff retention. Reflective supervision and coaching: Do they protect against staff sickness and promote well-being? Is patient care safer in a psychologically safe environment?
Managing complexity safely: The central importance of effective multi-professional working, avoiding ‘serial silos’ and ‘task dumping’. The importance of clinical leadership and the value of employing clinicians skilled in handling complexity. Are we training and transforming teams safely or do financial pressures and staffing difficulties result in teams stretched too far too fast?
Emerging issues and areas of change within the justice landscape: demographics, workforce, and professional and political advocacy within the justice system.
Sponsorship
This year, we welcome new business partners, LeonPR, experts in PR, communication and marketing to head up our support for sponsors. Information relating to sponsorship packages will be available from LeonPR and through this website.
Presentations
We recognise the value of a high quality and varied academic programme for the Health and Justice Summit. We hope that these notes will assist you as you look to prepare abstracts to submit for consideration by our Quality Assurance (QA) panel of experts.
All submissions for the conference must be entered through the online web portal; email submissions will not be accepted.
All abstracts, including those for sponsored presentations, must be received by the deadline for submissions in order to be reviewed in the Quality Assurance process. The deadline for all abstract submissions was 3rd May 2024. Please contact the RCGP Events Team by email (rcgpconferences@rcgp.org.uk) before submitting an abstract after this deadline.
Abstracts are more likely to be selected that clearly link to the title, theme and one or more of the 6 key topics of the conference, with guidance for practical implementation that can be used to improve patient safety and promote excellent care across secure environments in the UK.
Posters
The deadline for poster abstracts was 3rd May 2024. Please contact the RCGP Events Team by email (rcgpconferences@rcgp.org.uk) before submitting an abstract after this deadline.
Further information about poster size and content specifications will be available following QA panel review.
Poster entries should be received by 20th September 2024.
Join us at the stunning Grade II listed 30 Euston Square; the home of the Royal College of GPs, ideally situated in central London.
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