Prevention and health inequalities

Prevention is high on the political agenda, so it is important that those working in health and social care understand what interventions work best in terms of being evidence-based and, in the current financial climate, representing good value for money.

This conference, run in partnership with the Department of Health's Health Inequalities National Support Team, will look at how prevention initiatives can be evaluated and will explore what is currently working in practice.

Key issues that will be addressed at the conference:

• How can evaluation be integrated into prevention initiatives and used effectively to measure success?
• What has worked in practice? Best practice will be shared from innovative prevention initiatives.
• What are the key challenges to commissioners in funding long-term projects, and how can these be overcome?
• What is the key learning from the work of the Health Inequalities National Support Team?

10.00am–11.40am
Opening session

• Opening speaker
  Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (Marmot Review)
• Health Inequalities priority action list
  Professor Chris Bentley, Head of National Support Team for Health Inequalities

12.00pm–1.00pm
Session two: how to evaluate in practice

This interactive session will allow delegates to think about how to evaluate in practice. Expert speakers will include:

• Rachel Carse, National Programme Lead, Health Trainers Programme, Department of Health
• Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy, Deputy Director for Public Health, Nottingham City Primary Care Trust
• Professor Steve Platt, Professor of Health Policy Research, The University of Edinburgh

2.00pm–2.30pm

• City Wide approach to prevention
  Dr Sandra Davies, Associate Director of Public Health, Liverpool Primary Care Trust
  

2.30pm–3.30pm
Session three: workshops, evaluating interventions, what works?

1. Becoming a Healthy Borough: taking the national 'healthy town' strategy to a local level
   Esther Trenchard-Mabere, Associate Director of Public Health, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust
2. Learning from detailed evaluations: engaging schools, communities and the workforce in prevention
   Maria Bourke, Managing Director, Lets Get Healthy Programme
3. Altogether Better Programme: evaluating the impact of community health champions on prevention
   Alyson McGregor, Programme Director, Altogether Better Programme, NHS Yorkshire and Humber
4. A city wide approach to working in partnership: creating affordable. inclusive and sustainable interventions for prevention
   Neil Pease, Assistant Director, Earning and Learning, Hull Primary Care Trust

3.30pm–4.30pm  
Session four: Commissioning and long-term funding for prevention

This panel session will explore the challenges for commissioning and securing long-term funding for prevention. Expert speakers will include:

• Dr Tammy Boyce, Senior Fellow, Public Health, The King's Fund
• Hannah Deacon, Consultant, Healthy Communities Programme, IDEA
• Richard Kramer, Director of Connected Care, Turning Point
• Jan Smithies, Associate Delivery Manager, National Support Team for Health Inequalities

Keynote speakers

• Professor Chris Bentley, Head of National Support Team for Health Inequalities, Department of Health

Other speakers will include:

• Maria Bourke, Managing Director, Lets Get Healthy
• Rachel Carse, National Programme Lead, Health Trainers. Department of Health
• Dr Sandra Davies, Associate Director of Public Health, Liverpool Primary Care Trust
• Hannah Deacon, Consultant, Healthy Communities Programme, IDEA
• Jeanelle De Gruchy, Deputy Director for Public Health, NHS Nottingham City
• Richard Kramer, Director of Connected Care, Turning Point
• Alyson McGregor, Programme Director, Altogether Better Programme, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
• Neil Pease, Assistant Director, Earning and Learning, Hull Primary Care Trust
• Professor Steve Platt, Professor of Health Policy Research, The University of Edinburgh
• Jan Smithies, Associate Delivery Manager, Health Inequalities National Support Team, Department of Health
• Esther Trenchard-Mabere, Associate Director of Public Health, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust

• those working directly on health inequalities in spearhead primary care trusts and local authorities
• directors of public health
• chief executives
• commissioners
• directors of health and social care
• chief executives/project leaders from the third sector
• public health executive committee members
• academics