A timely and well received conference! See the slides and more here

Mike Eccles kindly provided his mind map of the conference

Our conference, attended by nearly 100 people was our most successful to date judging by the very positive comments in the feedback.

Follow this link for the slides , evaluation and more

http://view.selfpoint.co.uk/NESCHA

This NHS  information was published,  shortly before  our conference, showing how timely our conference was .

https://www.england.nhs.uk/integratedcare/

and see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YdlV1DsK54

And the week before our conference, and at the same venue, a regional briefing meeting, for the most senior managers and chairs, was held on ICS in the NE and North Cumbria.

Some pictures of the event

Paul Keane discussing a key point with Paul Copeland

A very engaged audience of professionals, managers, service users, carers, patients and volunteers

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