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Bupa Foundation themed conferences

The Bupa Foundation's themed conferences have developed as a natural way of presenting the results of the research funded by the Foundation's themed grants. Ensuring dissemination of project results is an important part of the work of the Bupa Foundation, and this is a very effective means of facilitating this.

2006 conference

In 2006 the Bupa Foundation held the symposium "Consumer involvement and the informed patient", on 19 October 2006 at the Institute of Mechanical Enginering, One Birdcage Walk, Westminster.

Speakers included:

• Dame Deirdre Hine, Chairman of The Bupa Foundation
• Professor Darren Shickle, Academic Unit of Public Health, University of Leeds
• Professor Martin Partridge, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London
• Dr Hilary Wynne, Head of Directorate of Care of the Elderly, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Mr Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor, The Times
• Dr Tim Kelsey, co-founder and chief executive, Dr Foster Intelligence
• Dr Jenny Noble (for Professor Martin Marshall and PRIDE team) National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester
• Dr Anne McPherson, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
• Dr Alan Montgomery, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol

2004 conference

In 2004 the Bupa Foundation, in conjunction with the The British Cardiac Society, National Patient Safety Agency and the Royal College of Physicians, supported the conference "Making health care safer", presented by the BMJ on 21-22 October 2004 at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK.

Speakers included:

• Aidan Halligan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, UK
• Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, Shadow Chairman, The Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, UK
• Professor Tony Avery, Division of General Practice, University of Nottingham, UK
• Steve Bolsin, Director of Pre Operative Medicine, The Geelong Hospital, Australia
• Professor Sir Ara Darzi, Imperial College London, UK
• Professor Sir Graeme Catto, President, General Medical Council (GMC), UK
• Fiona Moss, The London Deanery, UK
• Andrew Vallance-Owen, Governor, The Bupa Foundation, London, UK
• Stephen Walker, Chief Executive, NHS Litigation Authority, London, UK

2002 conference

In 2002 the Bupa Foundation held the first themed conference at the Royal Institution in London to present the results of work from 1998-2001 on evidence-based medicine. Two research programmes formed the basis of the day's presentations. These were headed by: