Patients Forum meetings

September 2000

Speaker: Jo Lenaghan, Department of Health "Patient representation in the National Health Plan"
and
Camilla Parker, independent Consultant: "Critical analysis of the proposals"

November 14, 2000

Speaker: John Halford, Public Law Project " the Human Rights Act 1998 – Implications for patients’ rights and representative organisations"

January 18, 2001

Speaker: Jonathan Ellis, Help the Aged " Clean Hospitals Project"

March 2001

Speaker: Christine Hogg "the Patient and Public Involvement Project Research"

May 2001

Speaker: Dr. William Albert, "Human Genetics Commission"

July 2001

Speaker: Dr. Marlene Winfield, Head of Patient and Citizen Relations, NHS Information Authority

September 2001

Annual General Meeting

Guest speaker:   Dr. Andrew Fergusson, Member of the GMC Working Party on
Withdrawing and Withholding
   Life-Prolonging Medical Treatment:
   “A Time to Die?” Withholding and withdrawing Life-Prolonging Medical Treatment

November 2001

Speakers: David Gilbert, Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) "Patient & Public Involvement", See Appendix 1
and
James Ford, (CHI) "The effect of the NHS Reform Bill on CHI’s independence"

January 2002

Speaker: Peter Walsh, ACHCEW "the NHS Reform Bill update"

March 2002

Speaker: Michael Thick, Consultant Transplant Surgeon –Caldicott Guardian to the NHS Information Authority “Getting patients attitudes to confidentiality”

May 2002

Speaker: Stephen Bruster, Picker Institute Europe "Seriously surveying patients"

July 2002

Speaker: Harry Cayton, talking about his role as Director for Patient Experience and Public Involvement, Department of Health

September 2002

Annual General Meeting

Speaker: Paul Streets, Chair, Transition Advisory Board – TAB (Chief Executive, Diabetes UK)
The Transition Advisory Board

November 2002

Speaker: Sally Windsor, National Care Standards Commission describing the work of the NCSC.

January 2003

Speaker: Marlene Winfield – NHS Information Authority:
Patient confidentiality consultation

March 2003

Speaker: Kate Mitchinson - Institute of Rural Health
Rural health: policy and community

May 2003

Speaker: Christine Farrell
Department of Health overview report on the Health in Partnership  Research Programme – lessons for policy and practice

July 2003

Speaker: Cllr. David Whiting, Chair of Health Scrutiny Panel (2001), London Borough of Lewisham
Health Scrutiny Committees - Lewisham’s Approach

September 2003 (AGM)

Speaker: Hilary Scott, Department of Health
NHS complaints reforms

November 2003

Speaker: Rowena Daw, Mind
Update on latest mental health legislation and on Patient Choice and mental health

January 2004

Speakers: Stephen Fishwick, National Pharmaceutical Association: Shaping community pharmacy services
Susan Grieve, Department of Health: Patient consent, patient confidentiality
Melanie Smaus, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee: the new pharmacy contract
Tim Donohoe, National Programme for IT: Feedback from the consultation

July 2004

Speaker: Simon Williams, Patients Association
Hospital environments. Getting better?

September 2004 (AGM)

Speaker: Meredith Vivian, Head of Patient and Public Involvement, Department of Health
Consultation

November 2004

Speaker: Paul Durham, Healthcare Commission
Review of Foundation Trusts

January 2005

Speakers: Alison Cahn & Jose King
Healthcare Commission patient and public engagement in 'Assessment for Improvement' consultation

March 2005

Speakers: Maurice Frankel, Campaign for
                 Freedom of Information
                 Sue Markey, Information
                 Commissioner’s Office
                 John Grenville, British Medical
                 Association
The Freedom of Information Act

May 2005

Speakers: Erica Young, National Council for
                  Palliative Care
                  Claire Henry, End of Life Care
                   Initiative, NHS
Palliative Care: In the light of the Select Committee Enquiry, what are the outstanding issues, what is the government doing about them and what can we do?

July 2005

Speakers: Gordon Miles - General Dental Council
                  Dr. Janine Brooks, National Clinical
                  Assessment Services (NCAS)
Dental Complaints within the private sector
The role of NCAS in relation to dentistry

September 2005

Annual General Meeting

Speaker: Harry Cayton, Director for Patients and
                                       the Public, Department of
                                       Health
Progress Report on Patient and Public Involvement

November 2005

Speaker: Farkhanda Maqbool - General Medical
               Council
Good Medical Practice Review - Consultation

January 2006

Speaker: Jessica Allen - Institute for Public Policy
                                       Research (IPPR)
Choice, Devolution and Equity

March 2006

Speaker:   Janice Shersby - Our Health Our Say,
                                         Programme Team,
                                         Department of Health
Preview of the White Paper

May 2006

Patients Forum Review - Options for the Future paper

June 2006 (Seminar)

Speakers: Susan Barber - CEMVO
                 Chris Joseph - Greater Manchester
                                        Patient Choice Project
(No minutes available)

July 2006

Speaker: Baroness Delyth Morgan
The Patients Voice Initiative
Patients Forum Review - Follow-up

(No minutes available)

September 2006 AGM

Speaker: Harry Cayton, Director for Patients and
                                       the Public, Department of
                                       Health
Progress Report on Patient and Public Involvement

November 2006

Topic: National Voices Initiative

Speaker: David Pink, LMCA

January 2007

Topic: Effective NHS Commissioning - a provider perspective

Speaker: Stephen Fishwick, Head of NHS Service Development, National Pharmacy Association

September 2007

Topic: National voices

Speaker: Baroness Jill Pitkeathley, Chair of the National Voices Working Group

Topic: Increasing awareness of psychological therapies

Speaker: Prof. Lord Layard, Director, Well-Being Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE