<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John Lister</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:john.lister@virgin.net" target="_blank">john.lister@virgin.net</a></span><br>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt">JUST ONE WEEK TO GO before extended deadline for papers</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">A conference called by the International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE) with the support of Coventry University’s School of Art and Design and Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Wednesday - Saturday June 17-20, 2009</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></p>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Coventry University, UK</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Also supported by the People’s Health Movement, the International Journal of Health Services, the Politics of Health Group, the NHS Consultants Association, Keep Our NHS Public and Health Emergency</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Keynote speakers include</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>Professor David Hunter, University of Durham</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>Dr Julian Tudor Hart (author of <i>The political economy of health care</i>)</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>Professor Hans Ulrich Deppe, Frankfurt</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>Professor Alexis Benos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (IAHPE President)</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>ANNA MARRIOTT (Oxfam), author <i>Blind optimism</i></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>Dr John Lister, Coventry University</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>BMA national speaker (tba) </span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span>Michelle Stanistreet, Deputy General Secretary NUJ</span></b></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Conference Invitation and Call for Papers</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It’s our pleasure to invite you to submit a paper and attend the XVth conference of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE), to be held in Coventry University, June 17-20 2009. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We welcome abstracts for research papers case studies and posters relating the current situation and policy reforms in the health care sector, and the way these are reported in the print and broadcast media. The conference will address six main themes. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">• THE IMPACT OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">• PRIMARY CARE </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">• ACUTE HOSPITAL CARE </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">• PUBLIC HEALTH </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">• MEDIA COVERAGE OF HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY, AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">• ELDERLY CARE & MENTAL HEALTH: MARKETS v EQUITY </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Conference context</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The last twelve months has seen an escalating crisis of capitalism, with major banks and corporations reduced to seeking colossal subsidies from governments to secure their survival: and even the most unlikely governments are resorting to nationalisation to prop up banks and businesses. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">With the “market system” having effectively collapsed in many sectors, who now can really argue that markets provide a rational or equitable framework to deliver and allocate health care? </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The economic crisis and the “credit crunch” are already triggering a squeeze on public sector spending: but the policies being rolled out in health care systems in Europe and around the world are not economy measures to cut costs, but much more expensive, wasteful and bureaucratic than the systems they replace. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Throughout Europe, governments are pressing ahead with so-called “reforms” which threaten to undo decades of progress towards universal health care, and return health services to the status of commodities in a competitive market place. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">A new, parasitic, private sector which could not survive, let alone flourish on the basis of genuine competition and market forces, is taking shape and growing – as a result of huge government patronage and public funding. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The new health care “market” which is increasingly replacing any form of planning is not centred on equity or universal access to care: its bottom line is grabbing a larger share of the public sector and social insurance budgets, to deliver larger profits to shareholders. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Can this type of system benefit patients, or develop a service that can attract and retain the dedicated workforce that is needed to meet health needs in the 21st century? </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">And as governments push through policies and develop new health care systems which are more expensive, less efficient and far less popular then the previous systems, they seek to do so covertly, without explaining their proposals or their long-term plans to the electorate. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">How effectively are the print and broadcast media revealing and explaining these policies? </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">How far are newspaper, radio and TV bosses willing to resource serious news coverage or open debate, and how far do they share the hidden agenda of privatisation and marketisation of health care? </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This conference aims to bring together academics and students, campaigners, health professionals and journalists from across Europe to discuss the state our health services are in, the trajectory of present policies, the implicit threat of privatisation which hangs over our health services – and the extent to which these issues are known and understood by journalists and their audience. </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We invite academics, students, journalists, campaigners and health workers to submit abstracts for papers or posters on topics related to any of the six main themes. Abstracts should be not more than 200 words, identifying which theme the paper will address, and accompanied by a brief note on the author(s), and their academic or professional affiliation. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Abstracts should be submitted for peer-review online by midnight on Monday March 30 at <a href="https://webmail.coventry.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.healthp.org/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: purple">www.healthp.org</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Authors will be notified by the Conference Review Committee whether or not their proposals have been accepted for presentation at the conference, or as a poster, by Friday April 17. Acceptance of papers is contingent upon the author registering for the conference, and presenting their work in person at the conference in Coventry. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Completed papers received by June 5 will be printed in the collected conference papers. </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">PLEASE REGISTER at <a href="http://www.healthp.org/" target="_blank">www.healthp.org</a>, and SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT for the conference via the IAHPE website </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="https://webmail.coventry.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.healthp.org/abstracts" target="_blank">www.healthp.org/abstracts</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">During the submission process, in the “Authors & affiliation” section do not forget to include your e-mail address so we can contact you. </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">REGISTRATION: what’s included</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Registration fee includes </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">conference admission and conference pack, </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">a welcome reception, lunches on Thursday and Friday, with refreshments morning and afternoon, </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and a Friday night conference dinner. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hotel accommodation is NOT included, but delegates may claim a special discounted rate at the nearby Ramada hotel (see pdf for details). </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CONFERENCE FEES:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">People from EU countries, the US and Canada: £120 (register before April 1), £150 </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(late registration)</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">People from other countries: £60 (register before April 1), £75 (late registration)</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Coventry university staff: £60</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Postgraduate students: £50</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">All Coventry University students, and all undergraduate students: £20. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Pay registration online at <a href="https://webmail.coventry.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.healthp.org/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: purple">www.healthp.org</span></a> or by cheque (payable to Public Service Insight) posted to: </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">John Lister, c/o Media & Communication, Coventry University, Priory St, Coventry CV1 5FB. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Don’t forget to enclose full contact details if you pay by cheque. </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Full details and updates on <a href="https://webmail.coventry.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.healthp.org/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: purple">www.healthp.org</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span></p>
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