11th Health & Justice Summit Launched
It is the time of year we have been waiting for; the start of spring, longer days, and the moment to launch our invitation to you to receive submissions, delegate bookings and sponsorship applications for the 11th Health and Justice Summit!
Our annual two day Health & Justice Summit is the key event of the year for anyone working to champion excellent, safe healthcare for patients in contact with the justice system. It is organised by the Royal College of General Practitioners Secure Environments Group (RCGP SEG) in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), and brings together teams and individuals representing all areas of the health and justice sector, including:
Service users and people with lived experience
Primary care
Secondary care
Substance use
Mental health
Voluntary and community sector enterprises
Commissioners and policy makers
Prisons and probation
Public health
Scrutiny bodies
This year’s summit - Championing Excellent Care and Empowering Teams – is being held from 17th-18th October 2024, at the stunning, grade II listed 30 Euston Square, London, home of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Over two days, we will be exploring how excellent care can be championed and patient safety maintained when teams are empowered and enabled to embrace reflection, learning and improvement as part of daily care provision, within a culture of psychological safety. This year’s theme is highly relevant in the changing and challenging political and financial landscape of 2024, as clinical and operational teams face sustained and increasing pressure with stretched budgets accompanying critical capacity pressure across the secure and detained estate.
Alongside the academic programme, we will be offering an optional cultural programme with opportunities to experience the rich diversity of London, to re-energise through engaging with well-being events, and to celebrate the 20th year of the Royal College of General Practitioners Secure Environments Group.
We welcome submission abstracts for plenary presentations, workshops and posters. All submissions should clearly link to the title, theme, and one or more of the 6 key topics of the conference:
Listening and learning from the experts: patient perspectives, co-production and peer-led health improvement programmes.
Safeguarding approaches: Do current systems protect patients from institutional harm? Lessons from Inquiries, the importance of clinical independence, external scrutiny, and speaking up to protect patients and staff.
Suicide and self-harm: promoting learning from deaths in custody, Coroners’ Inquests and Prevention of Future Death Reports.
Empowering teams and promoting psychological safety: Promoting civility, kindness and compassion. Balancing the humanity of teams with operational targets and financial pressures. Handling burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, managing violence and abuse, and the problem of staff retention. Reflective supervision and coaching: Do they protect against staff sickness and promote well-being? Is patient care safer in a psychologically safe environment?
Managing complexity safely: The central importance of effective multi-professional working, avoiding ‘serial silos’ and ‘task dumping’. The importance of clinical leadership and the value of employing clinicians skilled in handling complexity. Are we training and transforming teams safely or do financial pressures and staffing difficulties result in teams stretched too far too fast?
Emerging issues and areas of change within the justice landscape: demographics, workforce, and professional and political advocacy within the justice system.
This year, we are working with the award-winning RCGP events team and with our new business partner, LeonPR.
We have a newly launched HEALTHANDJUSTICEUK website from which you will be able to:
Register for delegate places at the 11th Health and Justice Summit
Submit plenary, seminar and poster abstracts
Enquire about sponsorship packages and marketing opportunities
We look forward to seeing you at 30 Euston Square, London on 17-18 October 2024!
Dr Caroline Watson (RCGP), Dr Liz Walsh (RCN), Professor Andrew Forrester and Dr Matthew Tovey (RCPsych) and the Health and Justice Summit team