Background
The summer symposium scrutinises the benefits and consequences of the current and coming centralising trends in the Nordic countries, with structural changes of the hospitals and hospital mergers. When health care entities grow, what does this mean in terms of efficiency, financial accountability, patient satisfaction and working environment?
The main topics will include comparisons between the Nordic countries and examples of hospital mergers at both early and later stages. Lecturers will be Nordic and international researchers, representing a variety of disciplines (organisation, work environment, economics, technology, psychology, public health, nursing), Nordic top-leaders and politicians.
The symposium is initiated by the NOVO research network, which aims at increasing knowledge for building sustainable systems in health care organisations with a combined focus on work environment, productivity and quality.
The symposium is arranged in collaboration between NHV (Nordic School of Public Health) and NIVA (Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health).
Objectives
The aim of the symposium is to provide multi-professional knowledge transfer regarding the main challenges for sustainable systems in large hospitals.
Target groups
Company representatives, researchers, administrators and representatives of social partners.
Main topics
• Is the bigger also the better? Economic, productivity, quality and work environment consequences and benefits
• Lessons from Nordic and European experiences of hospital system changes
• Communication challenges in large hospitals: Strategic communication, leader-employee interaction, information systems
• Management challenges: Parallel steering practices, support structures to handle daily hassles, managing work environment in complex health care systems
• Tools to create sustainable systems and handle the paradox of strong top-management and professional participation: (1) Process rationalisations of standardised care through Lean and Kaizen, (2) Collaborative re-conceptualisation of core-tasks in change laboratories
• Methodological challenges: the perspective of the patient, combined analysis of work environment, productivity, costs and quality
• Ethical issues
Course structure and working method
“The short summer symposium”
The first 1, 5 days entity will have a political and practical approach and is aimed at decision makers and practitioners. A few key-note speakers will give longer presentations. There will also be shorter, dynamic presentations by top-leaders, politicians and researchers that are followed by debates and discussions.
“The full research course”
The four day course will include the 1, 5 days plus an additional 2, 5 days in which the focus will be on multidisciplinary research in the area (health, work environment, organisation/production, and quality research). Students will also have the opportunity to present and discuss their own projects. Participating in the course and an individual assignment (3 to 5 pages, to be submitted within two weeks after the course) will give 5 ECTS points. The individual assignment will give the opportunity to integrate the wider perspective, gained at the course into the students' own theses / doctoral dissertations.
Location and accommodation
The Nordic Summer Symposium will take place in the premises of the Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden (www.nhv.se). The organisers have made a group reservation for the participants at Nya Varvet Studios, (www.nyavarvetstudios.se). Participants are kindly requested to make their room reservations using the booking reference code: NHV Symposium and the reference number: 41892. Please, make sure that you book your room at the hotel before 15 April 2009; otherwise the organisers cannot guarantee your accommodation. Please, note that you have to pay your hotel expenses when leaving the hotel.
Deadline for registration
15 April 2009
Registration instructions
Please, register via our website http://www.niva.org/registration.htm. Please, note that only one alternative is possible:
4903 A EUR 510 for the whole 4-day course (Course fee: EUR 400 + meals: 110)
4903 B EUR 275 for the first 1, 5 days (Course fee: 200 + meals: 75)
4903 C EUR 310 for the whole 4-day course for students (Course fee: 200 + meals 110)
When register for the course please, indicate clearly if you intend to take part in the whole course (Course code: 4903 A), you take part in the first 1, 5 days (Course code: 4903 B) or if you are a student (Course code: 4903 C).
The registration fee includes the course fee and the meals that are provided by the organisers. Please, note that not all the meals are provided by the organisers. Accommodation is not included into the registration fee.
When paying the fee, please indicate clearly:
1. Your name
2. Registration fee in EUR
3. Course code 4903 A, 4903 B or 4903 C
The payment should be made four weeks before the start of the course to:
Nordea Bank Finland Plc
Meilahti Branch, Tukholmankatu 2
FI-00250 Helsinki, Finland
Account no: 226238-2043
IBAN: FI79 2262 3800 0020 43
Swift code: NDEAFIHH
Please, note that if you cancel your participation later than four weeks before the start of the course, (without an acceptable reason, e.g. illness) the organisers are obliged to charge a cancellation fee of EUR 273.
Language
The language of the course is English.
It is recommended that participants make their travel arrangements and course payment after having received the confirmation letter. The confirmation letter, which includes detailed information about all practical matters, will be sent after the registration deadline (15 April 2009).
Scholarships
Applicants from North-western Russia, the St. Petersburg area and Russian Karelia, can apply for a special NIVA scholarship to cover the course fee, accommodation and meals. Application forms are available on the homepage of NIVA http://www.niva.org/. Finnish participants can apply for financial support from Työsuojelurahasto (Finnish Work Environment Fund: http://www.tsr.fi/). Application forms must reach the Fund by 2 January, 2 May and 1 October 2009.
Other Nordic and international participants can turn to their own national education authorities, the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Labour for financial support.
Course leader
Assoc. Prof. Lotta Delve
Gothenburg University
Dept. of Occupational Medicine
P.O. Box 414
405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel: +46 31 786 3158
Fax: +46 31 409 728
E-mail: lotta.dellve@amm.gu.se
Course administrator
Kerstin Lewinschal
Nordic School of Public Health
P.O. Box 121 33
402 42 Gothenburg, Sweden
E-mail: kerstin@nhv.se
Course coordinator
Zsuzsanna Renkó-Michelsén, MA
NIVA
Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A
00250 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 30 474 2498
E-mail: zsuzsanna.renko@ttl.fi
WELCOME
NIVA is a Nordic institution funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers to provide advanced training for experts in the fields of occupational health and safety, and work life in general. The NIVA concept is based on the idea of broader networking of all the Nordic governments, authorities and research institutions. The best trainers, lecturers and educators, not only from the Nordic countries, but also worldwide contribute to the NIVA programmes.
Today, the courses and seminars attract about 300 participants a year, and the feedback from the participants speaks also strongly for face-to-face contacts both between the trainee and the trainer, and among the trainees themselves. We hope that this brochure gives you important information, and cordially welcomes you to the forthcoming event.
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