In Association with:

GIN, Guidelines International Network
Council of Europe
EurAPCo, European Alliance Partners Company

Hosted by: Polish Society for Quality Promotion in Healthcare

Venue:

• Monday 7th April: Novotel/IBIS hotel, Ul. Tadeusza Kościuszki 5, Kraków.
• Tuesday 8th April: Dom Polonii, Rynek Glowny 14 (main Market Square), Kraków.
• Wednesday 9th April: Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury (NCK), Al. Jana Pawła II 232, Kraków.

Monday April 7th

14.00 - 18.00 Council of Europe approach to the clinical practice guidelines development methodology.
"The Slovene National Guidelines Project"

• Dr. Zlatko FRAS, Slovenia
• Piotr Mierzewski (COE)
• Dr. Richard Cranovsky

Tuesday April 8th - Joint Council of Europe/ESQH/GIN Workshop:

"Indicators and Guidelines - Companions on the Quality Path."
Chair Rafał Niżankowski
09.00 Registration
09.20 Welcome from ESQH President Marius Buiting and Polish host
09.30 Introduction to Guidelines Development Recommendations of the Council of Europe: Piotr Mierzewski (CoE)
10.00 Indicators: Prof Jan Mainz (ESQH) followed by questions and answers.
10.45 Guidelines: Prof Günter Ollenschläger (GIN) followed by questions and answers.
11.45 Disease Management: Arnoud Zanen (EurAPCO) followed by questions and answers.
13.30 Group Workshops

Implementation of Guidelines Bringing Guidelines closer to daily practice Using Information Technology to aid faster learning.	Patient Safety Dr Helen Glenister, National Patient Safety Agency, United Kingdom
Indicators for Better Measurement Using Indicators to get a better insight into Best PracticeUsing Indicators to give a new input to Guidelines.	Dr David Somekh, ESQH London Office for Patient Safety
A Quality Model for Disease Management Developing a model for Disease Management that integrates all Quality instruments.Choosing test diseases for adapting the model.

15.00 Plenary Feedback: Final Conclusions, Workshop Closes

Wednesday April 9th

(Morning)
Delegates attend opening session of the European Conference
"Information And Quality In Health Care"
(See www.cmj.org.pl/conference for details)

9:00 - 9:30 OPENING CEREMONY

• Marek Balicki, Minister of Health
• Marek Labon, President of the Polish Society for Quality Promotion (SQPH),
• Director of NCQA

9:30 - 11:30 Healthcare systems before integration with EU - threats and perspectives
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 13:30 Source of information in medical practice - clinical standards, guidelines, patient registers
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Wednesday 9th April: Joint Council of Europe/ESQH/GIN Workshop (cont)

14:30 - 18:30 Learning Sessions on Programmes attended.
15.00 - 15.30 Training on indicator-development: Prof Jan Mainz (ESQH)
15.30 - 16.00 EBM, guidelines, medical errors Dr. Richard Cranovsky
16.00 - 16.30 International Guideline Development: Prof Günter Ollenschläger (GIN)
16.30 - 17.00 Implementation options for the Council of Europe Recommendation No (2001)13 on "Developing a methodology for drawing up guidelines on best medical practices Piotr Mierzewski (COE)
17.00 - 17.30 Closing remarks

20:00 WAWEL GALA BANQUET

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003

(at the participants´own expense)
9:00 - 10:30 Internet for doctors, internet for patients
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Ethical aspects of patient information
12:30 - 13:30 Ceremony of granting the best hospital awards of the Newsweek magazine and SQPH
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:15 Rational funding in healthcare - health technology assessment
16:30 - 17:15 Plenary session