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: Novotel Krakow Centrum
Ul. Tadeusza Kościuszki 5, 30-105 Kraków.

Monday April 7th

10.00 Annual General Meeting
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Executive Board Meeting
13.00 Lunch
16.00 Welcome from ESQH President Marius Buiting and the Host
16.30 Portfolio Group Meetings

• Training & Education
• Patient Safety
• Accreditation
• Indicators

17.30 Discussion

Tuesday April 8th 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