Telecare and Assistive Technology Conference - held in January

• Chairs, Portfolio Holders and elected Members of Social Services Committees
• Social Services officers including:
  1. strategists and planners
  2. care assessors and care managers
  3. community care purchasers
  4. occupational therapy staff
  5. in-house homecare managers
• Homecare providers from the private and voluntary sectors
• RSLs with units for older or disabled tenants
• Private retirement housing developers and managers
• Housing departments with units for older or disabled tenants
• Extra-care developers and managers
• Primary care trusts and other NHS staff involved in social care
• Telehealth services and community alarms providers
• Professional and financial advisers to the long-term care industry

The Annual Childcare Conference – held in February

• Directors from major nursery operations
• Nursery owners and managers
• Operators of private nurseries
• Inspection and registration officers from OFSTED
• LEA nursery co-ordinators and advisers involved in early years care
• Blue chip companies wishing to provide nurseryservices
• Companies and other organisations intending to purchase or provide nursery services
• Financiers investing or intending to invest in nurseries
• Suppliers of nursery equipment and services
• Management consultants
• Representative organisations
• Estate Agents and Valuers

The Annual Extra-care Housing Conference - held in February

• Chairs and Members of Social Services and Housing committees
• RSLs interested in providing care for older people
• CSSR staff, including:
  1. Supporting People team leaders
  2. social services strategists and planners
  3. commissioners of community and residential care
  4. housing services staff with an interest in sheltered housing, care and support
• District Council housing staff
• Private and voluntary sector homecare providers
• Developers of private retirement housing
• CSCI officers
• NHS Trust and PCT staff
• Sheltered and private retirement housing managers
• Nursing and residential care home operators from all sectors
• Community alarms and telecare service providers
• Insurers, architects, advisors and investors in long-term care or retirement housing

The Annual Long Term Care for Older People Conference - held in March

This conference will attract providers and purchasers from all areas of the long term care for older people sector, including:

• Senior executives from independent and voluntary providers of long term care
• Local Authority personnel including:
  1. directors of social services
  2. care contracting officers
  3. service provider managers
  4. joint commissioning units
• From the NHS:
  1. consultant physicians for care of the elderly and gerontologists
  2. chief executives and board members from Primary Care Trusts
  3. elderly services and rehabilitation managers from Community Hospital NHS Trusts
  4. Strategic Health Authority registration & inspection officers
• Proprietors of care homes:
  1. Corporate
  2. Individual
• CSCI officers
• Home care providers and agencies
• Nursing agency operators
• Registered Social Landlords who support older people
• Long term care insurance and reinsurance companies
• Banks and other institutions financing long term care schemes
• Professional advisers to the private and voluntary schemes
• Suppliers of medical equipment
• Management Consultants

The Annual Acute Healthcare and Private Healthcare Insurance Conferences - held in September

• This conference will attract attendees from all areas of the acute sector.
  Delegates will include:
  1. Directors and senior executives of independent healthcare organisations
  2. Independent hospital directors
  3. Private medical insurance executives
  4. Non UK healthcare providers
  5. Independent and NHS Consultants
  6. NHS Trust and SHA chief executives
  7. NHS development and strategy directors
  8. NHS private patient and pay bed managers
  9. Modernisation Agency executives
  10. ISTC Executives
  11. Financial institutions
  12. Suppliers of medical equipment
  13. Construction and ancillary services
  14. Legal and financial advisors

This conference will attract attendees with an interest in all areas of the private healthcare insurance sector.

• Delegates will include:
  1. Directors and senior executives of existing PMI providers
  2. Insurers considering market entry
  3. Senior executives from Cash Plans
  4. Third party administrators
  5. Intermediaries and distributors of PMI brokers,banks, building societies, friendly societies and affinity groups
  6. Private hospital groups
  7. Strategic Health Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers
  8. NHS Trusts with an interest in pay bed facilities
  9. Management Consultants

The Investing in Healthcare Conference - held in October

Representatives from financial institutions contemplating the healthcare market as a potential investment, as well as all healthcare leaders and professionals examining the prospects for further financial sponsorship.

• From financial institutions:
  1. Venture capital executives
  2. Private equity fund managers and directors
  3. Healthcare analysts and senior corporate finance managers from investment houses
  4. Healthcare and corporate finance specialists from accountancy and consultancy practices
  5. Project management executives
  6. Institutional investors
  7. Legal advisors specialising in healthcare mergers and acquisitions
• From the healthcare sector:
  1. Independent acute and mental health hospital executives
  2. Long term care provision executives
  3. Owners, operators and executives of learning disability services
  4. Owners, operators and executives from diagnostic services providers
  5. Owners, operators and executives from independent sector homecare providers
  6. Health and care at home providers
  7. Healthcare staffing solutions providers
  8. Senior managers from other independent healthcare groups
  9. NHS executives seeking further insight into the independent sector
  10. Executives from overseas healthcare providers seeking greater understanding of the UK market and its potential for growth

The Annual Homecare Conference - held in November

• Homecare providers from the private and voluntary sectors
• Chairs, Portfolio Holders and elected Members of Social Services Committees Social Services Directors, Divisional Heads and Managers including:
  1. strategy and planning
  2. care management
  3. locality management
  4. community care purchasing
  5. service management
  6. contracts management
• Social housing providers that do, or may, provide care
• Care home operators
• Extra-care developers and managers
• Primary Care Trusts
• Other NHS staff involved in social care
• Telehealth services and community alarms providers
• Professional and financial advisers to the long term care industry