Health + Care Show 2015
- Date:
- 24-25 Jun 2015
- Reference:
- ES/HAC2015
- Part of:
- Exhibitions and Shows
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
The Health+Care 2015 show, aimed at health and social care professionals across the UK, was held at ExCEL in London 24-25 June 2015. Although branded primarily Health+Care, it also included The Commissioning Show.
The aims of the show, as described in the 2015 Show Guide, included dealing with "how to raise the quality of care and at the same time, do more with less. This year's show will provide care-based solutions to this dilemma, with a bigger than ever focus on integration and new models of care, including the Vanguards, Integration Pioneers and a keynote session on the Greater Manchester Devolution plans. Other challenges addressed at this conference include: meeting the £22 billion efficiency target, managing and preventing demand, building robust prevention and public health services, tackling urgent and emergency care, transforming out-of-hospital care, delivering a Seven-Day NHS, improving services for dementia and the frail elderly and integrating mental and physical health." .
The conference included a keynote address by Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, as well as plenary discussion, workshops and Q&As. The programme included integrated care, patient-centred healthcare, providers and commissioning, medicines optimisation, healthcare innovations, residential care, home care, adults' and children's services, cost saving in care innovations. The 2015 show also launched 'Knowledge Exchange' workshops for multidisciplinary discussion on the themes of workforce planning, new care models, co-commissioning and integrating mental health. Other themes included mobility, adult social care, rehabilitation and self-care.
Another new theme in the 2015 show was healthcare technology and technology enabled care services, focusing especially on telehealth and telecare. The products exhibited at the show included various technological devices and applications for home-care, such as symptom tracking devices, monitoring systems, medicine management systems and diabetes care solutions such as blood glucose monitoring devices. The systems and devices for hospitals, clinical practitioners, GPs, care homes, local authorities, care workers etc. included case management systems, technology for endoscopic imaging, assessment tools, care management systems, digital platforms, workforce management systems, wound management tools, ECG diagnostic support and administrative systems.
There were also products and services for residential care providers and home care service providers for disabled people, senior people as well as for mental health. These include memory care products such as signage, support services, medical equipment, accountants, commissioning support, training and consultancy, purchasing services, business support, waste management, purchasing and procurement services, including for food, tax planning, catering solutions, wound healing services, insurance service, graphic design and interior design, physiotherapy services and pain management. Other service provides offered training, apprenticeships and accreditation services.
Products exhibited included key safes, medication, furniture such as adjustable beds, satin bed linen for easier movement, lighting with sensors, dental supplies, infection control, medicine dispensing solutions, batteries, faeces collection devices, jewellery pendant alarms, disposable bibs, diagnostic instruments, non-surgical knee therapy, biomass boilers, electroceutical therapy for leg ulcers, probiotics, showering solutions, mobility aids, nutritional supplements, bins, security systems, medical tests and various software .
The exhibitors included pharmaceutical companies, NHS and related organisations, producers of products, charities, service providers, commissioners as well as Royal colleges (Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of General Practitioners).
The material gathered by the Wellcome Library at the show includes product pamphlets, guides, reports, informational leaflets, magazines and journals. There are also some objects, including an alcohol unit calculator, example of a faeces collection device (Alpha Laboratories) and disposable bibs, which were distributed by the companies alongside promotional and informational materials.