HPPN SPRING CONFERENCE, KEELE HALL, KEELE UNIVERSITY APRIL 24, 2014 PROGRAMME 10.

00 ARRIVAL AND COFFEE 10.30 SESSION 1: Adele Cresswell, University of Nottingham, The changing role of the general medical practitioner in the English National Health Service Jenny Harlock, University of Birmingham, Decommissioning healthcare: early findings from an NIHR study Andrew Gray, Academic Services for Public Management, Offender Health? Why bother? The policy and politics of providing health care to offenders 11.45 SHORT COFFEE BREAK 12.00 SESSION 2: Jane Thomas, University of Sussex, Car ownership and NHS mergers Neil Perkins, University of Manchester, Partnership Working in Public Health 12.45 LUNCH

1.45 SESSION 3 Ki-tae Kim, University of Birmingham, Digesting the smorgasbord of systematic reviews on the Scandinavian puzzles Vicky Singleton, Lancaster University, The pursuit of common values in health care policy and practice Stephen Peckham, University of Kent, General practice and public health a convergence or divergence of practice? 3.15 TEA 3.30 SESSION 4 Martin Powell, University of Birmingham, Exploring the new accountability regime in the NHS Chris Nottingham, Glasgow Caledonian University, Trade without a Capital. The New Public Management and the Professions. Ian Greener, University of Durham, The politics of health, the new unconscious and human rationality. Or whose fault is it if I get fat?.

5.00 DEPART