Preliminary Programme
Day 1 (Monday 30 August)
Chair of the day: Prof. Val Lattimer
Morning
8.30 Welcome address (Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza, Director of the Sant’ Anna School)
8.40 4 key-notes
- Primary Care is a permanent opportunity of research (Dr. Giovanni Tognoni, Mario Negri Institute of Milan, Italy)
- Strengthening Primary Care in weak Primary Care systems (Prof. Peter Groenewegen, NIVEL, The Netherlands)
- Primary Health Care developments in Eastern Europe (Prof. Arnoldas Jurgutis, Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS), Klaipeda University, Lithuania)
- Prioritizing patient centeredness and Primary Care development in an access free and fee for service Health Care system: The Belgian experience (Dr. Ri DeRidder, NIHDI, Belgium)
Including question round for key-note speakers (20 min)
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 1st round of parallel workshops (1,5 hours; 30 min intro, 60 min discussion); Introduction of each theme by a video and abstracts (+/-4) introduced by the moderator; 6 themes:
- Chronic Disease Management
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Leadership
- Patient Expectations and Involvement
- Monitoring of Primary Care Performance
- Health Indicators Including Patient Related Health Outcomes
- Research, Funding and Developments, in Primary Care
Afternoon
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Site visits to interesting Primary Care facilities in the Toscane region; innovative ways of organizing Primary Care in for example Empoli will be showed in smaller sub-groups (4h)
Evening
19.00 Drinks and Dinner at “Chiostro di San Francesco” in Pisa
Day 2 (Tuesday 31 August)
Chair of the day: Mr Paolo Tedeschi
Morning
8.30 2 key-notes
- Primary Care Policy related to the determinants of health and equity in health (Prof. Barbara Starfield, John Hopkins Bloomberg, School of Public Health; Health Policy and Management , Primary Care Policy Center)
- Toscany Health Care system with a focus on Primary Care development (Prof. Sabina Nuti and Dr. Daniela Scaramuccia)
10.00 Debate sessions at seven debate corners
(1 hour) along the following themes
- Chronic Disease Management
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Leadership
- Managing Medicalization
- Monitoring of Primary Care Performance
- Health Inequalities
- Research, Funding and Developments, in Primary Care
11.00 Coffeebreak
11.30 2nd round of parallel workshops (1,5 hours; 30 min intro, 60 min discussion); Introduction of each theme by a short video and abstracts (3) introduced by the moderator; 5 themes:
- Chronic Disease Management
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Leadership
- Primary Care and the Care for Elderly
- Monitoring of Primary Care Performance
- Health Inequalities
Afternoon
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Feedback sessions for non-members and EFPC Annual Member Meeting (related to conference topics and EFPC in general) (45 min)
14.45 Plenary videos presentation session along the themes of the Conference
15.45 Tea-break
16.15 Swedish introduction on “The Future of Primary Care in Europe, Goteborg 2012” (Dr. Robert Sinclair, Health Care Authorities VG Region; 15 min)
16.30 The Future of the EFPC, including the feedback information gathered and closure (Prof. Jan De Maeseneer, Chairman EFPC, University of Ghent; 30 min)
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Prof. Barbara Starfield
Director of the Johns Hopkins University Primary Care Policy Center. Baltimore, USA.
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 Doct. Daniela Scaramuccia, Tuscany Health Directorate, Italy
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Prof. Peter Groenewegen
Director of NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research.
Professor at University of Utrecht .
Member of the EFPC Executive Committee.
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Dr. Ri De Ridder
Member of the General Management Committee of NIHDI, National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance, Belgium.
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Prof. Arnoldas Jurgutis
Professor at the Klaipeda University, Lithuania.
Member of the expert group on Primary Care at NDPHS, Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being.
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 Workshops
The workshops in the parallel sessions will be moderated by known experts in the field of PC:
- Theme 1: Chronic disease management:
Gavino Maccioco (Italy), Peter Groenewegen (Netherlands)
- Theme 2: Interdiscplinary collaboration:
Paolo Tedeschi (Italy), Marianne Samuelson (France)
- Theme 3: Medicalization:
Mona Lisa Hagvide (Sweden), Tatyana Pasenyuk (Ukraine, Cyprus)
- Theme 4: Monitoring PC:
Wienke Boerma, Dionne Kringos (both NIVEL, The Netherlands)
- Theme 5: Health indicators:
Niro Siriwardena (UK), Jan De Maeseneer (Belgium)
- Theme 6: Research:
Giorgio Visentin (Italy), Val Lattimer (UK)
Abstracts, posters and Multi-media presentations
- A number of 2 x 6 x 3 = 36 abstracts will be selected for the parallel workshop sessions;
- Posters with clear statements for debate will be selected for the session in the debate corners
- Video, slide show or other multi media-(outlines) will be selected for the introduction of the workshops and for the video presentation session
Abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts including the program prior to the conference and a selection will be published in a special edition of QPC.
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 In this context six common pressures for change and development have been identified from a review of individual states’ current policies and relevant international research. These may be regarded as the formative influences on the future organisation of primary health care in Europe. Together they represent the imperative for shared learning.
The regional healthcare system of Tuscany is in itself interested in most of the themes as it is currently experimenting chronic care management, interdisciplinary collaboration within primary care teams, performance evaluation systems, alternative prevention programs. For such reasons, the conference program will also include visits to local primary care centres and innovative service delivery facilities
The six themes:
- Chronic Disease Management including care for older persons
- Interdisciplinary collaboration plus leadership
- Medicalization
- Monitoring of Primary Care performance
- Health indicators including patient related health outcomes
- Research, funding and developments, in primary care
Read further for more information on the themes.
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Sabina Nuti, Director of 
