UK expert confirmed for conference

Professor David Challis has been announced as a keynote speaker at the ACSA conference in Perth later this year.

Professor Challis will speak at the conference on the topic “Developing more flexible and consumer centred services: Implications for different stakeholders. Lessons from Recent UK Research”.

Focusing on Self Directed Support, ‘Personalisation’ and the experiences of provider organisations, the presentation will look at some of the lessons learned from the UK recently.

Professor Challis, who has visited Australia on several occasions, is the Director of the Personal Social Service research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Manchester, which is the largest centre in the UK focusing on social care.

He has undertaken the development and evaluation of a series of studies of community based care for older people which provided alternatives to hospital and nursing home care.

He is currently responsible for national studies of care coordination and long term conditions services, the evaluation of assessment procedures and research into individual budgets and more self directed support in England.

Professor Challis’s work includes performance measurement in older people’s services, hospital discharge, and the evaluation of old age mental health services.

His work has also covered different groups including disabled, mental health and learning disability clients and services.

He has also been an adviser on services for older people to the Commonwealth Government of Australia, Canadian Province of Ontario, Government of Japan, Government of Hong Kong, the US State Government of Wisconsin and the Department of Health in England and National Assembly for Wales. 

Visit www.acsa2009.com.au for more conference information and registration details.