The Northern Health Science Alliance and Health Equity North are hosting a day of events at the Conservative Party Conference on Monday October 1 and the Labour Party Conference on Monday, October 9, with partners from across the North of England.

CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE AGENDA, MONDAY OCTOBER 1

13:00 – 14:30

Building the UK life sciences supercluster: how health innovation clusters across the UK can support the 21^st century NHS?

Private Roundtable

The event will bring together the health research sciences leaders of the three major regions of the UK and give amply opportunity to explore how life sciences can work together to contribute to the health and wealth of the UK to an efficient fit-for-purpose NHS.

Host: Northern Health Science Alliance 

Confirmed attendees

• George Freeman MP, Minister for Science,  Innovation and Research

This is an invite only event. To find out more, please email alexis.darby@thenhsa.co.uk.

The below events will take place in the Secure Zone at ACC Liverpool, Meeting Room 25.

LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE AGENDA, MONDAY OCTOBER 9 

08:00 – 09:15

Building the UK life sciences supercluster: how health innovation clusters across the UK can support the 21^st century NHS?

Private Breakfast Roundtable

Host: Northern Health Science Alliance 

Confirmed attendees

• Dr Seamus O’Neill, CEO, Northern Health Science Alliance (Chair)
• Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister Science Research and Innovation

And representatives from:

• University of Liverpool
• Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
• ABPI
• Stephenson Mohl
• Bruntwood SciTech
• Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester
• Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
• University of Leeds

This is an invite only event. To find out more, please email alexis.darby@thenhsa.co.uk.

09:45 – 11:00

Economic inactivity: a public health approach to the UK’s productivity crisis

Health for Wealth Panel 

Host: Health Equity North  

Speakers

• Graeme Whitfield, Editor at The Journal (Chair)
• Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, and Chair of the Health in all Policies APPG
• Chris Thomas, Head of Commission on Health and Prosperity at IPPR
• Professor Clare Bambra, Academic Co-Director at Health Equity North, and Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University
• Dr Luke Munford, Academic Co-Director Health Equity North, and Health Economist at the University of Manchester

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11:15 – 12:30

The Child Poverty Emergency – how do we build a fairer Britain for our Children?

Child of the North Panel 

Host: Health Equity North  

Speakers

• Kim McGuinness, Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner (Chair)
• Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside, and Vice Chair of the APPG for Child of the North
• Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives
• Professor Kate Pickett, Academic Co-Director Health Equity North, and Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
• Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Academic Co-Director Health Equity North, and Professor of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool

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12:45 – 14:15

Unleashing opportunity through regional devolution

Private Panel Event

Host: Stephenson-Mohl 

This is an invite only event. To find out more, please email alexis.darby@thenhsa.co.uk.

14:45 – 16:15

Cost of living responses: Who is missing out?

Private Roundtable

Host: The York Policy Engine 

Chaired by Professors Kate Pickett & John Hudson, University of York / The York Policy Engine.
This event hosted by The University of York Cost of Living Research Group and The York Policy Engine will discuss policy implications from our research with families living on a low income, local authorities, and voluntary and community sector partners during the cost of living crisis.

Speakers:

• Debbie Abrahams MP
• Richard Burgon MP
• Professor Kate Pickett OBE
• Professor John Hudson

This is an invite only event. To find out more, please email alexis.darby@thenhsa.co.uk.

16:45 – 18:15

Our Ageing Nation: Poorer, sicker, and unproductive – an inevitable consequence?

Panel event

Host: Newcastle University  

Newcastle University’s Health Innovation Neighbourhood examines health and sustainability across the life course. This event asks what policies must be adopted to meet the challenge of sustainable health and care.

Speakers

• Professor Chris Day CBE, Vice-Chancellor & President of Newcastle University (Chair)
• Professor Justin Durham, Academic Director, Health Innovation Neighbourhood
• Relevant Members of Parliament have been invited

Booking information to follow.

18:30 – 20:00

Health and Prosperity: How can health and life sciences boost inclusive growth?

Panel event

Host: The Heseltine Institute, The University of Liverpool and Liverpool Health Partners

The event hosted by the Heseltine Institute and Liverpool Health Partners will examine how we can tackle the NHS recruitment and skills gaps to improve local health and employment outcomes. We will also look at local economic growth and wealth creation and how we can mobilise our collective potential especially the role of anchor institutions in supporting the wider determinants of health and in taking a whole life course approach in the health and care system?

Relevant Members of Parliament have been invited.

Background:

The interconnections between health, wealth and wellbeing are keenly understood in Liverpool City Region. The Liverpool City Region Plan for Prosperity offers a vision for a Fairer, Stronger and Cleaner City Region. It defines prosperity as being wider than traditional measures of economic growth: a blend of improving personal health, wealth and opportunity; creating thriving neighbourhoods and places; successful and productive businesses that create good quality employment; and a healthy and protected natural environment.

This panel discussion will seek to identify actionable insights into how the excellence we see across multiple anchor institutions in the City can be mobilised in support of growth and wellbeing.

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Please note that a pass for the Secure Zone will be required to attend all of the above listed events.