The 7th International Conference: Priorities 2008

Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory

In October 2008, the International Society for Priorities in Health Care returns to the UK, this time to the north-east of England. The conference has a Local Organising Committee which is convened by the Institute of Health Society at Newcastle University.

Much has changed in the eight years since the Society was last in the UK. Building on this, the main theme of this conference: "Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory", is about achieving greater action on priority setting and improving frameworks used for this purpose.