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Two-day UWI conference on Improving Health Care Quality and Delivery

For Release Upon Receipt - January 9, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – The Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine, invites the health sector to a two-day conference entitled “Improvement in Health Care Quality and Delivery: Making a Difference” on January 18 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and January 19 at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI, St. Augustine Campus.

Keynote speakers for the conference are Sir Andrew Cash OBE, Chair of the National Health Service Employer’s Policy Board, UK; Renee-Marie Stephano, President, World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress; Michael Bradshaw, CEO of the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago; Rachel Cutting, Senior Scientist and UK Health Scientist of the Year 2012, and John Mofatt, CEO, Smart-ISO Limited in the UK.

In direct response to the challenges that the region has faced recently with regard to the delivery of quality health care, the FMS recognizes that the creation of a committed workforce for the health sector in the Caribbean is one of its major responsibilities. The Faculty also sees its role in bringing about needed change in improving health care in the region as one of its most immediate goals.

Registration fee is US $450 before January 18 and US $500 on site. There is also a special 20% discount for all UWI Academic Staff who register by January 11, 2013.

For further information on this conference, log onto the conference website at http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/13/fms/index.asp or contact the FMS Conference Secretariat at 663-6311; 645-3232 ext: 5020 or 5025 or via email at conferencehcq@sta.uwi.edu.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

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