This international conference will bring together the outstanding global research leaders in stigma and discrimination in mental health. The meeting will focus on the state-of-the-art knowledge on effective interventions to reduce stigma and discrimination. The presentations will be of vital interest to all those active in working together against stigma.

Organised by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and the World Psychiatric Association Scientific Section on Stigma and Mental Illness, this international conference brings together service users, carers, practitioners and researchers interested in stigma and discrimination. The meeting focuses on effective interventions to reduce stigma and discrimination in mental health and other areas. The conference provides a unique opportunity to engage with contemporary discourse and debate around stigma.

Part of the Mental Health 2009 Conference Series The conference provides an important update on the latest thinking in measuring and monitoring outcomes in mental health, in line with the requirements for revalidation and recertification, and the 'New Vision for Mental Health Discussion Paper', launched by the Furture Vision Coalition in June 2008. You'll hear how practitioners and organisations are leading the way in taking a wider view on outcomes in mental health to include social inclusion, employment and reduced stigma, as well as involving service users in setting goals and measures.

Chaired by Angela Coulter, Chief Executive of the Picker Institute, this conference provides a practical guide to measuring and monitoring clinical outcomes using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). You'll hear how practitioners are leading the way in using PROMs from integrating clinical outcomes and patient reported outcomes to using generic and disease specific PROMs in practice and collecting data at an organisational level.

Care Bundles Care Bundles have been championed by the IHI internationally, and the Department of Health in the UK, as a tool for high impact change that healthcare organisations can adopt to make significant, measurable improvements in the way they deliver care. Chaired by Gren Kershaw Faculty Member The 1000 Lives Campaign Wales, this conference provides a practical guide to improving clinical process, outcomes and safety through Care Bundles, including a step by step guide to introducing them into your service.

The overriding theme of this year’s conference is ‘making sense of personalisation’.The importance of personalising services is rapidly gaining momentum. Significant and radical changes on the scale envisaged will create uncertainty. Are we clear about what this means for service users, providers and commissioners? In particular, how will these changes impact on the vulnerable people who have relied on supported housing services? Is the recent progress in supporting more vulnerable and hard to reach groups being put at risk? Three other key agenda themes will remain crucial to explore from a variety of perspectives: outcomes for service users; efficiency and effective commissioning; and integration of services. This year’s conference offers participants the opportunity to learn about, reflect on and debate the critical future changes in service delivery from the service user perspective and from providers and commissioners.

Transforming the Quality of Dementia Care With a keynote introduction from Jenny Owen, Co Lead of the National Dementia Strategy, this conference provides a practical guide to delivering the National Dementia Strategy and transforming the quality of dementia care. It includes a series of case studies providing practical guidance on delivering the strategy across a range of settings, including general hospitals, home care, intermediate care and care homes, as well as improving support for carers.

Ageing Population 09 will examine the government’s strategy to support, help and improve the lives of Britain’s army of carers. Also to be discussed is the Department of Health’s consultation on the first ever national dementia strategy.