Health co-operative conference, Manchester

1. HEALTHCARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
CO-OPERATIVE SOLUTIONS
Wednesday 15 November 2006
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
United Co-operatives, in partnership with the
Manchester Area Co-operative Party, the
Co-operative College, The Appointments
Commission and Mutuo, invites you to this
ground-breaking event for non-executive
directors, governors, managers and those
with an interest in the dynamic
opportunities offered by co-operatives
in a changing NHS.

2. The National Health Service is changing fast. Alongside its commitment to involve private
sector healthcare organisations, the Government is determined that co-operatives and
social enterprises will ensure there is a range of providers that share the values of the
NHS. Co-operation and mutuality are the model for Foundation Trusts, which may soon
provide most acute hospitals in England; and Co-ops play their proud part in other areas
of the healthcare economy, responding to the needs of local people. Co-operatives achieve
their aims without making profits for non-members, are open and accountable, and are
run according to strict values and principles shared and followed the world over. This is
why they are the natural partners for the NHS.
This one-day conference will provide the opportunity to hear about the practical
experience of people involved in delivering co-operative healthcare. It will highlight
developments in the foundation trust sector, and new approaches in the co-operative and
mutual organisation of primary care.
Your participation is invited.
‘‘ ’’ Mutual models can provide an attractive alternative to both state
and private provision of local services – devolving ownership and control of
services to the people who care about them most.
Rt Hon Ruth Kelly, MP, then Minister at the Cabinet Office

3. Programme
Time Activity
10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.30 Welcome
10.40 Keynote speech
Kathy Reade, Chair East Lancashire PCT
11.00 Co-operative solutions to healthcare challenges
Peter Hunt, Cliff Mills and Geraint Day
11.45 Refreshments
12.05 Workshops
1 How the co-operative option works for us
David Bostock (Mastercall), Mo Girach (Foundation Medical Group)
2 Making healthcare mutual
Peter Hunt (Mutuo), Cliff Mills (Cobbetts Solicitors)
3 A policy theme: Management, mutuality and risk
Geraint Day (Institute of Directors)
4 The mutual experience two years on
Chris Burke, Ian Mason (both Stockport NHS Foundation Trust)
5 In the face of dental need
Steven Holmes (Genesis Dental Care)
Caring for the good of it
Margaret Elliot (Sunderland Homecare Associates)
6 Pharmacy at the heart of community
Janice Perkins (United Co-operatives)
1.05 Lunch
2.00 Workshops repeated from earlier session
3.00 The Co-operative Difference
Dame Pauline Green (Co-operatives UK)
Co-operation – a Healthy Future?
Peter Marks (United Co-operatives)
Closing remarks
Chris Burke
3.45 Close

4. Booking form
Event Title: Healthcare in the 21st Century – Co-operative Solutions
Date: Wednesday 15 November 2006
Venue: The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
PARTICIPANT’S DETAILS: (Block capitals)
Mr/Mrs/Ms/ First Name: Surname:
Organisation Address:
Invoice address (if different from above)
Email address:
Do you have any special requirements (ie: disability, dietary)? Please give details:
■ Member of United Co-operatives ■ Member of Co-operative Party
Please indicate which two workshops you would like to attend.
Workshop Choices
1 How the co-operative option works for us
David Bostock (Mastercall), Mo Girach (Foundation Medical Group)
Content: A Co-operative structure seemed the best option for two GP services, one in Stockport,
one in London. Why this was so and how it is working out will be explored in this session.
2 Making healthcare mutual
Peter Hunt (Mutuo), Cliff Mills (Cobbetts Solicitors)
Content: Why are health mutuals and co-operatives the way forward? What are they and how can they
be established?
3 A policy theme: Management, mutuality and risk
Geraint Day (Institute of Directors)
Content: The Government’s NHS plan, published in 2000, sought greater diversity among organisations
delivering healthcare. The workshop explores the thinking behind this move and the lessons from mutual
and co-operative organisations worldwide.
4 The mutual experience two years on
Chris Burke, Ian Mason (both Stockport NHS Foundation Trust)
Content: Two perspectives from the CEO and a board member from the local community on the
experience of establishing a Hospital Foundation Trust.
5 In the face of dental need
Steven Holmes, (Genesis Dental Care)
Caring for the good of it
Margaret Elliot (Sunderland Home Care Associates)
Content: The experience of two organisations that are successfully meeting community health needs,
with structures to meet the new challenges.
6 Pharmacy at the heart of community
Janice Perkins, (United Co-operatives)
Content: A view from Co-op Health Care of the challenges and opportunities being faced in providing a
vital community service.
Please return this form in the Freepost envelope provided Cancellation Policy – available on request.
or to The Co-operative College, FREEPOST NWW8345A, This event is being recorded and photographed for event
Manchester, M60 5FX and publicity purposes.
or fax back to 0161 246 2946.
If you have received this form electronically, you can email it Conference cost is £165 including refreshments and lunch,
back to HCS21@co-op.ac.uk where you can also request welcome pack and entry. Cheques should be made out to
further information. the Co-operative College, or an invoice will be sent. Book
before 23 October and receive a £15 discount.
If you would like to speak to someone about this event,
please contact Amanda Sharp on 0161 246 2958 or
Steve Kingman on 0161 246 2966.

5. Sponsor Information
United Co-operatives Ltd
United Co-operatives is one of the largest retail co-operatives in Europe, with a
turnover in excess of £2bn and more than 16,000 staff employed from the Midlands to
Cumbria and from Northern Ireland to the East Coast of Yorkshire. Its businesses
include food retailing, travel, Sunwin Motor Group, funerals and healthcare.
The Co-operative College
The Co-operative College works with membership-based organisations and
enterprises, helping them to become commercially and socially successful. Since its
inception in 1919, the College has become recognised throughout the world as a centre
of excellence for co-operative learning, offering a diverse and challenging range of
learning programmes and services for members, directors, employees and managers
in co-operatives, mutuals and social enterprises.
The Appointments Commission
The Appointments Commission was established in April 2001 and specialises in the
recruitment, training and appraisal of people for board-level public appointments to
NHS bodies, ministerial advisory bodies and other arm's length bodies in England.
The Co-operative Party
The Co-operative Party works with the Labour Party in the UK to influence its policies
towards more co-operative solutions. It believes in individual empowerment and self-
help initiative. It believes that a better share of this planet's wealth between northern
and southern hemispheres and a greater respect for the environment will help to build
a sustainable, safer and progressive society.
Mutuo
Mutuo (Communicate Mutuality Limited) brings together the different wings of the
mutual sector to promote a common message of success and to encourage mutual
approaches to business and public policy. Through Mutuo, consumer co-operatives,
building societies, mutual insurers and friendly societies work together to promote
their shared interests to the Government, the media and other decision makers.
Mutuo operates as a not-for-profit Society.
Venue
The venue for this event is The Bridgewater Hall, on Lower Mosley Street in
the heart of Manchester. It is situated close to St Peter's Square Metrolink
station, mainline railway stations and several car parks.
Address
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS.
Tel 0161 950 0000. Fax 0161 950 0001. admin@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Further venue details will be sent to attendees before the conference.

6. Speaker Information
David Bostock is Chairman of Mastercall, a not- Steven Holmes is a social entrepreneur who has
for-profit GP co-operative offering an out of hours helped establish a range of enterprise initiatives.
service. It provides a high-quality service to 500,000 He chairs the board of Genesis Dental Care, a
people in Stockport, Manchester and Trafford. network of community dental associations based in
the East Midlands and trading as a not-for-profit
Chris Burke is a health service career professional
organisation.
and is now CEO of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust, which has a turnover of £170m, was one Peter Hunt established Mutuo in 2001 as the first
of the first NHS Foundation Trusts and is cross-sector body promoting mutuality to opinion-
committed to providing a high-quality, accessible formers and decision-makers. Since 2004 more
and responsive service by putting the patient at the than 20 NHS foundation trusts have been advised
heart of all it does. on the adoption of new mutual membership
structures and mutual structures have been
Geraint Day is Head of Health, Environment and
developed for out-of-hours GP care. Peter is also
Transport Policy at the Institute of Directors. He
an advisor to the 2005 Healthcare Commission
formerly worked in the NHS, has chaired a
review of first wave foundation trusts.
Community Health Council and was a member of
the Department of Health’s External Reference Peter Marks has worked in the Co-operative
Group on Governance of NHS Foundation Trusts. Movement for more than 30 years. He is Chief
Executive of United Co-operatives, a rapidly
Margaret Elliot has worked for Social Enterprises
growing business with a turnover in excess of £2bn,
for more than 30 years and helped found
with interests in food retailing, travel, motor
Sunderland Home Care Associates in 1992. SHCA is
dealerships, funerals and healthcare.
an employee-owned company rooted firmly in the
Co-operative Movement. It employs 175 people and Ian Mason is a former headteacher and a director
has an annual turnover of £1.75m. The organisation of United Co-operatives. He is a founder board
has been replicated in North Tyneside, Newcastle member of the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
and Manchester
Cliff Mills from Cobbetts Solicitors, specialises in
Mo Girach from the Foundation Medical Group, was providing advice to the co-operative and mutual
formerly Chief Executive of SELDOC, a pioneering sector, particularly helping to establish new
doctor co-operative in London with 500 GP organisations.
members. Mo has had a varied and wide ranging
Janice Perkins is the Superintendent Pharmacist
career in NHS management and was recently
for United Co-op Health Care Ltd. A business
awarded the Inner City Entrepreneur award.
providing a range of health services, the group now
Dame Pauline Green is a former Labour and operates 230 health centre and community
Co-op MEP, and leader of the Socialist Group in the pharmacies.
European Parliament. She is Chief Executive of
Kathy Reade is the newly appointed Chair of East
Co-operatives UK, the national membership body
Lancs Primary Care Trust. She formerly chaired
for co-operatives, and a strategic voice for the
the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health
Co-operative Movement, supporting the
Authority, and is a member of the Court of the
development and growth of new and existing
University of Central Lancashire and the
co-operatives.
Lancashire Partnership.