Economics of Prevention Seminar: 28th May 2015
NHS Health Scotland & What Works Scotland
28th May 2015
The Lighthouse
Glasgow, G1 3NU
As part of our developing programme on prevention and the economics of prevention What Works Scotland and NHS Health Scotland are running a half day seminar exploring challenges of adopting a preventative approach. Bringing together experts from Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Housing and Early Years the discussion will focus on how they have achieved a shift to prevention in the design and delivery of their services, what this has meant in terms of the way their services are run and how it has been enacted.
The aim of the seminar is to bring together Community Planning Partnerships, Economists, Health Economists and analysts to explore how services can be redesigned to take account of prevention with an emphasis on the economics of this approach. The seminar will contribute towards a better understanding as to how services can be designed with prevention in mind and the economic case for this can be made.
Each presenter will describe an example of prevention and discuss what was put in place, how it was developed and what its aims were. This will be followed by a discussion on the impact it had, both in terms of the services they delivered and their working practices. Finally they will describe what savings they were able to make, if any, how these were accounted for and the challenges they faced along the way.
Through these presentations and subsequent discussion we will seek to address the meaning of prevention and how it fits with public service design, identify the impediments and barriers to its implementation and in so doing contribute to a clearer understanding of the importance and nature of prevention, and help inform the transformative change required in Scotland’s public services.
The seminar will be participatory and will include round table discussions and a question time. Participants will be asked to discuss the issues raised by the presentations and will be invited to put a question arising from their discussion to a panel comprising the presenters of the case studies.