At a time when every penny spent on healthcare is under scrutiny, the NHS is wasting billions of pounds each year with unnecessary hospital admissions. Since 2005, the number of hospital admissions has increased by 2.79 million and yet 30% of the patients occupying beds can be treated elsewhere.

With an increasingly ageing population and more people suffering with long-term conditions, there needs to be a radical rethink as to the location of healthcare delivery. The assumption that hospital is the 'default setting' for treatment needs to be dispelled and a new era of community-based care needs to be encouraged.

By embracing integrated community-led healthcare programmes, can acute care providers be more able to treat those most in need, and can patients avoid unnecessary admission to hospital through improved local care?

At Community Led Care: Meeting needs closer to home a line-up of expert speakers will explore and discuss the opportunities that such transference of healthcare services from hospital to home can deliver. A series of case studies will allow delegates to hear of successful programmes that could provide benefit to their own organisations and patients, whilst the lively panel debate will allow for interactive contributions.