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The HSE Patient and Public Partnership Conference 2025

Wednesday 17th September 2025
Croke Park

Navigating our partnership journey together 

Registration is now closed for the in person event however online tickets are still available on 
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1473322179299?aff=oddtdtcreator 

 

AGENDA
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Conference Hosts: John Wall and Sandra Broderick

 

08:30 Registration and viewing of marketplace and posters 
 

10:00 Welcome from the Hosts and housekeeping 
 

10.10 Opening Address 
 

10.25 In discussion with the CEO Bernard Gloster and Patient Advocate John Wall

Q&A Session
 

10.50 Comfort Break 
 

11:00

Plenary session – welcome on stage the first panel

1: 11:05

Co-producing a Patient and Public Partnership recruitment campaign

Norma Deasy and Linda Sice Brogan

2:

11:15

Together for Better Mental Health: Co-creating services that reflect lived realities & shared expertise

Fiona McKernan, Clara Meehan and Maria McGoldrick

3:

11.25

BELONG - A Home for Patient Belongings in Clinical Spaces

Maria Kane and Joe Bowden

11.35

Panel discussion moderate by Joe Ryan 
 

11.55

Comfort Break 

12:05

Plenary session – welcome on stage the second  panel

4:

12:10

The Digital Journey Begins with Patients 

Damien McCallion and Prof. Richard Green 

5:

12:20

Co-designing an outcomes-focused monitoring system for HSE funded adult disability day service

Martina Lanigan, Deirdre Nally and Jack Kenny

6:

12:30

Strengthening Lived Experience findings from partnership working with the HSE and the Housing Agency

Jessica Curtis  and Ber Grogan 

12:40

Panel discussion moderate by Laura Kavanagh
 

 

13:00 Lunch and networking 
 

13.30 Viewing of posters 

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14:15 Breakout sessions 

Main Room: 

Public and Patient Partnership Strategy Presentation – themes and objectives from regional workshops – interactive workshop 

Facilitated by Geraldine O’Brien, Lorna Kerin, Micheal Cronin, Jimmy Burke, Mairead Holland, Fiona O Driscoll, Jacopo Villiani

 

Davin Room 

Bias and barriers in partnership work

1

Empowering Service Users living with Chronic Conditions through a Health Literacy Programme 

Mairead Holland, Mary Rose Cunningham and Paddy Flavin  

2

Talking About Diabetes – Language Matters

Cathy Breen and Michelle Lowry

3

Integrating Health and Housing Responses to Roma Inequalities: The Tipperary Roma Health and Accommodation Pilot Project

Suzanne Nolan, Padraig Ryan and  Nadia Lacatus

4

Reflections on an innovative approach to person centred HSE National Clinical Guideline Development

Katie Ellwood, Christine Fenton, Elaine Dobell

 

Nally Room 

Children in partnership 

1

Harnessing the Experiences and Opinions of Irish Youth and Families to Drive Meaningful Change

Adèle de Vries and Patient partner  

2

Empowering Young Voices: Developing an Ethical PPI Toolkit for Engaging Children and Young People in Research through Partnership between TUSLA, DCU, and Barretstown

Edel Tierney and Edel Murphy 

3

Our Voice, Our Future: Children’s Health Ireland’s Youth Advisory Council and Building the foundations for partnership within Children’s Health Ireland 

Claudine Frame,  Ashleigh Kiernan and Grace McKenna

4

It Takes a Village:
Co-Designing Nurse Education with Children, Parents and Professionals

Naomi Bartley, Claudine Frame and Mark Bolger

 

15.30: Main room 
The Journey to date and the future of partnership

Hosted by Sandra Broderick and John Wall:

Joe Ryan, Anne Lawlor, Iolo Eilian and Laura Kavanagh with Summary of outputs from rapporteurs
 

16:15 QUESTIONS & COMMENTS
 

16:45 Closing by the Hosts of the Conference

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, request or require assistance please feel free to contact me: pppconference@hse.ie

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