
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
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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