7th European Regional Conference in Bournemouth 2024

The main theme incorporated the following sub-themes:

1. Working together across disciplines, boundaries and countries, including co-production with service users, patients and families
2. Entrepreneurship: creativity, enterprise and innovation
3. Inclusivity: working with socially excluded and vulnerable groups
4. Sustainable nursing: climate, resource and workforce
5. Nursing during times of conflict, crisis and disasters
6. Digital health

The following speakers presented Keynote presentations during the conference, each focusing on one of the sub-themes:

• Joanne Bosanquet MBE, Chief Executive, Foundation of Nursing Studies. Presentation: Reflective Practice A Path to Resilience Well-being & Healthful Workplace Cultures
• Professor Michael Shannon, Crown Coaching International
• Professor Joy Duxbury OBE, Professor of Mental Health, Manchester Metropolitan University. Presentation: The disproportionate use of force in mental health settings time to flip the narrative
• Maggie Langins, Nursing and Midwifery Policy Advisor, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. Presentation: A time to act
• Professor Martin Bricknell, Professor of Conflict, Health and Military Medicine, King’s College London
• Dr Natasha Phillips, Chief Nursing Information Officer, NHS England. Presentation: Bridging the Gap Aligning Nursing Education with Digital Health in the 21st Century