
The HSE Patient and Public Partnership Conference 2025
Wednesday 17th September 2025
Croke Park
Navigating our partnership journey together
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AGENDA
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Conference Hosts: John Wall and Sandra Broderick
08:30 Registration and viewing of marketplace and viewing of posters
9:45 Please take your seats
10:00 Welcome from the Hosts and housekeeping
10.10 Opening Address: CEO Bernard Gloster
10.20 In discussion with the CEO Bernard Gloster and Patient Advocate John Wall
Including a Q&A session
10:50 Conversation with John Wall, Sandra Broderick, Joe Ryan and Anne Lawlor– Journey to
Date: Past and Present Moderated By Brendan Whelan
11:15 Comfort break and Coffee
11:30 Plenary session – welcome on stage the first panel
1. Co-producing a Patient and Public Partnership recruitment campaign
Norma Deasy and Linda Sice Brogan
2. BELONG - A Home for Patient Belongings in Clinical Spaces
Maria Kane and Joe Bowden
3 The Digital Journey Begins with Patients
Loretto Grogan, Eamon McPartlin and Prof. Richard Green
Panel discussion moderated by Joe Ryan
12:30 Plenary session – welcome on stage the second panel
4. Together for Better Mental Health: Co-creating services that reflect lived realities
& shared expertise
Michael Ryan, Clara Meehan and Donal O’Keeffe
5. Strengthening Lived Experience findings from partnership working with the HSE
and the Housing Agency
Jessica Curtis and Ber Grogan
6. Co-designing an outcomes-focused monitoring system for HSE funded adult
disability day service
Martina Lanigan, Deirdre Nally and Jack Kenny
Panel discussion moderated by Laura Kavanagh
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13.30 Lunch and networking and Viewing of posters
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14.30 Breakout session
Main Room:
Public and Patient Partnership Strategy Presentation – themes and objectives from
regional workshops – interactive workshop Facilitated by Iolo Eilian, Geraldine O’Brien,
Laura Kavanagh and Lorna Kerin
Joined by Micheal Cronin, Jimmy Burke, Mairead Holland, Fiona O Driscoll and Jacopo
Villiani
Davin Room
Bias and barriers in partnership work – Facilitated by Sibeal Carolan and Zoe Hughes
1 Empowering Service Users living with Chronic Conditions through a Health
Literacy Programme
Mairead Holland, Mary Rose Cunningham and Paddy Flavin
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2 Talking About Diabetes – Language Matters
Cathy Breen and Michelle Lowry
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3 Integrating Health and Housing Responses to Roma Inequalities: The Tipperary
Roma Health and Accommodation Pilot Project
Suzanne Nolan, Padraig Ryan and Nadia Lacatus
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4 Reflections on an innovative approach to person centred HSE National Clinical
Guideline Development
Katie Ellwood, Christine Fenton, Elaine Dobell
Questions and discussion
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Nally Room
Children in partnership – Facilitated by Jennifer Martin and Anne Lawlor
1 Harnessing the Experiences and Opinions of Irish Youth and Families to Drive
Meaningful Change
Adèle de Vries and Ashleigh Kiernan
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
Kevin O’Farrell, Claudine Frame, Emily Fitzsimons and Grace McKenna
4 It Takes a Village:
Co-Designing Nurse Education with Children, Parents and Professionals
Naomi Bartley, Claudine Frame and Mark Bolger
Questions and discussion
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15.40 Comfort Break
Main Room
15:50 The Journey The future of partnership: Joe Ryan, Anne Lawlor, Iolo Eilian and Laura
Kavanagh with Summary of outputs from rapporteurs
Hosted by Sandra Broderick and John Wall
16:20 QUESTIONS & COMMENTS: and 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