The Summit will bring together revolutionary thinkers and innovative practitioners who are launching a new era in the scope and ambition of local care delivery. This year's plenary speakers, who will present during the General Conference on March 25-27, 2007, include:

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is one of the nation's leading authorities on health care quality and improvement. He is also clinical professor of pediatrics and health policy at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berwick has served as vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "Independent Member" of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association, and as a chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Sir John Oldham, MB, ChB, MBA, Head of the Improvement Foundation, UK, is a practicing physician who regularly conducts workshops and presentations internationally. In 1997 he participated in an Institute for Healthcare Improvement project to redesign surgery systems in the US using the Collaborative methodology. Dr. Oldham then applied the Collaborative method to primary care in the UK and  being asked to create and head the UK’s National Primary Care Development Team (now Improvement Foundation). The Primary Care Collaborative is the largest improvement program in the world. He also created the concept of the award-winning Healthy Communities Collaborative with residents of deprived areas as the improvement team members. In 2000 he received the OBE for services to patients and in 2003 he was awarded a knighthood for services to the NHS.