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This 3-day face to face conference will include a number of lively plenary debates about controversial and timely issues, involving high-profile players from across the health care landscape.

Our aim is to identify and explore desired change and the implications to all stakeholders.  Attendees will gain a deeper awareness of the existence of overdiagnosis, its harms and impact on individuals’ health, on health care and the practice of medicine, and on society. Attendees will learn to apply specific concepts, methods and tools for reducing overdiagnosis, and identify next steps, individual or collective, to improve health outcomes, and reduce harm and wasted resources related to overdiagnosis.

Winding Back the Harms of Too Much Medicine

This 3-day face to face conference will include a number of lively plenary debates about controversial and timely issues, involving high-profile players from across the health care landscape. Our aim is to identify and explore desired change and the implications to all stakeholders. Attendees will gain a deeper awareness of the existence of overdiagnosis, its harms and impact on individuals’ health, on health care and the practice of medicine, and on society. Attendees will learn to apply specific concepts, methods and tools for reducing overdiagnosis, and identify next steps, individual or collective, to improve health outcomes, and reduce harm and wasted resources related to overdiagnosis.

Location: Examination Schools, Oxford, UK