Programme

Registration

Chair opening remarks

Revalidation and the new professional

The way in which the GMC regulates doctors in the UK is changing through the introduction of     revalidation, the process by which doctors will demonstrate that they are up to date and fit to     practice. How will revalidation provide patients with further assurance that doctors are   competent; benefit employers, strengthen local systems of clinical governance; and support     doctors in delivering the highest quality treatment and care?

Targets within a changing NHS

In this increasingly complex landscape of changing management structures, financial restraints and evolving responsibilities what will the effect be on healthcare targets? How will trusts demonstrate a clear line between efficiency savings and maintaining quality, without losing one another in tandem? With SHAs disbanding, what targets will remain and subsequently, how can success be measured after implementing change? Learn how focus can be maintained on innovation developments if later targets are to be abolished?

Questions and answers

Morning Refreshments

Future of Primary Care Trusts

With PCTs soon to be losing considerable power to GPs and faced with the current world financial crisis, Trusts are increasingly pressured to display an immediate return on investments. What are the future strategies for healthcare commissioning? Furthermore with a powerful consortium of general practitioners, what is the future of practice based commissioning?

Ensuring quality of care during the transition of commissioning responsibility from PCT's to GP Commissioning Consortia

As PCT's are set to be abolished from April 2013 and hand over their responsibility for commissioning how can quality of care be assured during the transition and how can the evolving focus on patient reported outcomes and experience be embedded in the assurance process.

Question and answers

Lunch

Management: Integrating leadership across the NHS

With significant workforce challenges facing the NHS, a greater emphasis is on engaging both the  workforce and patient. But how can you maintain staff morale and engagement in crisis time? How can you manage and communicate changes sweeping the NHS? Technology and IT hold the power to transform the way that healthcare services are provided and managed to deliver high quality for all. How can improving your electronic systems help to manage risk and improve staff productivity? Ensure your staff are engaged, satisfied and equipped to deliver services in a changing NHS

Legal and policy challenges of GP commissioning

Andrew Lansley proposes that GPs become commissioners and responsible for the majority of the health budget. Faced with this huge responsibility, what is the proposed structure of GP commissioning and its accountability framework? How will risk and reward work? What are the legal issues for those taking on the commissioning responsibilities? What legal issues will commissioners need to consider to ensure effective commissioning?

Question and answer session

Afternoon Refreshments

How will Practiced Based Commissioning change with a GP led consortium?

Faced with a powerful consortium of general practitioners, what is the future of practice based commissions? Strategic Health Authorities have been in charge of monitoring and organising PBC  but with SHAs being taken away, how will PBC be monitored and regulated? Hear the Government’s plan for PBC and how the private sector must respond to this structure change?

Question and answer session

Chairs closing remarks and close of conference