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?
Future of Strategic Health Authorities
SHA regions have been given drastic management cost reduction targets. With clear difficulties in managing within a declining budget and faced with an uncertain future, what are the best frameworks for continuing to plan and deliver quality and efficient services at a local level? What will be the impact of the removal of this tier on procurement, and what will the NHS look like without Strategic Health Authorities? How will services operate in the transition period?
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
Targets within a changingUnderstanding the GP commissioning structure
The new Health Secretary Andrew Lansley proposes GPs become lead commissioners for care up to £60bn – having an enormous impact on Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). Faced with huge responsibility, how will GP consortia work in practice? Who will lead the consortia? Will it be effective? And, what will the impact be on commissioning across all the sectors?
Question and answer session
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?
Assessing and Monitoring
What will be the implications of the new government’s policies on Foundation Trusts and how will Monitor’s role evolve over time overseeing applications for FT status? Understand the individual role of the Care Quality Commission for the future, has the CQC become a QUANGO; a luxury that we can no longer afford? What happens to the NHS Trusts that don’t become a Foundation Trust and what are trust’s overall performance frameworks?
