Programme

8:30
Registration

9:30
Chair opening remarks

9:40
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?

Niall Dickson
Chief Executive
General Medical Council
10:20
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?

Tim Smart
Chief Executive
King’s College Hospital foundation trust
11:00
Questions and answers

11:10
Morning Refreshments

11:30
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?

Peter Crutchfield
Managing Director
Central London Healthcare
Dr Ruth O’Hare
Chair
Central London Healthcare
12:10
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?

12:40
Question and answers

12:50
Lunch

13:50
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

Christina Pond
Executive Director of Standards and Qualifications
Skills for Health
14:30
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?

Gill Thomas
Partner
Mills & Reeve LLP
15:10
Question and answer session

15:20
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?

Dr James Kingsland
President
National Association of Primary Care
National PBC Clinical Network Lead
Department of Health
16:00
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?

Merav Dover
Compliance Director
Monitor
16:30
Question and answer session

16:40
Chairs closing remarks and close of conference

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