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Conference programme       


Pre-congress briefing - healthcare informatics - 17th October 2006
Congress day one - 18th October 2006
Congress day two - 19th October 2006

last modified: 07/11/2006 15:34:57 (GMT)

Pre-congress briefing - healthcare informatics - 17th October 2006
09.00Chairman’s opening remarks
 
Confirmed:
Colin Jervis, Director of Healthcare Consulting,
Kinetic Consulting

DEVELOPING E-HEALTHCARE
09.10What do users want from a care records system?
  • User perspective on healthcare IT systems
  • User acceptance – how to get a happy user (and keep them happy)
 
Confirmed:
Ian Denley, Chief Executive,
System C Healthcare

EMERGING E-HEALTHCARE APPROACHES
09.40Implementing a care records system
  • Patient administration system: lessons learnt and stages of ‘go live’
  • Records without boundaries; how do we ensure optimum efficiency and interoperability?
  • What risks and difficulties exist in the implementation of a care records service?
 
Confirmed:
Mike Sadler, Chief Operating Officer / Medical Director,
NHS Direct

10.10Morning coffee
 
11.10Multi-speaker panel session: in pursuit of the Electronic Medical Record and ICT Innovation
  • EMR and ICT designed to meet the needs of a wide range of health care providers
  • Pilot testing of EMR / ICT adequately preparing for the realities of rollout
  • Sustaining stakeholder momentum and support
 
Moderator:
Colin Jervis, Director of Healthcare Consulting,
Kinetic Consulting
Confirmed:
Jacques Sauret, Director General,
Groupement d'interet Public Dossier Medical Personnel
Confirmed:
Don Sweete, National & Atlantic Alliance Executive,
Canada Health Infoway
Confirmed:
Hans Erik Henriksen, Leader Healthcare Nordic Region,
IBM

12.10Putting the patient first: choose and book and a wider range of primary care services
  • How is national implementation of choose and book currently shaping up?
  • How can we ensure full implementation and benefit realisation of choose and book?
  • Underlining effective service planning and proactive management requirements
 
Confirmed:
Andy Hadley, Informatics Programme Manager,
East Dorset NHS Trust

12.40Lunch
 
14.00Multi-speaker panel session: laying the technical foundations of the Electronic Prescription Service
  • National implementation of the EPS with its two phases of software
  • Ensuring full implementation and benefits realisation of EPS
  • Extending EPS to support the role of primary healthcare practitioners
 
Moderator:
Colin Jervis, Director of Healthcare Consulting,
Kinetic Consulting
Confirmed:
Susan Grieve, Principal Pharmacist,
Department of Health
Confirmed:
Chris Hoare, Chief Information Officer,
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority
Confirmed:
Paul Cundy, Joint Chair,
GPC / RCGP IT Committee

15.00Afternoon tea
 
15.30Mobile telemonitoring for enabling self care and reducing risk in health and disease - solution to community based healthcare
  • Putting the public in charge of their health care
  • Tackling the pandemic of lifestyle related diseases
  • Advances in physiological insight into wellbeing and risk
  • Advances in wireless and communications technology
  • Supporting self care anywhere anytime
  • A teleservice for health promotion and disease management

 

 
Confirmed:
Paul Johnson, Telemonitoring Research Centre, Womens Centre,
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

16.00Long term conditions management - outreach services to improve the level of self care in patients with long term conditions.
 
16.30Chairman’s closing remarks and close of pre-congress briefing
 
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Congress day one - 18th October 2006
14.14
 
09.00Chairman’s opening remarks
 
Confirmed:
Paul Smit, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development,
Philips Medical Systems

THE CHANGING FACE OF HEALTHCARE
09.10Keynote address: healthcare reform: a major strategic shift
  • Outlining the strategic shift in favour of public health: next stage of the reforms in primary care
  • Forces and drivers of healthcare reform: the changing role of the state
  • Opportunities being presented to the private sector and independent providers of care
 
Confirmed:
Gary Belfield, Director of Primary Care,
Department of Health

FUTURE OF SUPPLY SIDE REFORMS
09.40What the private sector can offer the NHS
  • Outlining the provider role under NHS reforms
  • Changes in primary care and the new opportunities for service provision
  • Outlining the allocation of resources, operations and services in the new landscape
 
Confirmed:
Tom Mann, Chief Executive Officer,
Capio Healthcare UK

10.10Morning coffee
 
11.10Integrating the role of the independent sector within primary care
  • Mapping how the independent sector are interfacing with PCTs and their service requirements
  • Detailing on-going clinical provision needs in primary care and the commercial opportunities
  • Charting capacity building initiatives and the role of PPPs in meeting demand
 
Confirmed:
Mark Wadley, Primary Care Operations Director,
Netcare healthcare UK

11.40Contracting and independent sector providers: planning and developing independent sector provision
  • How is government policy currently shaping future strategies for independent sector provision?
  • Identifying short falls in local service provision to ensure precise independent sector service provision
  • How are Wave 2 Invitations to Negotiate (ITN) progressing with independent sector providers? 
 
Confirmed:
Mark Smith, Group Strategy Director and Chairman,
Mercury Health and NHS Partners Network

12.10Case study: learning from a review of PCT experiences with ISTCs to improve future procurement
  • Lessons form the first waves of ISTC procurement
  • Highlighting the need for data to drive efficient commissioning
  • Building NHS clinical engagement with the ISTC programme to improve partnership working
 
Confirmed:
Nicola Easey, Assistant Director of Commissioning and National Modernisation and Commisioning Lead,
North East Lincolnshire PCT and NHS Alliance

12.40Lunch
 
14.00Multi-speaker panel session: changing face of public healthcare to meet demand and policy
  • Challenges emerging for all NHS and independent sector organisations delivering patient care
  • Ensuring continuity of care and services through integration of new providers
  • Innovation in service delivery and contestability delivering service improvement
 
Confirmed:
Ian Smith, Chief Executive Officer,
General Healthcare Group
Confirmed:
Tim Elsigood, Managing Director,
Alliance Medical
Confirmed:
Clayre La Trobe, Director, Primary Care Operations,
UnitedHealth Europe
Moderator:
Paul Smit, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development,
Philips Medical Systems

EXPANDING THE VOLUME AND RANGE OF PROVIDERS
15.00Speed networking
 
16.00Afternoon tea
 
16.30Case study: managing the impact of the independent sector on service provision
  • Evaluating the impact of the ISTC on service provision and NHS Trusts
  • Reallocation of existing resources and exploring new approaches to service redesign
  • Managing the impact for the future: exploring roles of the PCT, provider and the ISTC
 
Confirmed:
David Rose, Chief Executive Officer,
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust

17.00The role of venture capital in developing the healthcare market
  • What venture capital is and how it works
  • Judging potential opportunities – what the investor looks for
  • Enabling development in and around the NHS
 
Confirmed:
Martin Woods, Healthcare Sector Advisor,
3i

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Congress day two - 19th October 2006
09.00Chairman’s opening remarks
 
Confirmed:
Michael Dixon, Chairman,
NHS Alliance

INNOVATION AND ADOPTION
09.10Improving quality and efficiency of patient care and cost-effectiveness through medical technologies
  • Combining trendsetting medical equipment with innovative IT solutions
  • Outcomes that lead to a level of care that feels exceptional to the patient and the care provider
  • Technologies that improve the quality of care while at the same time reduce costs
 
Confirmed:
Günter Dombrowe, Managing Director,
Siemens Medical Solutions

09.40Ensuring effective clinical and corporate governance
  • Principles and components that underpin successful implementation of clinical governance
  • How is progress being monitored in implementing clinical governance
  • How is clinical governance being linked with the planning process?
 
Confirmed:
Aidan Halligan, Executive Chair,
Ellison Health

10.10Morning coffee
 
11.10Case study: redesigning patient pathways and improving service provision
  • Drivers of choice and the likely outcomes
  • Extended choice making best use of NHS Foundation Trusts, ISTCs and service providers
  • Procedures and the mechanisms behind the guidance
 
Confirmed:
Heather Wicks, Head of Commissioning and Service Redesign and Professional Advisor in Orthoptics,
Oxford City PCT and Department of Health

DEMAND SIDE REFORM
11.40Case study: PCTs – fit for what purpose?
  • Learning from Waves 1 and 2
  • What are the challenges to overcome?
  • What are the development priorities?
 
Confirmed:
Rita Symons, Project Director for the PCR Fitness for Purpose,
Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority

12.10Commissioning a patient-led NHS: establishing new SHAs and PCTs
  • Commissioning service expectations; PCTs, general practice and local government
  • Identifying the essential components of an effective commissioning process
  • Performance management of commissioning
 
Confirmed:
Bob Ricketts, Head of Demand Side Reform,
Department of Health

12.40Lunch
 
14.00Practice based commissioning as the main driver of NHS reforms
  • A vision for primary care and the future of commissioning in the NHS
  • The reality of a primary care led NHS and the expansion of services
  • Models of practice based commissioning and the PCT future role
 
Confirmed:
James Kingsland, Chairman,
National Association of Primary Care

14.30Multi-speaker panel session: the evolution of practice-based commissioning
  • Primary care trust reconfiguration impacting on practice-based commissioning
  • Best practice on how to engage GPs effectively and ensure a shared GP and PCT vision
  • Successfully managing the governance and accountability issues
 
Moderator:
Michael Dixon, Chairman,
NHS Alliance
Confirmed:
Mo Dewji, Clincial Director Primary Care Contracting,
National Primary Care Development Team
Confirmed:
Gillian Hooper, Quadrant Director of Commissioning,
East and North Hertfordshire PCT
Confirmed:
James Kingsland, Chairman,
National Association of Primary Care

15.00Afternoon tea
 
15.30Case study: commissioning services and payment by results
  • Payment by results and practice based commissioning: how they fit together
  • Requirements that underpin the effective operation of payment by results
  • Operational factors, local flexibilities and transitional arrangements
 
Confirmed:
Mark Millar, Director of Resources & Planning,
Essex Strategic Health Authority

16.00Chairman’s closing remarks and close of congress
 

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