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Mini-plenary sessions |
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MP1
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Hard Budgets – how to make them work for you
Chair: Dr Shane Gordon, GP & Chief Executive, Colchester
PBC Group & Associate Medical Director, NHS East of
England
Speakers: Ruth Thorlby, Senior Fellow, The Nuffield Trust;
Dr Stephen Shortt, Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT& Founder, Principia CIC; Dr David Morris, Chair, CAG
SOCA PBC; Dee Kyne, Business Director, PHD CIC |
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Focus on productivity: delivering better care – and
saving money!
Chair: Charlotte Moar, Director of Finance & Deputy Chief
Executive, Wiltshire PCT
How to save a million – in bankable cash!
A Chief Executive, a Commissioner and an Advisor explore how
to make lasting savings that do not impact on quality of service.
Speakers: Dr Shikha Pitalia, Chair, United League
Commissioning; Dr Lynne Maher, Director of Design, NHS
Institute for Innovation and Improvement; Ann James,
Chief Executive, NHS Devon |
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Involving patients and communities – the new
imperative
Exploring how working in close co-operation with patients and
communities has huge potential to improve experience and
outcomes as well as saving money.
Chair: Dr Brian Fisher, Patient & Public Involvement
Network Lead, NHS Alliance
Speakers: Paul Streets, National Director of Patient
Experience, Department of Health; David Gilbert, Director, InHealth Associates; Julia Cartwright, North Oxfordshire Community
Partnership Forum |
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Competition, integration or local coalition?
Provider organisations are set to change profoundly, but what
will work best for our patients?
Chair: Dr David Colin-Thomé OBE, National Director for
Primary Care, Department of Health
Speakers: Dr David Jenner, GP and Senior Policy Advisor
Clinical Commissioning, NHS Alliance; Dr John Coakley,
Medical Director, Homerton Hospital; Bob Ricketts, Director
of System Management and New Enterprise, Department
of Health; Dame Barbara Hakin, Chief Executive, NHS East
Midlands |
MP5
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Patient Safety in Out of Hours Services
This session will brings together a range of people involved and
affected by major failures in out of hours services to discuss what
we can learn from these tragedies and how we can ensure that
we avoid similar failures in the future.
Chair: Rick Stern, Urgent Care Lead, NHS Alliance
Speakers: Dr Stuart Gray, GP and son of David Gray; James
Meikle, Campaigning Journalist, The Guardian; Edmund
Jahn, Managing Director, Harmoni; Jack McCollum, CEO, Urgent Care Cambridge |
| MP6 |
Revalidation and Licensing: what GPs need to know
and what they need to do now
What will the recent outcome-focused changes to the accruing
of learning credits toward revalidation mean for GPs?, How they
will best manage the new inspection regime of the CQC?
Chair: Dr Ken Aswani, PEC Chair Network Lead, NHS
Alliance
Speakers: Dr Janet Hall, GP, Royal College of
General Practitioners and Old School Medical Centre |
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| 13.30 |
Fringes |
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The Partnership Nirvana; Can they really save you money and improve quality? - MEYRICK SUITE
Speakers: Paul Midgely, Managing Director Healthcare Partnership; Jill Matthews, Implementation Director for
Primary Care and Community Services, Department of Health |
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Practice Manager's lunchtime meeting - TREGONWELL SEMINAR 1
Come along and meet your NHS Alliance Practice
Manager Regional Leads. |
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Avoiding the media firestorm that could destroy even the best-run GP consortium
BRANKSOME SUITE
Speakers: John Carvel, Journalist and recent Social Affairs Editor, The Guardian; Ana Paula Nacif,
Media Relations, NHS Alliance |
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PEC Chairs and GP Commissioners Working Lunch - PURBECK LOUNGE
Come and hear the key outputs from the pre-conference day meeting.
Speakers: Julie Wood, Director, Commissioning Academy and Guest |
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How Advocacy Cuts Complaints Costs on
the Bottom Line - BAYVIEW SUITE 1
Chair: Philippa Thompson, Project Director, SEAP ICAS
Speakers: Paul Burstow, MP, Minister for Care Services (invited); Jill Miles, CEO, SEAP; Glenn Douglas,
CEO, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust |
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Outcomes from the NEEPCT one year Pilot for Back and Neck Pain - TREGONWELL SEMINAR 2
A presentation by the 2009 Acorn Awards Winners
Speaker: Greg Sharp, Osteopath and Mark Gurden, Chiropractor |
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Change Management Skills - BAYVIEW SUITE 2
Speaker: Dave Bates, Trainer, Excel Academy |
| If you would like to discuss running a fringe event at The Cutting Edge please contact Chris Hanney of
Health Links at channey@health-links.co.uk, 0208 749 6471. |
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| 16.30 |
Workshops |
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Commissioning and quality in General Practice Chair: Julie Wood, Clinical Commissioning Federation
Director, NHS Alliance
Commissioning for quality in general practice
Speaker: Ben Dyson, Primary Care Lead, Department of
Health
Lessons for commissioners from the King’s Fund report on
Quality in General Practice
Speaker: Dr Nick Goodwin, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King’s
Fund |
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Community Development: communities and Primary
Care collaborating to improve local health
How Community Development can lead to better services at lower cost.
Chair: Dr Brian Fisher, Patient & Public Involvement Network Lead,
NHS Alliance
Speakers: Professor Chris Drinkwater, Trustee, HealthWORKS
Newcastle; HELP Project, Hazel Stuteley, Strategic Lead in Community Engagement, NHS Southwest; Hilary Samson-Barry, Director
of Statutory Relations, Turning Point |
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Innovation and redesign: getting more for less
Chair: Dr Minoo Irani, Consultant Pediatrician, NHS Berkshire East .
Moving clinicians to the heart of the decision-making: how it made a difference
Speaker: Dr Hugh Reeve, GP, Chair of the Westmorland Primary Care Collaborative & NHS Cumbria PBC Locality Lead
Practical examples of real change
Speaker: Julie Passmore, Programme Director, Northamptonshire Integrated Care Partnership.
A new approach to community services
Speaker: Dr Linda Harris, Medical Director, Wakefield Integrated Substance Misuse service
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| Th 4 |
A new national three digit number for urgent care
What we can learn from the national pilots so far?
Chair: Diane Ridgway, Chief Executive, East Lancashire Medical Services.
Speakers: Alison McWilliam, Chief Executive, Nottingham Emergency Medical Service and Berenice Groves, Urgent Care Commissioner, County Durham and Darlington, Nicholas Reeves, Special Advisor to the Urgent & Emergency Care Team, Department of Health.
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| Th 5 |
The how, why and what of creating your own Social
Enterprise: understanding Right to Request (R2R)
Chair: Mo Girach, Special Advisor on Social Enterprise,
Social Enterprise and R2R: current Government Policy
Speaker: Bob Ricketts, Director of System Management and
New Enterprise, Department of Health
Provider arms and Right to Request
Speaker: Andrew Burnell, Founder Director, The City Health
Care Partnership CIC
General Practice and R2R
Speaker: Dr Clare Davison, GP |
| Th 6 |
Managing your practice budget in testing times
As practice finances are becoming increasingly tight it is more important than ever to prepare a detailed budget each year and be able to monitor actual spend against that budget month by month.
This session will offer some practical tips on preparing a practice budget and provide a forum for sharing tips and ideas amongst attendees.
Chair: Johan Taylor, Practice Manager, Marple Cottage Surgery, Stockport
Speakers: Nick Nurden, Business Partner, Ridge Medical Practice; Jerome Emery, Practice/Business Manager, St Peter’s Surgery, Walsall |
| Th 7 |
How will Local Authorities work with GP commissioners?
Chair: Dr Ade Adeagbo, Non Executive Director of NHS Greenwich
(Vice Chair and Chair of Audit), NED Network Lead, NHS Alliance |
Th8
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Clinical Engagement and Innovation: optimising the
management of cardio-metabolic risk in Primary Care
How can Primary Care work with private providers to commission and deliver
effective, efficient and consistent care for people with long term conditions?
Chair: Professor Chris Bentley, Head of Health Inequalities National
Support Team,Department of Health
Speakers: Dr Stuart Bootle, Director, Continuum Professional Services;
Dr Mona Sidhu, GP, Wolverhampton PCT |
Th9
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Delivering value for rheumatology patients in a changing NHS landscape
Speakers:Bruce Kirkham Consultant Rheumatologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Sarah Kerr Pharmaceutical Advisor, Southampton City PCT |
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