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  The North West branches of HFMA and ASSIST invite you to join us at the Blackpool Hilton Hotel from 25th - 27th February 2010. The Conference offers one of the widest ranges of speakers and topics on the current circuit and the cost of the event remains very competitive as we strive to remain accessible to all staff.

• Agenda:

  • 25/02/2010
    • 2:00 PM

      • Registration

        Registration and Refreshments

    • 3:00 PM

      • Opening Address

        Paul Assinder
        Director of Finance and Information, The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS FT
        HFMA President

    • 3:15 PM

      • How to make an Impact by Clearly Showing Information

        Jon Moon, Leading Authority on Document Clarity
        
        Learn how to do reports, slides and information packs that people praise and envy. Ones that have clarity and impact and that get results. And discover ‘WiT’, Jon’s alternative to bullet points that has three times the impact of bullets. Visit www.jmoon.co.uk for lots more, including a WiT-based ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a Cabinet briefing paper.
        
        Jon Moon is a leading authority on document clarity. He’s delivered in-house courses at numerous Finance functions including the BBC, the Home Office, Unilever, BT Openreach, Nationalwide, PA Consulting, ICAEW and many more. His book ‘How to make an impact’ is a regular in Amazon’s top selling books on Communicating. Previously he worked in industry as a Finance Director and was Acquisitions Partner of a FTSE250 Company.
        

    • 7:00 PM

      • Drink Reception

    • 8:00 PM

      • Dinner

        Followed by entertainment in the bar and nightclub

  • 26/02/2010
    • 9:30 AM

      • Registration

        Registration and Refreshments

    • 10:00 AM

      • TBC

    • 10:45 AM

      • Refreshments and Exhibition

    • 11:15 AM

      • The Current Financial Climate and the Impact on the Public Sector

        Kirsten Major
        Chief Economist, NW SHA
        

    • 12:15 PM

      • A: Implementation of Lorenzo

        Grant Thornton
        
        

      • B: Sustaining Services.

        Contract and Information Shared Services Unit

      • C: HRG v 4

        Jacky Knight
        Project Manager for the LRC1.9 EA Project, NHS Bury
        

    • 1:00 PM

      • Lunch and Exhibition

    • 2:15 PM

      • D: Shared Primary Care Record.

        David Smith
        Manager, Governance and Public Sector, PWC

      • E: Quality Accounts.

        Kate Warriner, Liverpool PCT
        Tony Woods, Liverpool PCT
        

      • F: TBC

    • 3:00 PM

      • Update from SHA

        Mark Ogden
        Director of Finance, Capital and Economic Reform
        NHS North West

    • 7:00 PM

      • Drinks Reception hosted by Axon

    • 8:00 PM

      • Gala Dinner (Black Tie)

        Charity Raffle followed by After Dinner Entertainment with Dara O’Briain – Host for the topical news show ‘Mock the Week’

  • 27/02/2010
    • 10:15 AM

      • James Cracknell OBE

        British rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist and adventurer. He now presents sport on ITV and Channel 4 and is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph.

    • 11:00 AM

      • Closing Address

        Lesley Cooke
        Chair, ASSIST North West
        Policy Manager Digital Information & Health Policy NHS Connecting for Health.
        

• Package 1 - Member Rate includes: full attendance at conference and accommodation for 2 nights	£435.00 + VAT
  Package 1 - Non Member Rate includes: full attendance at conference and accommodation for 2 nights	£485.00 + VAT
  Package 2 - Member Rate includes: full attendance at conference with no accommodation	£250.00 + VAT
  Package 2 - Non Member Rate includes: full attendance at conference with no accommodation	£275.00 + VAT
  Package 3 - Member Rate includes: Black tie70 dinner only excluding accommodation	£70.00 + VAT
  Package 3 - Non Member Rate includes: Black tie dinner with no accommodation	£80.00 + VAT