Agenda:

• 23/09/2010
  • 9:30 AM

    • Registration and Coffee

  • 9:55 AM

    • Chairman’s Introduction and Welcome

      Dr Michael Dixon, Chair, NHS Alliance

  • 10:00 AM

    • Keynote Address

      Earl Howe, Under Secretary of State, Department of Health (invited)

  • 10:30 AM

    • Implementing GP Commissioning – the opportunities and the challenges

      Julie Wood, National Director Clinical Commissioning Federation, NHS Alliance

  • 10:50 AM

    • The importance of effective resource utilisation within the new commissioning environment

      Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (tbc)

  • 11:10 AM

    • Q & A Session

  • 11:20 AM

    • Coffee

  • 11:50 AM

    • Sub-plenary Session A

      Case Study: NHS East of England Hard Budget Plan
      East of England SHA leads the country in support for PBC, with hard budget pilots already running in NHS Cambridgeshire, NHS South East Essex and NHS North East Essex, and ‘strong interest' in NHS Bedfordshire. A key challenge is that of aligning the correct financial and professional incentives for PBC to work effectively and the importance of developing appropriate information systems. This session will give the opportunity to learn from their experiences and progress to date.
      Dr Shane Gordon, GP and Chief Executive PBC Group, Associate Medical Director NHS East of England
      

    • Sub-plenary Session B

      Case Study: Improving Quality in Primary Care - The Quality Measurement Tool
      The design of the Quality Measurement Tool was led by Nene Commissioning and developed in partnership with Northamptonshire PCT and the LMC. Its purpose is to provide practices with a mechanism for measuring and improving quality, to acknowledge strengths and lay the foundation for sharing good practice. It is made up of 4 sections:
      • Delivery of high quality care for patients with long term conditions
      • Measures of access to primary care
      • Ensuring all practices engage with local healthcare economy issues
      • Ensure all practices have organisational capabilities to support the delivery of appropriate healthcare within the practice
      A key factor is its combination of quantitative and process measurements, which allow basic numerical scores to be tempered by allowance for practice differences to give a more realistic and supportive approach to measuring quality in general practice. This session will explore the achievements to date and what is planned for the future.
      Ben Gowland, Chief Executive, Nene Commissioning
      

    • Sub-plenary Session C

      Case Study: Service Redesign in Primary Care
      This session will discuss the future of population health management and budget holding, and our partnership with AETNA.
      Dr David Morris and Dee Kyne, Business Director, Pathfinder Healthcare Developments CIC
      

    • Sub-plenary Session D

      Case Study: NCL Acute Commissioning Agency
      Individually the 31 North Central London PCTs have faced a number of difficult challenges. Collectively, through the NCL Acute Commissioning Agency, these 31 NCL PCTs are tackling these challenges successfully and are becoming a leading commissioning entity. Learn how they have developed 6 acute commissioning units across their PCTs, their experiences, achievements and future developments.
      Caroline Clarke, Sector Director of Strategy and Transformation, North Central London Sector
      

  • 12:50 PM

    • Lunch

  • 1:50 PM

    • Afternoon Chairman

      Chris Calkin, Director of Finance & Deputy Chief Executive, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

  • 1:55 PM

    • Keynote

      What are the crucial issues for clinicians and finance professionals across the primary and secondary divide?
      Dr David Jenner, Senior Special Advisor and member of National Executive NHS Alliance (tbc)
      

  • 2:25 PM

    • Introduction to the Consultation Issues

      Kingsley Manning, Executive Chairman – Health, Tribal

  • 2:40 PM

    • Refreshment Break

  • 3:10 PM

    • Commissioning for Patients – shaping the detail as part of the DH consultation

      This session will give the opportunity for clinicians and finance professionals to discuss together in small groups the consultation issues around how the new system of GP commissioning consortia and the NHS Commissioning Board will work in practice as part of the planned DH consultation process. The output from these sessions will be fed into the consultation exercise as part of the 'co-production' strand in which the NHS Alliance is to be directly involved.

  • 3:55 PM

    • Panel Session and feedback from groups

      Chris Calkin, Director of Finance and Deputy CEO, University Hosp of North Staffordshire
      David Jenner, Senior Special Advisor & member of National Executive, NHS Alliance (tbc)
      Julie Wood, National Director, Clinical Commissioning Federation, NHS Alliance
      Kingsley Manning, Director – Health Practice, Tribal
      

  • 4:15 PM

    • Summary and close