Agenda:

• 23/02/2012
  • 9:00 AM

    • Registration & Exhibition

  • 9:45 AM

    • Chairman’s Welcome and Introduction

      Ros Francke, Chair of HFMA’s mental health faculty MH FINANCE & Director of Finance, Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS FT

  • 9:50 AM

    • Opening Address

      Sue Baker, Director, Time to Change

  • 10:20 AM

    • Keynote Address: No Health without Mental Health – Delivering the promise in a cold climate

      Dr Hugh Griffiths, National Clinical Director Mental Health, Department of Health

  • 11:00 AM

    • Coffee & Exhibition

  • 11:30 AM

    • Health and wellbeing boards: How will they effect mental health services and help improve local mental wellbeing?

      John Wilderspin, National Director, Health and Wellbeing Board Implementation, Department of Health
      
      John will provide an up-to-date picture Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) Implementation Programme, and will explore:
      • The role of the HWBs
      • Experiences and results from emerging health and wellbeing boards
      • How HWBs can help transform mental health services
      • The roles of HWBs in improving public mental health
      • How to engage with your local HWB
      

  • 12:10 PM

    • Lunch

  • 1:10 PM

    • Sub-Plenary A, Dissecting the future of commissioning Forensic Mental Health Services

      Kath Murphy, Secure Services Policy and Specialised Mental Health Transitions Lead, Department of Health
      
      Kath will give an update on changes in commissioning secure services, work to date in preparation for transfer and current focus of the transition team. She will then lead an informal discussion covering:
      • What is the role of the NHS Commissioning Board likely to be
      • How might the Commissioning Board work with individual units
      • What is the possible trajectory for the transition from Specialised Commissioning Groups
      • How can we influence the work taking place to develop robust commissioning for Forensic Mental Health Services
      

    • Sub-Plenary B, MH PbR Case Study & Discussion

      Paddy Mc Kee, Head of Clinical Quality and Practice Development, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP)
      AWP Mental Health Trust covers a very large range of urban and rural mental health communities working in partnership with six separate PCT and Local Authorities to deliver a wide range of local mental health services. AWP is one of the early innovators in terms of utilising Mental Health PbR methodology to inform and support service modernisation and redesign as well as building electronic solutions to underpin care planning and the associated clinical information systems to support real time costing data.
      The key objectives of the workshop will be to :
      -Outline the challenges and learning from working with a number of different commissioners to deliver PbR care pathways across a range of local providers
      -Describe the IT solutions that were developed to underpin a new clinician information system to support data collection for mental health PbR
      -Discuss the learning from a complex change management process with an emphasis on staff training and culture change
      -Consider the challenges posed from trying to align the personalisation agenda alongside Mental Health PbR
      -Describe the evolving local service models with an emphasis on how they have been designed to support the PbR agenda
      -Reflect on the true financial costs of implementing Mental Health PbR across a large and complex organisation
      -Outline some of the early benefits from the perspective of the service users, cares, clinical staff and corporate services

    • Sub-Plenary C, Transforming Community Services – the reality

      Trevor Shipman, Director of Finance, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust
      
      Central & North West London NHS FT is one of the largest providers of mental health, substance misuse and learning disability services in London, and has grown through a series of mergers and service transfers over the last ten years. The trust was one of the early participants in the TCS programme acquiring the provider arm of Camden PCT and Hillingdon Community Services. In this sub-plenary session Trevor will
      • Give the background to the merger/acquisition including the rationale and benefits that are hoped to be gained
      • Share the trust’s plans for integration hoping for seamless transition, without disruption to patient care
      • Give an update on the trust’s implementation of these plans, including early wins and lessons learnt
      • Explain how the trust had ensured stability and business continuity by minimizing service disruption
      • Outline the key risks identified and how they are being mitigated/minimised
      • Give his personal experiences, and that of his team, of integrating other finance teams and systems
      

  • 2:00 PM

    • The GP’s role in commissioning: How could it improve the provision of mental health services

      Dr Amit Bhargava, GP, Chair Crawley Commissioning Consortium, National Co-Lead, NHS Alliance Clinical Commissioning Federation & South East Coast SHA Primary Care Lead for Mental Health
      Following an update on the progress of formation and development of CCGs, Dr Bhargava will share his thoughts on what changes GP Commissioners might want to see in the delivery of MH Services and more specifically what improvements they want to see in the provision of care of patients with mental health problems. Amit will share his ideas on how GPs and providers can best engage and work together to deliver improved and cost effective services to populations.
      

  • 2:30 PM

    • Coffee & Exhibition

    • Quality, Mental Health Information Literacy & the compliance regime in mental health

      Dr Geraldine Strathdee, Specialist Clinical Adviser on Mental Health to the Care Quality Commission, Associate Medical Director- Mental Health, NHS London, & Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
      
      This session will give delegates an opportunity to hear about the new movement for Mental Health Information Literacy, which aims to benchmark and align information on Value and Quality for use by mental health providers and CCGs, and to inform their implementation of evidence based PbR care pathways which deliver best outcomes. Geraldine will include the learning from CQC's compliance systems regime, the implementation of the Outcomes Frameworks, Monitor’s Compliance regime and emerging professional regulation and Quality improvement programmes. She will also focus on equalities, drawing on lessons from CQCs mental health legislation care pathways assessments.
      

  • 2:50 PM

    • Putting Mental Health PbR into action

      Stuart Bell, Chief Executive, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) & Chair of the MH PbR Expert Reference Group & Sue Novak, MH PbR, Department of Health
      
      • Latest Guidance on Mental Health PbR
      • Managing financial risk
      • Local v national frameworks
      • Current areas of development
      • Planned timescales
      

  • 3:30 PM
  • 4:10 PM

    • Chair’s Summary & Close