09:00 - Registration and refreshments

09:45 - Opening remarks from the chair

Sue Eve-Jones ACC, Director
PACC-UK

10:15 - Understanding the clinical coding cycle: From activity to payment

• Exploring the structure and stages of the clinical coding cycle and who is involved at each phase
• Analysing the evolving role of the clinical coder and benefits of investing in workforce
• Clarifying the rules, conventions and regulations under which clinical coders operate

Jayne Harding ACC, Senior Clinical Classifications Advisor, NHS Classifications Service
NHS Connecting for Health

10:55 - An update on the progress of the national external clinical coding audit programme

• Feedback on the progress and early results from the national PbR Audit
• An overview of the benchmarking system – did it give the correct intelligence to compare trusts?
• Exploring how national audit has affected the clinical coding process, and how will methodology change in future

Christine Noonan ACC, Senior Clinical Classifications Advisor, NHS Classifications Service
NHS Connecting for Health

11:35 - Question and answer session

11:45 - Morning Refreshments

12:05 - Facilitating the transfer of data from clinician to coder

• Exploring the evolution of the clinician-coder relationship
• Focusing on source documentation: How do you ensure quality information enters the coding system?
• Identifying where and how errors occur in the translation of recorded activity and building strategies to overcome these

Andrew Wheeler ACC, Clinical Coding Manager
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

12:45 - Understanding the clinical coding classification systems

• Building a greater understanding of clinical coding classification systems in order to better understand the data generated, and identify anomalies
• Exploring the conflicts between using a classification to support payment systems as opposed statistical data sets
• Conflicts between national coding standards and classification standards
• The need to improve coding skills

Sue Eve-Jones ACC, Director
PACC-UK

13:25 - Question and answer session

13:35 - Lunch

14:35 - Examining HRG development

• Understanding how HRGs are derived
• Exploring how HRG version 4 differs from previous versions
• How will this impact on the way that services are commissioned, and how they are paid for?

15:15 - Case study: Identifying new pressures and challenges within the coding cycle for effective PbR

• Exploring the development of new procedure codes and resulting time pressures which occur as clinical coding becomes more sophisticated
• Predicting the impact of new timescales on the depth and quality of clinical coding data
• Horizon Scanning: What issues will affect clinical coding in the future?

Nick Bell, Head of Information
Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospital NHS Trust

15:45 - Panel Discussion

Including contributions from key speakers from throughout the day.

16:10 - Close of Seminar