Conference Programme

Registration and Refreshments

Opening remarks from the Chair

Building more effective partnerships to maximise resources and deliver high quality, integrated care

• Effectively integrating services and building partnerships to cope with changing demographics and limited resources
• Working across organisational boundaries to deliver integrated, seamless care
• Aligning the agendas of various organisations to deliver more efficient and effective care
• Understanding the benefits of strong relationships with the voluntary sector, local authorities, independent providers and statutory bodies
• Maximising the financial benefit of mergers and joint ventures, and horizontal and vertical integration
  

Using partnerships to streamline care pathways in emergency and urgent care

• Developing a whole system approach across primary and secondary care in emergency and urgent care for children and young people
• Working across organisational boundaries and collaborating between A+E, paediatrics, ambulance services, primary care and NHS Direct
• Facilitating rapid improvements and supporting practical interventions tailored to local communities
• Engaging the key stakeholders in the process
  

Question and answer session

Morning Refreshments

Driving better value for money through effective contract management and procurement

• Managing performance in NHS contracts through KPIs
• Continuously reviewing contracts and ensuring suppliers are cost effective and delivering value for money
• Using the levers available to drive value from contracts
• Mitigating risk through open and regular dialogue with suppliers
• Negotiating cost and volume contracts and PbR to drive efficiency
  

Benchmarking your local performance and setting targets for improvement and benefits realisation

• Identifying best practice approaches to benchmarking and performance management
• Examining benchmarking tools to measure your performance against national standards
• Ensuring benchmarking is used intelligently to drive productivity, efficiency and income generation
  

Engaging clinicians and finance teams to understand patient level costs and improve patient experience

• Examining the link between quality care and financial return for your Trust
• Using the principles of Patient Level Costing to measure patient safety and experience issues to demonstrate cost differentials
• Using of clinical data as a performance measurements tool to understand the return on investment in service improvement– i.e Reducing Mortality rates, avoidable infections, and improving patient experience
• Evidencing the correlation between clinical productivity, patient experience, expenditure and costs
  

Question and answer session

Lunch

Embedding efficiency and productivity in the NHS Workforce

• Developing flexible and multidisciplinary teams to increase the capacity and capability of the NHS workforce and respond to the changing needs of your organisation
• Investing in training and strategic workforce planning early to mitigate risk and prepare for an ageing workforce
• Examining strategies to reduce the costs of spending on agency staff i.e. using in-house banks, local staff banks or NHS Professionals
• Examining the workforce plans to ensure resource matches the budget and strategic priorities of your organisation

Effectively implementing Service Line Reporting as a means to increase efficiency

• Building business units tailored to your Trust
• Understanding the information required to deliver SLR and incorporating it into new or existing systems
• Examining operational drivers for profitability and understanding the true cost of services
• Identifying and engaging the clinicians to drive the delivery of cost-effective care
• Organising resources used in finance and information services to support the implementation of Patient Level Costing
  

Question and answer session

Afternoon Refreshments

Close of Conference