Mix and match, choose from 18 sessions from 3 conference streams:

1) Strategy
2) Finance
3) Operations

1) Strategy


Session 1)a
9.30 What do patients really want?
• What do patients tell us about what they want
• What information is available to measure this
• How can this be presented to be most useful?

Mr Gareth Cruddace

Programme Director, PCTs – Fitness for Purpose, Department of Health

Session 1)b
10.30 Developing a Brand: Experience from the commercial Sector
The approach
The Culture
The Challenge
The Future
Ashley Stockwell
Group Marketing & Brand Director, Virgin

Session 1)c
11.45 Impact of PBC on Acute trusts
What will PBC look like?
How will commissioning develop?
Impact on Acute Trusts
Richard Lewis
Senior Fellow, The King’s Fund

Session 1)d
1.30 The role of Information in Healthcare Marketing

What do Trusts need to do in order to survive in the competitive world of Patient Choice?
What information will patients need to make their health decisions?
Who will be using the services and why?
How can you target a patient as you would a customer?
Tim Kelsey
Chairman of the management board of Dr Foster Intelligence


Session 1)e
2.45 What’s happening in the Independent Sector
The changing marketplace dynamics
The need for a level playing field
Customer expectations
New opportunities for partnership working
Geoff Benn
Group Marketing Director, Care UK

Session 1)f
3.45 Advertising regulation: Prevention is better than cure. A guide to advertising rules and regulations
Advertising regulation in the UK
The advertising codes: Key issues and examples
Getting advice: Fast, free advice before you publish
Advertising Standards Authority

2) Finance


Session 2)a
9.30 Returning from the red – top tips

• Driving cultural change
• Tightening systems of control and accountability
• Being brave on procurement
• Using reference costs ‘vs’ tariff to tailor effort
• Focus on big ticket items like agency costs

Dr Graham Rich
Chief Operating Officer, United Bristol Healthcare Trust


Session 2)b
10.30 Audit Commission brief on Annual Accounts
Issues for 2005/2006 accounts
Key Aspects of an effective final accounts audit
Claire Johnston
Professional Support Manager, Audit Commission

Session 2)c
11.45 Ensuring financial stability in an era of PBC and Choice
Peter Shanahan
Finance Director, United Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Session 2)d
1.30 Early Lessons – Financial Management of PbR and PBC

• Implications of PBC on PbR
• Information requirements
• Data quality
• Connecting for Health

Caroline Clarke
Finance Director, Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust


Session 2)e
2.45 Developing a change in financial culture
Cultural implications of the new financial regime
Opportunities and barriers to the changes
Case studies
Jacque Mallender
Managing Director, Matrix Research and Consultancy

Session 2)f
3.45 Cost reduction, efficiency and improvement
Speaker TBC

3) Operations


Session 3)a
9.30 Avoiding failure: Future service models

• Exploring the concept of the ‘Principle provider’ – vesting leadership for service design and resource management with one organisation
• Sharing risks, costs, benefits & income: A Joint Venture Service
• PBC: enabling redesign and integration of clinical practice without the need for vertical integration
David Dalton
Chief Executive, Salford Royal Hospital Trust


Session 3)b
10.30 Mergers on the horizon?
What’s behind the ‘urge to merge’ – CPLNHS, Choice, Foundation Trusts
Assessing the impact of mergers & why most mergers go wrong
Learning from the private sector
Exploring the role of NHS senior leaders at times of organisational transition
Jay Bevington
Associate Director of Board Development, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team

Session 3)c
11.45 Real capacity & demand management – the key to a low wait NHS
A capacity plan based on historic activity may cause Acute providers problems in a reformed NHS
Providers should seek to understand their ‘production function’ (‘real’ capacity)
Commissioners who do not understand the real capacity of providers to deliver genuine low waits may mislead patients under choice
PbR and PBC cannot deliver maximum reform without a demand management strategy linked to ‘real’ capacity
Results from a ‘real capacity’ model will be shown and discussed
Joe Rafferty
Director of Performance and Improvements, Cumbria and Lancashire SHA

Session 3)d
1.30 Using Information to predict demand

• What information is available
• How and why to exploit it
• The management and analysis of information to improve clinical and financial performance
Roger Taylor
Research Director, Dr Foster Intelligence


Session 3)e
2.45 Providing Primary Care Services
Vertical Integration: Desirable or not?
Competition Issues?
Practicalities: How, What, When and Where?
Rory McCrea
Director, ChilversMcrea

Session 3)f
3.45 The outcome of the NHSFT Pilot Diagnostic Process
Developing the diagnostic tool kit
The diagnostic process as a development tool for organisations
A view from a wave 3 FT Project Director: Les Williams, Dudley Group of Hospitals
Role of the SHA in identifying action plans and future development needs for Trusts in becoming fit for purpose
Deborah Shaw
NHS Foundation Trust Programme Director, Birmingham and the Black Country SHA
Les Williams
Director of Corporate Development
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