Developing PCT Provider Services

Programme
9.00 Chairman’s opening remarks


9.05 Providing the Best Community Based Care for Patients
• Interpreting the Policy for Local Health Economies
• Understanding the Strategic Challenges
• Exploring Provider Options
• Making the Best Decision
• Managing the Future
A senior Department of Health speaker Provider Development Directorate

9.35 The Commissioners View

• Assessing providers fitness for purpose
• Provider alliances across pathways
• Provider opportunities
• Avoiding conflicts of interest
• Using the provider to achieve shift in services and white paper objectives
Andrew Donald Director of Redesign and Commissioning, Birmingham East and North PCT

10.05 Market Analysis
TBC

10.35 Q and A


10.45 Coffee


11.10 Shaping future provision: options for provider services
• Organisational and model options
• Appraising the provider environment
• Shaping the process for change
• Criteria for model appraisal

Helen Parker Senior Fellow, Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham

11.40 CASE STUDY: Approach to Business Planning
• The process of understanding your environment, through resource mapping, audit, service and market analysis
• Understanding supply and demand
• The ‘nuts and bolts’ of business planning
• Understanding the commissioning environment
• Approach to appraising the organisational options
• Communicating the process, winning hearts and minds and achieving authorization
• The lessons we are learning from the process
Joe Gannon Director of Primary Care, Westminster PCT

12.10 CASE STUDY: Provider Unit
• How we went about forming a proposal for the future of Provider Services
• Putting in place a process and engaging staff
• Creating a new operating model
• Supporting staff to work in a contestable environment
Kate Lucy Interim Strategic Lead, Provider Services, Bury Primary Care Trust

12.40 CASE STUDY: Community Foundation Trust
• Creating a sustainable Commissioning and Provider Organisation following a Patient Led NHS
• Profile of our PCT Provider Organisation
• Reconfiguration Programme
• Consideration of Options
• Developing a CFT option
• Drivers for Change
• Opportunities
• Next Steps
Peter Wells Reconfiguration of Provider Services Programme Director, South Birmingham PCT

1.10 Q and A


1.15 Lunch


2.00 CASE STUDY: The reason and development of a social enterprise

• Forming a proposal for the future of Provider Services – How do we survive in Contestable and Pleural markets
• Importance of the local context – the importance of the right social enterprise models, buy in and enthusiasm
• Engaging key stakeholders
• Current point of implementation
• Skills – are NHS staff ‘tooled up’ to do the job?
• Leadership – a different challenge to the normal day job
Andrew Burnell Director of Provider Services and Nursing Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust

2.30 Getting PCT Provider services ready for the future

• Strengthening the commissioning of community services
• Dividing the resources fairly
• Preparing staff for the change
• Interim governance arrangements
• How will ‘community providers’ work differently
• Partnership or integration with Social Care
Chris Town Independent Healthcare Consultant


3.00 Developing a workforce strategy; Key issues for consideration

• Using a six step approach to planning your workforce
• Understanding workforce supply and demand issues
• Analysing the impact of demographics & key policy drivers
• Signposting the workforce planning tools, resources and support already available
• Creating a culture that supports workforce innovation
Rachael Charlton Director, NHS National Workforce Projects

3.30 Tea


3.50 Networks to support PCT Providers

• The value of networks
• Sharing learning
• Mutual support
• Collaborating in a competitive environment
• Building confidence
• Developing skills and expertise
• Developing a toolkit
Ged Taylor Associate, NHS Networks

4.20 Creating a sustainable future

TBC


4.50 Chairman’s closing remarks


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