First Practice Management


Choose your own Workshops

9.30 Chairman’s opening remarks
Dr Peter Reader
Medical Director for Primary Care, Islington PCT, GP and Facilitator for the NHS Alliance national PEC chair network

 

nGMS 2006/2007 CONTRACT

9.35 nGMS2: Evolution or Revolution?

• The case for change
• The process for reaching an agreement
• The NHSE Team
• The main changes
• The development of the new QoF
• The new DES – the latest news and some of the detail
• The impact on PCOs
• The impact on practices
• Where next
Dr Adrian Jacobs
NHS Employers nGMS Negotiator, Chair of the QoF review team and Director of Primary Care, Torbay PCT


10.05 What’s new in GMS2 – Guidance from the GPC

• Why review nGMS?
• Making QOF2 work
• The four DESs: Access DES, Towards Practice Based Commissioning DES, IT DES, Choice and Booking DES
• What to make of all of this?
Dr Laurence Buckman
GP and GPC Negotiator, BMA

10.35 Q and A

10.50 Coffee

 

CHOICE AND CHOOSE AND BOOK

11.25 Delivering the Choice DES in your surgery

• Lessons from implementing Choose and Book
• Myth busting Choose and Book
• Understanding the Choose and Book DES
• Understanding the Choice DES
Dr Mark Davies
GP and Primary Care Clinical Lead, Choose and Book National Team, Department of Health

11.50 Q and A

 

PRACTICE BASED COMMISSIONING

11.55 Achieving the Practice Based Commissioning DES

• Clarity
• Guidance
• Practical steps
Speaker TBC

12.20 Q and A

12.25 Using information for High Performance PBC
• Key commissioning challenges
• Key opportunities for practice based commissioners
• Practical examples of using information
Hugh Risebrow
Director of NHS Partnerships, UnitedHealth Europe

12.45 Q and A

 

PATIENT ACCESS

12.50 A guide to the Patient Access DES

• What is in the DES
• The money to support it
• The patient survey
• The impact on practices
• The impact on PCOs
Dr Adrian Jacobs
NHS Employers nGMS Negotiator, Chair of the QoF review team & Director of Primary Care, Torbay PCT

1.10 Lunch

2.00 Patient surveys: How practices will be assessed by patients

• Brief background of national surveys in primary care
• Patients’ experiences and expectations of access
• Evidence from previous surveys and changes over time – particularly regarding access to GPs and national targets
• Future survey plans in primary care
Chris Graham
Research Associate, Picker Institute Europe


2.20 Q and A

 

QoF WORKSHOPS

2.30 Workshop 1
Cost effective delivery of the QoF

Interactive Session: Share experience and best practice from around the country.


2.30 Workshop 2
Achieving the new Mental Health Clinical Indicators

Depression Clinical Domain:
• The new domain
• The supporting evidence
• The practical implementation

Severe Mental Health Domain:

• The changes
• The supporting evidence
• The practical implementation

Dr Alan Cohen
Director of Primary Care, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

3.00 Tea

3.30 Workshop 3
Primary Care based Disease Management for Chronic Kidney Disease – The Only Solution

• The epidemic of CKD
• Why the current system is unable to cope
• Preliminary results from a primary care based disease management programme running in Lincolnshire
• Practical tips to GPs for delivering the new clinical indicator
Dr Nick Richards
Medical Director, Optimal Renal Care UK Ltd


3.30 Workshop 4
How do we ensure the QoF review process is robust?

Bev Norton
Associate Director, West Midlands Deanery and Programme Director for Primary Care Development BBCSHA
Andrew McDonald
Assistant Director of Primary Care Contracts, NE London SHA


PENSIONS

4.10 Pension Simplification

• NHS pension scheme current benefits & future enhancements
• Pensions simplification, risks, benefits and opportunities
• What it is
• How it effects you
• Retirement Planning
• Your surgery as your pension?
Andrew Motley
Director, Business & Professional Finance Ltd

4.30 Close


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