Primary Care Management 2006
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Programmes
Mix and match. Choose any session from the 5 conference streams:

> Commissioning
> Fitness for Purpose
> Working with Alternative Providers
> Practice Based Commissioning
> Achieving Financial Stability

 
Achieving Financial Stability Programme

9.00 Chairman’s opening remarks
Dr Michael Sobanja Chief Officer, NHS Alliance


9.05 Keynote Address
Lord Warner of Brockley Minister of State for Reform (Invited)

9.40 Session 5a
Keynote Address: Achieving Financial Stability in PCTs
Duncan Selbie Commissioning Director, Department of Health

10.20 Session 5b
Monitoring Activity and Costs under PbR
• Possible causes of coding anomalies & errors
• Assessing the accuracy of coded data
• Practical strategies
Sue Eve-Jones ACC, Managing Director PACC-UK (Professional Association of Clinical Coders – UK)

10.45 Exhibition and Coffee

11.30 Session 5c
Demand management strategies in the pursuit of financial stability
• Demand management strategies available in Primary Care
• Retaining patients in primary care – utilising alternative care pathways
• Ensuring cost savings
• Top tips
Bob Ricketts Head of Demand Side Reform, Department of Health

12.10 Session 5d
Case Study: Providing alternative provision for patients with long term conditions to reduce dependence on hospitalisation

• Identifying the specific need – i.e. the primary care capacity plan
• Reducing inappropriate hospital admissions – targeting the reasons why patients are inappropriately admitted
• Providing specific focused alternatives: examples of initiatives
• High gain and high priority issues
• Building an effectiveness monitoring framework to assess delivery initiatives
Seamus McGirr Associate Director, Strategy & Delivery, Head of Unscheduled Care and the Diagnostics Delivery Team, Cumbria and Lancashire SHA

12.45 Exhibition and Lunch

1.35 Session 5f
Financial management post reconfiguration

• Accountability for historic surpluses/deficits
• Harmonising cultures and achieving common understanding
• Quick wins to aid smooth integration
• PBR and implications of the tariff for Primary Care
• Ensuring value for money from all providers in each sector
• Achieving financial control over evolved budgets
• Creating an effective environment for enhanced general practice – costs and benefits
Henry Black Head of Financial Management, Primary Care, Tower Hamlets PCT

2.15 Session 5g
Panel Discussion: Overcoming financial concerns of PCTs

• Ensuring financial stability across your health economy
• Ensuring PBC delivers savings
• Challenges of PbR
• Ensuring value for money in the provision of services
• Demand management
Speakers: Discuss with the expert panel, comprising of a selection of the stream’s speakers

2.50 Exhibition and Tea

3.30 Session 5l
Learning from the ‘Turnaround’ teams

• What lessons have been learnt so far in NHS turnaround situations?
• What are the key factors in a successful turnaround?
• What is the right approach to turnaround?
• What does successful turnaround look like?
KPMG LLP

4.15 Panel Discussion

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