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Mix and match, choose from 32 sessions from 4 conference streams:

1) Fitness for Purpose
2) Commissioning
3) Patient Choice – Choose and Book
4) Working with the Independent Sector


Chair: Edna Robinson, Director, National Primary Care Networks


Session 1)a
9.00 PCT Fitness for purpose keynote address
Mr Gareth Cruddace
Programme Director, PCTs – Fitness for Purpose, Department of Health

Session 1)b
9.45 Question time Fitness for purpose
Lord Warner of Brockley
Minister of State for NHS Delivery (Invited)
Mr Gareth Cruddace
Programme Director, PCTs – Fitness for Purpose, Department of Health
Edna Robinson
Director, National Primary Care Networks

Session 1)c
11.00 Reconfiguring PCTs: Influences and options
• What are the influences driving PCT reconfiguration?
• What are the options that are emerging?
• What are the opportunities and challenges that these options present?

Prof. Edward Peck
Director, Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham

Session 1)d
11.45 Public health intelligence:  Fit for purpose. The key to better PCT commissioning
• Information – Fit for purpose. Producing the local evidence
• Inference – Fit for purpose. Influencing local health policy and decision making
• Instruction – Fit for purpose. Valuing the skills and training (in statistical analysis for public health)
• Integration and partnership working – Fit for purpose
• Income – Fit for purpose. A cost effective nerve centre for public health intelligence, shared across PCTs

Margaret Eames
Head of Public Health Intelligence, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Public Health Network

Session 1)e
1.30 PCTs and Local Authorities: Working together for well being
Cllr David Rogers
Chair, Community Well-being Board, Local Government Association

Session 1)f
2.15 PCTs: Fit for the future?
Issues to overcome:
• Working collaboratively
• Fit to provide
• Fit to commission
• Fit for health

Tim Riley
Chief Executive, Trafford North PCT & Trafford South PCT

Session 1)g
3.30 BBCHA fit for the future PCT diagnostic programme
• Key elements of the diagnostic programme: Service strategy, Board and Organisational Capacity and Capability, Listening to Communities and Improving Health, Commissioning, Financial Planning
• Self assessment tools & techniques
• Outputs of the diagnostic process and lessons learnt
• PCT Development Programme next steps

Deborah Shaw
Project Director, NHS Foundation Trust Development, BBCHA

Session 1)h
4.15 Is your board fit for purpose?
This session will:
• Provide an overview of the evidence base on good governance
• Outline the reasons why NHS organisations fail
• Introduce an evidence-based framework for assessing the performance of NHS boards and Chairs
• Introduce a tool developed by the NHS Appointments Commission, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement that can be used to assess the performance of NHS boards and Chairs

Dr Jay Bevington
Associate Director of Board, Development, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team


Chair: Dr Michael Sobanja, Chief Executive, NHS Alliance

Session 2)a
9.00 Commissioning: The future
• Opportunities for PCTs within the next year
• Challenges for PCTs within the next year
• Lessons from PBC

Dr Mo Dewji
Clinical Director Primary Care Contracting, NPDT

Session 2)b
9.45 The role of commissioning in enabling clinical and corporate governance
Prof. Aidan Halligan
Director of Clinical Governance for the NHS, NHS Clinical Governance Support Team

Session 2)c
11.00 Contracting for health gain
• How can we transform PCTs from poodles to guard dogs of the public purse?
• What goals should PCTs pursue in their contracting with Trusts and GPs?
• Using administrative data to hold providers to account
• Measuring success in treating patients: Time for cautious experimentation?

Prof. Alan Maynard
Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Sciences, University of York & Chair of York NHS Hospitals Trust

Session 2)d
11.45 Practice based commissioning: Issues and challenges
• Q and A Session
• Share experiences from around the country

Dr David Colin-Thomé
National Clinical Director for Primary Care Department of Health (TBC)

Session 2)e
1.30 PCT-led commissioning? The implications of practice-based commissioning, payment by results & choice
• Commissioning and PCTs: Lessons from history & the need for change
• The implications of practice-based commissioning, PBR and choice
• The future role of the PCT: Towards strategic commissioning?

Dr Nick Goodwin
Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene

Session 2)f
2.15 Independence and interdependence: PCTs, PbR and PBC
• Procuring activity or commissioning for change – what's the job?
• Efficiency and effectiveness – are we up to the job?
• Localised contract management or a third party service – exploring another way of doing the job

Simon Kirk
Chief Executive, Hambleton and Richmondshire PCT

Session 2)g
3.30 How can NHS and Local Authorities cultures overlap?
• The response of Commissioning to informal (Section 11) and formal (Section7) consultations
• How to engage Health Overview & Scrutiny interests
• Forging effective working relationships
• The problems Local Authorities have in engaging their public

Barrie Taylor
Chair, Westminster Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee Commissioner – CPPIH

Session 2)h
4.15 The challenges of integrating data to support effective commissioning
• Lessons from our Pilots
• What can we learn from the US
• Operational Challenges

Hugh Risebrow
Director, NHS Partnerships, UnitedHealth Europe


Chair: Penny Bunker, Patient Choice Programme Lead – Avon, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire SHA

Session 3)a
9.00 Offering choice
• Update on Choice Policy – April 2006 and beyond
• Ensuring and supporting choice to December 2005

Diana Cowles
Choice Implementation Lead, Choice and Choose and Book National Team Department of Health
Jonathan Marron
Head of Choice and Plurality, Choice Policy Team, Department of Health

Session 3)b
9.45 Top tips for choose and book
• Update on national roll-out of Choose and Book
• Implementation guidance and advice
• Q&A

Jane Cummings

National Implementation Director, Choose & Book National Team, Department of Health
Dr Mark Davies (GP)
Primary Care Clinical Lead, Choose and Book National Team, Department of Health

Session 3)c
11.00 Making choice count
• Ensuring people can make informed choices
• Managing the risks
• Working with communities to support choice
• Beyond Choose and Book

Rita Symons
Programme Lead Patient Choice Birmingham and the Black Country SHA

Session 3)d
11.45 Learning from real life choose and book implementation experience
• Managing service & organisational change
• Delivering Choose and Book
• Overview of lessons learnt

Ailsa Claire
Chief Executive, Barnsley PCT
Judith Stewart
Choose and Book Project Manager, Haringey Teaching tPCT
Richard Gibbs
Executive Lead, National Choose and Book Team, Department of Health

Session 3)e
1.30 Working with the available technology to enable fair choice
• Implementing CAB at three Acute Trusts
• Keeping stakeholder engagement throughout the process
• Reaching targets and realising benefits
• Continuing development

Caroline Snewin
West Surrey CAB Programme Manager

Session 3)f
2.15 Putting the patient into patient choice
• Using patient and public involvement to make choice work
• Working with hard to reach groups
• Support for patients to make choices: The future

Elizabeth Manero
Healthlinks – A Patient Interest Group

Session 3)g
3.30 Demand management strategies – the key to real choice in the NHS
• Referrals will be the currency under a reformed NHS
• Rate, flow and distribution of referrals will be key to control mechanisms essential for financial and information flows consistent with sustaining choice
• Demand management will allow for simpler, more transparent patient choice

Joe Rafferty
Director of Performance & Improvement, Cumbria and Lancashire SHA

Session 3)h
4.15 Mental health choice and system reform
• Defining and delivering choice in mental health services
• The Whole Life, Whole Systems approach
• Supporting system reform: the incentives framework
• What does success look like?

James Seward
National Mental Health Choice Lead, Care Services Improvement


Chair: Dr Tony Snell, Medical Director, Birmingham and the Black Country SHA
Sponsored by Capio

Session 4)a
9.00 Building Stronger Partnerships
• Delivering the vision
– Quality and Innovation
– Capacity and Choice
• Building on experience
– ISTCs
– Gsupp contracts
– Choose and Book
• The future – a long term partnership

Tom Mann
Chief Executive, Capio Healthcare UK

Session 4)b
9.45 The future of the independent sector in providing services in the NHS
• Overview – emerging policy
• Contribution of the IS in increasing choice, catalysing innovation and leveraging improvement
• Strategic commissioning and market management challenges for PCTs

Bob Ricketts

Head of Access Policy Development & Capacity, Department of Health

Session 4)c
11.00 Delivering a quality service to the customer
• Who is the customer?
• What do they want?
• Which Key Performance Indicators are relevant to judge success?

Tim Elsigood
Executive Director, Independent Healthcare Forum

Session 4)d
11.45 Plurality and innovation: Using the independent sector to help you think differently
• The role the independent sector can play in supporting innovation
• The opportunities and the risks
• Applying this to the management of long term conditions: patient centred plurality
• The long term policy agenda – where may we be heading and why the NHS shouldn't be afraid

John Procter
Head of UK Pfizer Health Solutions

Session 4)e
1.30 Making primary care more contestable
• What are the challenges faced by primary care in the future?
• Would greater contestability deliver service improvement?
• What scope is there to increase contestability in primary care provision
• Could contestability be extended to PCT commissioning?

Dr Richard Lewis
Visiting Fellow, The King’s Fund

Session 4)f
2.15 Practical guidance in planning and developing the role of the independent sector within primary care
• How do you know when to liaise with the Independent Sector
• Transparent decision making and contracts
• Guidelines
• Avoiding conflict of interest

Dr Mo Dewji
Clinical Director – Primary Care Contracting, NPDT

Session 4)g
3.30 Using the independent sector to provide primary care services
• Defining the service to be provided
• Deciding the nature of the contract
• Understanding the process
• Integrating services

Jennifer Hurn
Business Development Manager, ChilversMcCrea Healthcare

Session 4)h
4.15 Integrating independent sector provision
• Challenges PCTs are likely to face
• Scope of IS provision
• Governance

Laura Guest
Lead on Independent Choice Commissioning, Department of Health
Steve Peacock
Access and Policy Sector Team Department of Health
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