Keynote speaker profiles
Simon Stevens

Former senior health policy adviser to 10 Downing Street. Regarded as the most influential voice in the development of health policy at the DoH in the past 5 years where he co-authored the reform blue print ‘The NHS Plan’. As a senior manager in the late 1980s and 1990s, he was Executive Director of a health authority, General Manager of a psychiatric hospital and Group Manager at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in London. Simon was recently appointed European president for United Health Group, the company behind the ‘EverCare’ programme. He is also a visiting Professor of health policy at London School of Economics.

David Nicholson CBE

NHS System Reform Leadership Group Chair for the Department of Health, the group created to ensure various elements of the reform programme are co-ordinated and to champion the implementation programme by identifying and disseminating ideas and approaches to implementation that have proved successful. From the late 1980s he has been a NHS Regional Director and Chief Executive of a number of Acute Trusts. David is also Chief Executive of Birmingham and Black Country SHA which is a leading health economy in implementing case management for complex chronic diseases. David was awarded the CBE in January 2004 for his services in the NHS.

Current situation
As many as 17.5 million adults in the UK may be living with a chronic disease. With an ageing population and increasing incidence of chronic disease the burden on the NHS is set to increase. In response to this challenge the commitment by the Department of Health on the future of chronic disease management is clear; highlighted within the NHS Improvement Plan and the public service agreements (PSA) recently made between the Treasury and the DoH. Focusing on US models (Kaiser, EverCare and Pfizer) has and will provide invaluable experience. However the NHS will not necessarily cope with an alien system being bolted on. The best of the NHS needs to be developed and integrated with the new (and not so new) case identification and management approaches. This conference offers practical guidance on how to convert the theory and experience from both the US and the UK into the systematic delivery of case management of complex CDM across your economy.

Providing clarity on the future of CDM in the UK
This essential event will provide you with an invaluable opportunity to hear from national policy leads explaining Department of Health and SHA intention and reasoning, offering an opportunity to hear and meet the people who have developed the policy and see how it is being implemented.

> Hear the latest intentions and reasoning from the Department of Health
> Understand the intention and reasoning from a leading SHA in their support of PCTs in delivering complex CDM
An opportunity to share, learn, debate and network
With ample time for questions and debate, this unique conference will provide you with an unmissable opportunity to share you views and gain specific guidance from our expert panel. It also provides an opportunity for networking to share your successes and problems with others in a similar position.

Practical guidance on developing case management programmes for complex CDM
This practical, case study rich conference will provide you with the guidance and knowledge needed to develop and implement case management of complex CDM across your economy. Guided by some of the brightest individuals within UK healthcare, this unique opportunity will:

> Provide you with the guidance needed to develop programmes to deliver the chronic care management PSA target*
> Provide PCTs with guidance on appropriate utilisation of CDM models.
> Provide Clarity around the role of the GP and specialist nurse.
> Explain how the interfaces will be managed around the patient.
> Explain how patients will move to the centre of case management.
> Provide you with case studies and examples from different models from the most innovative trusts to see how they are being implemented; their success, their problems and how they have been overcome.
> Hear what EverCare (United Health Group) are doing and planning to do in the UK and Europe.
> Provide an opportunity to hear from a leading pharmaceutical company about their experience working with Haringey tPCT.
> Guidance around the implementation of self care and the Expert Patient Programme.
> Explanations on how PCTs, Acute Trusts and Payment by Results will be affected.

* The Department of Health’s public service targets (PSA) have been reconfigured to reflect evolving priorities which include:
‘Chronic Care Management’, which will improve health outcomes for people with chronic conditions by providing a personalised care plan for those most at risk. This will reduce emergency bed days by 5 per cent by 2008 and improve care in primary care and community settings for people with chronic long-term conditions’.


Who should attend?
> PCT: CEOs, Chairs, Non Execs, Nursing Leads, Finance Directors, Prescribing Advisers, Directors of Public Health, Commissioning Leads, Primary Care Development Leads, PEC Chairs and members.
>SHA Strategy Leads.
> Specialist Nurses.
> GPs with special interest and innovative GPs.
> Acute Trust: Medical Directors, Elderly Care Clinical Directors, Director of Operations, Nursing Directors.
> Pharmaceutical companies with an interest in CDM
> Companies interested in working with NHS to deliver CDM
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