Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape
Description
Providing insight into the evolving healthcare landscape that every doctor should know
The healthcare landscape is evolving at a pace that few can keep up with, or even appreciate. Changes to provider types, the locus of control, service reforms, competition and more present a confusing picture to even the most up-to-date clinician, let alone the majority running frenetically just to cope with the day-to-day clinical load. However, the raft of changes creeping (marauding) in represent both tremendous risks and opportunities for the frontline teams taking the trouble to understand their current and evolving environment. This one day programme strips the rhetoric away from the harsh reality of modern healthcare and provides an insight into the drivers of change, likely political manoeuvres and what this really means for secondary/tertiary Trusts and the clinical teams within. Trust us - you need to know this!
This programme has been brought by demand from many recent attendees, insistent that this insight is shared more widely because of its implications. Medicology have been fortunate enough to work near the heart of current reforms, ensuring our insight is current and far from superficial.
Content
The Evolving System
- A sensible model of the current NHS
- Understanding current and evolving NHS structure and control
- Appreciating a system in flux – the current is not yet the vision
- NHS organisations & bodies – who does what for whom?
- Understanding Lord Darzi’s vision -healthcare delivery models
- Increasing use of and reliance on the community
- What does this mean for GPs and other community-based groups?
- What does this mean for secondary, tertiary care organisations?
- Polyclinics (sorry, Health Centres) – what, where, how & implications?
- Why the radical reform?
- The ‘do nothing’ approach – short, medium & longer term implications
- The strategic implications for services
Understanding Service Funding
- Understanding how services are funded in the evolving system
- Payment by results (PbR) and tariffs
- Income & costs – viability, sustainability & competitiveness
- Understanding CIP and its true longer term place in cost management
- Market forces and their impact on service funding
- Evolving roles and how this contributes financially
- Strategic considerations of financial evolution
Commissioning, Change & Competition
- The changing role of the PCT – what this means for you
- The principles in World Class Commissioning - insight & implications
- The relationship between commissioning and the clinical coalface
- Practice-based commissioning (PBC) – its role in healthcare reform
- Practice-based commissioning (PBC) – opportunities, threats & your role
- How are services & specialties targeted for reform?
- Competing provider types - NHS & Foundation Trusts
- Competing provider types - commercial organisations & willing providers
- Borderless thinking – the removal of healthcare boundaries
- What does it take to be competitive?
- Critical success factors for service competitiveness
Performance, Quality & Experience
- Performance, quality & experience in the context of the evolving system
- The performance imperative of modern healthcare
- The implications of poor performance in the modern era
- How will performance, quality & experience be assessed and assured
- Quality risk for provider services
- Patient experience as a quality measure
- The principles of the patient as conduit - the choice agenda
- The link between experience & service funding
The Future
- How will training evolve in the future?
- The implications of a two-tier system
- What changes could we expect under the Conservatives?
- Impact of economic meltdown on NHS funding models
- Broad scanning – ensuring you are ahead of the agenda
- The 6 critical success factors of service success
- Ensuring that services excel across all 6 critical success factors
- Future perspectives and likely further evolution
Benefits and objectives
- Really understand the NHS in which you work
- Gain insight into the evolving landscape
- Understand the implications of current changes
- Discover how to have influence in the new era
- Ensure clinical services have quality at their heart
- Avoid being hit broadside by predictable changes
- Ensure you survive and thrive in the new environment
Course type and teaching methods
This is a highly provocative seminar, packed with evidence, insight and interpretation designed to equip clinicians with what they really need to know in the modern and evolving environment. Besides the lectures, there will be opportunities for debate, case studies and practical sessions, just to ensure that everyone really 'gets it' in the most engaging manner.
Target Audience
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In-House Training. Why not have your own course?
In-house or bespoke training, either as a one-off or a whole programme, we can tailor any programme to the needs of your organisation orspecific objectives you have, allowing you to benefit from development where every aspect is designed to improve your performance specifically.
A single days training typically costs just £1,650 + VAT for up to 20 people, possibly more, and this drops with the volume of work you engage us to do. A whole developmental programme could be delivered with significant further savings.
Partnership Programme
The mid-sized group, say 5-8 people, has always suffered from being slightly too small to cost effectively organise in-house training for and yet sufficiently large as to collective cost quite a bit to train via open courses. Not any more...
Medicology’s Partnership Programme is a stroke of pure brilliance, allowing participants to benefit from an in-house course at extremely low cost, possibly even FREE (yes, we did say that right). Trusts and groups of individuals can now benefit from bringing any of our open programmes in-house for as little as £0.00 per person. Let us tell you how.
Course Testimonials
"The whole course was valuable, I will recommend it strongly"
Associate Specialist, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust (in-house course June 2010)
"Valuable insight into how funding is decided and factors that affect it. Highly recommended"
Consultant Anaesthesia, Sandwell & West Birmingham (June 2010)
"Great to have small group with opportunity to discuss points. Very engaging & achieved objectives - feel much more equiped to discuss/become involved in issues. Would recommend"
Registrar Neonatal Medicine, UCL (March 2010)
"Very intersting and challenging. Well presented. Good speaker (Andrew) - passionate and interested in the subject matter. Plenty of opportunity to ask silly questions"
GP Trainess ST1, Addenbrookes Hospital (March 2010)
"The whole day was very informative & meaningful. Strongly recommend this one"
Consultant Psychiatrist, Lancashire Care NHS Trust
"Valuable thinking about future challenges and how market forces are going to shape future services. Well worth it!"
Consultant Rehabilitation Medicine, South Birmingham PCT
"Essential – it’s better to know the political climate than worry about it"
Consultant Psychiatrist, Avon & Wiltshire NHS
"Excellent material, clearly presented"
Consultant Psychiatrist, Hounslow PCT
"An eye in the blind hole of the NHS head"
Consultant Rheumatologist, Southport NHS
"Most consultants should attend this course to understand the present changing health system"
Consultant, University Hospital of North Staffordshire
Additional Information
Registration Time: 09:30
Start Time: 10:00
Finish Time: 16:00
Course format: Seminar
Accommodation Arrangements: Accommodation is not included.
Included in Registration Fee: The cost of registration is comprehensive and includes all refreshment breaks, a simple lunch, as well as materials/handouts.
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