Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape

CPD Points: 5, This is a 1 day Seminar  e-Learning Version Available

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

Doctors	Nurses	Bus & Admin	Allied Pros
Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior

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