Understanding The Road Ahead for Clinical Services

How does it affect you and your service?

Few practitioners and management professionals have a true grasp of the road ahead and how it will play out for secondary care services and yet we are on the verge of the most significant range of factors ever to influence how healthcare is delivered in the UK and across the Western World. The confluence of economic meltdown, population changes, structural re-design and the increasing importance of competition creates a deadly environment for the naïve or ill-prepared participant. This hard-hitting, yet practical morning will likely be the most valuable and thought provoking 4 hours you spend in 2012, so much so that we’re prepared to guarantee it.

This is a half-day event, commencing at 9am and concluding at 1pm

Despite the incredible faculty of speakers, we are providing you with the opportunity to attend this event for just £55 + VAT. The insight is too important to have a significant barrier to access. Please don’t waste the opportunity. EVERY healthcare professional that values their future needs to hear this morning.

Healthcare’s Emerging Reality – The state of health in the western world & vital changes
Mr Andrew Vincent, Chief Executive, Medicology & Head of Clinical Business Excellence

With just about every health economy facing variations on the same set of challenges, it is important that health leaders understand the underlying drivers and how different health economies are reacting. Solutions to these challenges at the provider level will only emerge when leaders fully understand the problem they are facing and what they mean to those affected, public and professional.

• Populations and the changes they bring
• Health spend, GDP and an unnerving reality
• System-level adaptations that are vital for survival
• What does this mean for the population?
• What does this mean for providers?

The Economic Outlook – How will this affect the healthcare sector?
Roger Bootle, Managing Director, Capital Economics, Economic Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, London

It is vital that service and Trust leaders fully understand the economic reality emerging in the UK and how this will affect the health service in general and providers specifically. This is important understanding when it comes to design future form and services. Will they be sustainable? Do they fit this economic reality?

• How will the UK economy most likely evolve over the next 5 – 10 years?
• What will be most significant influences?
• What will the economic capability of Government really be?
• What are the best and worst case scenarios?
• What are the implications of this for the health service specifically?

Integrate, Compete or Disintegrate – What must providers do to survive & thrive?
Mr Bob Ricketts, Director, Provider Policy, Department of Health

At first take, it is difficult to understand what providers, especially acute providers are really supposed to do. Is it compete? Is it collaborate? How does collaboration work when vertical integration is deemed anti-choice? This confusing set of apparently conflicting agendas needs simplifying for providers to work out what they need to do.

• Post-listening, what is the essence of the current plan for providers?
• What do competition & collaboration really mean in the eyes of the DH?
• What are the likely consequences of inertia within providers?
• What adaptations are crucial to survival?
• What type of organisation is likely to thrive in the new system?

Opportunities for the Bold – How can services seize the future?
Dr Mark Attah, GP Principal, Bretton Medical Practice & Chair of Central City HealthCare Group Commissioning Cluster in Peterborough

There is much talk about opportunities in the emerging system but typical NHS providers tend to be focusing on threats, which abound, without seizing opportunities available. This undoubtedly comes from both a lack of understanding of the emerging system as a whole and not knowing just how to turn a potential opportunity into a valuable reality.

• What types of opportunities will there be in our cash-strapped environment?
• What will commissioners be generating in opportunities suitable for the acute sector?
• How does the acute sector need to think & adapt to seize opportunities?
• What will be the mechanism for leveraging opportunities?
• What will be the critical success factors for maximising opportunities?

Breaking the Mould – Re-thinking successful healthcare models & pathways
Dr Massoud Fouladi, Co-founder & Medical Director, Circle Health Partnership

If we continue to do what we have always done, we’ll continue to get what we’ve always gotten. Currently, that’s an unsustainable, bureaucratic system that it organised around professionals more than patients and in actual fact doesn’t serve either immensely well. It is vital that services and Trusts re-think their whole delivery models to be competitive in the new system, basing new pathways on quality, value, patient-friendliness and affordability.

• Where does the current system let all sides down?
• How is the nature of health changing and what does this mean for providers?
• Understanding alternatives models of healthcare delivery
• If I was a patient… re-thinking pathways from the patient perspective
• How do you define a different way & get commissioners to fund it when it is different from the norm?

Questions & Debate from the Floor

Chairman's Summary & Session Close