Main conference

Tuesday 24th November 2009

8:30
Registration and refreshments

9:30
Opening remarks from the Chair

Professor Mike Bourne
Professor of Business Performance
Cranfield University School of Management
9:40
Understanding future strategy, priorities and direction for the NHS’ performance regime and developing a flexible, proactive response

  • Exploring new drivers behind performance management
  • Identifying best practice holistic approaches to performance management
  • Aligning and managing conflicting agendas through integrated management reporting
  • Early guidance on national benchmarking to drive improved performance across the NHS
  • Gaining buy in for new performance management and improvement initiatives at all levels of organisations

10:10
Aligning financial and performance management to minimise the impact of the recession on the NHS

  • Identifying conflicting agendas and determining how these departments should work together
  • Ensuring performance management drives productivity, efficiency and income generation
  • Driving higher performance: Understanding the impact of service line management and HRG4 on performance management
  • Achieving cost savings at a service level through intelligent performance management

10:30
Question and answer session

10:40
Morning refreshments

11:00
Translating the national vision of high quality care into performance management systems

  • Assessing local and national quality improvement initiatives
  • Preparing NHS leaders and staff to lead the quality improvement agenda
  • Developing the capacity and capability to facilitate and deliver a programme
  • Interpreting outcomes from a quality, innovation and productivity perspective

Adrian Pennington
Project Director, Quality Framework
NHS East of England
11:25
Strengthening World Class Commissioning competencies to ensure higher performing providers

  • Understanding the impact of WCC on performance measurement and contracting
  • Identifying mechanisms to actively manage performance of provider’s services to drive high quality care
  • Linking value for money commissioning outcomes to increased efficiency and performance
  • Developing protocols to manage breaches in contracts and undertake capacity and demand analysis to initiate decommissioning
  • Incentivising service managers to innovate performance management in practice

Adrian Reedman
Interim Director of Strategy and Redesign
NHS Birmingham East & North
11:50
Exploring the future vision of performance management and its role in the quality agenda

  • Understanding performance managements role in driving the quality agenda and outlining next steps
  • Implementing performance management systems that enables organisations to operate effectively, efficiently and economically
  • The importance of improved productivity
  • Future thoughts on the compliance framework

12:20
Delivering Healthcare Performance Management Solutions in the NHS

  • Todays NHS Reality : Financial Analysis

  • Business Benefits of a Healthcare Performance Management Platform

  • Delivering a Healthcare Performance Management Solution to a major NHS Consortium

  • The Healthcare Performance Management Forum

Peter Singleton
Managing Director
Analitica
12:40
Question and answer session

12:50
Lunch

13:30
Case Study: Implementing learnings from a high performing private sector organisation and understanding how to apply external systems to your processes to drive higher performance

Andrew Gammage
Head of Quality & Guest Insight
Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants

Stream One: Moving from performance management to performance improvement within acute orgaisations

14:00
Managing the multitude of national, regional and local targets to deliver a streamlined approach to performance management

  • Ensuring the validity of clinical indicators and developing a clinical dashboard to deliver meaningful performance management
  • Embedding new performance frameworks in terms of quality, safety and operational standards and targets
  • Using PROMs and the national patient survey to track user experience
  • Sharing best practice for improving results on key indicators including 18 weeks at a speciality level

Frances Cousins
Director of Information Systems and Analysis
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14:30
Afternoon Refreshments

15:00
Supporting and engaging your workforce to drive and measure performance effectively

  • Engaging clinicians to accurately report and support performance improvement
  • Gaining buy in across your whole organisation from board to ward
  • Communicating changes effectively to embed performance within the mindset of your organisation

Peter Fry
Assistant Director of Performance and Contracts
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Stream Two: Moving from performance management to performance improvement within mental health organisations

14:00
Developing performance management indicators to support high quality care for all

  • Mapping care pathways - the link between prevention, treatment and outcomes - to developing more effective and transparent performance management
  • Removing duplication in current systems and minimising inefficiencies in performance management
  • Moving from collecting inpatient and outpatient activity to actually measuring efficiency of treatment
  • Understanding how to make the transition from performance management to improvement in mental health settings

Alex Lewis
Medical Director
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
14:30
Afternoon refreshments

15:00
Performance managing contracts and relationships with contractors to improve efficiency, productivity and quality

  • Delivering effective performance management of existing contracts
  • Improving relationships with contractors and PCTs to drive performance improvement
  • Developing incentives to encourage innovation within performance management
  • Examining cost and volume contracts and PbR and their role in performance management

Craig Harris
Associate Director - Joint & specialist Services
NHS Manchester
Sue Jackson
Associate Director of Performance
NHS Manchester
15:30
Understanding the future vision of healthcare standards in performance management

  • Exploring the evolution of CQC and their future priorities
  • Reviewing new developments in the annual healthcheck, registration, periodic review and self certification
  • Clarifying the role of CQC in supporting high quality care for all

Gary Needle
Director of Methods
Care Quality Commission
16:00
Question and answer session

16:10
Chair’s closing remarks and end of conference