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Taking Forward The Next Stage Of The NHS Review. Our NHS; Our Future
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This Seminar will be held at The Royal Commonwealth Society in London
On Friday 24th October 2008
Seminar reference RRO/214 |
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HIGH QUALITY CARE FOR ALL
 How will the NHS meet 21st century social, economic, demographic and epidemiological challenges?
How can services best be personalised, offering patients greatest choice and control?
How can PCTs best commission wellbeing and prevention services together with local government?
How can longer term care-plans between patient and lead professional work best?
How best can all patients receive NICE approved drugs and NICE approve quality standards ?
How best can quality be improved across the board and the Care Quality Commission enforce this?
How are clinicians going to be empowered to have greater leadership and decision-making roles?
How are partnerships with local government and third and private sectors going to work most effectively?
How will the NHS Constitution work?
How much of Darzi will be implemented and how long will it take?
Where can we hope to be in ten years time?
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CONTEXT
Lord Darzi's report, High Quality Care For All, has been welcomed by a wide range of stakeholders. He worked with 2,000 clinicians and other health and social care professionals from every NHS region. Their visions - developed in discussion with patients, carers and public - set out bold and ambitious plans.
Challenges for a 21st century NHS include rising expectations, changed demographics and changing nature of disease. Darzi focuses on how to accelerate changes frontline staff want to make to meet such challenges, whilst continuing to raise standards.
He aims for a NHS that gives patients and public more information and choice, works in partnership and has quality of care at its heart. Personalising services means making them fit for everyones needs, not just those who shout loudest.
A 21st century NHS must improve health as well as treat sickness. This requires closer working with many other agencies. Every PCT should commission well-being and prevention services, in partnership with local government. These should focus on obesity, alcohol, drug addiction, smoking, sexual health and mental health. GPs should be supported to help individuals and their families stay healthy.
Darzi proposes giving patients more rights and control over their own health and care. They will have greater choice of GP and better information through the NHS Choices website and other means. A fairer funding system will give better rewards to GPs providing responsive, accessible and quality services.
Personal health budgets will be piloted, giving individuals and families greater control over their care, with clear safeguards. Longer term care plans will be agreed by the patient and a named professional. Direct payments will be piloted where sensible in certain circumstances.
All patients should receive drugs and treatments approved by the NICE where the clinician recommends them. NICE appraisal processes will be speeded up. NICE will be expanded to set and approve more independent quality standards. A National Quality Board will offer transparent advice to Ministers.
Recent improvements in quality have focused on waiting times, as basic standards of access to A&E and secondary care were established, and on staff levels and infrastructure. With a budget of £2bn a week, more staff, and better data, quality can be at the heart of everything the NHS does. A Care Quality Commission will have new enforcement powers.
Patients' assessments of success of treatment and quality of care will have a direct impact on how hospitals are funded. There will also be safety and clinical outcome measures. All healthcare providers will be required by law to publish 'Quality Accounts' .
All NHS staff will have access to a NHS Evidence service. GP and dental practices will come within the scope of the Care Quality Commission. New best practice tariffs will pay for best practice rather than average cost. The Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme will be strengthened for senior doctors.
Change is most likely to be effective if led by clinicians. Medical directors and quality boards will be appointed regionally and nationally to complement arrangements in PCTs.
A 'Quality Observatory' will be set up in each region to inform improvement. SHAs will have a duty to promote innovation. New funds and prizes will be available. Partnerships between the NHS, universities and industry will enable pioneering new treatments and care models to be delivered to patients.
Practice-based commissioning will re-invigorated, with greater freedoms given to high performing GPs to deliver new services with other clinicians. More integrated services will be piloted, bringing together health and social care professionals from a range of organisations to meet local needs.
An NHS Constitution will help patients by setting out the extensive legal rights they have. It will ensure that decision-making is local where possible and more accountable and transparent. It will make pledges to staff on work, wellbeing, learning and development, involvement and partnership.
Darzi says It is now down to NHS staff and leaders, clinical and non-clinical, to use the tools the report gives them, along with their expertise and experience, to drive up the quality of the care they provide. It means a lot of work, it will not be an overnight process. It is a decade-long process.
This CPPS seminar brings together key figures from across sectors in the important debate on how most effectively to take forward the Darzi Next Stage Review of the NHS and how all stakeholders involved can achieve the best outcomes.
The day encourages brief, focussed presentations followed by engaged discussion by all attending in a relaxed setting. It is hoped that it will make a valuable contribution to taking forward the issues.
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The fee for the day's Seminar is £345.00 plus VAT.
Earlybird Discount of 20% for bookings before 24 September
GENEROUS NEGOTIATED DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AND FOR MULTIPLE BOOKINGS.
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