Patient Choice Conference

"…Patients will be at the heart of everything we do. So they will have more choice and control, helped by easy access to the information they need about the best GPs and hospitals. Patients will be in charge of making decisions about their care.”
Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS – July 2010

The recent White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS has set out the government’s objectives for wholesale NHS reform, illustrating a commitment to putting patients at the centre of care.
Capita’s National Patient Choice Conference focuses on how the NHS transformation agenda can be embedded into working practices to ensure improved health outcomes, efficiency savings and a more patient-focussed, clinically led NHS.

The new proposals signal a fundamental shift in power and accountability. It is therefore imperative that healthcare professionals and local authorities understand their new statutory duties and responsibilities to drive forward these changes.

This brand new event will provide in-depth analysis on the key drivers to reform and methods of managing the transition period, including:
• Giving patients more choice and control with services that are responsive to local needs
• The new statutory requirements for GPs and local authorities in commissioning healthcare
• How competition will play out in the choice agenda and the effects this will have on quality
• Integrating services between health and social care
• Collecting, collating and publishing data that helps patients make informed decisions
Benefit from strategic and practical expertise to enable you to deliver truly patient-centred, high quality and efficient care in the years ahead.

Benefits of Attending
• Hear from the Department of Health on the implementation of the choice agenda
• Learn about the new right to choice and the information to support it
• Explore the new role of local authorities in agreeing health improvement budgets, linking health and social care together
• Consider methods of engaging GPs in commissioning health budgets
• Understand how to use specific interventions to achieve shared decision making, patient autonomy, informed consent and empowerment
• Take part in a panel discussion examining the introduction of a competitive market into the NHS
• Get to grips with how how patients with long term conditions will be offered real choices about their care with the extension of the personal health budgets
Who Should Attend
• Chief Executives and Chairs
• Clinical and Medical Directors
• Primary Care and Provider Services
• Adult and Children's Social Care Services
• LSPs, Integrated Care Services
• Public Health Teams
• Community Health Services
• Health and Wellbeing Services
• Health Improvement Services
• GPs, Consultants and Nursing Services
• Allied Health Professionals
• Commissioning and Resourcing Teams
• Finance and Best Value Services
• Policy, Delivery and Performance Teams
• Service Quality, Improvement and Efficiency Teams
• Transformation and Innovations Teams
• IM & T and Telecare Services
• Clinical Standards and Audit Services
• Clinical Leadership Teams
• Patient Safety and Integrated Governance Services
• Patient and Public Involvement Teams
• Strategy and Reform Teams
• Modernisation Teams
• Overview and Scrutiny Panels
• Mental Health Services
• Long Term Conditions Teams
• Continuing Healthcare Teams
• Personalisation Teams
• Home Care Services
• 18 week RTT

Chair: Natalie Grazin
Assistant Director, Person-Centred Care
The Health Foundation

Bob Ricketts
Director of System Management and New Enterprise
Department of Health

Paul Hodgkin
Chief Executive
Patient Opinion and
General Practitioner
Richmond Medical Centre
 
Jonathon Carr-Brown
Managing Director
NHS Choices

Eric Robinson
Director of Social Care and Health
Staffordshire County Council

Jules Acton
Director of Engagement and Membership
National Voices