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Making STPs A Reality: Action to Deliver Better Care

  • Tuesday, 24 October 2017
  • Royal Garden Hotel, London
  • 08:30 - 16:30
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  • Overview

Making STPs a Reality: Action to Deliver Better Care is being organised in partnership with Blue Stream Academy to help organisations drive better quality and more sustainable health care services and explore how to collaborate to deliver improved population health and wellbeing.

The NHS, care providers and local councils are coming together in 44 local areas to develop plans to make improvements to health and care. These placed-based proposals are being built around the needs of local populations and aim to transform the way care is delivered. This event will help care providers and commissioners ensure that services better meet the health needs of their local area.

Implementing local plans and new models of care are taking place against a backdrop of unprecedented and significant pressure in the health and care system. Increasing service demand and tight NHS finances mean that delivering improvements is more challenging than ever before. A recent NHS Improvement report showed that 135 providers ended the quarter in deficit with a sector deficit total of £886 million. Care providers now need to collaborate rather than compete. Local plans aim to deliver more integrated models of care to meet the changing needs of population health and wellbeing. Different parts of the NHS, local authorities and social care system need to work together to provide more co-ordinated care and services.

Every health and care system in England has been tasked with implementing a multi-year Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). STPs will become the single application and approval process for accessing NHS transformation funding, with the best plans receiving funding allocations first. Getting the approach right to local plans is key to making the vision a reality, ensuring changes drive better health outcomes, better patient care and sustainable transformation in service delivery. Our interactive and engaging conference Making STPs a Reality: Action to Deliver Better Care will support care providers, commissioners and local councils improve health and care in their area.

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08:30

Registration and Coffee in the Networking Area

09:20

Chair’s Opening Address

  • Dr Mark Edwards, Non-Executive Director, SW Academic Health Science Network (SWAHSN) (confirmed)
"Welcome and introduction"
09:25

Keynote Address

"Adding value to the outcomes of care -the role of all things ‘e’"

Local reform agendas need to add value to patients' outcomes. As care is developed more around increasing patients' levels of activity and involvement in planning their care goals, care agencies need to invest in community-based care centres and in delivering integrated care programmes. At the same time, the state is investing in Big Science and Big Data. The impact will be more rapid and precise diagnostic and imaging, and more personalised medicines which will change the efficacy of therapeutics. Our discussion will focus on the impact such changes will have on patients, the workforce, and the clinical informatics that support clinical decision-makers.

09:50
"Improve Patient Access – Now You’re talking!"

An exploration into some of the most frequent patient access struggles:

  • High volumes of patient calls.
  • Patients calling for routine support (blood test results, prescription services etc.) at busy times.
  • Irritated patients hearing the busy signal, having to make multiple calls to get through or waiting on hold for extended periods of time.
  • Patients missing appointments or having difficulty booking and cancelling appointments.
  • Complaints about the patient access.
10:15
"Has the indemnity crisis been solved or is it only just beginning?"

Discussing the latest Health Secretary announcement to roll out a state backed indemnity scheme for primary care, and what this means for practices when considering indemnity solutions.

10:40
  • Andy Briggs, Practice Manager, Hathaway Medical Centre (confirmed)
"What have the STPs ever done for us?"

STPs were announced in NHS planning guidance published in December 2015.  NHS organisations and local authorities in different parts of England have come together to develop 'place-based plans' for the future of health and care services in their area.  Draft plans were produced by June 2016 and 'final' plans were submitted in October. "But what do STPs really mean? And what will they mean for the NHS and for local populations?" (Kings Fund - Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) explained updated Feb 2017)

  • What are the aims of the STPs and what impact have they had on my practice?
  • Are we looking down the wrong end of the telescope; are we supporting local innovation or simply attempting to work at a too high a level where conflicts of interest and differences in culture cannot quickly be resolved?
11:05

Coffee in the Networking Area

11:50
"Evaluation and STPs: Learning from new care models programme"

NHS England's analysts have overseen a detailed programme of evaluation and analysis of the new care models vanguards programme.  Much has been learned about how to undertake the evaluation of system level change and this is highly relevant for STPs as they progress with their plans. This presentation sets out the rapid cycle evaluation approach which has been used in the new care models programme showing how it can be used elsewhere.

12:05
  • Roland Gude, Strategic Director, Sentinel Healthcare SouthWest CiC (confirmed)
"Spot the Difference"

Roland will be talking about some of the challenges and practical issues that STP transition will require in order to move the systems in one of the biggest shake ups in NHS transition.  This will include such items as workforce training, Community Education Provider Networks and building new models of care, indemnity for primary care, contracting and the interactions with Primary Care Home.

12:30
  • Dr Janet Williamson, Deputy Chief Inspector of General Practice, Care Quality Commission (confirmed)
"CQC: Next phase of regulation"
12:55

Lunch in the Networking Area

14:00

Chair’s Afternoon Address

14:15
  • Simon Bourne, CEO, My mHealth and National Innovation Fellow (confirmed)
"The digital transformation of long-term condition management is happening now!"

My mHealth are the UK's leading supplier of digital long-term condition apps for patient self-management. The apps work seamlessly with a clinical interface to enable the remote monitoring, and care for patients at a population level. We discuss how we enable, and activate whole clinical systems to deliver high quality, evidenced based care at an industrial scale.

14:35

Afternoon Break

14:55

Keynote Address

"STPs: From planning to delivery"

Building on recent research from The King's Fund, Richard will set out the opportunities and challenges for STPs as they begin the move to delivery and attempt to simultaneously deliver the Five Year Forward View and manage the financial and operational challenges currently facing the NHS.

15:20

Panel Discussion

Richard Murray, Director of Policy, The King's Fund (confirmed)

Roland Gude, Strategic Director, Sentinel Healthcare SouthWest CiC (confirmed)

Dr Mark Edwards, Non-Executive Director, SW Academic Health Science Network (SWAHSN) (confirmed)

Andy Briggs, Practice Manager, Hathaway Medical Centre (confirmed)

"Next steps for STPs: How can STPs overcome barriers to service transformation?"

Although local plans outline NHS ambitions to improve the health and wellbeing of the populations they serve they have not been without controversy. Plans have been criticised for cutting front-line services, not involving the public or patients and primarily focused on reducing NHS budget deficits rather than transforming the way care is delivered. What should priorities be for ensuring the vision for better care are made a reality?

16:30

Chair’s Closing Remarks and Event Close

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Royal Garden Hotel, London

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With four large multi-functional conference facilities with break out and syndicate rooms to support, the Royal Garden Hotel can hold exclusive conferences which are perfect for those who require confidentiality and exclusivity.

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who will attend

  • Chairs
  • Chief Executives
  • Chief Medical Officers
  • Clinical/Medical Directors
  • Clinicians
  • Community Care Leads
  • Councillors
  • Digital Transformation Leads
  • Directors / Managers of Care Homes
  • Directors of Care Services
  • Directors of IT/IS/ICT
  • Directors of Strategic Development
  • Directors/Heads of Adult Social Services
  • Directors/Heads of Commissioning
  • Directors/Heads of Procurement
  • Directors/Heads of Integrated Care
  • Directors/Heads of Policy
  • Directors/Heads of Public Health
  • Finance Directors
  • GPs
  • General Practice Managers
  • Federation Leads
  • Heads of Charities/Third Sector Organisations
  • Heads of Mental Health
  • Heads of Patient Services/Patient Experience
  • Heads of Shared Services
  • Heads of Technology and Innovation
  • Heads/Leads Clinical Commissioning Groups
  • Health and Wellbeing Board Members
  • Healthcare Service Managers
  • Managers of Private Care Providers
  • Medical Directors
  • Performance/Service Improvement Leads
  • Practice Managers
  • Senior Nurses
  • Service Improvement Managers
  • Social Care Managers