Additional sessions

Additional session places are limited so remember to book yours.

• Making the most of service reviews
• One-to-one meetings surgery with Anna Walker, Chief Executive, Healthcare Commission
• Making a healthy contribution CAA: the role of health bodies in developing the risk assessments
• Pedal to the metal
• Europe and Health: what does the EU really mean for the NHS?
• Making research matter
• Whose money is it anyway?

Making the most of service reviews

Engaging clinical leaders in using information effectively to monitor practice and stimulate audit can be challenging. Providing an in-depth look at services such as maternity or diabetes across the country, Healthcare Commission service reviews generate extensive data about service performance. Much of this is available to boards, together with simple-to-use comparator software.

This interactive session will explain service reviews, with tips and hints on ensuring findings are accurate and on engaging clinicians. It will demonstrate how the data can be used to compare, challenge and support service provision, and stimulate effective quality improvement, service development and clinical engagement.

Day and time: Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00

Delivered by: The Healthcare Commission

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One-to-one meetings surgery with Anna Walker, Chief Executive, Healthcare Commission

There will be opportunities for one-to-one meetings with Healthcare Commission Chief Executive, Anna Walker. These sessions are by appointment only, so speak to a member of staff on the Healthcare Commission stand (B30, 31) to book a slot.

Day and time: Wednesday 14:05-16:05

Delivered by: The Healthcare Commission

Location: Healthcare Commission Stand (B30,31)

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Making a healthy contribution CAA: the role of health bodies in developing the risk assessments

From April 2009, Comprehensive Area Assessments (CAA) will provide independent assessments of local services and their value for money against local priorities. Focusing on outcomes and priorities for local people, CAA aims to help local services improve the community's quality of life and provide better value for money. CAA looks across councils and other providers of local public services, including health, and emphasises partnership working to tackle local challenges.

This will be a practical and interactive session looking at a hypothetical health and social care environment to understand how CAA may impact on individual bodies.

Day and time: Wednesday 16:00-17:30

Delivered by: The Audit Commission

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Pedal to the metal

Session open to non-executive directors only

This session for non-executive directors (NEDs) will highlight the current and future roles of NEDs and in particular on running effective remuneration committees. It will look at best practice in this context, developing strategic approaches to executive remuneration and holding them to account. It will also bring out the key issues NEDs serving on remuneration committees typically face and provide insights from both public and private sector perspectives.

Day and time: Thursday 9:00-10:30

Location: Exchange Rooms 2 & 3

Speaker: David Rough, Senior Independent Director, Xstrata

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Europe and Health: what does the EU really mean for the NHS?

EU plans to facilitate patient mobility have attracted considerable media attention in recent months. This session will explore how EU rules impact across a whole range of NHS activities, with a particular focus on the challenges presented by developments in the area of cross-border healthcare. Speakers will give a range of perspectives on the context for and impacts of these developments with a view to helping participants understand what this means in practical terms for patients and those commissioning and delivering care.

Day and time: Thursday 16:30-18:00

Delivered by: The NHS European office

Speakers: Chris Evennett (Director of Strategy and Reform, South Central SHA, Member of the NHS European Office Steering Group), Nick Fahy (Head of the Health Information Unit of Directorate General Health of the European Commission), Linda McAvan (Member of the European Parliament) and Günter Danner (Deputy Director, German Social Insurance)

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Making research matter

This session will bring NHS managers up to speed on the latest developments in research that are likely to impact on the delivery and commissioning of NHS services. There will be an opportunity for managers to inform the direction of research and research engagement activities, highlight the importance of engaging managers with research and to describe the facilitative role of the SDO Network.

Professor Huw Davies will be speaking on the challenges and opportunities for applying research findings to real world NHS. There will also be a 'quick-fire' session engaging participants with several service issues including, the priority that should be placed on research themes, the direction of research in specific areas and questions managers would like research to answer

Day and time: Thursday 16:30-18:00

Target audience: Board Members, Commissioning Leads, R&D leads, Medical Directors, Clinical Directors, Business Development Managers and Leads, Directors of Service Development, Directors of Corporate and Strategic Development, Directors of Modernisation, Directors of Performance Improvement and Planning, Programme Managers, Operational Managers and Academics

Delivered by: Service Delivery Organisation and Health Service Research Network

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Whose money is it anyway?

Every year, PCTs are top-sliced to pay for a limited number of nationally commissioned services. These services are vital to the patients concerned and a recognised pathway for innovation but their designation and funding are a perennial bone of contention, stirring up important debate about the values underpinning the NHS as a whole. Is there a better way?

Day and time: Friday 09:00 - 10:15

Strand: Shaping the NHS for the Future

Of interest to: Trust boards, both commissioners and providers

Delivered by: Specialised Healthcare Alliance