Hub sessions

Join us for innovative sessions in The Hub. Additional interactive sessions will be taking place in this enclosed area within the exhibition hall with seating for up to 100 delegates. These will include energisers and workshops on special interest topics.

You do not need to book onto these sessions and seats will therefore be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

• Compassion
• Put your heart into conference
• Health and social care integration
• Competition or co-operation: personal or strictly business?
• Juggling challenges and priorities
• IT services as an enabler for change in the NHS
• Interoperable large scale healthcare IT systems: the future of the NHS in England
• Do clinicians make the best leaders?
• The Use of Strategic Scenarios to Inform Future Policy and Strategy
• How will globalisation affect the NHS?

Compassion

There are some troubling behaviours at the heart of the health system. There is often a gap between rhetoric and reality, seen most starkly in the difference between the care that is stated for patients and what many users and carers' experience.

This session, delivered by Phil Hadridge, believes there is a growing, staff led, global social movement for reinvigorated compassion in healthcare - a groundswell that board leaders who are passionate to bring care and kindness right into the heart of the NHS can be part of. The session will be an opportunity to discuss the Confederation's debate paper on compassion.

Day and time: Wednesday 12:00-13:00

Delivered by: idenk Ltd

Speakers: Phil Hadridge (idenk Ltd) and Chris Beasley (Chief Nursing Officer and Director General for Professional Leadership, Department of Health)

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Put your heart into conference

Refresh and revitalise yourself at conference by joining Lloydspharmacy and H*E*A*R*T UK in a few simple steps to better heart health. Take part in an energiser session and sign up for a conference pedometer and Team Red Laces Challenge to keep you on the move.

Day and time: Wednesday 15:00-15:30

Delivered by: Lloydspharmacy

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Health and social care integration

This session will outline the national policy around the Common Assessment Framework for adults, which is progressing the integration of Health and Social Care, through the development of integrated assessment and care planning processes, supported by integrated electronic care records. The session will provide an opportunity to find out about the associated demonstrator programme, which is seeking to stimulate innovative approaches to addressing organisational and IT barriers.

Day and time: Wednesday 15:30 - 16:00

Delivered by: NHS CFH

Speakers: Carl Evans (Policy Project Lead on Common Assessment Framework, Department of Health) and Jan Hoogerwerf (Health and Social Care Integration Programme - Projects Manager, NHS Connecting for Health)

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Competition or co-operation: personal or strictly business?

Effective commissioning requires successful collaboration and competition between the same organisations at different times. This lively session will explore the nature of competition in a successful health system. Can you maintain good working relationships with your partners while also maintaining a strong competitive edge?

Day and time: Thursday 11:00-11:30

Delivered by: King's Fund

Speakers: Finlay Robertson (Chief Executive, Lancashire Care NHS Trust) and Karen Lynas (Director of Leadership, King's Fund)

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Juggling challenges and priorities

This interactive and practical session will demonstrate how the outputs of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement can help manage priorities and challenges currently facing leadership in the NHS, with service improvement solutions helping to keep all the balls in the air!

Day and time: Thursday 13:05-13.35

Delivered by: NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Speakers: Julia R A Taylor (Priority Programme Head NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement)

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IT services as an enabler for change in the NHS

BT has been working alongside trusts, communities of interest and with Strategic Health Authorities to help deliver IT services based change. With so many areas in which IT can be applied, and so many technology vendors claiming to have 'the answer', how do you prioritise the key areas that need support from IT, work with multiple partners to specify and design the services required and deliver the changes without negatively impacting on clinical processes.

Day and time: Thursday 13:35 - 14:05

Delivered by: BT

Speakers: Ivor Kendall (General Manager BT Health)

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Interoperable large scale healthcare IT systems: the future of the NHS in England

Telecare and telehealth are relatively new topics arising from new policies for older people and people with long term conditions. While telecare services have until now been mainly the preserve of Local Authorities, telehealth services extend a preventative care model into health, particularly for chronic conditions and potentially could go wider to include disability, mental health and supported early discharge from acute care.

Early telehealth implementations have been completed by acute and PCTs, as well as in partnerships led and funded by local authorities. These early telehealth implementations have largely been small-scale clinical trials (N<50?) and, until recently, the service has often been disbanded after the trial intervention period. The area continues to develop, and is expected to include private provision (subscriber funded services) with a range of outlets, including pharmacists. The session will explore NHS Connecting for Health work in this field supporting current 'Whole system demonstrator trials' as well as standards work in the field. It will also examine future directions for collaborative work.

Day and time: Thursday 15:30 - 16:00

Delivered by: NHS CFH

Speakers: Mike Bainbridge (Clinical Architect, NHS Connecting for Health)

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Do clinicians make the best leaders?

The current focus to appoint practising doctors as NHS chief executives follows an earlier period when a finance background was considered to be the most appropriate qualification. Is it heresy to view clinician CEOs as a passing trend, no more or less based in evidence than any other approach? This session explores what it takes to be a chief executive and whether a clinician really is the best bet.

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

Delivered by: King's Fund

Speakers: Peter Lees (Director of Leadership, NHS South Central) and Simon Bird (Programme Director, King's Fund)

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The Use of Strategic Scenarios to Inform Future Policy and Strategy

In May of 2007, NHS North West took the decision to invest in the development of Strategic Scenarios. The SHA believed that the scenarios could be used on an on-going basis to:

• Help make collective sense of what was happening in the strategic environment, within local NHS and social care systems and local strategic partnerships.
• Develop shared views of desirable strategic directions in the short and medium term (2010 & 2020).
• Agree the necessary conditions which could trigger strategic interventions from the SHA in-order to better realise policy intent.
• Help to recognise any undesirable consequences of strategic plans at an early stage and to adjust priorities and strategies accordingly.
• Assist the SHA to foster effective strategy making, not formulate it directly on behalf of local actors.

Over the past year, the SHA has overseen the development of four strategic scenarios involving the contributions of more that 400 NHS managers and clinicians as well as individuals from a wide variety of other organisations and representing a broad spectrum of interests. To date, the scenarios have been used by the SHA and other organisations within NHS North West for all of the above, as well as a number of other, purposes. This presentation will describe (i) the process used to develop the scenarios; (ii) how the scenarios have been used by the SHA and other organisations within NHS North West; and (iii) how NHS North West will be using the scenarios over the next 12-18 months to provide a test bed for and to enhance its approach to NHS reform.

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

Delivered by: NHS North West Strategic Health Authority

Speakers: Mike Farrar (Chief Executive) and Joe Rafferty (Director of Commissioning and Strategy), NHS North West Strategic Health Authority

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How will globalisation affect the NHS?

How do you serve a population that is increasingly subject to global influences? What is the impact of rising public expectations as information on global healthcare systems becomes increasingly accessible? What is the effect of ethnic diversity in the UK on our health systems?

The NHS must evolve to meet the increasing and diverse expectations of the modern UK population. Come and debate the issues with the authors of an NHS Confederation futures debate paper on globalisation.

Day and time: Thursday 10:30-11:00

Speakers: Ben Page, Ipsos MORI