Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape

Description

Updated: We have updated the contents of this course to reflect issues arrising from the recent change in government

Information every doctor, nurse, allied professional and manager should know in order to thrive in the evolving system. Our healthcare landscape is changing at a pace few can keep up. The evolving system is thick with opportunities, threats, risks and challenges to doctors and services alike. Consequently, it is vital that all doctors are fully aware of the environment in which they operate and what it takes to survive, thrive and drive service success. This hard hitting programme is designed to ensure that healthcare teams fully understand the emerging system, their evolving role and the consequences of being slow to adapt in an increasingly competitive, results driven NHS. Covering everything from payments & funding to community-based healthcare delivery, competition, key challenges and more, you’ll find it both enlightening and essential.

Content

The Evolving System

• A sensible model of the current NHS
• Understanding current and evolving NHS structure and control
• Appreciating a system in flux – the current is not yet the vision
• NHS organisations & bodies – who does what for whom?
• Understanding Lord Darzi’s vision -healthcare delivery models
• Increasing use of and reliance on the community
• What does this mean for GPs and other community-based groups?
• What does this mean for secondary, tertiary care organisations?
• Polyclinics (sorry, Health Centres) – what, where, how & implications?
• Why the radical reform?
• The ‘do nothing’ approach – short, medium & longer term implications
• The strategic implications for services

Understanding Service Funding

• Understanding how services are funded in the evolving system
• Payment by results (PbR) and tariffs
• Income & costs – viability, sustainability & competitiveness
• Understanding CIP and its true longer term place in cost management
• Market forces and their impact on service funding
• Evolving roles and how this contributes financially
• Strategic considerations of financial evolution

Commissioning, Change & Competition

• The changing role of the PCT – what this means for you
• The principles in World Class Commissioning - insight & implications
• The relationship between commissioning and the clinical coalface
• Practice-based commissioning (PBC) – its role in healthcare reform
• Practice-based commissioning (PBC) – opportunities, threats & your role
• How are services & specialties targeted for reform?
• Competing provider types - NHS & Foundation Trusts
• Competing provider types - commercial organisations & willing providers
• Borderless thinking – the removal of healthcare boundaries
• What does it take to be competitive?
• Critical success factors for service competitiveness

Performance, Quality & Experience

• Performance, quality & experience in the context of the evolving system
• The performance imperative of modern healthcare
• The implications of poor performance in the modern era
• How will performance, quality & experience be assessed and assured
• Quality risk for provider services
• Patient experience as a quality measure
• The principles of the patient as conduit - the choice agenda
• The link between experience & service funding

The Future

• How will training evolve in the future?
• The implications of a two-tier system
• What changes could we expect under the Conservatives?
• Impact of economic meltdown on NHS funding models
• Broad scanning – ensuring you are ahead of the agenda
• The 6 critical success factors of service success
• Ensuring that services excel across all 6 critical success factors
• Future perspectives and likely further evolution

Benefits and objectives

• Really understand the NHS in which you work
• Gain insight into the evolving landscape
• Understand the implications of current changes
• Discover how to have influence in the new era
• Ensure clinical services have quality at their heart
• Avoid being hit broadside by predictable changes
• Ensure you survive and thrive in the new environment

Target Audience

Doctors	Nurses	Bus & Admin	Allied Pros
Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior	Junior Middle Senior

Course Details

Course Details

Guided Learning Hours: 5 hours

CPD Points (with Certification): 5 points

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