Health Innovation

Tuesday 21st February 2012, Guoman Charing Cross Hotel - London, 09:15 - 16:05

Health Innovation: Improving the Quality of Care

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Overview

As UK public services face a tougher financial climate, innovation has a vital role to play to continue improving the quality of care for patients.

The Plan for Growth, published March 2011, announced that the NHS Chief Executive would review how the adoption and diffusion of innovation could be accelerated across various health services. Working in consultation with industry, academia and a range of other stakeholder, representative and third sector organisations, the NHS Chief Executive produced the Innovation Health and Wealth: Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS report, published December 2011, which sets out a delivery agenda for spreading innovation at pace and scale throughout the NHS. This document identified barriers to innovation in the NHS, and listed eight key themes for encouraging innovation, with a commitment to implementing a lasting change in culture and behaviour across the NHS to successfully embed innovative behaviour in staff.

The Health and Social Care Bill, which was introduced to Parliament on 19 January 2011, is a fundamental part of the government’s plan to modernise the health service. The Bill aims to develop an efficient, patient focused service, led by health professionals, that delivers world-class healthcare outcomes. The Bill will ensure that health service providers are autonomous and become more accountable and transparent in the way they operate, so they can better support innovation and the provision of high‐quality, locally responsive care to patients.

Furthermore, with the National Health Service being tasked to deliver between £15 billion and £20 billion in efficiency savings over three years from 2011 to 2014, it is more important than ever that health services adopt more integrated, effective and more cost-effective ways of delivering care.

Agenda

This forum comes at a great time of change for healthcare services. This high-level forum will provide delegates with a timely opportunity to hear from the leading figures in the health sector and debate and discuss the best ways to accelerate the development of innovation in health services.

09:15	Coffee and Registration
10:00	Chair’s Welcome Address Professor James Barlow, Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, Imperial College London (CONFIRMED)
10:05	Opening Keynote: Modernising Health: Driving Innovation and Value For Money Identifying and measuring health outcomes NHS accountability for improving patient and population outcomes The future direction of healthcare innovations Enablers to driving quality and efficiency in the modern NHS Professor Mahmood Adil, National QIPP Advisor (Clinical & Finance Engagement), Department of Health (CONFIRMED)
10:25	Special Keynote: The Voluntary Sector and Healthcare Innovation Combining the best of social, healthcare, professional, and business values The voluntary sector crucial to healthcare innovation Specialist knowledge and personal experience Research, awareness and provision Filling crucial gaps, complementing NHS and local authority provision The challenge of fundraising, the state market and competition in the downturn The Big Society Professor Philip Sugarman, Chief Executive Officer, St Andrew's Healthcare (CONFIRMED)
10:45	Special Keynote: Commissioning For Quality and Productivity Commissioning at scale: Increasing capacity and capability The role of the NHS Commissioning Board – providing leadership for quality improvement through commissioning through standardisation of known best practice Holding clinical commissioning groups to account for achieving outcomes and budget performance Responding to the challenges of effective clinically-led commissioning Ensuring GPs have the relevant skills to take on responsibilities for commissioning and driving innovation Engaging Health and Wellbeing Boards in commissioning Dr James P Kingsland OBE, National Clinical Lead, Clinical Commissioning Community (CONFIRMED)
11:05	Question and Answer Session
11:25	Coffee Break and Networking
11:45	Improving Patient Outcomes Through Innovation Empowering professionals to collaborate and innovate Speeding up the time it takes for innovative solutions to get from the design to implementation stages Creating a support structure for innovation Identifying commercial opportunities in health services Transforming good ideas into workable solutions for health services The role of technology and innovation Colin Callow, Head, NHS National Innovation Centre (CONFIRMED)
12:05	Driving Innovation in Health: The Role of Technology The benefits of adopting innovative technologies and techniques in the new NHS landscape The Critical Success Factors for successful adoption of Innovation NTAC’s Generic Adoption Process – How to Systematically adopt innovation Sally Chisholm, Chief Executive, NHS Technology Adoption Centre (CONFIRMED)
12:25	Question and Answer Session
12:45	Lunch Break and Networking
13:45	Afternoon Keynote: Procuring Innovation in Health Procurement, as an enabler, not a blocker of innovation Working to deliver £1.2 billion of the QIPP challenge through innovative procurement strategy Enabling effective benchmarking and increased transparency The importance of bulk buying Increasing penetration of tools and technologies which improve transparency of spend and price information Focusing on innovation and support for SMEs Building relationships with industry that create mutual value A joint DH and NHS procurement strategy March 2012 Sandra Barrow, Head of Innovation Procurement, Procurement, Investment and Commercial Division, Department of Health (CONFIRMED)
14:05	Case Study: Star Wards – An Innovative Way to Improve Patient Health and Wellbeing The role of the voluntary sector in developing innovative approaches to meet health needs Star Wards: Developing innovative, low cost practices to improve inpatient health on mental health wards Introducing a wide range of creative initiatives: Providing 75 ideas for improvement to be used for benchmarking Improving both staff morale and quality of care Encouraging voluntary involvement in innovative practices by wards and promoting good practice The impact that Star Wards has had, and plans for the future Marion Janner, Director, Star Wards (CONFIRMED)
14:25	Question and Answer Session
14:45	Coffee Break and Networking
15:05	Case Study: Innovation To Increase Independence For Those With Kidney Failure Manchester Royal Infirmary: Winners of the Department of Health's Innovation Challenge Substantially increasing the number of patients receiving home haemodialysis Reducing the cost per annum from £45,629 to £29, 289 Designing technology to improve patient outcomes while working efficiently within the existing system Creating a training unit for patients to allow them to administer treatment independently Improving patient quality of life by allowing patients to spend less time in hospital Plans for the future: Improving the service further, and looking to implement it across the NHS nationally Dr Sandip Mita (Project Leader), Consultant Nephrologist, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester (CONFIRMED)
15:25	Closing Keynote: Any Qualified Provider – Improving Quality and Choice Improving patient choice, access and delivering value for money The role of competition and choice to improve quality and innovation Balancing increasing choice with providing continuity and integration of care Extending the range of services affected by Any Qualified Provider The role of the external disruptive innovator in integrating care David Worskett, Director, NHS Partner Network (CONFIRMED)
15:45	Question and Answer Session
16:05	Chair's Summary and Close

*programme subject to change without notice

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Audience

Delegates attending this conference will be from PCT's, NHS, health authorities, central and local government, education, social care and business sectors specifically; commissioning directors, research and development managers, heads of innovation and development, head of IT, heads of business development, social care directors, communication & marketing directors, technical directors, project directors, heads of PCT’s, directors of public health, HR managers, health and wellbeing mangers, chief nurses and occupational health managers.