Day One – 6th February, 2007

Chairman's Introduction

LSP UPDATE – FUJITSU

Hear why after three years of strenuous climbing, we have finally reached the foothills…

• Understand why, for suppliers (amongst others!), deployment of the National Programme is a gargantuan and risk-laden undertaking
• Realise that delivery is only just getting under way and understand why the bulk of the effort is yet to come
• What’s best? Examine other strategies to ensure that success is achieved, or plough on regardless?

Andrew Rollerson, Practice Lead - NHS New Business Consulting, Solutions Group, Fujitsu

SESSION ONE: IMPLEMENTATION AND DEPLOYMENT

Drive out the benefits of IM&T implementation - clinical, financial and operational

• Comprehend why you mustn’t just implement "IT", and ways to prevent this from happening
  
• Ensure you get real benefits - on the ground, in each required area, to deliver on the business cases
• Sure-fire ways to build confidence with key stakeholders
• How to protect current investment and bring future funds into IM&T related developments in the future

Martin Bell, Director of IM&T, North Bristol NHS Trust

Overcome the significant challenges to deployment of national products and services at an operational level

• Realise that the key to successful delivery is to adopt a multi-disciplinary team approach underpinned with a sound programme methodology
• Understand that some of the key constituents for success include good organizational governance and commitment, clinical involvement, clear communication, joined up planning
• Hear how Birmingham East & North (BEN) Primary Care Trust faced up to the challenges and about the success factors that really deliver sustainable business benefits to key services

Angus Bustin, Connecting for Health Programme Manager, Birmingham East & North (BEN) Primary Care Trust

PANEL SESSION: In search of the answers: what is currently being done to turn the tide and deliver on CfH?

• Learn the latest issues and key points regarding the implementation of the CfH programme. How can practitioners gain more confidence in the programme?
• Listen to viewpoints on the main developments in national and local strategy – what are the expectations for technology development and real implementation processes, (especially regarding the Care Records Service and the National Spine)
• Hear the panellists’ concerns and their solutions for change - what are the realities behind the press releases and case studies? Is the programme making real, positive progress?

Panel members include:
Mark Outhwaite, Director, Outhentics Consulting
Robin Guenier, Director, Guenier Ltd and Chairman, iX Group plc

SESSION TWO: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

How to integrate clinical work with the EHR in order to maximise overall health benefits

• Understand the relationship between clinical work in general practice and the EHR
• Hear how The Royal College of Physicians’ Records Standards programme has developed and is testing admission, handover and discharge pro-forma that map to the EHR Care Record Elements
• Hear how these elements provide a generic model for implementation in other specialties across NHS hospital services in England

Professor Iain Carpenter, Clinical Lead on Record Standards, Royal College of Physicians

Implementing a single shared patient record in Scotland

• Understand the essential prerequisites for shared patient records and the early beginnings for models
  
• Realise the importance of strategic partnerships between the NHS, the University and commercial players in developing patient records
• Develop the role of your in-house development teams and follow the example of national products
• How the Scottish National e-Health Strategy is being delivered successfully and locally

Dr Cliff Barthram, Consultant Anaesthetist & Joint eHealth Clinical Lead, NHS Tayside

The bigger picture: CfH in the context of other national and international health IT programmes

• Learn how Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and other developed countries (including the US, Canada, France and Germany) are implementing clinical information systems and electronic health records
• Consider the lessons that CfH can learn from the successes and failures of these programmes
• Find out about the other English programmes that are creating opportunities to invest in health IT systems, services and technologies, including the Department of Health’s £1bn Independent Sector Procurement Programme for diagnostics, the £80m Preventative Technologies Grant, the Ministry of Defence’s £100m Defence Medical Information Capability Programme and the forthcoming NHS Commissioning Services Framework
• Understand how, thanks to these programmes, IT-enabled healthcare will look in 2010 and beyond

Benedict Stanberry, Managing Director, Avienda

End of Day One

Day Two - 7th February, 2007

Chairman's Introduction

SESSION THREE: STRATEGY FOR CONNECTING FOR HEALTH (CfH) – SAFETY, TRAINING AND CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT

Safety in the Context of the National Programme

• Learn the approach to clinical safety within the CfH programme: the safety management approach, clinical risk reduction and safer implementation as it relates to IT
• Hear about the NPSA’s achievements over the last year and how these will affect your work
• Find out all about NPSA’s plans for future work regarding the CfH programme

Maureen Baker, Director of Primary Care, National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)

Use IT successfully in support of clinical pathways (CASE STUDY BUBBLE)

• Learn how the role of clinical pathways is established and how the national programme for IT is working to ensure the products are supportive of their development
• Understand how clinical pathways in a local health system can be supported by using NPfIT products
• Comprehend how a pathways approach will make demands on the development of the national programme

Dr. Mark Williamson, Clinical Engagement, Yorkshire and Humber SHA

AN LSP Update – CSC ALLIANCE

• Learn about the CSC Alliance approach to delivering solutions across three Clusters and how this affects your operations
• Examine the methods being used to scale up infrastructure and data centres to support two new Clusters
• Understand what the integration of people, systems and deployments from Accenture into the CSC Alliance will mean to you
• Plan the delivery of the strategic Lorenzo solution into your Trust/PCT

Andrew Spence, Programme Director, CSC Alliance

SESSION FIVE: EVALUATE AND DEVELOP YOUR LSP PARTNERSHIP

An overview of Map of Medicine

Dr Mike Stein, Chief Medical Officer, Medic to Medic

Potential impact of NPfIT on European healthcare

Murray Bywater, Managing Director, Silicon Bridge Research

ROUNDTABLES

Take advantage of the interactive roundtables to get to grips with current challenges – involve yourself in group discussions, brainstorm and learn best practices on the most pertinent issues. In addition, the roundtables are an excellent opportunity for you to build good relationships with industry colleagues and experts.

1. Clinical buy-in is still an ongoing problem. Dissect new ideas and previous attempts to engage clinicians in a positive manner
2. Work successfully with LSPs – maximise your partnership and take advantage of recent changes in geographical LSP responsiblities
3. Choose and Book – strategies for successful and effective implementation
4. Using relevant funding effectively to create a viable implementation plan

End of Conference