Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape (Doctors in Training)

Provider: Medicology Ltd
CPD Points: 5, This is a 1 day Course

Description

Information every doctor in training should know in order to thrive in the new 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 & personal success. This hard hitting programme is designed to ensure doctors in training understand the emerging system, their evolving role and the consequences of being slow to adapt in an increasingly competitive, results driven NHS.

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

Understanding Service Funding

• Understanding how services are funded in the evolving system
• Payment by results (PbR) and tariffs
• Income & costs – viability, sustainability & competitiveness
• What does CIP really mean?
• Market forces and their impact on service funding
• Evolving roles and how this contributes financially
• The role & contribution of doctors in training

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?
• The role junior & middle grade doctors play in service competitiveness

Performance, Quality & Experience

• The performance imperative of modern healthcare
• The implications of poor performance in the modern era
• How will quality 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 role & impact of junior & middle grade doctors on patient experience

The Future

• How will training evolve in the future?
• The implications of a two-tier system
• Evolving career options for doctors in training
• 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

Course type and teaching methods

This is a highly provocative seminar, packed with evidence, insight and interpretation designed to equip clinicians with what they really need to know in the modern and evolving environment. Besides the lectures, there will be opportunities for debate, case studies and practical sessions, just to ensure that everyone really 'gets it' in the most engaging manner.

Target Audience

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

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