We can announce that the NAPC Annual Conference 2012 and Nursing Conference 2012 are being held on 30-31 October 2012 in Birmingham.
Register your interest in attending the 2012 conference's here and be the first to hear when the new programme and speakers are announced as well as when bookings are being taken.
Date and Location
- 30-31 October 2012
- Birmingham
Key themes for 2012
- Maximising your practice's potential in the new NHS
- Moving your clinical commissioning group towards autonomy
- Partnership working to achieve the aims of QIPP
- Tackling long-term conditions and other key NHS challenges
Who should attend?
- GPs, including partners, salaried, locums, registrars
- Practice managers
- Commissioners, including CCG leads and PCT cluster staff
- Local authority leads, including directors of social services, public health leads, joint strategic needs assessment leads
- Health and wellbeing board members
- Secondary care clinicians
- Trust directors
- Nurses and other health professionals involved in primary and community care health teams, including practice nurses, community nurses and nurses working in care homes and hospitals
- Members of clinical networks and senates
- Third sector workers, including directors of charities and social enterprises
- Private sector stakeholders in healthcare
What is the cost?
Details to follow soon for 2012
Programme
Programme for 2012 to be announced soon.As well as thought-provoking plenary sessions and debate, covering key challenges facing the NHS in the immediate future, this year's conference has four parallel conference streams running across two days. There will be a chance to sponsor an entire conference track, an option which includes nominating a chair and presenting one of the 35-minute sessions - or you may prefer to simply sponsor a session covering a relevant topic of your choice.
The programme is being developed with expert input from key clinicians, commissioning leads and policy makers in the NHS. The programme will be finalised nearer the time of the event to ensure maximum topicality but an outline of the four streams are as follows:
Track A: Practice-level business and finance
Practical advice on the day-to-day running of an efficient, cost-effective practice
Sessions to include: practice finance workshop with leading medical accountants; legal and HR Q&A session; advice on how to succeed within your CCG ; tips on maximising profits and minimising expenses; identifying and seizing opportunities for your practice in the new NHS; key challenges for practice managers in the year ahead; pooling resources with other practices; Preparing for CQC inspection.
Track B: CCG-level business and finance
Covering the practicalities and key issues to consider when establishing and running a successful CCG and preparing it to take over a real commissioning budget.
Sessions to include: What do most CCGs look like at this stage – and what to do if your's doesn't?; Common CCG dilemmas: Q&A with experts; Working with PCT Clusters; Establishing a commissioning board; Case studies illustrating good partnership working between CCGs; Commissioning support- where to find it?; Health and Wellbeing Boards – how to ensure they become your most powerful ally; Top down or bottom up?: the relationship between CCGs and the National Commissioning Board; Five practical steps to take to prepare your CCG to take over a real budget; 10 common commissioning challenges for CCGs; CCG finance
Track C: The Five Key challenges facing the NHS
A stream showcasing innovative solutions to tackling the five key challenges facing the NHS over the next five years. These have been identified by experts as:
- Tackling long-term conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, dementia
- Reducing acute admissions
- Managing an ageing population
- The £20 million challenge – where are the efficiency savings coming from
- Improving public health and mental wellbeing
- Role in managing long term conditions
- Redesigning care pathways
- Update on key therapy areas
- Becoming a nurse leader
- Role in CCGs
Showcasing tools and technologies with proven success in improving communication, collecting and interpreting data, improving outcomes, increasing productivity and reducing costs.
Headline Speakers
As always, the NAPC speaker line-up will include world-leading clinicians, health care experts and policy makers. Key figures we have invited to speak again at this year's conference include:
- Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health
- Sir David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS in England and of the NHS National Commissioning Board
- Professor Steve Field, chair of the NHS Future Forum
Exhibitors
In 2011, the exhibitors we had included:-
Boehringer Ingelheim - Capita
- Capsticks LLP
- CHIESI
- CMA Associates Ltd
- Commissioning Inteilect Ltd
- Dearden Consulting
- GP Group
- Hempsons
- HFMA
- Interface Clinical
- IQ Medical
- Kennedys Law LLP
- KPMG
- Leo Pharmaceuticals
- McKesson
- MDU
- Mediracer Ltd
- MGP
- Mills & Reeve LLP
- MSD
- NAPC
- Norgine Pharmaceuticals Ltd
- Novo Nordisk
- One Medical Ltd
- PCC CIC
- Pfizer
- ProStraken Ltd
- Reckitt Benckieser
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Salix Creative
- Scott MCKenzie Consultancy
- Shire (Movetis)
- The Sollis Partnership Ltd
- Spire Healthcare
- United Health
- X-Genics
Media Partners
- MGP
- Practice Business
- Royal Society of Medicine
Delegate Testimonials
- "A good foundation on further understanding of GP commissioning & providing our consortia is on the right track." Mr Mike Carey, practice manager at Village Surgery
- "Enjoyable event with very interesting speakers." Mrs Kirsty Moore, PBC Manager in Stoke
- "A good way to find out more." Ms Jeni Leggat-Green, practice manager
Delegates attending the NAPC annual conference 2010
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