Transforming Health and Care Cultures

Culture featured very heavily in Robert Francis QC’s report earlier this year into the failures at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was identified by him that the NHS needs to develop a common culture of caring that was made real throughout the system. It is clear that NHS organisations need to be striving to better understand their cultures of care and learning how to change them. This important conference has been created to help the NHS learn the skills and understand the mechanisms required to deliver cultural transformation.

One of the key challenges in implementing both the Francis Review and in delivering the ambitions laid out recently in the subsequent Keogh Review is around how to deliver changes on the scale required, particularly in relation to changing the culture of health. Culture is notoriously difficult, but not impossible to change.

This conference has been designed to support health and care organisations in delivery of transformation. It does this by providing an introduction to how culture operates in healthcare, an analysis of safer healthcare systems and cultures and in-depth practical exploration of what actually works when delivering transformation. This will be evidenced by the experience of Trusts that are delivering culture change on the ground.

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Implementing NHS Services 7 Days a Week Conference

The NHS will move towards routine services being available 7 days a week. This is essential to offer a much more patient-focused service and also offers the opportunity to improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs.

The offer above, made in the 2013/14 NHS England planning guidance, commits the NHS to work towards the routine delivery of services seven days a week. Disturbing figures released recently show that if the same standard of care could be provided 7 days a week, more than 4,400 lives could be saved each year.

It is clear therefore that the health and care system needs to change and embrace seven day working. This conference has been developed to help you deliver 7 day working, both within your Trust and across the whole local care system.

Shifting the NHS and care system to seven day working will present enormous challenges, particularly given current levels of resource and demand. The NHS Medical Director is currently leading a Forum to explore the delivery of 7 day working, which will be reporting its findings in the autumn. Their recommendations will be explored within this important new conference.

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is also continuing to work on its standards for the delivery of 7 day Consultant Present Care. This important new conference will allow you to hear all the latest guidance on the delivery of 7 day working. It will also however deliver practical case studies from priority clinical areas, so that you can benefit from their experience in delivering change on the ground.

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Healthcare Conference in London

“High quality relevant data is a key tool for commissioning – it underpins assumed liberty for clinical commissioning groups. We will work to ensure information systems are improved and integrated where necessary. We will build a modern data service, care.data, in health and social care. This will provide timely, accurate data derived from information collected as part of the care process and linked along care pathways”

Offer 4: Better data, informed commissioning, driving improved outcomes
Everyone Counts Planning for Patients 2013/14, NHS England

“The boards and leadership of provider and commissioning organisations will be confidently and competently using data and other intelligence for the forensic pursuit of quality improvement. They....will have rapid access to accurate, insightful and easy to use data about quality at service line level.”

Ambition 2 – The Keogh Review
July 2013

With increasingly rich sources of data and information becoming available, the power of health information and analytics to inform decision making at all points within the health and care system is growing. It is essential that this power is harnessed by services and used to better understand and best meet the needs of patients and services users, within the constraints of the limited resources available.

This important conference examines a broad range of applications where information can be used as the basis for planning, transformation, assurance, improvement and commissioning, exploring best practice, new insights and emerging opportunities across the health and care system. This event will provide the guidance you need to understand and harness the power of information and data. Enabling you to develop the systems required to ensure that clinicians and managers have access to the information they need to inform their decision making.

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