NHS Scotland – National Clinical Governance conference, 2 March 2010, Glasgow

NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) is holding their third national Clinical Governance Conference: ‘Tomorrow’s World’ on Tuesday 2 March 2010, at Hilton Hotel, Glasgow.

The aim of the conference is to share our learning, experience and intelligence in order to build for the future.

The plenary sessions at the conference are going to focus on the ‘bigger picture’ around quality improvement and why sharing and learning can be so difficult to spread and implement. The afternoon sessions will then focus this thinking around particular topic areas and breakout sessions are being held specifically around

• Patient safety
• HAI
• Learning from reviews of suicides

Registration for this event opens in January 2010.

Download a flyer for this event here.

Audit Commission ‘High Performing Board’ events for existing and aspirant foundation trusts

Following the success of their high performing board seminars in 2007 and 2008, the Audit Commission is holding a series of seminars between 22 October and 26 November dedicated to foundation trusts and aspiring foundation trusts across England.

Continuing the theme of the high performing board while focusing upon quality, the seminar will support executive and non-executive directors to enhance their understanding of the right level of information required to discharge their duties.

The seminar will focus on three themes:

Quality Improvement

This presentation will enable you to learn from others by sharing the experience of delivering quality improvements in patient care and re-shaping local health services to respond to the needs of the local community.

Quality and Costs

This presentation will explore how boards ensure that they can safely reduce costs and advance quality at the same time. It will also explore successful NHS productivity and efficiency schemes.

Quality NHS leadership

This presentation will discuss and explore the benefits of creating and embedding a quality leadership culture. The seminar will allow for presentations, time for discussion and reflection. It will enable you to meet and network with colleagues working in diverse roles across the health economy.

For further information, including dates, venues, speakers and booking form, click here.

NHS Governance Study day, 17 November, London

Join expert speakers for “an essential, one-stop guide to the ins and outs of NHS governance.”

The Health Service Journal is running eight key information sessions, over one study day, on 17 November 2009 in Central London.

The information sessions/speakers are: 

- Linda Hutchinson, Director of Registration at the Care Quality Commission to gain a comprehensive overview of what this new era of regulation will mean for NHS governance systems
 - Get to grips with quality assurance – hear from Lynn Betts, an Independent Consultant from Quality Governance Limited, and the first ever NHS Director of Governance
 - Gain a comprehensive understanding of clinical, corporate and information governance and examine how they interact from Stuart Emslie, Assistant Director of the Centre for Corporate Ethics at Birkbeck London University and Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University Business School
 - Join a team of board level development experts – Jay Bevington and Sai Shanmugarajah from Deloitte and Deborah Arnot and Deborah Chafer from NHS North West Leadership Academy – and hear what more can be done to support board level development in your organisation
 - Understand what good integrated governance looks like and how it works in practice. Hear from Brian Terry, Head of Integrated Governance for NHS Gloucestershire about the fundamental differences between the current and historic systems of governance
- Gain an insight into how the delicate tensions of PCT governance can be balanced and what PCT governance will look like post-divestment with a presentation from Enfield PCT
- Explore the new demands on governance systems which come with the achievement of FT status in a session devoted to securing your understanding of FT governance
 - With NHS governance systems increasingly having to transcend organisational boundaries, the systems and processes of governance between organisations have never been more important. Hear how to overcome the challenges of governance between organisations from Dr John Bullivant, Director of the Good Governance Institute

According to the HSJ, this essential day gives you the unique opportunity to really understand the ins and outs of NHS governance.

For further information on the event, and to secure your place, click here.

REMINDER – Conference on Delivering High Performance NHS Boards – 1 October 2009, London

Readers are reminded that Healthcare Events are running their fifth annual High Performing Boards conference in London on 1 October. This year’s conference has a specific focus on board assurance and early warning systems.

For further information, click here.

Implementing Policy Governance – Board efficiency in practice. Intermediate level seminars in Manchester and London

Caroline Oliver is running two 2-day intermediate level Policy Governance seminars in Manchester and London.

The Manchester event is for NHS participants only and will take place on 30 September and 1 Octber at Manchester Business School.

The London event is open to participants from any sector and will take place on 28/29 October at Birkbeck, University of London.

Each event costs £250 plus VAT per delegate and includes a working lunch on both days.

For a detailed course outline and to reserve a place, visit Caroline’s website here.

Governance in challenging times – 2-day event for Foundation Trust Network members

This year’s two-day Foundation Trust Network (FTN) governance conference, “Governance in Challenging Times”, is being held in Birmingham on 8 and 9 September.

It is open to all FTN member organisations and, according to the FTN, will give an opportunity for chairs, chief executives, executive and non-executive directors, and senior staff involved in governance to meet, discuss and focus on FT governance and to share their knowledge and experience with, and learn from, organisations outside the NHS.

Each FTN members organisation can send 4 delegates to the conference free of charge.

Day one of the conference focuses on Leadership in Challenging Times. According to the FTN, “The challenges presented by the economic crisis have ramifications across all sectors – private, public and the third sector. Now, more than ever effective governance is critical to steer organisations through challenging times whilst continuing their push for quality improvement, excellence, productivity and efficiency. Day one of the conference will explore the theme of leadership in these challenging times, looking at corporate governance, regulation, leadership and the role of the board.”

Day two of the conference looks at Membership and governors in challenging times. According to the FTN, “Citizen engagement and public involvement have been the enduring themes of public service aspiration over the past decade. With a growing membership of over 1.3 million members across the country, the foundation trust model is one of the few parts of the public sector to deliver this aspiration. Day two will look at the role of governors and members, including the added value of the ‘authentic voice’ in influencing the direction of the foundation trust, the specific role of governors in driving quality, the importance of strategic intervention as well as exploring what motivates the membership.”

For a detailed conference programme and to book online click here.

Fifth Annual Conference – Delivering High Performance NHS Boards

Healthcare Events are running their fifth annual conference on high performance boards in London on Thursday 1 October 2009. This year’s conference has a specific focus on board assurance and early warning systems.

This one day conference provides an important insight into the developments and challenges of delivering high performance NHS boards and the issues affecting you and your organisation.

You will have the opportunity to hear from leading practitioners and learn from experienced trust members about the developments within their organisations, covering a range of techniques, effective systems and mechanisms for delivering high performance at board level, including early warning systems for deteriorating performance. Specific topics include:

- Delivering high performance NHS boards: delivering quality
- Learning from Mid Staffordshire: developing an informed board
- Board accountability and assurance in practice
- Using clinical and performance dashboards at board level
- Early warning systems: avoidable mortality
- Early warning systems: clinical performance and clinical outcomes
- Early warning systems: quality indicators and metrics
- Developing and measuring board performance and accountability for quality improvement and safety in practice
- Developing the role of the non-executive team in oversight

For full details of the conference, including speakers and topics, download the conference flyer here.

HSJ event – NHS risk management, 8 October 2009, London

The Health Service Journal (HSJ) is running a one-day event on NHS risk management in central London on Thursday 8 October.

The event is suitable for clinical and non-clinical professionals, including board members, from all types of healthcare organisation and includes the following topics:

- Developing an integrated approach to risk management effectively assessing risk to safeguard your organisation and all those within it
- Effectively managing risk through responsible monitoring and reporting
- Promoting patient safety through effective risk management and clinical governance
- Integrating workforce health and wellbeing into risk management and occupational health
- Securing business continuity in the event of an unexpected emergency or crisis
- Effectively managing risk across partnerships and organisational boundaries to protect all local stakeholders
- Navigating the commissioner/provider split and its impact on risk management in provider arms

Download the brochure here (registration required).

Healthcare Events: Upcoming Conferences

Readers might be interested in the following four upcoming conferences being mounted by Healthcare Events:

1. Governance Between Organisations (GBO) Consensus on Effective Practice

Date: Wednesday 1^st July 2009

Venue: 4 Hamilton Place, London

The conference provides a practical guide to implementing Governance Between Organisations (GBO) across health and social case boundaries including lessons from outside the NHS and the role of the effective board.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk

Download Brochure:

http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ct/HAP42/conf

 

2. Enhanced Appraisal and Revalidation

Date: Wednesday 1^st July 2009

Venue: 76 Portland Place, London 

This conference will provide a practical guide to preparing your systems and processes for Enhanced Appraisal, including developing outcome focused appraisal, ensuring appraisal support for revalidation and improving the information on which appraisals are based.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk

Download Brochure:

http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ct/HAP43/conf

 

3. Tackling Concerns

Date: Wednesday 16^th September 2009

Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester

This conference provides practical guidance on implementing the recommendations from the reports of the Tackling Concerns Locally Working Group including implementing the framework to strengthen the system for assuring and improving the performance of doctors and linking with High Quality Care for All.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk

Download Brochure:

http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ct/HAP44/conf 

 

4. Measuring and Monitoring Clinical Outcomes

Date: Wednesday 23^rd September 2009

Venue: 76 Portland Place, London

This one day conference provides a practical guide to the latest developments in outcomes monitoring and measurement, with a focus on the practicalities of providing and integrating information for revalidation.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk

Download Brochure:

http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ct/HAP45/conf

One day introductory Policy Governance seminar by Caroline Oliver – 22 April, Oxford

Caroline Oliver will be running a one day Policy Governance seminar for NHS board members on Wednesday 22 April in Oxford.

Policy Governance is, according to Sir Adrian Cadbury, the most conceptually coherent and integrated system of governance for boards. Southend University NHS foundation trust are using Policy Governance and other NHS organisations are beginning to follow.

The cost of the seminar is £75 (+VAT), which includes a working lunch.

Caroline is running the same seminar in Yorkshire on 11 March, but it is booked out.

Places in Oxford are limited. To reserve your place and explore the programme for the day click here.

Everything you need to know about corporate governance in healthcare – Lunchtime seminar, 27 March, Birkbeck, London University

The London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics, in association with SpiroNicholson, an Organisation Development consultancy, are running a series of lunchtime seminars looking at corporate governance in a range of sectors.

On Friday 27 March 2009 there will be a seminar looking at corporate governance in the healthcare sector. The seminar will address the three most pressing governance issues in healthcare, offer governance frameworks relevant to your organisation, and give  you the chance to learn from others in healthcare about best practice.

The seminar will take place from 12.30-1.30pm in the Council Room at Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street. You can access a map here.

The seminar costs £40 for non-Birkbeck Alumni and £10 for existing and former Birkbeck students. Tea and coffee will be provided.

For further information and to reserve your place, contact Dr Andrew Tucker at Andrew.tucker@pol-soc.bbk.ac.uk

Forthcoming HSJ Governance Challenge and 5th annual NHS Governance conference

Looking ahead to 2009 and beyond, immense challenges can be seen which will test even the most robust NHS governance systems. The Health Service Journal (HSJ) has lined up a number of exciting events in March and June. Click here for further information on the HSJ Governance Challenge and pre-study day Fundamentals of NHS Governance (24/25 March 2009 in Birmingham) and click here for details about the 5th annual HSJ NHS Governance Conference (23-25 June, London). Don’t miss these important events.

View presentations from HSJ conference ‘Intelligent information for effective governance’

The Health Service Journal conference Intelligent information for effective governance, held on 22 January 2009 in London, attracted around 170 people and was a great success.

Speaker presentations are now available for viewing by clicking here.

Clinical Governance Conference – University of Hertfordshire, 12/13 March 2009

It’s good to know that in this era of ‘Darzification’, clinical governance, which was/is all about improving quality in the NHS, is alive and kicking!

This one and a half day conference, Clinical Governance – Where are we now? Where do we want to go?,will explore current issues, impacts on the delivery of quality healthcare and challenges arising from the Darzi report.

Speakers include representatives of the National Patient Safety Agency and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

The conference will be held at University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, Herts, AL10 9AB, and will run from 09.00-16.00 on Thursday and 09.00-13.00 on Friday. It costs £100 and CPD certificates will be provided.

Further information can be obtained from Karen Wells – k.c.wells@herts.ac.uk (tel. 01707 286393) or Tristan Brice – t.brice@herts.ac.uk (tel. 01707 286108).

NHS Governance 2009 – A three day event organised by the Health Service Journal

The Health Service Journal (HSJ) is presenting its 5th annual governance conference as a three day event in London on 23-25 June 2009.

Day 1 (23 June) will look at ‘Transformational NHS Governance – Developing robust, flexible and fit-for-purpose governance systems to support whole system change.’

Day 2 (24 June) will look at ‘Board Level Development – Cultivating the skills to strengthen governance systems from board to ward and beyond.’

Day 3 will look at ‘PCT Governance – Developing sound governance for commissioning arms, provider services and the body corporate.’

Full details about the event will appear in due course and can be found here.

In the meantime, please ensure the event is in your diary.

Fundamentals of NHS governance – forthcoming one day Health Service Journal event

Watch out for a forthcoming one day event in Birmingham covering the fundamentals of NHS governance organised by the Health Service Journal (HSJ).

Healthcare Governance Review has seen a draft of the programme for the event, which includes:

- The Care Quality Commission and regulation
- Quality assurance
- Clinical, corporate and information governance
- Integrated governance
- Board level development
- PCT governance
- Foundation trust governance
- Governance between Organisations

Speakers will include:

- Professor Paul Stanton, Northumbria University
- Dr Jay Bevington, Deloitte
- John Wilson, NED, East Riding and Yorkshire PCT
- Stuart Emslie, editor, Healthcare Governance Review

Further information, when it becomes available, can be found here.

Midlands NHS trust secretaries network launches on 9 December 2008 in Birmingham

Mills & Reeve LLP, solicitors, are launching a free network for NHS trust secretaries (or equivalent) in the Midlands in Birmingham on 9 December 2008.

Stuart Emslie, editor of Healthcare Governance Review, will be speaking at the launch event, which will be a full half day affair involving a legal update, a presentation on NHS board governance and a planning session to identify topics for future events.

Following on from the launch event, Mills & Reeve will be hosting a series of 08.30-10.30 ‘breakfast club’ meetings on alternate months from January 2009.

The Midland NHS trust secretaries network is chaired jointly by Moosa Patel, Director of Corporate Affairs, Leicestershire Country and Rutland PCT and Claire Lea, Company Secretary, Heart of England NHS foundation trust.

For further information on the network, including a list of possible topics for future sessions together with a booking form for the 9 December event and details on joining the network, download a brochure here.

Patient Safety Congress 2009 launched

Patient Safety Congress 2009 will be held 30 April – 1 May 2009 at the ICC Birmingham.

Patient Safety Congress 2008 in London last May was a highly successful event with 800 delegates and over 100 speakers.

The Health Service Journal and Nursing Times have again teamed up with the NPSA, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Health Foundation, and also for 2009 the Department of Heath HCAI and Cleanliness Division and NHS Connecting for Health have joined the partnership.

Last year the Congress made the case for patient safety. 2009 is about “getting down to work, and providing the clear evidence and practical guidance you need to deliver real improvements. It is a unique opportunity to learn from the best examples in the UK, Europe and across the world, and to share their experiences of improving patient safety.”

The 2009 Programme can be downloaded here.

Speakers will be added over the next 2 months. To be the first to recieve speaker and programme updates sign up to the Patient Safety Congress E-Bulletin here.

The 2008 event sold out 2 months prior to the event. Ensure you do not miss out on the 2009 event by clicking here to book your place.

You can access the Patient Safety Congress 2009 website here.

HSJ Event – Intelligent Information for Effective Governance, January 2009, London

The Health Service Journal (HSJ) has issued advanced notification that it is running the above event on 22nd January 2009 at Earls Court Conference Centre, London SW5. The sub-title for the event is Developing smart reporting systems to empower strategic decision making at Board level.

According to the HSJ, “Good governance is underpinned by intelligent information. Understanding what information is required to support strategic decision making at Board level is imperative. Especially following the launch of the new NHS performance framework, and with the emerging threat of the NHS failure regime.”

The HSJ says that “This unique and timely new national forum has been specifically designed for all senior managers with reporting responsibilities at Board level, IT specialists, and for NHS Board Members themselves. Book your place today to gain the tools and guidance you need to ensure accuracy, quality and relevance of information presented to NHS Boards.”

For full details of HSJ’s comprehensive programme click here.

The HSJ has announced that the following speakers have so far been confirmed:

- Joanna Davis, Chair, Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Dr John Bullivant, Director, Good Governance Institute & Professor Michael Deighan, Specialist Advisor on Governance Between Organisations, Joint Authors of ‘Tensions and Issues in Governance’, Routledge 2009

- Stuart Emslie, Assistant Director, Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics, Birkbeck London University and Visiting Fellow, Loughborough University Business School (and editor, Healthcare Governance Review)

- Rob Murray, Engagement Lead, Audit Commissions’ Trust Practice

A booking form for the event can be downloaded here and you and take advantage of HSJ’s early bird booking discount available until the 10th October 2008.

Update on ‘National Inquiry’ into ‘Fit for purpose governance in the NHS’

The Centre for Innovation in Health Management at Leeds University Business School will be sharing its findings of its inquiry into boards and governance at an event to be held at Leeds University on 26 November 2008.

For further information, download the invite to the event here.

See related link here.