Programme| Presentations| Workshops

10th National Conference
for PCT Advisers

18th-19th June 2009
Keele University

Programme

Conference chair:
Roy Lilley, Independent health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on health and social issues
Thursday 18th June 2009
08.30 Arrival and registration in Chancellors Building
10.00 Conference introduction from the chair
10.15 Striving for Quality in a Cold Climate – The NHS Challenge
Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, Kings Fund
10.45 The future for NICE
Andrew Dillon, CBE, Chief Executive, NICE
11.15 The Constitution and beyond….. What next for prescribing support?
Clive Jackson, Chief Executive, National Prescribing Centre
11.45 Question time to the panel
12.00 Lunch and table hosting
Conference will now split into Commissioner or Provider Streams
Provider Stream – Chair: Neal Maskrey, Director of Evidence Based Therapeutics, National Prescribing Centre – Theatre 103
1.30 Achieving value-for-money in prescribing
Alex Scharaschkin, Audit Manager, National Audit Office
Commissioner Stream – Chair: Steve Morris, Director of Policy and Implementation (Deputy Chief Executive), National Prescribing Centre Westminster Theatre
1.30 World class commissioning, driving high standards of service through commissioning
Adrian Reedman, Director of Strategy and Redesign, NHS Birmingham East & North
2.15 1st session of workshops
3.30 Refreshment break
4.00 2nd session of workshops
5.15 Close of day
7.30 Drinks reception in Great Hall
8.00 Dinner in Keele Hall Restaurant
Entertainment by the "Hipsters"
Conference chair:
Roy Lilley, Independent health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on health and social issues
Friday 19th June 2009
Conference will now split into Commissioner or Provider Streams
Provider Stream – Chair: Jonathan Underhill, Head of Evidence Based Therapeutics, National Prescribing Centre – Theatre 103
9.15 Getting the balance right - medication review referral initiative and falls prevention,
Ewen Sim, General Practitioner, and Jasmeen Islam, Prescribing Adviser, NHS Wirral
9.35 Shared learning in County Durham and Darlington,
Pauline Lockey, Medicines Management Lead, & Anne Henry, Medicines Management Lead, County Durham & Darlington PCTs
9.50 NPSA alert on anti-coagulants – opening a can of worms
Christine Walton, Prescribing Adviser, Norfolk PCT
10.15 Putting quality at the heart of medicines management
Martin Stephens, National Clinical Director for hospital pharmacy, Department of Health
Commissioner Stream – Chair: Rose Milnes, Director of Corporate Affairs, National Prescribing Centre - Westminster Theatre
9.15 Prescribing and medicines management: models of delivery and leading local change
Sue Carter, Head of Medicines, West Sussex Teaching PCT
9.35 NHS constitution - how we tackled it with the minimum stress levels
Alison Tennant, Specialist in Pharmaceutical Public Health, Dudley PCT
9.50 Medicines management in a commissioning PCT: demystifying the role
Barbra Pawulska, Pharmaceutical Adviser, Brighton and Hove City Teaching PCT
10.15 World class commissioning of pharmaceutical services
Jonathan Mason, National Clinical Director for primary care and community pharmacy, Department of Health
11.00 Refreshment break
11.30 3rd session of workshops
12.45 Lunch
1.35 Introduction into afternoon session, conference chair
1.40 PCT's - the changing landscape
David Stout, Director of PCT Network,
NHS Confederation
2.10 SHA priorities for pharmacy engagement and medicines management
Mike Farrar CBE, Chief Executive, NHS North West
2.45 Closing address
Roy Lilley, conference chair
3.15 Conference close
Neal Maskrey
3.25 Depart