NAPC Annual Conference 2019
Keynote theatre
Thursday 10 October 2019
9.00 – 9.05: Introduction to day two from Conference Chair John Stapleton, TV presenter and journalist.
9.05 – 9.40: New alliances – dissolving the divide between acute/community and primary care
This session will explore how some areas are putting aside the silo working of the past and developing new, productive relationships across sectors, based around population health needs. The result will be the creation – for the first time since the NHS was set up in 1948 – of fully integrated community-based healthcare. Developing new ways of working across different types of organisation presents challenges as well as the opportunity to deliver better care for patients. The panel will share their experiences and learning on how to develop new effective alliances across acute, community and primary care.
Panel:
- Dr Peter Aitken, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, and Director of Research and Development and Medical Education at Devon Partnership NHS Trust
- Dr Markus Maiden-Tilsen, CEO, Thanet Health Primary Care Home (Thanet Health CIC)
- Professor Joe Harrison, Chief Executive, Milton Keynes University NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Karen Kirkham, GP, Senior Medical Advisor Primary Care Provider Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement and Clinical Lead, Dorset Integrated Care System (ICS)
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9.50 – 10.40: How digital is changing the NHS landscape – take the leap or be left behind?
This session will explore the challenges and opportunities around digitalisation in the NHS – the game changers in progress in some parts of the country where it threatens the traditional structures of the NHS, how digital leaders are transforming the way patient care is delivered and its role in joining up health and care systems.
The session will discuss the latest plans from NHSX and there’ll be case studies from University Hospitals Birmingham and Milton Keynes University NHS Foundations Trusts. In Birmingham, they’ve plans to use a triage phone app to reduce emergency attendances at A&E and video technology to run remote outpatient appointments – resulting in them providing a digital out-of-hospital service. Milton Keynes Hospital is now one of the most digitally advanced hospitals – it was the first hospital to enable outpatients to book their appointments online, it gives patients wearable technology to monitor their clinical symptoms and has launched e-care, an electronic patient records system. There will also be an overview of NAPC Digital on its work supporting the adoption of practical and innovative technology that is focused on the needs of local populations.
Panel:
- Professor Joe Harrison, Chief Executive, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Pooja Sikka, GP and Partner, TenX Health
- Lawrence Tallon, Director of Strategy, Planning and Performance, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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11.15 – 12.00: In conversation with Dominic Hardy, Director of Primary Care and System Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Join this session to hear from one of the key figures in national primary care development. NAPC’s Dr Nav Chana will interview Dominic Hardy, Director of Primary Care and System Transformation on how primary care is progressing after one of the most significant step changes in the history of the sector. Almost all parts of the country are now in a primary care network and are expected to develop new roles, integrated services and a population health approach.
The interview will cover the challenges to make this happen and how these are being tackled, priorities now and in the future, the sustainability of the model and key milestones coming up. The session will also reference learning from primary care homes – the original primary care network – which NHS England has recognised as having ‘blazed a trail’ and “shown us the art of the possible”.
- Dr Nav Chana MBE, National PCH Clinical Director, NAPC
- Dominic Hardy, Director of Primary Care and System Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement
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12.00 Video address from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock (pre-recorded)
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13.20 – 14.10: The future of primary care: 2020 and beyond
This session will examine some of the biggest changes that are taking place in primary care and what they mean for the immediate and long-term future of the sector. We are already seeing transformation in action with the rapid development of primary care networks, the focus on integrated care and systems, as well as organisations, beginning to take a population health management approach. As part of the GP contract, primary care networks are asked to achieve a number of milestones, with new services being introduced from 2020. Discussions will focus on what’s next for primary care amid all the political uncertainty, the impact of the current transformation on workforce challenges, sustainability, leadership, and integration with community-based services and overall progress towards achieving the vision of the NHS Long Term Plan.
Panel:
- Dr Nav Chana MBE, National PCH Clinical Director, NAPC
- Prerana Issar, Chief People Officer, NHS England and NHS Improvement
- Dr Karen Kirkham, GP, Senior Medical Advisor Primary Care Provider Transformation, NHS England and NHS Improvement and Clinical Lead, Dorset Integrated Care System (ICS)
- Niall Dickson, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation
- Neil Tester, Director, Richmond Group.
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14.20 – 15.00: PCN partners – maximising the contribution of first contact care
This session will explore the extent to which first contact care providers – general practice, pharmacy, dentistry, eye and hearing services – have made progress towards collaboration and integration with primary care networks and the potential for greater work in future with improved health outcomes. In some areas progress has been evident where relationships have previously been made with primary care homes and super practices to support patients with long term conditions, prevent ill health as well as improve oral health outcomes for young children and older people. But it is still widely recognised that there’s an untapped potential to make better use of the skills of first contact care professionals across primary care particularly to help relieve the strain on the urgent health system.
- Ash Soni OBE, Vice President, International Pharmacy Federation (FIP), Assembly and English Pharmacy Board Member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, NAPC Non-Executive Director
- Dr Johnny Marshall, President, NAPC
- Eric Rooney, Chief Dental Officer, NHS England
- Zoe Richmond, Clinical Director (interim), LOCSU
- Dr Bruce Warner, Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, NHS England and NHS Improvement
- Mark Georgevic, Non-Executive Director and former Chair, National Community Hearing Association (NCHA)
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15.00 – 15.50: Hot topics – audience Q&A on the current key issues
Join us to discuss the big issues of today. Our panel will be there to answer your burning questions – whether on the impact of a general election, preparing for a deal or no deal Brexit, funding, workforce challenges, governance, digital enablers and disruptors, the Lansley Reforms, the future of primary care networks and much more.
Panel:
- Dr Nav Chana MBE, National PCH Clinical Director, NAPC
- Dr Crystal Oldman CBE, Chief Executive, Queen’s Nursing Institute
- Ash Soni OBE, Vice President, International Pharmacy Federation (FIP), Assembly and English Pharmacy Board Member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, NAPC Council Member
- Dr Krishna Kasaraneni, GPC Executive Team, British Medical Association (BMA)
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15.50: Close from NAPC Chair Minesh Patel
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