Conferences
The Group runs two major 2-day conferences each year, which provide an excellent opportunity for networking and continuing professional development. For further information contact Jill Riley +44(0)1905 727461 email: jill@phcsg.org.
PHCSG 30th Annual Conference
11th - 13th October 2010
Crewe Hall, Cheshire
‘Liberating the NHS - delivering the information revolution'
Price Fix - same prices as 2009 - download registration form HERE
Places limited to 100 people - BOOK ON LINE HERE
We have limited sponsorship / exhibit opportunities for this special event - sold on a first come first served basis - further information HERE or contact Jill Riley
on +44(0)1905 727461 email: jill@phcsg.org
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR JOHN PERRY PRIZE
To view/download, click on above.
For further information on the John Perry Prize origins click HERE
The Coalition’s White Paper “Equity and Excellence” promises an “Information Revolution” as the central enabler of its policies to transfer commissioning to GPs and drive quality and efficiency through informed patient choice.
The BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group celebrates 30 years as the thought leader in Primary Care Informatics and has decided to dedicate its 30th Annual Conference to describing the informatics challenges that flow from the White Paper and considering how they might be addressed.
Informed patient choice requires that patient’s have access to information about the availability and performance of services and the Government has signalled its intention to open up NHS information and patient records to enable citizens to have personalised data to support their choices.
Healthcare providers will have to provide much more information about the availability and performance of services and the clinical and patient rated outcomes achieved by individual clinical teams to fuel the Information Revolution. The, welcomed, emphasis on measuring clinical and quality of life outcomes, some of which are very slow to show, will be challenging.
GP commissioners will need more and better information about the health needs of the populations they serve and tools to identify where resources are consumed and could be better deployed. If it is to be effective GP commissioning requires fine grained contracts and the ability to process billions of individual transactions, only possible with a new generation of software tools. There will need to be a clear link between GP commissioning and the population needs as assessed by the new firmed-up public health function.
The PHCSG Conference will allow you to hear from leaders in the field and learn about early plans to address the challenges faced.
Speakers include:-
Dr Lawrence Buckman, GPC Chairman - BMA
Rob Navarro - Sapior Ltd
Gillian Leng - NICE
Dave Roberts - NHS Information Centre
Leading Suppliers...
... and more
Conference bookings underway. Book soon as places limited to 100 delegates and sold on a first come first served basis.
30th Conference Dinner will be limited to 80 people - the winner of the John Perry Prize will be presented with this award at the dinner.
Conference programme will be available here soon.
Limited sponsorship and space opportunities - detail HERE
In the meantime, if you have any queries please contact Jill Riley, Group Administrator on +44(0)1905 727461 or email jill@phcsg.org
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PHCSG Summer Conference
held 24th - 26th May 2010
Chesford Grange Warwickshire
Health and Efficiency – Improving Services in an 'Era of Austerity’
Our thanks to all speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, delegates and other supporters for making this event possible.
Ever wondered what it would be like to attend the conference?
Click here for one user’s experience of the 2009 Conference . . .
2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - HERE
View conference programme with links to biographies and conference presentations (when available) HERE
(Note: click on speaker name for biography and presentation title for presentation. Some presentation files take a little while to open or download).
The conference included sessions looking at the developing Informatics partnership between Health and Social Care – with presentations from some of the CAF demonstrator sites, and representation from both the National Strategic Improving Information Programme, and the ADASS Information Management Group. Attendees discussed the benefits of closer working between Health and Social Care, and explored ways in which technology can support and help deliver those benefits.
In the next few years spending on the NHS will fall in real terms while demand for its services will continue to rise. The conference looked at how to achieve the difficult balance for primary care IT between making the necessary budgetary cutbacks, and striving to improve the information systems and services for patients and staff.
Speakers demonstrated that innovation, together with interoperability, can both make savings and improve the care of the local community for patients and for staff.
After Dinner Entertainment was provided by Amateur Transplants duo of medics.
AMATEUR TRANSPLANTS:
Amateur Transplants (aka deviant doctors Adam Kay and Suman Biswas) sing songs at a piano. They are "Superbly politically incorrect, gloriously funny" (Scotsman), "Very very funny indeed" (Radio 1) and "A cult hit" (Sunday Times). 6 million people downloaded the London Underground Song - you were potentially one of them. www.amateurtransplants.com
Exhibition
Exhibitors who supported the event:-
INPS, Verisk Health, Away From My Desk, PRIMIS+, BCS, EMIS, iSOFT,
e-Health Media, Merck Sharp & Dohme, TPP, The Interactive Patient,
Sullivan Cuff Software Ltd, ScriptSwitch, Phillips, CORE IMS.
List of exhibitors with links to their web sites HERE
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Annual Conference held 24th - 26th September 2009
Crewe Hall, Cheshire
'Data Sharing - the virtual naked patient'
Links to conference presentations available HERE
Click on presentation title to view. Click on speaker name for biography
As in previous years, this event will included high profile invited speakers and peer reviewed academic papers.
NEW VENUE - Located in Cheshire, Crewe Hall is a fine mix of Jacobean and 21st century architecture. Venue information and location available here
The conference theme explored access to patient-identifiable data. The increasing digitisation of citizen’s care data offers to greatly improve information sharing, and so the quality of clinical-decision among those professionals caring for the patient. But like all change it has a downside. It magnifies the risk of inappropriate access to patient-identifiable data in the name of service efficiency, research and the ‘public interest’. Where are the boundaries, and how do we ensure that those in charge of patient identifiable data respect them?
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