In brief
This conference, featuring Professor Sir Muir Gray, Tim Straughan and Giles Wilmore, explored the information revolution in the NHS and considered how to overcome the technical and cultural challenges to fully implementing the information strategy.
You can catch up with the key sessions below or download all of the presentations from the programme tab above.
Tim Straughan: Driving integration and efficiencies across types of care
TIm Straughan, Chief Executive, NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care considers the key issues – including transparency and data linkage – that need to be addressed if we are to achieve an information revolution.
Watch Tim's presentation: Health informatics: Driving integration and efficiencies
Giles Wilmore: How will the NHS Information Strategy support the new NHS?
Giles Wilmore, Director of Quality Framework and QIPP, Department of Health, gives an update on the NHS Information Strategy, describing the main areas that it will consider.
Watch Giles's presentation: How will the NHS Information Strategy support the new NHS?
Muir Gray: The third health care revolution
Watch the highlights from Muir's keynote presentation, as he introduces the third health care revolution of information, knowledge and value.
Ailsa Claire: Meeting the information needs of clinical commissioning groups
Ailsa Claire, Transition Programme Lead Patients and Intelligence, NHS Commissioning Board Design Team, looks at the information needs of clinical commissioning groups.
Watch Ailsa's presentation: Meeting the information needs of clinical commissioning groups
Sally Brearley: Removing barriers to making informed choices
Sally Brearley, Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Public and Patient Involvement, King's College London, discusses the relationship between patients, information and choice.
Listen to Sally's presentation: Removing barriers to making informed choices
Programme
Session one: Information strategy update
- Welcome and introduction
Catherine Foot, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund - Health informatics: Driving integration and efficiencies across primary, secondary and community care
Tim Straughan, Chief Executive, NHS Centre for Information
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- Keynote address: How will the NHS Information Strategy support the new NHS?
Giles Wilmore, Director of Quality Framework and QIPP, Department of Health
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- Questions and discussion
Session two: Implementing the information strategy: What will make it a success?
- Welcome back
Chair: Jeremy Nettle, Chairman, Intellect Healthcare Council - NICE Quality Standards and the Commissioning Outcomes Framework: selecting the right indicators and embedding accountability
Fergus Macbeth, Director of the Centre for Clincal Practice, NICE
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- Meeting the information needs of clinical commissioning groups
Ailsa Claire OBE, Director of Commissioning Development, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, and Lead on Commissioning Intelligence for clinical commissioning groups, Department of Health
Download Ailsa's presentation: Meeting the information needs of clinical commissioning groups (126 kb)
- BCS: enabling an NHS Information Revolution
Justin Whatling, Vice Chair Strategy and Policy, BCS Health
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- Questions and discussion
Session three: Breakouts
A: Measurement in the new NHS: outcomes and beyond
Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund
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B: Clinical audits: supporting improvements to clinical practice and service
Robin Burgess, CEO, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
C: Measuring quality along care pathways: whole system approaches
Dr Sarah Jonas, Visiting Clinical Fellow, The King's Fund
Dr Charlie Davie, Clinical Stroke Lead, University College London Partners
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D: Service Line Management: clinicians measuring for quality alongside financial performance
Catherine Foot, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund
Session four: Patient power: Driving quality improvements
- Welcome back
Chair: Prof John Appleby, Chief Economist, The King's Fund - What improvement gains can be made from shared decision-making?
Dr Angela Coulter, Director of Global Initiatives, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Download Angela's presentation: What improvement gains can be made from shared decision-making? (1626 kb)
- How transparency drives choice and competition and better outcomes for citizens
Tim Kelsey, Information and Public Services Lead, McKinsey & Co
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- Removing barriers to making informed choices
Sally Brearly, Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Public and Patient Involvement, King's College London, and Lay Member, National Quality Board - Questions and discussion
Session five: 2020 vision
- Keynote address: The Third Health care Revolution: a new paradigm for better value health care
Professor Sir Muir Gray CBE, Co-Director, NHS QIPP Programme, Right Care Workstream, Department of Health and Director, Better Value Healthcare
Download Muir's presentation: The third health care revolution: A new paradigm for better value health care (798 kb)
- Questions and discussion