The NHS Information Revolution conference

Using information to improve quality

Date:
12 Oct 2011

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

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

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

Sir Muir Gray

Watch the highlights from Muir's keynote presentation, as he introduces the third health care revolution of information, knowledge and value.

Watch Muir's video on better value health care from the NHS

Ailsa Claire: Meeting the information needs of clinical commissioning groups

Ailsa Claire

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

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

Session two: Implementing the information strategy: What will make it a success?

Session three: Breakouts

A: Measurement in the new NHS: outcomes and beyond
Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund
Download Veena's presentationMeasurement in the new NHS: Outcomes and beyond (107 kb) [pdf]

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
Download Sarah's presentationMeasuring quality along care pathways: Whole system approaches (250 kb) [pdf]
Download Charlie's presentationMeasuring quality along care pathways (650 kb) [pdf]

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 presentationWhat improvement gains can be made from shared decision-making? (1626 kb) [pdf] 
  • How transparency drives choice and competition and better outcomes for citizens
    Tim Kelsey, Information and Public Services Lead, McKinsey & Co
    Download Tim's presentationThe future is open! (1063 kb) [pdf]
  • 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