The Health and Social Care Programme
How do you construct and sustain an integrated system of care? How do you save £20bn without letting quality of care suffer? How should you lead the workforce through radical change, and how can you improve the patient experience?
The programme engages executives from the Department of Health, the NHS and the private sector in an independently facilitated programme of innovation and best practice identification, focussing on the transformation following the implementation of the QIPP programme and the vision set out in Liberating the NHS.
The programme provides regular, independently facilitated environments for executives to share their experience of best practice, to generate new ideas and insight and to make valuable new professional connections.
Outputs include guidelines that encapsulate agreed best practice and suggested innovation on the key issues affecting health and social care.
Programme Themes in 2011-2012
The programme addresses themes such as the following:
- Collaboration vs. competition in the new environment
- Achieving breakthrough improvements in hospitals
- Patient experience in the health services
- Commissioning for quality - value vs. economy
- Contract management for quality and efficiency
- Innovations in long term conditions' management
- Technological transformations in the NHS - the digital vision
- Long term care and strategic partnering
- Procurement - transparency, collaboration and the intelligent client
- Geographical information for public health
- The effective workforce - mobile working
Programme Objectives
- Identification and diffusion of innovation and Best Practice in the health system
- Support the implementation of QIPP and the workstreams therein
- Support the implementation of new commissioning and provision arrangements
- Generate innovative ideas for improving performance in health and social care
- Publish a compendium of best practice guidlines
Programme Benefits
- Activities are on an appropriate scale for rich, in-depth exchanges between senior people in an extended board room format, allowing everyone to contribute
- Engagements are specifically designed to draw on the knowledge and experience of the participants, ensuring the group can focus on practical solutions to common issues
- A skilled facilitator, with experience in both the public and commercial sectors, steers the sessions carefully for the benefit of all participants
- Chatham House rules allow participants to express themselves freely, leading to an open, challenging and high-quality exchange
- There is no charge for public sector members, who contribute their time, expertise and experience
- Network activities are funded by private sector members who recognise the benefits of having an independent forum where the realities of public service reform can be explored
- There are no sales pitches. Everyone is expected to contribute to finding innovative solutions to real business issues
- In order to maintain our independence, ITW does not facilitate one-to-one meetings or similar contacts between members. Nor do we sell on any of our contact information
Who is involved?
Policy makers
Policy makers and National Directors in DH and QIPP workstream leaders
NHS Executives
CCG leaders, Acute Trusts representatives and clinicians, SHA and PCT Chief executives and senior executives, Commissioning, Finance and Operations Directors, Transformation Programme Leads, CSU, CSO and BSU executives
Private sector participants
Partners and executives from leading service providers, consultants, pharmaceutical firms, technolog experts and others
Invited guests
Guests as suggested by programme participants, such as representatives from third sector bodies, academics and other national and international experts on the themes addressed
Programme Details
Health and Social Care Programme
