Session 1 - Setting the scene

10:00 Welcome and introduction

10:10 Opening address

Neil Bently

Director of Public Services, CBI

Karen Taylor OBE, Director, Health Value for Money, National Audit Office  

Evolving NHS Primary Care - What are the challenges and how do we overcome them?

• Personalising care to individual needs
• Choice for patients and its limits
• New models of services
• Equity in provision and flexible patient funding streams

Panellists:

Paul Corrigan

Director of Strategy and Commissioning, NHS London

Mike Ramsden

Chief Executive, National Association of Primary Care

Neil Bently

Director of Public Services, CBI

Marilyn Eveleigh
Head of Clinical Performance and Lead Nurse,

Brighton and Hove PCT

11:50 Panel debate

Using competition to provide better services for patients

• The value of competition and good commissioning
• Increasing innovation and flexibility
• Patients and care quality leading PbC
• Empowering and incentivising staff to drive change
• Partnering with “High Street” NHS providers

Panellists include:

Prof David Colin-Thomé OBE

National Clinical Director for Primary Care

Dr Oliver Bernath

Managing Director, IHP Integrated Health Partners

Chan Wheeler

Commercial Director General, Department of Health

Clare Hollingsworth

Deputy Chairman , Spire Healthcare

Prof David Colin-Thomé OBE

National Clinical Director for Primary Care

Hugh Risebrow

CEO, Interhealth Canada (UK) Ltd

Ivan Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services, Department of Health

15:15 Forum Close