Conference themes

This conference will discuss:

• The implication of Lord Darzi’s “Our NHS, Our Future” Review

• How to give patients more choice, freedom and access to services, therefore increasing patient satisfaction and encouraging services to improve their provision

• Extended GP hours and increasing accessibility including of new providers and the introduction of non-surgery based services such delivered through sports centres, independent medical centres and third sector providers

• Primary care services being delivered and led by other healthcare professionals, such as nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists etc.

• The competition between providers to deliver high-quality services and how the NHS can best manage that market in the patients’ interests

• Personalisation of care and increased involvement of patients and communities in the delivery of services

• Increasing move towards treatment in the community, including diagnostics, minor surgeries and the management of long-term conditions including COPD related illnesses, diabetes, arthritis and asthma

• The roll-out of practice based commissioning and the challenge for PCTs to improve commissioning capacity and skills

• The shift from "one size fits all" care to delivering more localised packages of care.