Programme

Registration and refreshments

Opening remarks from the Chair

Securing and analysing the information essential to drive effective, intelligent and World Class Commissioning

Evaluating appropriate tools to identify and collate useful information

• Using rich information from a variety of sources to get a comprehensive picture of need and ensure services are commissioned appropriately
• Incorporating non-health data, including social factors such as education, crime and housing, into the commissioning cycle
• Utilising health outcomes data to establish the current picture of local needs

Question and answer session

Assessing local need to influence planning and deliver World Class Commissioning

• Ensuring JSNAs inform commissioning to deliver world class outcomes
• Getting to grips with future population health needs – using modelling to commission services for the future
• Securing timely, high quality information and data from provider contracts
• Gathering appropriate information from providers to ensure high performance and the delivery of high quality care and patient satisfaction
• Using information more effectively to improve local planning and commissioning

Strengthening partnership working to ensure the effective sharing of information

• Identifying potential partners in your local area and using the third sector to reach the entire community
• Developing systems and communication to enable data sharing
• Undertaking effective Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
• Overcoming resource constraints by achieving more on a multiagency basis

Question and answer session

Morning refreshments

Ensuring data is accurate, robust and helpful to better understand patient pathways

• Investing in data quality systems and measurement processes
• Ensuring the accuracy of data - how to best use SUS, new data sets, and reduce data duplications and rejections of data submissions
• Exploring the available technologies and forthcoming IT developments to support quality data capture
• Strategies for building on and enhancing data collation and analysis using existing IM&T systems

Question and answer session

Lunch

Effectively using reporting mechanisms to inform commissioning from the bottom-up

• Making sense of the myriad of information and applying it to strategic priorities
• Comparing key performance indicator measures to better understand and improve services
• Using service line reporting and more sophisticated reporting tools, including dashboards, to make sense of the data and understand patient pathways
• Utilising business intelligence to better understand patient pathways and costs
• Investing in management information platforms to report, analyse and dashboard consolidated data across the whole trust

Implementing modelling to future-proof commissioning

• Developing a prioritisation framework
• Intelligently analysing data and evidence to prioritise investments
• Anticipating demand to improve population health and reduce health inequalities
• Exploring predictive modelling and the skills and insights needed

Question and answer session

Afternoon refreshments

Benchmarking performance to identify room for improvement

• Effectively using benchmarking tools to understand variations and trends in the delivery of care
• Using the information attained from patient-reported outcome measures to inform service redesign
• Scrutinising the approaches commissioners use to ensure the best possible health outcomes
• Embedding knowledge of local needs to compare performance, improve care and deliver tailored local solutions

Information for World Class Commissioning: the South Central experience

Question and answer session

Close of conference