13.45 -14.30 breakout sessions
Disruption and distress in teams
Speaker: Dr Jenny King, Edgecumbe
In this session, Dr Jenny King will explore the early warning signs, discuss when and how to act on these, identify a range of practical approaches to tackling difficulties at an early stage, and highlight the crucial role and responsibilities of medical leaders and managers in ensuring that these issues are dealt with effectively.
Leadership and the politics of people
Speaker: Dave Thornton, Leadership Coach
‘So how does it feel? You are trying to influence the model of patient care and establish what is best for your department or organisation. Yet something is not right, those you are working with don’t share your enthusiasm or agree with your strategies and the irony is that the only health that is in danger of being affected is your own negatively’. This workshop explored how and why different people are motivated in different ways and explored how re-connecting people to their values can prove a powerful leadership tool.
Second victims of medical errors
Speaker: Dr Kevin Stewart, Director of the Clinical Effectiveness & Evaluation Unit at the Royal College of Physicians of London
Following medical errors and incidents healthcare systems quite correctly focus on patients who have been harmed, or those at risk. However, there is an increasing recognition that clinicians involved in incidents may also be victims, as many suffer psychological harm. Such 'second victim' experiences are common and effects range from sleep disorders and anxiety through to frank psychiatric symptoms. There are potential patient safety risks if second victims are not recognised and supported appropriately.
Remediation
Speaker: Professor Hugo Mascie-Taylor, Medical Director, NHS Confederation
In this session Chair of the Department of Health Working party, Professor Hugo Mascie-Taylor will provide an update on the remediation agenda and open the floor for discussion.
What stimulates the right delivery system for: Getting people home
Speaker: Professor David Oliver, National Clinical Director, Older People's Services
Older people account for most admissions and bed days in NHS hospitals... Getting assessment, discharge planning and postdischarge care has potential to deliver gains both for patients and to care systems. But requires a radical shift in the way many clinicians work and in their skills and attitude. This poses a challenge for clinical leaders. We aim to use the session to explore these issues and identify possible solutions.
Accelerating change with the NHS model
Speaker: Rachel Hinde, Programme Manager, NHS Institute
The NHS Change Model is a framework for change to help NHS commissionersand providers improve how they go about improvement and deliver NHS goals for quality and value through a common language for change. This presentation introduced the model and its eight components, and considered how leaders can use it to accelerate and deepen change for quality. The eight components in the Change Model are based on evidence and experience of change that need to feature in our improvements.
The Foundation Programme should provide a broader experience including community placements - how can medical leaders deliver this?
Speaker: Patrick Mitchell, Director of National Programmes, Medical Education, Department of Health
The workshop provided a brief overview of the Better Training Better Care Programme, now sponsored by HEE, and asked groups to discuss how Professor John Collins' recommendations from 'Foundation for Excellence' concerning the need for the foundation programme to provide a broader range of experiences including community facing placements can be made to happen, and the subsequent affect the change will have on numbers of foundation trainees in acute services.
Playing all the right notes: improving medication reconciliation
Speaker: Dr Libby Morris, GP principal, Edinburgh
Medicine's reconciliation is of critical importance when patients are admitted to hospital or discharged back to Primary Care. Electronic messaging can make this task easier and safer and new developments are underway to coordinate this across all organisations and in all four nations in the UK.
Leadership and Management for trainees outside the NHS
Speakers: Dr Anas El-Turabi, GP Registrar, Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Cambridge, Dr Jonathon Shaw, Founder and Managing Director, DocCom, Dr Paul Rutter, Principal Advisor and Head of Secretariat at Independent Monitoring Board, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Helena Posnett, Medical Services Development Manager, Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK
There are a wide range of opportunities for trainees to develop their leadership skills outside traditional NHS roles. Speakers in this session represent a wide variety of approaches and described their work for the World Health Organisation, a management consultancy, medical entrepreneurship, working for a private healthcare provider and in a think tank.