Hellish Decisions in Healthcare 2017
Conference
Thursday, 12 January 2017 to Friday, 13 January 2017
Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Innovation: in organisations, systems & clinicians/patients
Download the conference programme (pdf)
Download the presentations from this year's conference (.zip)
Healthcare professionals across the world are facing increasing pressure because of rising need and demand and stagnant/decreasing resources. Hellish Decisions in Healthcare, now in its third year, is a forum designed to help healthcare professionals navigate the complex and Hellish Decisions they need to make to ensure they deliver the best value to the patients and populations they are accountable to. Please join us on January 12-13 at the University of Oxford to learn from and interact with healthcare professionals who have faced problems similar to yours and have used a variety of innovative approaches and strategies to make their Hellish Decisions.
Further reading:
Although tremendous progress has been made over the last forty years, health services still face five outstanding problems no matter how they are structured or funded:
- Unwarranted variation in access, quality, cost and outcome, and this reveals the other four
- Patient harm, even when the quality of are is high
- Waste, that is anything that does not add value to the outcome for patients or uses resources that could give greater value if used for another group of patients
- Inequity, and
- Failure to prevent the diseases that healthcare can prevent, stroke in atrial fibrillation for example.
In addition to these problems, over the past several years and into the foreseeable future, healthcare services have to cope with rising need and demand without additional resources.
To maintain health services globally and continue improving the health ofthe populations we serve, there is an urgent need to transform health services to focus on triple value:
- Personalised value, the delivery of services informed by what matters to the individual
- Technical value, determined by how well resources are used within services for each purpose
- Allocative value, determined by how the assets are allocated to services for different purposes.
Hellish Decisions in Healthcare is designed as a space for healthcare leaders, professionals and researchers within the international healthcare community to shape healthcare policy and systems to deliver Triple Value.
The decisions and strategies needed to deliver Triple Value will not always be immediately apparent and nor will they be easy to make; the Value in Healthcare Forum is a safe place where these strategies can be developed and where strategic discussions can be had with the key thought and implementation leaders in healthcare.
There will be sessions on:
Personal Value
Technical Value
Allocative Value
Unwarranted Variation
Overuse
Prevention
Integration of Health & Social Care Services.
Briefing notes (download):
1. Producing evidence for hellish decisions in the value era
2. Developing value based programmes and systems
3. Optimising system value by innovation and redundancy
4. Optimising system value by reallocation of resources for a single condition
5. What needs to be done to optimise the value of the hospital service?
Programme:
Download the full conference programme (pdf)
Confirmed speakers include:
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Mara Airoldi Departmental Lecturer in Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. |
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Youssef Beaini Clinical Lead Cardiovascular Disease, Bradford City CCG |
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Francesco Benvenuti |
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Professor Gwyn Bevan Professor of Management Science and Director of the MSc in Public Management and Governance in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
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Mike Burrows Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network |
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Andrew Cash Chief Executive, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
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David Cole IBM Watson & "Thinking of Oscar" Charity |
Matthew Fay The Willow's Medical Practice |
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Greg Fell Director of Public Health, Sheffield |
Alexander Foss Queens Medical Centre |
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Professor Sir Muir Gray CBE Director of Better Value Healthcare; Chair of Health and Social Care Digital Service. |
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Richard Glover North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) |
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Carl Klaxton Centre for Health Economics, University of York |
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Sabina Nuti Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa |
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Gary McVeigh Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queen's University Belfast
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Andrew O'Shaughnessy Consultant in Public Health, Bradford Metropolitan District Council |
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Sian Rees Leads on Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Experience for Oxford AHSN. |
Don Redding National Voices |
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Janet Waldron National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
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Roger Wilson Sarcoma UK |
Registration
General tickets: For delegates affiliated to NHS/Public Sector/Charitable Organisations.
Private Sector tickets: For delegates affiliated to Ltd Companies/For Profit Organisations.
These ticket prices include: All conference materials, lunch and refreshments.
Earlybird registration. Available until 14 October 2016:
General - £225
Private Sector - £300
Trainee/Student - £150
Standard registration. From 15 October 2016:
General - £275
Private Sector - £350
Trainee/Student - New price: £50.