SPEAKERS
Stephen ThorntonChief Executive, Health Foundation
09.20
Stephen Thornton is Chief Executive of the Health Foundation. He has over 20 years' management experience in the National Health Service, having worked at hospital, community health, health authority, regional and national levels of the service. He spent five years as Chief Executive of Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Authority and five years as Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, the membership body for NHS organisations, negotiating directly with ministers on issues concerning the management of the health service.
He was formerly a member of the NHS Modernisation Board; a Commissioner on the Board of The Healthcare Commission; a member of the Commonwealth Fund's International Committee, responsible for the selection of Harkness Fellows; and a member of the Board of the International Hospital Federation.
Stephen is currently the Deputy Chair of Monitor (the independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), where he has been a non-executive director since October 2006, Vice Chair of the Eastern Academic Health Science Network, a council member for the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a non-executive director of the Eastern Transforming Pathology Partnership. He is an expert member of the Department of Health's National Quality Board, the Advisory Group on the NHS Constitution and of the Hospital Mortality Outliers Review National Advisory Group set up in response to the Francis Report. He represents the Foundation on the Board of the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery, based at Duke University, North Carolina. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2010.
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Dr Paul Bate He was formerly a member of the NHS Modernisation Board; a Commissioner on the Board of The Healthcare Commission; a member of the Commonwealth Fund's International Committee, responsible for the selection of Harkness Fellows; and a member of the Board of the International Hospital Federation.
Stephen is currently the Deputy Chair of Monitor (the independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), where he has been a non-executive director since October 2006, Vice Chair of the Eastern Academic Health Science Network, a council member for the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a non-executive director of the Eastern Transforming Pathology Partnership. He is an expert member of the Department of Health's National Quality Board, the Advisory Group on the NHS Constitution and of the Hospital Mortality Outliers Review National Advisory Group set up in response to the Francis Report. He represents the Foundation on the Board of the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery, based at Duke University, North Carolina. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2010.
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Director of Strategy and Intelligence, Care Quality Commission
09.45
Dr Bate has worked at the centre of policy and delivery on health for more than ten years. He joins CQC from Downing Street, where he was the senior policy adviser on health and social care to both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister.
He also worked for the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under the previous government, where he led the health team and ran national reviews on cancer, elective waiting times, long term conditions and healthcare acquired infections.
Paul has a strong background in strategy development and organisational design, including working for consultants McKinsey & Company and 2020 Delivery. He received his doctorate in particle physics from the University of Manchester in 1999.
Presentation: Regulating quality, achieving consistency
The Care Quality Commission has a vitally important job to do in regulating health and care providers. How can it ensure that quality is achieved across the system?
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Professor Ingemar Ihse He also worked for the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under the previous government, where he led the health team and ran national reviews on cancer, elective waiting times, long term conditions and healthcare acquired infections.
Paul has a strong background in strategy development and organisational design, including working for consultants McKinsey & Company and 2020 Delivery. He received his doctorate in particle physics from the University of Manchester in 1999.
Presentation: Regulating quality, achieving consistency
The Care Quality Commission has a vitally important job to do in regulating health and care providers. How can it ensure that quality is achieved across the system?
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Emeritus Professor of Surgery and former Medical Director, Lund University Hospital
10.05
Ingemar Ihse is Emeritus Professor of Surgery and former Head of Surgery at the University Hospitals of Linköping and Lund . For eight years he also served as the Medical Director of Lund University Hospital. During his whole career, he has been actively working to augment the quality and safety of healthcare through organisational/structural development and through improvement in education and training of healthcare professionals.
Ingemar is the founder of Practicum-Lund Clinical Skills Centre, one of Europe's biggest and most modern simulation-based medical training centres. At NHS Quality of Care he will talk about the Patient Hotel Concept, first developed by Lund University Hospital in 1988.
Presentation: The Scandinavian model of hospital hotels
The first patient hotel was developed in Sweden in 1988, when Lund University Hospital found itself faced with a familiar dilemma: it had insufficient funds to meet increasing demands for hospital beds. Working in partnership with a hotel chain, they came up with a new model for patient care that involved a radical rethinking of physical space and the processes involved in healthcare provision.
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Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP Ingemar is the founder of Practicum-Lund Clinical Skills Centre, one of Europe's biggest and most modern simulation-based medical training centres. At NHS Quality of Care he will talk about the Patient Hotel Concept, first developed by Lund University Hospital in 1988.
Presentation: The Scandinavian model of hospital hotels
The first patient hotel was developed in Sweden in 1988, when Lund University Hospital found itself faced with a familiar dilemma: it had insufficient funds to meet increasing demands for hospital beds. Working in partnership with a hotel chain, they came up with a new model for patient care that involved a radical rethinking of physical space and the processes involved in healthcare provision.
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Secretary of State for Health
15.35
Jeremy Hunt was first elected as Conservative MP for South West Surrey in May 2005, and re-elected in May 2010 with an increased majority of 16,318, making the seat one of the safest Conservative seats in the country. He received the third highest amount of votes out of all MPs.
In September 2012, Jeremy was appointed as Secretary of State for Health. Prior to this he was Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport in May 2010, during which time he oversaw a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in summer 2012. He had shadowed this brief in opposition since July 2007.
As Health Secretary, he has identified the following priority areas to make progress in health and care:
• Preventing people from dying prematurely, by improving mortality rates for the big killer diseases to be among the best in Europe, through improving prevention, diagnosis and treatment
• Improving the standard of care throughout the system, so that quality of care is considered as important as quality of treatment, through greater accountability; better leadership; training and support for staff; tougher, more comprehensive inspections and quality ratings; and more attention paid to what patients say
• Improving treatment and care of people with dementia and other long-term conditions
• Bringing the technology revolution to health and care
Across all of these priorities is the ambition to provide transparent, comparable data - accessible to the public, professionals and commissioners - to drive real improvements in performance and outcomes.
Jeremy went to school in South West Surrey, and then studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, gaining a first-class honour's degree. After a brief period as a management consultant, he went to Japan for two years where he supported himself teaching English whilst he learnt Japanese. He then returned to the UK and, with a business partner, set up Hotcourses Ltd, the UK's largest publisher of guides and websites to help people choose the right school, college, university or course. He remains a non-executive director of Hotcourses, which now employs over 150 people. He also founded a charity to help fund the education of AIDS orphans in Kenya, called the Hotcourses Foundation. Jeremy has a wife and young son and daughter.
Presentation: Putting the quality of patient care at the heart of the NHS
Following the Francis Report, the government has pledged to overhaul health and social care to ensure that a culture of compassion and the basic values of dignity and respect are central in healthcare delivery. How is this to be achieved whilst ensuring positive clinical outcomes, during a time when the NHS is facing unprecedented challenges?
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In September 2012, Jeremy was appointed as Secretary of State for Health. Prior to this he was Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport in May 2010, during which time he oversaw a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in summer 2012. He had shadowed this brief in opposition since July 2007.
As Health Secretary, he has identified the following priority areas to make progress in health and care:
• Preventing people from dying prematurely, by improving mortality rates for the big killer diseases to be among the best in Europe, through improving prevention, diagnosis and treatment
• Improving the standard of care throughout the system, so that quality of care is considered as important as quality of treatment, through greater accountability; better leadership; training and support for staff; tougher, more comprehensive inspections and quality ratings; and more attention paid to what patients say
• Improving treatment and care of people with dementia and other long-term conditions
• Bringing the technology revolution to health and care
Across all of these priorities is the ambition to provide transparent, comparable data - accessible to the public, professionals and commissioners - to drive real improvements in performance and outcomes.
Jeremy went to school in South West Surrey, and then studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, gaining a first-class honour's degree. After a brief period as a management consultant, he went to Japan for two years where he supported himself teaching English whilst he learnt Japanese. He then returned to the UK and, with a business partner, set up Hotcourses Ltd, the UK's largest publisher of guides and websites to help people choose the right school, college, university or course. He remains a non-executive director of Hotcourses, which now employs over 150 people. He also founded a charity to help fund the education of AIDS orphans in Kenya, called the Hotcourses Foundation. Jeremy has a wife and young son and daughter.
Presentation: Putting the quality of patient care at the heart of the NHS
Following the Francis Report, the government has pledged to overhaul health and social care to ensure that a culture of compassion and the basic values of dignity and respect are central in healthcare delivery. How is this to be achieved whilst ensuring positive clinical outcomes, during a time when the NHS is facing unprecedented challenges?
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