Sixty Second Interviews
Facing your radiology service funding pressures: are you going to sink or swim?
This conference has been designed to arm you with practical tools and examples of how you can deliver the significant cost improvement measures required of your radiology service. Your only option in the face of such compelling financial pressure is to make your service more efficient and deliver cash savings, whilst ensuring quality. This conference will help you find solutions to do just that. This is your opportunity to discover how others are changing, exchange best practice, listen to innovative case studies and network with your peers.
Your financial future is at stake, how are you going to:
- Make a start on your cost improvement journey, cash in on the quick wins and weigh up all your resources to identify where best to deliver savings?
- Balance quality with your cost improvements and weigh up whether cash savings = compromise on quality or can you have both?
- Rationalise your service and make tangible savings from your pharmacy and equipment procurement?
- Make your resources work harder and realise the financial value of service improvement strategies such as Lean and skill mix reviews?
Good news! By attending this conference you can formulate your plan to face the challenges head on
In the face of such compelling change, only at this event will you be able to address the pressures and formulate a plan to survive. Take this opportunity to hear from other services that are facing similar challenges and learn from the strategies they are employing to deliver cash savings. Benefit from practical tools, tips and ideas that you can put into practice right away to deliver your target cost savings whilst maintaining quality and patient throughput.
Return to your trust with ideas you can put into place right away to start delivering savings from your service and meet your cost improvement targets head on.
Take away solutions from this conference with answers to your key questions:
Where do I begin with my cost improvement programme?
This conference has been designed to help you deliver your saving targets. You will hear how others have started their cost improvement journey and the analysis they have conducted to meet their service requirements. Whilst the pressure is on to make savings, it is important to put radiology costs in the context of other larger costs and weigh this up against the value that radiology provides to the trust. This conference will help you build a business case that shows what impact radiology can have for overall cash savings.
Does cash savings = compromise on quality?
Delivering efficiency savings does not have to be at the cost of your quality. This event will help you identify ways of working smarter and focusing your strategy on measures that will save you money whilst adding value to your patient. You will come away with an understanding of how efficiency drives can go hand in hand with quality measures. Learn how to standardise your processes so that you can achieve both quality and efficiency, and deliver sustainable service improvements.
Analysing your overheads: where can you save?
This is your opportunity to hear how your peers have found savings from their services. Examine what savings can be made from pharmacy costs and learn what conclusions others have come to with regards to contrast usage and costs so that you can implement similar cost saving changes. Equipment is expensive for radiology services and can have a serious impact on your bottom line. Benefit from case study examples of how economies of scale can bring down your procurement costs and best value achieved by reviewing your suppliers.
How can you make your resources work harder?
This event is the ideal opportunity to learn how you can convert efficiency into financial savings. Attend this unique forum to hear practical tools, tips and ideas that you can put into practice right away. Examine what tangible benefits Lean methodology can have on your bottom line. Learn how you can capitalise on your skill mix by reprofiling your workforce. Hear what can be achieved from different grades and what impact that might have on your staff overheads. Take away an insight into the impact that new technology will have on delivering long term cost savings.
By hearing about the successes and failures of others, you can judge for yourself the cost vs. benefits of implementing different strategies and decide which ones you want to take forward in your trust to help you deliver your saving target.
You can also attend:
- True Costing for Radiology on Tuesday 23rd March 2010