How to Deliver
True Costing for Pathology

Attend ‘True Costing for Pathology’ and arm yourself with the tools to fight your corner:

• First Line of Defence: A Practical Approach to Costing Methodology
• Second Line of Defence: Costing Solutions at your Disposal
• Third Line of Defence: Protecting your Income

The time has come: you must be able to accurately price up your test and justify your costs

As the economic downturn takes hold, now more than ever, the importance of correct costing cannot be underestimated. This unique day is designed to enable you to develop a full understanding of your true costs. With each SHA tasked to find 50 million pounds saving, this event will arm you with the tools to fight your corner, help you face the challenges and ensure you are prepared for the impact of change.

Delivering the £500 million saving identified by Carter is back at the top of the agenda: the DH, SHAs and commissioners need answers. Do you know:

• what your price per test is?
• total cost of your pathology service?
• real cost of your current service configuration?
• continuing viability of your service in its current format?

Attend this focused event to equip yourself with the tools to ensure you know how to provide the answers.

This event is your opportunity to identify:

• Key strategic views that are setting your pathology agenda: hear from the DH, SHA and Commissioners about what they value
• How to price up your service holistically: learn what key facts and figures you need to be able to produce for your FDs
• How to keep your costing and quality in balance: share advice on how to balance your costs and quality and meet the QIPP agenda
• What practical strategies can be put into place to generate new income: discover how similar services are forging ahead to ensure they come out as number one

This is your chance to hear what others are doing to protect their services from radical overhaul, share strategies to ensure you come out ahead and arm yourself with the tools to develop a genuine picture of your total pathology cost.

Attend to hear the answers to your key questions and build yourself a strategy to defend your service:

Why do costs matter so much?

This is your exclusive opportunity to meet, hear and share with the people who will be making key decisions about the future of your pathology service. A radical overhaul for pathology is on the horizon and you need to hear about what is being demanded of your service. Take away the views from the DH on the QIPP agenda that is driving reform and share how SHAs plan to move forward to deliver savings. You will also hear from leading commissioners on what they value most and why costings will play an important role in making key decisions about pathology services.

How do you go about costing up your test and overall service?

There is still a great deal of uncertainty around how to cost up your pathology service, and the relationship between costs and pricing. By attending this event you will benefit from expert opinion on the tools and methodology employed to understand your true costing. By booking on, you will also partake in a practical exercise designed to help you put the costing methodology into context. Go beyond the key facts and figures and take away true meaning of the costing methodology.

What costing tools are at your disposal?

Analysing your pathology costs do not need to be just another cumbersome task that you have to struggle with alone. Don’t miss out on the tools and resources that will be shared at this event and will help you deliver your true costing. Find out the role of service line reporting in creating an internal tariff and ensure income is allocated accurately. By utilising service line reporting and working with your colleagues in finance, you will be able to develop a true costing model that will ensure all overhead are accounted for and your costs are truely transparent.

How can you go further to protect your income?

In this flat cash environment it is imperative that you protect the income you have, and fight hard to win any new revenue. This conference will bring you practical case studies that will share how others have done just that by meeting commissioner requirements and winning new business.

You can also attend:

• Delivering your 20% Efficiency Savings in Pathology on Wednesday 9th June 2010

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