Sixty Second Interviews
The time for ‘thinking about it’ is over, you need to act: attend this event and collect information on the tools you require to implement different strategies and deliver your savings target.
Facing your pathology service funding pressures: are you going to sink or swim?
This conference has been designed to showcase practical tools and examples of how you can deliver the significant cost improvement measures required of your pathology service.
- Fact: £500 Million of savings from Pathology has identified from Carter must be recouped
- Fact: Each and every SHA has been tasked to find their percentage of savings – that means each and every pathology lab has to contribute to delivering £500 million
- Fact: QIPP has made pathology their number one priority – so things have to start being done differently now to ensure better value for money and improved quality
How will you address these changes? Your only option in the face of such compelling financial pressure is to make your service more efficient and deliver cash savings, whilst maintaining high standards. This conference will help you to find the solutions to do just that.
Attend to formulate your plan and face the challenges head on
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 targeted cost savings whilst maintaining quality and patient throughput.
Return to your trust with ideas you can put into place right away. Start delivering savings from your service and meet your cost improvement targets head on.
The demands being place are raising some fundamental questions from pathology labs around the country. Take away some answers and solutions from this conference to your burning questions:
Cost cutting is being demanded and so is a rise in quality – how can I deliver it all?
Attend this event to get the most up-to-date information on cost improvements and strategies to achieve QIPP. This is your opportunity to hear how others are focusing their efforts on the right measures – those that will save money and add value. Learn how you can tally savings made through pathology along the whole patient pathway against your budget. By sharing the practical solutions of other services, you will recognise what you too can put into place to meet the QIPP agenda head on and ensure that your cost improvements do not detract from your service quality.
How can I sweat my assets further to deliver savings and release cash?
Meeting the savings expectations from pathology is going to require you to take a hard look at all your resources. This conference will arm you with an insight into what you should be focusing on and what strategies can make the biggest difference. Your workforce is your biggest asset and your biggest cost, whether you like it or not, you will need to review how you are staffed and potentially make some difficult decisions. This unique day will identify the latest strategies for workforce planning. Increasing activity is having a major knock on effect on your costs. Unique presentations by your peers will make you aware of how you could manage your demand and enforce protocols to limit unnecessary testing. Review the value of managed service contracts and assess whether utilising your economies of scale for procurement can go far enough to deliver 20%.
What service configuration changes will help me deliver the required savings?
This is your opportunity to examine alternative service models, their viability and their potential to deliver savings. Is collaborative working with the independent sector the answer? Will the formation of networks deliver sufficient savings? Can consolidation be the solution? You will get the opportunity to hear how pathology labs have fared in some of these formations and assess whether the pros outweigh the cons.
You can also attend:
- How to Deliver True Costing for Pathology on Tuesday 8th June 2010
CPD Accreditation
