Sixty Second Interviews
Calling all Laboratory Professionals Responsible for POCT
This event is designed to enable you to better understand the quality required to meet compliance, to equip yourself with the tools and techniques to deliver this quality and finally, to evaluate how to achieve value for money from your investment in resources and time.
How can you Make Quality Work for you?
Achieving quality POCT in today’s current climate goes beyond clinical accuracy and meeting CPA requirements. This is your chance to gather information, benchmark your service and develop your plan to approach new quality requirements head on and ensure you are prepared to turn regulatory requirements into tangible benefits for your patient safety and your trust’s bottom line.
POCT is increasingly coming under the spotlight. You need to know:
- What a quality POCT service looks like so that you can make changes and improvements in the right places
- How to break down quality requirements so that you can put the right systems, policies and procedures into place to prove your quality and meet compliance
- What is being done to ensure test results are consistent irrespective of whether it has been carried out in primary or secondary care
- How you can make quality work for you by ensuring that you are adding value where it counts most
Good news!
This conference will provide you with practical ideas that you can take away and use to benchmark your progress, configure your service and deliver quality POCT. You will hear what is valued most in terms of quality so that you can make your quality activity count.
Your practical guide to achieving a quality POCT service. Learn the answers to:
What does true quality for POCT looks like?
You want to provide good quality, and meet CPA requirements, but first you need to understand what good quality for POCT looks like so that you can identify what changes need to be made. This conference is your opportunity to hear firsthand about the vital elements that make up a quality POCT service. Find out what the CPA are looking for and take away a thorough understanding of what is important in order to achieve compliance.
How can my laboratory engage better with commissioners to achieve quality in the community?
Lab managed POCT is subject to vigorous quality checks, but what checks are in place for community based POCT? What do commissioners really understand by ‘quality’ for POCT? This conference is your opportunity to hear from commissioners about their plans for POCT in the community. Discover how you can engage PCTs to ensure quality standards are met. Take away the benefits of connectivity in preparation for further integration into the community and ready yourself to take advantage of what community based POCT presents.
How can I turn good quality into an advantage?
This conference will present you with the details of how other trusts have managed to turn their drive for better quality into cash savings that have been credited against their pathology budget! Get to grips with the details and numbers so that you can return to your trust ready to turn your regulatory requirements into a positive benefit for your trust.
How do I break down quality requirements into achievable steps?
Full details of CPA requirements are out and assessments on POCT trusts are already taking place. If you want to know what specific requirements need to be met and identify what policy and procedures have to be put into place to meet compliance, then this conference is your answer. By sharing best practice, you will be able to return to your trust armed with practical advice, tools and tips necessary for you to drive forward good quality management in your own trust.
Attend with your colleague for a special discount
Especially designed to provide you with an intensive learning experience, SBK Healthcare would like to offer you the opportunity to attend with your colleague. We are therefore pleased to offer you a special package where if you work for the NHS or other public sector body, you can have two places at only £598 plus VAT across Practical Guide to Point of Care Testing for Co-ordinators and Achieving Quality POCT. This is a discount of £140!
Plus: Take the hassle out of attending and take up the dinner, bed and breakfast package...
We are delighted to be able to offer all attendees the opportunity to book one night’s accommodation at the City Inn Manchester, including evening meal and breakfast at only £145 plus VAT, subject to availability.
You can also attend:
- Point of Care Testing for Co-ordinators on Tuesday 19th October 2010