BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 1.5 for Joomla//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25f59a74025871b02115104fb61ba524 CATEGORIES:Nuclear Medicine SUMMARY:Driving Forward your Nuclear Medicine Service LOCATION:Maple House, Birmingham DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.get ElementById(id)) {return}; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.async = true; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId="; fjs.pa rentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); ! function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementBy Id(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widge ts.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wj s");Tweet window.___gcfg = {lang: "en-US"}; (function() { var po = document .createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po. src = "https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"; var s = document.getElements ByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); ShareDrivin g Forward your Nuclear Medicine Service\nLeaders in NHS Nuclear Medicine: w hat should you be challenging in your service delivery? Discover practical techniques to improve nuclear medicine services and deliver savings \n\n\n  \n\n\nThis one day conference has been designed to give you the opportunit y to share, learn and take away the tools you need to implement change and drive forward your nuclear medicine services.  This is your chance to hear the latest advances, exchange best practice, listen to innovative case stu dies and network with your peers to face your day to day challenges.\n\n\nC lick here to view the programme agenda for Driving Forward your Nuclear Med icine Service\n\n\nYour dedicated forum for discussing day to day issues, p rocedures and novel strategies.  As your service faces growing pressure, h ow are you responding to:\n\n - Limited resources? Begin the process of rec onfiguration to face the isotope shortage \n - Increasing demand? Meet the growing need to eradicate blockages and bottlenecks \n - Cost saving challe nges? Facing the ever increasing pressure of delivering efficiency savings\ n - Workforce pressures? Achieving buy-in with an already overstretched wor kforce to deliver even more for less\n\nFormulate your plan to face the cha llenges head on\nIn the face of such compelling change, only at this event will you be able to address the pressures and formulate a plan to drive for ward your nuclear medicine service.  Take this opportunity to hear from ot her services that are facing similar challenges: learn from the strategies they are employing.  Hear practical tools, tips and ideas that you can put into practice right away.  Return to your trust with long, medium and sho rt terms solutions to relieve your pressures and plan for the future.\n\n\n Click here to register for Driving Forward your Nuclear Medicine Service\n\ n\nDiscover how to revise your working practices to meet the changing deman d on nuclear medicine through new ideas and proven examples of innovative d evelopments:\n\nMeeting the Isotope Shortage Challenge\nThis conference is your opportunity to hear about the scale of the problem and gain insight in to possible solutions.  Are there potential alternative service delivery o ptions for the NHS?  This conference is the perfect opportunity to start d iscussing how NHS trusts can make the best use of resources and service pro vision to meet the challenge head-on\n\nShare practical ideas on how to ach ieve cost improvements\nUnder increased financial scrutiny, you cannot affo rd to leave income and costing of your nuclear medicine service to senior m anagement and finance.  It is essential that everyone involved in the deli very of service has a firm understanding of HRGs, overhead costs and tariff income so that you can ensure that any action you take has a positive impa ct on your cost improvement programme and departmental income.  This confe rence will arm you with a understanding of your finances and costing enabli ng you to fully understand how your costs are derived and ensure your incom e if tallied against your costs.  \n\nImprove your service delivery\nAtten d this event to hear practical tools, tips and ideas that you can put into practice right away to improve patient throughput and increase capacity.  Evaluate the impact that a novel service design has had on improving patien t throughput, enhancing capacity and share the results they have had.  By hearing about the successes and failures of others, you can judge for yours elf the cost vs. benefits of implementing these strategies and judge for yo urself whether they are worth the effort. \n \nShare strategies to relieve bottlenecks\nThis is your opportunity to share ideas from other trusts on h ow to address growing demand.  Investigate how best to structure your capa city and discover how you can you organise yourself to respond better.  Ut ilising new technology can have huge benefits for patient experience and st reamlined patient throughput but how do you make the business case to achie ve the finances?  Share experiences from trusts that have had success and achieved the financial investment needed for capital purchases. \n \nDevelo p progressive workforce solutions\nDeveloping your workforce can proactivel y help you to improve capacity and access but how can you possibly get more from your already stretched workforce resource? Hear how others have struc tured their services and developed new roles. This conference is your oppor tunity to investigate whether it is possible to further increase capacity w ith effective workforce restructuring utilize your workforce effectively to get maximum value for money.\n\n\nClick here to view the programme agenda\ n\n\nPlus: seperately bookable interactive seminar\n\n\nCalling all Radiogr aphers and Technologists: Deliver a safe, cost effective new service\n\n\n\ nHow to Set up a Practitioner Led\nNuclear Medicine Service\nYour guide to the set up and sustainment of Radiographer and Technologist led reporting\n Wednesday 26th September 2012 Maple House, Birmingham\n\nAttend this intera ctive seminar and receive step-by-step information, support and guidance to enable you to deliver safe and sustainable new models of service by\ntakin g away the tools to:\n\n• Deliver savings: release efficiency through bet ter use of resources and staffing\n• Beat targets: improve capacity and s treamline patient throughput\n• Maintain patient safety: ensure the right training and safety protocols are in place\n• Motivate staff: achieve ra diographer and technologist led reporting\n\nBenefit from the experiences o f others, learn from their setbacks and adapt their strategies to deliver n ew innovative services for nuclear medicine. \n\n\n Click here for more inf ormation \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n CONTACT:01732 897788 DTSTAMP:20130523T093118 DTSTART:20120925T080000 DTEND:20120925T170000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR