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Location : Maple House, Birmingham
Date : Tuesday 25th September 2012
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Driving Forward your Nuclear Medicine Service

Location : Maple House, Birmingham
Date : Tuesday 25th September 2012

 

9.00

Registration and Refreshments
9.30 Chair's Opening Remarks
Professor Alan Perkins, President, British Nuclear Medicine Society and Professor of Medical Physics, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

National Update
9.40 Meeting the Isotope Shortage Challenge: Reconfiguring Nuclear Medicine Service Provisions
  • What is the scale of the problem? Looking ahead to radiopharmaceutical pressures
  • Assessing the national picture of service provision and potential alternative service delivery options
  • Making best use of your resources: exploring demand, new patterns of service and capitalising on new technologies
Professor Alan Perkins, President, British Nuclear Medicine Society and Professor of Medical Physics, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Improving Service Delivery
10.10 Increasing Capacity through Integrated Working: Strategies to Release Resources and Reduce Waits
  • Creating sustainable improvements and transferring learning: optimising processes, and up-skilling non medical staff
  • Progress to date: working in tandem with radiology to relieve bottlenecks across imaging
  • Implementing change through Lean processes in nuclear medicine: practical measures to deliver service efficiency
Claire Greaves, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Acting Head of Medical Physics, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
10.40 Practical Experience of Introducing a New Clinical Service for Nuclear Medicine
  • Utilising SPEC-CT for bone scanning: clinical and patient care benefits
  • Delivering savings: reducing the number of overall interventions and outpatient attendance
  • Sharing the reality of change: progress so far and stumbling blocks along the way
John Pattison, Consultant Radiologist, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
11.10 Networking Break

Streamline Patient Throughput
11.30 Exercising Demand Management: Improving Patient Flow through Better Planning
  • Ensure sustainability: understand your nuclear medicine demand to plan your service capacity
  • Structuring your capacity: how can you organise yourself to respond better?
  • Improving education along the referral pathway: increasing the speed and efficiency of diagnosis
Gill Vivian, Lead Clinician, Nuclear Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
12.00 Enhancing Capacity through Independent Sector Collaboration and New Technologies  
  • The business case and practicalities of working collaboratively with the independent sector
  • Embracing market opportunities: capitalising on patient and departmental efficiency benefits of new technology
Sponsorship Opportunities Available
12.20 Utilising Cardiac IQ-SPECT to Boost Patient Experience and Streamline Patient Throughput
  • Making the business case for investing in Cardiac IQ-SPECT: balancing initial outlay against efficiency savings and generation of new income
  • Benefits of technology: boosting image quality and improving comfort for patients
  • Resulting trust benefits: reduced waiting times, improved patient access and throughput, and saving on the direct costs of outsourced scans
Kate Centa, Senior Radiographer in Nuclear Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust
12.50 Discussion with Morning Speakers
1.10 Networking Lunch

Achieving Cost Improvements
2.20 Income and Costing Models: How are Nuclear Medicine Costs Derived?
•    Understanding HRGs: what do you need to know about your nuclear medicine income?
•    Getting to grips with the basics: understanding reference costs, overhead costs and tariff income
Daniel Stephens, Business Support, Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
2.50 Practical Strategies for Delivering Cost Improvements in Nuclear Medicine
  • Facing cost saving pressures: ideas to deliver your 5% cost improvement targets
  • Sharing best practice to achieve cost improvement and efficiency savings
  • Promoting growth of your service through better understanding your costs in nuclear medicine
Anil Vara, Clinical Modality Manager, Nuclear Medicine, Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
3.20 Networking Break

Progressive Workforce Solutions
3.40 Developing Safer Working Practices for Hybrid Imaging in Nuclear Medicine
  • CT integrated nuclear medicine imaging: where do technologists and radiographers fit in?
  • Developing the right skill set: establishing protocols, competency requirements and scope of practice
  • Next steps: evaluating the picture nationally and where next for developing a competency framework
Gary Dawson, Radiography Lecturer, University of the West of England
4.10

Delivering the Role of Associate Practitioners in Nuclear Medicine:  The Sheffield Experience

  • The rationale for investing in associate practitioners: increasing capacity and streamlining services
  • Methodology for change: taking an organic approach to shifting traditional roles
  • Sharing the benefits of re-profiling: working smarter and delivering efficiencies

Christine Taylor, Senior Chief Technologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
4.25 Discussion with Afternoon Speakers
4.45 Close of Conference

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