How to start? Identifying the benefits of MSC for POCT

•    What is the business case? Cost benefit analysis
•    What do you want? Ensuring your contract reflects your POCT service needs
•    MSC for POCT: overall process and possibilities

Focusing on the risk transfer: how to form the partnership

•    Why keep POCT out of pathology MSCs? Delivering in a separate way
•    How to deliver the community elements of POCT in a tender
•    Jumping on the VAT bandwagon? Why it should be an added benefit

Practical exercise: building the benefits into the risk transfer
Deciding on the key performance indicators to build into the manage service contract

Working within the procurement framework

•    Choosing the right route: scope and resources available
•    Planning and feasibility: identifying your objectives
•    From tender to pre-qualification, evaluation to award

Enabling full Legal support for your POCT MSC

•    Taking a unique approach to doing a Total Managed Service Contract
•    Working with your accountants and solicitors: bringing the POCT vision to life
•    From formulation to set up: building in flexibility to your MSC

Building financial planning into the process

•    Implementation advice: focusing on the pitfalls and difficulties
•    Putting your contract together: setting up the right service for you
•    How to formulate and run your POCT MSC

Types of MSC available: different models assessed

•    How POCT can be included in a global Pathology MSC contract
•    From lab services to POCT:  what are the MSC differences?
•    Identifying connectivity needs:  keeping control of your managed service

Event Timing: Registration 9.30am - Start 10.00am - Close 4.30pm