Nursing Information - Telecare And Telematics

In The Chair

• Dr Jean Faugier, Regional Nurse Officer, North West Region NHS Executive (introduced by Colin Dale, RCN Nurses in Executive Roles)

Information handling consumes 15% of hospital costs and approximately 25% of nurses and doctors time. Electronic exchange represents a major opportunity to significantly reduce costs, avoid wasted time and improve patient care. These presentations will aim to explain how to manage the exchange of information.

Speakers

• The formation of a management and technology strategy - its implications? - NHS Direct and update.
  Anne Casey, Editor, Paediatric Nursing Journal and Adviser, Royal College of Nursing, London

• Clinical supervision through the line
  Carol Marlow, Senior Lecturer, University College of St Martin - Live from Barrow in Furness

• Electronic records pilot site - the nurse analyst explains
  Kishore Dwivedi, Nurse Analyst, Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral NHS Trust

Developing Nursing Leadership In Commissioning

In The Chair

• Pat Cantrill, Assistant Chief Nurse, NHS Executive (introduced by Alan Cudworth, RCN Nurses in Commissioning)

The aims of this session are twofold; firstly to describe the input nurses are making in two models of commissioning:

1. Health authority client group model
2. Locality model via a NHS Pilot Site

Secondly, to describe the skill set which nurses need to acquire to develop their commissioning input in the new NHS.

Speakers

• Evolutionary process form locality purchasing to primary care groups facilitating the involvement of nurses
  Jean Gregory, Pilot Primary Care Group Manager, Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authority

• The skill set required
  Sue Antrobus, Senior Researcher, RCN Institute

• Commissioning children's services - the lead commissioner
  Vivenne Bennett, Quality Manager/Nurse Adviser, Birmingham Health Authority

The Theory/Practice Gap - Hairline Fracture Or Abyss?

In The Chair

• Tom Keighley, Director of International Development, School of Healthcare Studies, University of Leeds (introduced by Wendy Jehan, RCN Nurses in Operational Management/Fional Smith, Paediatric Nurse Managers)

Continuing professional development across the professions, integrating theory and practice in nursing has to be our goal. This session will inform the audience of the current situation.

Speakers

• Building blocks for bridging the theory/practice gap in paediatrics
  Judith Elllis, Principal Lecturer, Child Health, University of Central Lancashire, Lecturer/Practitioner

• Re-examining the gap
  Ros Moore, Nursing Officer, NHS Executive, Leeds

• Mind the gap - a service side perspective
  Karen Parsley, Director of Nursing, Brighton Healthcare NHS Trust

Taking The Initiative For Healthy Workplaces

In The Chair

Jan Maw, Education Officer Occupational Health, English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting (introduced by Cathy Harrison, RCN Occupational Health Nurse Managers)

The occupational health nurse's role is central to the positive promotion of health at work.

The well established links between all areas of healthcare provide a major opportunity for the positive improvement of the physical, social and psychological aspects of health of those in employment and in the community.

'A healthy population is a key factor in a prosperous and modern economy' (Our Healthier Nation - a Contact for Health, consultation document, February 1998)

This session will focus on mental health at work, exploring the links between good mental health and an efficient and effective workplace. It will examine the opportunity and the responsibility that this presents to influence the health and safety of the workplace, with the onus upon employers, the NHS in particular, to meet the contract for a healthier nation.

Speakers

• Healthy workplaces - are Trusts ensuring they are responsible?
  Lyn Cargill, Operational Manager, Occupational Health, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Trust

• Mental health in the workplace - launching an RCN leaflet
  Anne Henderson, Group Health Services Manager - Scottish and Newcastle

• Organisational approach to health and safety
  Lucy Mason, Occupational Health Manager, Robens Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Surrey

Specialist Palliative Care Across The Boundaries

In The Chair

• Jean Gaffin, OBE, Executive Director, National Council of Palliative Care and Hospices (introduced by Sarah Folland, RCN Nurses Managing Specialist Palliative Care Services)

This session focuses on the development of a collaborative approach to the provision of Specialist Palliative Care Services in South Devon working across statutory and voluntary sectors.

The integration of all services through a central referral system that may be accessed by professionals in all areas and by lay carers where necessary will be demonstrated. The presentation and discussion will illustrate the perceived benefits and advantages of voluntary providers working in partnership with the NHS.

The presentation will consider the dilemmas faced by service providers as the speciality extends its services to meet the requirements of broader diagnostic groups and of the Calman-Hine Report.

Speakers

• Specialist palliative care across the boundaries
  Sarah Folland, Macmillan Team Leader/Community Services Co-ordinator, Rowcroft Hospice and Christine Laing, Assistant Director of Community Services, South Devon Heatlhcare NHS Trust

• Specialist palliative care uses holistic dependency to manage staffing levels cost effectively - do you?
  Maggie Fisher, Director of Nursing, and Audrey Williams, Deputy Director of Nursing, St Catherine's Hospice

Partnership and Challenge In Independent Healthcare: Whose Responsibility

In The Chair

• tbc (introduced by Sue Sutton, RCN INFORM)

The aim of this session is to help people understand the provision of healthcare beyond the NHS. Flexible, customer centred provision - acute and long term - covering all aspects of healthcare will be included in this session. The changing skill mix of the sector will be a focal point of discussion

Speakers