Delivering care closer to home for people living with long term conditions

Chair: Jane Scott, Department of Health

9.30am

Keynote address – Exhibition village: Taking control of multiple conditions to live life

My journey. The challenge of having a label. The consequences to my life, family and carers. How self management saved my life. Living life: how I changed my mind set. How health and social care can really make a difference in adding years to life and life to years.

Phil Cummings – Nottingham

10.00am - Session 5a

Panel discussion: How to become a provider of LTC services closer to home

The opportunities for health and social care professionals. Identifying LTC services which can be redesigned and delivered in the community. Considering what LTC patients really want and how to provide personalised care. How to become a provider of LTC services closer to home. Meeting the needs and working with commissioners. Practical guidance and the steps to follow.

Dr Rory McCrea – Chair, ChilversMcCrea

Tricia McGregor – Joint Managing Director, Central Surrey Health

Lance Gardner M.B.E. – Associate Director, North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus

10.30am - Session 5a continued

Case study: Overcoming the challenges of developing a community epilepsy service

How we have created services for epilepsy in the community. Evaluating resources and addressing gaps. Working with secondary care and other professionals as partners: breaking down the barriers. Future plans for development.

Dr Greg Rogers – Lead GPwSI, Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT

Pamela Akhurst – Commissioning Lead, Physical Disability and Long Term Conditions Integrated Commissioning, Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT

Dr Steve Pollock – East Kent Neurosciences Lead Clinician, East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust

11.00am

Coffee and Exhibition

11.30am - Session 5b

Primary Care present and future for MLTC

The Darzi review. Developing an integrated infrastructure in primary care to deliver care closer to home for LTCs. Facilities and supportive mechanisms. Examples and options. Carers and their impact on care at home. Are polyclinics the answer to LTCs in the community?

Dr David Colin-Thomé – National Director for Primary Care, Commissioning & System Management Directorate, Department of Health

12.00pm - Session 5b continued

Unbundling the tariff to develop integrated care closer to home

Examples, implications and possibilities. Negotiating locally to unbundle the tariff. Unbundling the tariff to decommissioning elements of pathways.

Eileen Robertson – Economic Advisor, Department of Health (TBC)

12.30pm

Keynote address – Exhibition village

Mark Britnell – Director General Commissioning and System Management, Department of Health

12.50pm

Lunch and Exhibition

1.40pm - Session 5c

Case study: Integrated community care for people living with LTCs

An overview of Cornwall’s LTC strategy. How we developed a responsive, integrated, whole system approach to deliver community health and social care services. Real examples of effectively delivering care closer to home. Cornwall’s community matron team’s contribution and outcomes. Measuring our success: The latest results from the community matron activity.

Carol Williams – Director of Service Improvement & Professional Practice/Executive Nurse

Helen Lyndon – Lead Community Matron, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust

2.10pm - Session 5c continued

Virtual ward 2 years on

From theory to implementation – highlights and pitfalls. Where we are now – an honest appraisal of the current service. The conundrum of evaluation – aspirations and reality. Expanding the whole system approach and dealing with the system impacts. The potential for commissioning – matching "world class commissioning" with "world class provision".

Maggie Ioannou – Director of Community Health Services, Croydon PCT

2.40pm

Tea and Exhibition

3.10pm - Session 5d

Re-designing community based diabetes services. A case study of practice based service provision in Fleetwood, Lancashire

Can commissioning re-designed diabetes services reduce hospital admissions? Who is the target population? Who provides the services and what is the skill mix. What is the best contract, LES, PMS, APMS etc?

Dr Mark Spencer – PEC GP Representative, Fleetwood Surgery

3.40pm - Session 5d continued

Case study: Partnerships for older people pilot. (POPP) - Township Older Peoples Partnership (TOPP)

Kathy Shaw - Project Manager POPP, Rochdale Metropolitan Council

Rowena Vickridge - RMBC