Challenges for doctors in the digital world
Tuesday 24 May 2005
BMA House, London
What is the conference about?
The planned shared care record has been a topical issue in recent months, and whether you think it is an opportunity or a challenge, it is something that is likely to have a significant impact on your daily working life and on your patients’ care.
This important conference hosted by the British Medical Association and supported by the Care Record Development Board (CRDB) aims to bring together doctors from all fields to clarify the facts from the fiction of the current plans, and to explore how best to maximise the benefits to patients and to doctors.
There will be opportunities to ask direct questions of the BMA and National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) representatives during the panel sessions and to participate in your choice of focused workshop with fellow doctors from across the medical field.
During the breaks you will be able to gain hands-on experience of different parts of the NPfIT systems with live demonstrations including: Choose and Book, Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP), Map of Medicine, GP to GP Transfer and Health Space.
Who is attending?
This event is open to all doctors from primary and secondary health sectors with an interest in exploring the future of patient care in a shared record environment.
Where does the conference take place?
The conference will take place at BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP.
If you have any other questions please contact BMA conferences on 020 7383 6605 or email us confunit@bma.org.uk.
Workshop sessions:
The expert patient
The government’s agenda for greater patient choice and the informed patient will mean greater access to information for those being treated in the NHS. This workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities posed by this and how clinicians should respond.
Clinical safety
Patient safety is one of the key strands for the National Programme. This workshop will look at how the need for patient safety is being handled in the electronic environment and what areas need to be addressed.
Use of data for health service research
Access to more data and information of higher quality, as promised by the National Programme, will allow more and better research in health. This workshop will look at the challenges and opportunities this access will pose.
NHS Care Record guarantee
The NHS Care Record has implications for both confidentiality and security of patient data. This workshop will look at the work being carried out by the CRDB to address these issues.
Confidentiality: the BMA perspective
The new electronic era, as demonstrated by the National Programme for IT, has major implications for confidentiality of patient data. This workshop will look at the BMA’s new approach to the subject.
Challenges for the medical workforce in a digital environment
The new digital environment has implications for both staff development and education in the medical arena. This workshop will address the issues arising out of this new challenge.
Please note your workshop choice on the booking form and return as soon as possible, and not later than Friday 20 May 2005.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD credits applied for
Programme
09.30 – 10.00 hrs Registration, coffee and systems demonstrations
Chair: Dr John Powell, Chair, Health Information Management Committee, British Medical Association, London
10.00 – 10.20hrs Opening Remarks: The British Medical Association, Information and Medical Practice
Dr John Powell
10.20 –10.40 hrs National Programme for Information Technology in the NHS (NPfIT): Where is the money going? Fact and Fiction
Mr Ian Cowles, Group Director of Implementation, NPfIT
10.40 – 11.00 hrs NPfIT: Not another upgrade!
Dr Gillian Braunold, National Clinical Lead for General Practice with NPfIT and member of Health Information Management Committee, British Medical Association, London
and Mr Simon Eccles, National Clinical Lead for Hospital Doctors with NPfIT and Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, British Medical Association, London
11.00 – 11.20 hrs NHS Care Record Guarantee
Professor Sir Cyril Chantler, Deputy Chair of the Care Record Development Board (CRDB); Chair, the King's Fund, London
11.20 – 11.50 hrs Refreshments and systems demonstrations:
Choose and Book
Electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP)
Map of Medicine
Healthspace
GP to GP Transfer
11.50 – 13.00 hrs Q and A Panel
Dr John Powell (Chair)
Dr Gillian Braunold
Mr Simon Eccles
Dr Richard Fitton, Member of CRDB and GP in Glossop
Mr Ian Cowles
13.00 – 14.00 hrs Lunch and systems demonstrations
Chair: Mr Harry Cayton, Chair of the CRDB and National Director for Patients and the Public, London
14.00 – 14.20 hrs The CRDB and external relationships
Mr Harry Cayton
14.20 – 15.20 hrs Workshops: What are the emerging issues?
1 The expert patient
Mr Ian Kramer, Member of CRDB and Patient Affiliate for the NHS Modernisation Agency's Clinical Governance Support Team
2 Clinical safety
Dr Maureen Baker, Honorary Secretary, Royal College of General Practitioners, London
3 Use of data for health service research
Dr Jackie Cassell, Honorary Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
4 NHS Care Record guarantee
Professor Sir Cyril Chantler
Professor Joan Higgins, Chair of the CRDB Ethics Advisory Group, Professor Emerita of Health Policy, University of Manchester
5 Confidentiality: the BMA perspective
Ms Rebecca Mussell, Senior Ethics Adviser, British Medical Association, London
6 Challenges for the medical workforce in a digital environment
Mr Mark Outhwaite, Improvement Director (Technologies in Health), Modernisation Agency, London
15.20 – 15.40 hrs Refreshments and systems demonstrations
15.40 – 16.30 hrs Q and A Panel
Dr Michael Wilks (Chair), Chair of the Ethics Committee, British Medical Association, London
Mr Ian Kramer
Dr Jackie Cassell
Professor Sir Cyril Chantler
Professor Joan Higgins
Mr Mark Outhwaite
16.30 – 17:00 hrs The Common User Interface
Dr Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, NPfIT
17.00 hrs Close
Conference booking terms and conditions
All bookings are subject to the terms and conditions set out below.
1.Submission of your booking is an offer which will be acknowledged in writing by the Conference Unit. Acceptance of the booking will only take place if so agreed by the Conference Unit and not until receipt of cleared funds (if applicable) for the conference, and when specified in writing by the Conference Unit.
2.It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the Conference Unit to alter the content and timing of the conference, the identity of the speaker, the date or the venue. In the unlikely event of the conference being cancelled, we will refund you the registration fee (except in circumstances as set out in clause 9 below), but we will not be liable to you for any other costs or losses, whether direct or indirect.
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- received up to 8 weeks before date of conference0%
- received up to 3 weeks before date of conference20%
- received up to 1 week before date of conference50%
- received less than 1 week before date of conference100%
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