NATIONAL COMMISSIONING & CONTRACTING CONFERENCE 12TH / 13TH JULY 2010
“Getting more for Less- Commissioning Strategic Pathways for 2011”
WORKSHOP 1
2.35 p.m. Monday 12th July
WORKSHOP 2
10.35 a.m. Tuesday 13th July
WORKSHOP 3
1.00 p.m. Tuesday 13th July
1. “Forestalling the End-game:
Commissioning for Service Resilience in the
face of economic dislocation and financial
restraint
1. Council adopts EasyJet model of care
1. Preparing the Commissioners for
Personal Budgets
To get the most from this session, attendees should
have in their minds eye a provider or service that
could be near or in trouble and likely to go under!
As always Ray offers great value in his
sessions.
Speaker: Ray Puffitt INLOGOV
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2. Working with Providers When Money is
Tight
How constructive dialogue has helped ease
financial pressures in residential care
Speaker Anita Astle and Diane Clayton
Nottinghamshire CC and Nottingham Care
Assoc
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3. How to Specify Real Outcomes in Social
Care
Identifying real measurable outcomes? A real
challenge and a real chance to avoid re-inventing
this wheel
Speaker: Alex Crawford Torfaen BC
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Is it about no frills care, and booking on line or is
there more to Easy Council? Find out what
Barnet are doing beyond the media headlines
The skills needed for staff and providers to
deliver personalisation will require change.
Do your contracts reflect what is needed?
Speaker: Jim Thomas Skills for Care
Speaker: Kate Kennally Deputy Director
LB of Barnet
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2. Legal Issues
A chance to ask that burning commissioning or
contracting legal question. So if you plan to
attend this session please email your questions
to me paul.syrett@blueyonder by 20th June
Speaker: Belinda Schwehr
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2. Care Fund Calculator
Speaker: Linda Brown South East
Improvement and Efficiency
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2. Working Together for Change
within Person Centred Reviews
Speaker: Gloucestershire CC and
Helen Sanderson Assocs
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3. Knowledge Discovery within the
Local Health / Social Marketplace
In order to meet the requirements of World
Class Commissioning and CAA Liverpool
Primary Care Trust and Liverpool City
Council are developing an integrated
approach to Health and Social Market
Analysis
Speaker: Neil Lynch Liverpool PCT
and Liverpool City Council
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WORKSHOP 1
2.35 p.m. Monday 12th July
WORKSHOP 2
10.35 a.m. Tuesday 13th July
WORKSHOP 3
1.00 p.m. Tuesday 13th July
4. Transparent Tender Evaluation
4.
“Wrexham Competitive Dialogue Pilot:
Some learning points "
It is all too easy to trip up when evaluating tenders
and either end up in litigation or having to re-tender.
Learn what you can and can’t do here
Members of a multi-agency project will share
outcomes from conducting a Competitive
Dialogue process to commission Advocacy
services,
Speaker: Tony Bailey Leeds City Council
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Speaker: Karen Williams (Value Wales) &
John Daniels Wrexham
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5. Working together on Monitoring Care
Homes
4. Micro Commissioning and Putting
People First in Wokingham
How a unitary has synergistically used
£15000 to support 11 organisations
deliver care
Speakers: James Burgess and Lindy
Jones Wokingham BC
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5. Funnel vision
Using the Gloucestershire Capacity Planning funnel
to map the return on your investments in the
Transformed Social Care Market. An interactive
workshop where delegates will be invited to share
their views and ideas.
Speaker: Louise Flaherty and Steve Tupp
Gloucestershire CC
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A group of London Boroughs are working
collaboratively to develop a common and shared
approach to the monitoring of Care Homes
.
Speaker: Brian Demby LB of Redbridge
and Ian Roberts LB of Barking and
Dagenham
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6. Safeguarding in Care Homes
6. Getting to Grips with Social Care
Procurement
Learning from a multi agency Police Investigation
and the impact of Escalating Concerns and Home
Closure guidance
Using the Social Care and Housing Related
Support Procurement Route Planner. This free
web-based tool provides a structured, step-bystep guide to social care procurement
Speaker: Dave Street Caerphilly CBC
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Speaker: Sue Lloyd-Selby Value Wales &
Kath Webb Caerphilly CBC
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7. Joined Up Services? Cost Savings and
Independent Living
7. Whose Shoes?
An Interactive game created to support Putting
People First, which is not for the faint-hearted or
those who thrive on a spin-its for those who
want to move towards real and lasting solutions
Speaker: Gill Philips Nutshell Philippa Codd
Careforce
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Speaker: Sue Hailstone Aspire Housing
and Philippa Codd Careforce
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5. Outcomes for Dementia
How Lancashire works with people with
dementia and their carers to create a set of
measurable outcomes that ensure the
delivery of the National Dementia Strategy
is rooted in meeting the expectations and
aspirations of local people. Many of the
outcomes are simple things that cost little
but greatly improve quality of life supporting
people to 'Live well with Dementia'.
Speaker: Sam Leonard
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6. Commissioning for Dignity
Promoting Dignity in Care is a major
aspiration for the Department of Health and
Association of Directors of Adult Social
Services and is consistently identified as a
priority by older people themselves
Speaker: Mark Ward
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7.Externalisation of Services
Need to save money, but not lose total
control over your in-house services. Essex
have come up with an innovative and
effective solution that keeps stakeholders
on board.
Speaker: Essex
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WORKSHOP 1
2.35 p.m. Monday 12th July
8. The good, the bad and ugly about
regional Collaboration
The West London Alliance is a well formed sub
region with proven results. Now adult social care is
getting in on the act. A new efficiencies unit. Two
frameworks and 9 workstreams. We will give you a
warts and all view on pros and cons of collaboration
and lessons learned.
Speakers: Matt Jones LB of H and F, Tony
Caplin LB of Hillingdon
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9. Cost Efficiency Savings Through
Optimisation
How to make real efficiency gains while protecting
quality by optimising home care schedules
Speaker Tony Williams Ceredigion CC and
CM2000
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WORKSHOP 2
10.35 a.m. Tuesday 13th July
8. Integrated Commissioning &
Procurement within a Mixed Market
Economy
WORKSHOP 3
1.00 p.m. Tuesday 13th July
8. Partners in Change
Developing the provider market in
Cambridgeshire through joined up
working
Liverpool City council and the PCT joined
together to provide Community Services for
vulnerable people
Speaker: Mark Briggs & Tracy
Canham Cambridgeshire CC
Speaker: Dyane Aspinall Liverpool City
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9. The Financial Management of
Homecare Delivery
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How councils have a made administrative
efficiency savings, improved financial
Management reporting and automate the
Provider Invoicing, Service User Billing and Care
Worker payroll processes
Speaker: TBC
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