Health executives chart strategy shift
Posted on 22 October 2009
The Health Strategy Forum, which is also open to private sector health executives, is designed to develop smart, evidence-informed strategies to improve quality and productivity.
Health leaders need to worry less about politics and more about improving quality and productivity.
Greg Dyke
With current estimates suggesting that the NHS needs to make savings of £20 billion by 2014, a team of 20 world-leading health strategists will help the 25 delegates to adopt more analytical, evidence-informed methods to make increasingly effective use of resources.
They will use Dragons’ Den-style workshops to showcase key tools including patient reported outcome measures, service line costing, and NHS Evidence.
Key challenges include:
- Economic recession and consequent "hard choices"
- Shift from monopoly provision to more diverse service delivery
- Improving quality and health outcomes
- Using new data to underpin improvements in productivity and quality
The event at Middlethorpe Hall, York, on 20-22 June 2010, is directed by Dr Richard Cookson from the University’s Department of Social Policy and Social Work. The programme has been developed in collaboration with senior health staff from across the University, including the Centre for Health Economics, the Department of Health Sciences and York Management School.
The University of York was ranked first in the UK for health services research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. It has one of the largest concentrations of health policy scholars in the world, with more than 30 professors and 125 other researchers specialising in healthcare and public health policy.
Dr Richard Cookson said: “We aim to help senior NHS managers develop intelligent, evidence informed strategies that save money by raising quality and productivity, rather than falling back on crude across-the-board cuts in jobs and services.
“This will be crucial over the next few years, as senior NHS managers grapple with the consequences of a sustained spending squeeze.”
The speakers will include Greg Dyke, Chancellor of the University of York and Patron of the NHS National Leadership Council, who said: “Nowhere is better placed than the University of York to offer health leaders the confidence, the analytical frameworks, and the networks to address these new challenges.
“Health leaders need to worry less about politics and more about improving quality and productivity. The Health Strategy Forum will help to set the right strategic direction, with some of the most respected health care scholars in the world."
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Notes to editors:
- More information on the event is available at http://www.york.ac.uk/health-strategy-forum/
- More information on the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/spsw/
- More information on the Centre for Health Economics at http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/
- More information on the Department of Health Sciences at http://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/
- More information on The York Management School at http://www.york.ac.uk/management/
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