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8.30
Registration and coffee
8.45
Networking session
9.00
Opening remarks from chair
UNDERSTANDING THE NEED FOR REFORM
9.05
KEYNOTE
Reforming Hospital Funding
John Dwyer, Founder, Australian Healthcare Reform Alliance
Reforming Hospital Funding
- Outlining policy objectives and understanding reform
- Moving towards increased federal responsibility
- The reformed structure for health and hospital funding
- The pressures of population and ageing on the hospital system
- A stronger commitment to primary health care and community health services
John Dwyer, Founder, Australian Healthcare Reform Alliance
9.45
Understanding the need for integrated and aged care
Klaus Boehncke, Consultant, Booz & Co.
- The ageing population challenge
- The importance of primary care
- The integrated care challenge (e-Health)
- Best practices & lessons learned
- The way ahead
Klaus Boehncke, Consultant, Booz & Co.
10.30
Morning tea and networking
11.00
Outlining the new health and hospitals structure
Jacinda De Witts, Partner, Minter Ellison Lawyers
- Overview of the reformed structure for health and hospital funding
- Who are the new players and regulators?
- What will this mean for management and governance?
- When and how will we get there?
- Outlining the new health and hospitals structure
Jacinda De Witts, Partner, Minter Ellison Lawyers
EMBRACING A MORE NATIONALISED SYSTEM
11.40
Hospital Networks and sustainable service delivery
Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
- Will the hospital network system adequately address the needs of all jurisdictions?
- How will differing populations as well as differences in population density be addressed through hospital networks?
- Is the system capable of delivering services in a more sustainable and efficient way?
Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
12.15
Advantages of the National Health and Hospitals Network Agreements (NHHNA) 2010: Building on Victoria’s success
Dr Kathryn Antioch, Principal Management Consultant, Health Economics and Funding Reforms; Deputy Chair, Guidelines and Economists Network International (GENI); Monash University
- What are key features of new hospital financing and governance?
- What are Victorian lessons in risk adjustment of Activity Based Funding and network level Evidence Based Medicine implementation?
- Why can local hospital networks nationally enable cost effective implementation of EBM locally and RA of ABF?
- What did the nation recommend for EBM implementation during AHHA sponsored presentations across Australia?
- What new recommendation for Australian Governments arose as a consequence of the December 2009 Hospital Performance Measurement Forum?
- What new State and National structures can enable EBM implementation and co-ordination across all health sectors, given the NHHNA and 2010 Federal budget?
Dr Kathryn Antioch, Principal Management Consultant, Health Economics and Funding Reforms; Deputy Chair, Guidelines and Economists Network International (GENI); Monash University
WORKFORCE PLANNING AND HEALTH EDUCATION
1.30
Lunch
2.30
The medical skills shortage and its affect on hospital service
- Current education and training procedures and their inadequate support for future needs
- The lack of flexibility and prevalence of maldistribution of skilled hospital personnel
- Understanding the skills shortage in each sector of hospital care and how this is likely to affect the future state of service delivery
- How feasible will the increases to training places be?
- Will this increase meet demand?
3.15
Nurse practitioners in the hospital and allied health environment
- Outlining the aim of reforms addressing recruitment and training deficiencies in the industry
- The wider implications of poor workforce management
4.00
Afternoon tea and networking
4.20
Creating a more informed community
Jennifer Dogget, Fellow, Centre for Policy Development
- Improving health literacy
- Encouraging better health practices in the wider community
- Educating the wider public about specific hospitals, their specialties, services and facilities to encourage a more appropriate rate of admission
Jennifer Dogget, Fellow, Centre for Policy Development
4.55
Closing remarks
5.00
Close
8.30
Coffee and networking
9.00
Opening remarks from chair
POPULATION HEALTH AND HOSPITAL DEMAND
9.05
Hospitals working together- can it be done?
Stephen Vaughan, Director, Grampians Integrated Cancer Service
Stephen Vaughan, Director, Grampians Integrated Cancer Service
9.45
Preventative care in primary health
Craig Bosworth, Director of Strategy, Healthways International
- Why preventative care in primary health needs a new model of care and a new model of funding for GPs to do their best
- Why we need to shift the focus from disease prevention to lifestyle promotion
- Gaining a better understanding of the health 'tsunami' coming through the system
Craig Bosworth, Director of Strategy, Healthways International
10.30
Morning tea and networking
11.00
Better understanding patient flow
Peter New, Fellow, Australian Faculty of Rehabilitative Medicine
- Why the ‘block’ concept has serious repercussion to acute health streams
- Restriction on access to rehabilitative services and barriers for discharge; implications for the wider hospital system
Peter New, Fellow, Australian Faculty of Rehabilitative Medicine
CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT
11.40
Mastering consumer diversity
Sasha Jovanovic, Thought Leader, Diverse Prophets
- Building a people centric health system
- Understanding consumer diversity in health and better engaging the consumer
- The Platinum Rule to effective health care delivery and health promotion
- Aspect of the reforms that effectively address the diversity of health consumers
Sasha Jovanovic, Thought Leader, Diverse Prophets
12.15
Hospital reform and the private sector
Brendan Earle, Partner, Freehills
- How will proposed reform affect the current dynamic between hospitals and the private sector?
- What are the trends and what can we expect from the industry in future?
Brendan Earle, Partner, Freehills
1.15
Lunch
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
2.15
Easing emergency room overload
Dr Sally McCarthy, President, Australian College of Emergency Medicine
Invitation extended
- What drives demand for emergency services?
- Factors contributing to the long waiting periods for emergency care
- Will reforms adequately address the issues surrounding emergency medicine?
Dr Sally McCarthy, President, Australian College of Emergency Medicine
Invitation extended
CONSISTENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM
3.00
PANEL DISCUSSION Creating an agile and self-improving hospital system for long-term sustainability
- Increasing federal involvement; how will this shift in accountability end the ‘blame game’?
- What existing factors are stifling the current system?
- Identifying the key to long term sustainability and the foreseeable challenges
- How will we get better health outcomes and better value for tax dollars?
3.45
Closing remarks from chair and afternoon tea
4.00
Conference close
The affiliation for Kathryn Antioch's presentation on Day 1 has now been amended and is correctly shown as: Dr Kathryn Antioch, Principal Management Consultant, Health Economics and Funding Reforms; Deputy Chair, Guidelines and Economists Network International (GENI); Monash University. She is not affiliated with COAG as previously shown.
