Event: Pharmacy services in the wider system

Thursday 8 October 2015, London

"This workshop will provide an overview of pharmaceutical services, in particular the contractual frameworks including enhanced and locally commissioned services. It is an introductory session and is aimed at NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and local authority public health teams seeking an understanding of the wider contractual and commissioning framework, especially those new to pharmacy or those that would like a refresher."

Find out more here.

Event: Developing outcomes-based indicators

Wednesday 29 July 2015, London

"This event, for commissioners who already get the point of outcomes based commissioning, explains the next steps: how to develop indicators to measure services against the goals set for them."

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Event: Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015

2-3 September 2015, Manchester

"At Innovation Expo attendees can:

• Be immersed in the latest thinking in health and care and hear from leading experts in transformation, innovation and health policy
• Take effective innovative ideas back to their organisations and communities
• Develop the tools they need to make changes to the commissioning and provision of services to provide the highest quality care and better outcomes for patients
• Discover the latest technological innovations and how these are improving health and wellbeing
• Experience and learn how to support NHS renewal and improvement
• Explore how new approaches to patient participation are transforming commissioning
• Learn more about integrated approaches to health and care
• Build meaningful connections and grow their network"

Find out more here.

Event: Health Commissioning 2015: Efficient and Effective

12 March 2015, Mermaid Centre, London

"Health Commissioning 2015: Efficient and Effective will be an essential opportunity for commissioning and procurement professionals from across the health landscape to come together and discuss how they can achieve these mandatory savings targets. Regardless of the results of May’s general election, it extremely unlikely that austerity will come to an abrupt end. Our event will provide commissioners with the tools to plan for the future and get better value for better care outcomes."

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Event: Facilitation skills, level one

Wednesday 8 October 2014, London

"Facilitation skills have a positive impact on meetings, negotiations and relationships, which are essential for better commissioning and performance management. Confident, capable facilitators are an asset to any organisation.

PCC offers two levels of facilitation training, level one and level two.

This introductory workshop introduces the concept of facilitation, explores the differences between facilitation, training and chairing, and allows delegates to practise some of the key techniques at the facilitator's disposal."

Find out more here.

Event: Better outcomes, better value: Integrating physical and mental health into clinical practice and commissioning

Tuesday 24 June 2014, London

This free event presents the current evidence for integrated services, including examples of best practice and the potential cost saving advantages of this model of care.

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Event: Cooperation, collaboration and competition in the NHS

Wednesday 9 July 2014, London

"This workshop looks at the rules governing competition and choice and where they impact on the ability to commission more integrated services. Specifically it considers what the 2013 procurement, choice and competition regulations mean for commissioners."

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Event: NHS Commissioning Integrated Care

19th June, 2pm - More London Riverside, Tooley St, London SE1 2DB.

The Strategic Projects Team is running a free event with Warwick Business School on commissioning integrated care. There is no charge for attendance to NHS organisations, but registration is on a first come first served basis (initially one place per organisation)

Find out more here.

Event: Commissioning Show 2014

25th-26th June 2014 - Excel, London, UK

"Over 300 speakers will deliver, legislation and policy updates, live debates, case studies and keynote sessions that will give delegates everything from organisational development and governance advice, new approaches to commissioning patients with multiple long-term conditions and everything in-between."

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for public sector and senior care provider professionals.

Find out more here.

Event: Diagnostic services - Atlas of Variation: how to reduce unwarranted variation in diagnostic services

27th November 2013 - Noon to 3.30pm - Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrae, London SW1Y 5DG, UK

A workshop is being held, for diagnostics professionals and clinicians to examine what the professions are doing and could do to tackle unwarranted variation in Diagnostic Services. Keynote speakers will include the Chief Scientific Officer and National Clinical Directors for Diagnostics and imaging and followed by discussions. This event will be of interest to service providers, commissioners and clinicians.

Find out more here.

Event: Transforming services for improved outcomes

16th July 2013 - London, England

Bob Ricketts, director of commissioning support, strategy and market development for NHS England will outline the vision for service transformation. Speakers and case studies will provide insight as to how to commission services to deliver genuine transformation, and how providers can drive forward this agenda.

Find out more here.

Event: Understanding the fundamentals of the NHS standard contract

23rd April 2013 - London, UK
26th April 2013 - Leeds, UK


The four-hour session will cover:

• How the NHS standard contract is designed to be used
• The main contract provisions
• Common mistakes and pitfalls and how to avoid them
• How to get QIPP into the contract

Find out more here.

Call for abstracts: Health Services Research Network Symposium

Deadline 22nd March 2013

The organisers are keen to receive abstracts on the following themes:

• Patient experience
• Workforce
• Leadership and organisations
• Methods research
• Commissioning
• Access and equity of services
• Keeping people out of hospital
• Self-care and self management
• Quality and safety
• Productivity
• Innovation and knowledge translation
• Improvement Science

More information about abstract submission available here.

Event: Health Services Research Network Symposium

17th-18th June 2013 - EMCC, Nottingham, UK

"The Health Services Research Network Symposium, now in its sixth year, is the field’s premier knowledge event. It features presentations and discussion at the leading edge of UK and international health services research. The Symposium will bring together services leaders, services users and carers, researchers, practitioners, senior managers and policy makers."

Find out more here.

Event: How to deliver quality and value in chronic care

21st February 2013 - Guoman Tower Hotel, London, UK

This one day event will give you an opportunity to learn from others on how they have improved respiratory services locally, and will be of use whether you are working in respiratory disease or in long term conditions management more generally.

Read more information here.

Event: The limits of market-based reforms and the future of commissioning

1st-2nd October 2012 - Health Services Management Centre, Park House, University of Birmingham, England

The Health Services Management Centre and the Nuffield Trust are jointly holding two seminars on the limits of market-based reforms and commissioning in health and social care. Find out more here.

Event: Better commissioning through effective procurement

29th November 2012 - Victory Services Club, London, England

This event for commissioning staff directly involved in or responsible for procurement will help them understand how to develop and manage the market, and take the most appropriate procurement routes.

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Event: Improving population health through primary care

27th November 2012 - Holiday Inn Kings Cross, London, UK

This event will discuss effective collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups and local authorities, looking at what is working well, what are the barriers, and how they can be overcome.

Find out more here.

The Pathology Services Commissioning Toolkit

19th September 2012 - Holiday Inn Oxford Circus, London, UK

Click here to find out more and book a place on this event.

"The toolkit is a "how to" manual supporting the commissioning of community pathology services, produced by the Department of Health working with NHS Midlands and East. It will enable to ensure local negotiations or competitive tenders are based on a robust process, and aligned with developments elsewhere in the system.  This event outlines the challenges and opportunities, and presents the Pathology Services Commissioning Toolkit."

Supporting the commissioning workforce through transition

5th July 2012 - The Met, Leeds

More information available here.

The event will help you to understand how to align your needs to those of potential future employers, whether you aspire to a role in a CGG, commissioning support organisation, the NHS Commissioning Board, a local authority or elsewhere.

The presentations will also include information from legal experts around employment law and TUPE with coaches on hand to give individual information regarding career planning and provide information for future development.