Australian HealthcareSummit 2011
23rd & 24th March, Grace Hotel, Sydney
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Patient Centric Healthcare
Graeme HeadDeputy Secretary Dpt. of Health
and Ageing & CEONHHN Transition Office
REFORMFUNDING
MANAGEMENTCOLLABORATION
INNOVATION
Steve IronsMP, Deputy Chair
Standing Committee forHealth and Ageing
Peter FlemingChief Executive Officer
National E-Health Transition Authority
Tony SherbonChief Executive
SA Department of Health
Terry CloutChief Executive
South Eastern SydneyArea Health Service
Kevin SneeChief Executive
Hawke’s Bay DistrictHealth Board, NZ
David Russell-WeiszChief Executive
North Metropolitan AreaHealth Service, WA
Christopher RexManaging Director
Ramsay Health Care Limited
Saxon SmithChairman
Australian MedicalAssociation (NSW)
Mark FitzgibbonChief Executive Officer
NIB Health Funds
Danielle StowasserClinical Advisor
National Prescribing Service
Steven BoyagesChief Executive
Clinical Education andTraining Institute (NSW)
Julie Hartley-Jones CBEChief Executive OfficerCairns Health Service
District, QLD
Participating Organisations
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EARLY BIRDS REGISTERNOW FOR $895 + GST
With growing demands and reformunderway, healthcare is very much oneveryone’s agenda!
With the theme of patient centric healthcare,this two day event features an industryconference on government policy; public /private collaboration; new initiatives and bestpractice for improved delivery of health careand positive outcomes. Presentations focus on the key issues for reform; funding;development; management; and productiveuse of Australia’s healthcare resources.Speakers represent all sectors of thehealthcare industry. It is a meeting of mindsat the highest level!
Clearly a strong healthcare system is integralto improving the health of the population andtackling social inequalities in health. This eventbrings together all of the stakeholders inAustralia’s healthcare sector to discuss keyissues facing the industry and the impact it will have on stakeholders and the community.
Australian Healthcare Summit 2011 is a greatopportunity to raise your organisation’s profileand promote your products and services toAustralia’s healthcare industry. By sponsoringor exhibiting at this event you will have theopportunity to:
• Generate new sales leads
• Raise your profile in the healthcare industry
• Gain direct access to new and existingcustomers
• Have an unrivalled opportunity to network and do business
If you participate in one healthcare event in2011, then this is it!
For further information and to discuss yourparticipation contact Ian Devlin on:Phone: 02 9008 1102Email: [email protected] online at:www.abcevents.net.au//aushealth
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SPEAKERS AT A GLANCE:
Graeme HeadDeputy Secretary
Dpt. of Healthand Ageing & CEONHHN Transition
Office
Steve IronsMP, Deputy Chair
StandingCommittee for
Health and Ageing
Peter FlemingChief Executive Officer
NationalE-Health Transition
Authority
Tony SherbonChief ExecutiveSA Department
of Health
Terry CloutChief ExecutiveSouth Eastern
SydneyArea Health
Service
Kevin SneeChief ExecutiveHawke’s Bay
DistrictHealth Board, NZ
David Russell-Weisz
Chief ExecutiveNorth Metropolitan
Area HealthService, WA
Julie Hartley-Jones CBE
Chief Executive OfficerCairns Health
ServiceDistrict, QLD
Christopher RexManaging DirectorRamsay HealthCare Limited
Saxon SmithChairman
Australian MedicalAssociation (NSW)
Mark FitzgibbonChief Executive
OfficerNIB Health Funds
DanielleStowasser
Clinical AdvisorNational
Prescribing Service
Steven BoyagesChief Executive
Clinical Educationand Training
Institute (NSW)
Andrew CashinProfessor
of NursingSouthern Cross
University
Hal SwerissenDean
Faculty of HealthSciences, Latrobe
University
Warwick PlunkettPresident
PharmaceuticalSociety
AustralianHealthcare
Summit 2011Anne TrimmerChief Executive OfficerMedical Technology
Association ofAustralia
REGISTER ONLINE www.abcevents.net.au/aushealth
DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY 23RD MARCH8.30 Arrival tea & coffee and documentation collection
9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair:
9.10 Understanding the health reform implementationprocess • How the department will be working with all
stakeholders to implement reform • Strategies for introducing National
Health and Hospitals Networks • What will the implementation process
mean for the healthcare sector? • How this will create greater efficiency
and productivity in healthcare provision • What are the challenges facing implementation and
how they can be overcomeGraeme Head, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing & CEONational Health and Hospitals Network Transition Office
9.50 Government Keynote: Ensuring 21st centuryhealthcare for Australians• Overview of current and proposed policy• Assessment and response to the recent
reforms• Understanding and addressing
weakness in the current system• Strategies to encourage greater
cooperation between LHN’s• Strategies for encouraging and supporting greater
private / public collaboration• How to increase productivity and
services in the health sector• Ensuring improved primary care cooperation at GP level• Increasing the number of medical training places• Strategies for removing social inequalities in health care• Importance of retaining public ownership of hospitalsSteve Irons, Deputy Chair, Standing Committee for Health and Ageing
10.20 Presentation TBA
10.50 Morning tea and exhibition viewing
11.20 Trends in International healthcare – the UK and NZexperience• Understanding the challenges and demands for
today’s healthcare sector• Strategies for monitoring and improving
performance• Working with other health sectors for
greater efficiency and productivity• Developing co-ordinated hospital
practices and services• Role of primary health organisations in a
modern healthcare system• What can be learnt from overseas practices such as
the UK and NZ?• Future challenges and opportunitiesKevin Snee, Chief Executive Officer, Hawke’s Bay DHB
11.50 The challenge to improve hospital performance• Is there a need to improve and why?• How to improve flow and eliminate
waits and delays• Is it more money or better management?• Benefits in terms of patients’ experience;
organisation morale and cost• Future challenges and opportunitiesTony Sherbon, Chief Executive, South Australian Department of Health
12.20 Presentation TBA
12.50 Lunch and exhibition viewing
1.50 Quality use of medicines• Impact of the recent Fifth Community
Pharmacy Agreement• Connecting with consumers to promote
medicines literacy• Challenges in funding high cost medicines• Should complementary medicines be
regulated?• The benefits of electronic prescribing and dispensing• Future challenges and opportunitiesDanielle Stowasser, Clinical Advisor, National Prescribing Service
2.20 Strategies for improving medicine use• Understanding current challenges in medicine
dispensation• The need for greater communication
and collaboration between Pharmacistsand GP’s
• Use of IT in dispensation and pharmacymanagement
• Identifying other areas for change andimprovement
• How this will create a positive change in primaryhealthcare and improve patient outcomes
Warwick Plunkett, President, Pharmaceutical Society
2.50 Opportunities and challenges facing doctors under the new health reforms:funding, training and a vision for thefutureDr Saxon Smith, Chairman, Australian Medical Association (NSW)
3.20 Afternoon tea and exhibition viewing
DOCTORS AND HEALTH REFORM
PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICINES
IMPROVING HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
IF YOU ATTEND ONE HEALTHCARE EVENT IN 2011, THEN THIS IS IT!
3.50 Encouraging doctors and nurses to remain in NSW hospitals and primary healthcare• Impact of the governments reforms on health
professionals• Impact on the health care system• Understanding the issues with current
working conditions• How can doctors be motivated to return
to the Australian health care sector• How can Australia compete with overseas
opportunities?• Is there a need to secure practitioners from overseas?• Are more undergraduate places the answer?Steven Boyages, Chief Executive, Clinical Education and Training Institute
4.20 Role of Nurse Practitioners in clinical and primaryhealthcare• Why Nurse Practitioners play a key role in healthcare
provision• How MBS and PBS registration has
opened new possibilities in serviceprovision
• What are the benefits to patients• Assessing the benefits of Nurse
Practitioner clinics• Key healthcare improvements in public hospitals• Future challenges and opportunitiesAndrew Cashin, Professor of Nursing, Southern Cross University
4.50 Strategies for addressing the critical shortage ofhealthcare personnel• Motivating doctors to return to the Australian health
care sector• Balancing undergraduate places with internship
positions• How to encourage nurses to return to primary healthcare• Strategies for encouraging public\private partnerships
in trainingDr Saxon Smith, Chairman, Australian Medical Association (NSW)Steven Boyages, Chief Executive, Clinical Education and Training InstituteAndrew Cashin, Professor of Nursing, Southern Cross UniversityRoss Roberts-Thompson, President, Australian Medical Students Association
5.20 Closing remarks from the Chair
5.30 Close of day one followed by networking drinksreceptionRelax and unwind after a day of informativepresentations and take this opportunity to networkwhile enjoying a drink.
DAY TWO: THURSDAY 24TH MARCH8.30 Arrival tea and coffee
9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair
9.10 Implementing E-Health across Australia• What is E-Health?• Effect of recent health care reforms• Benefits to the patient• Impact on rural and remote areas• How to promote E-Health adoption• Outcomes on Government Spending• Future challenges and opportunitiesPeter Fleming, Chief Executive Office, National E-Health Transition Authority
9.40 Assessing Health Technology• How to evaluate high cost, high value medical
technology• Creating a framework that cuts red tape
during assessments• How new technologies produce better
patient outcomes• Strategies for introducing new
technologies to clinicians• Future challenges and opportunitiesAnne Trimmer, Chief Executive Officer,Medical Technology Association of Australia
10.10 Innovation in healthcare to meet growing demandand reform agendas• Assessing current and future demands and how this
can be met• Implications of the COAG agreement
for the private healthcare sector• What reforms of the healthcare sector
are most required• Strategies for meeting the rising cost of
healthcare provision• What are the funding options and incentives for greater
private sector provision of healthcare• Future challenges for healthcare in AustraliaChristopher Rex, Managing Director, Ramsay Health Care Limited
10.40 Morning tea & coffee break and exhibition viewing
11.10 Innovative funding models and private healthcareincentives• Are current models sustainable long term?• Assessing other funding options and
models• What can be done to further incentivise
greater take up of private healthcare• Understanding the benefits• What can be learnt from overseas
funding of healthcare services• Future challenges and opportunitiesMark Fitzgibbon Chief Executive Officer, NIB Health Funds
INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE AND FUNDING
HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
E HEALTH
PANEL SESSION
ROLE OF NURSING PRACTITIONERS
RECRUTIMENT AND RETENTION OF KEY MEDICAL STAFF
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11.50 Role of Public Private Partnerships in the Australianhealthcare environment - Future or no future?• What works and what doesn’t and why? • Alternative sources of funding and the
benefits to the provision of care • How are different models being
deployed throughout Australia? • The WA experience in PPP in healthcare
– What are the benefits, risks, strategies for success?
– Do they really provide additional efficiency at a lower cost?
– Politics - does it assist or hinder? • Assessing the European experience and relevance
to Australia• The Future of PPP in healthcare - a role to play or not?Dr Russell-Weisz, Chief Executive, North Metropolitan Area Health Service, WA
12.20 Strategies for greater public/private collaboration inhealthcare for improved outcomes• How can the public and private sectors further
integrate for greater productivity and efficiency?• How can the public sector make greater use of private
healthcare facilities?• Understanding the benefits of making the best of both
public and private sector strengths• Is there room for more players from the private sector
in healthcare?Christopher Rex, Managing Director, Ramsay Health Care LimitedMark Fitzgibbon Chief Executive Officer, NIB Health FundsDr Russell-Weisz, Chief Executive, North Metropolitan Area Health Service, WAProfessor Hal Swerissen, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences
12.50 Lunch and exhibition viewing
1.50 Managing healthcare provision at a large healthcareprovider• Overview of the challenges of modern
healthcare provision• Understanding the communities
requirements• How to meet growing demands• Contingency plans for meeting
unexpected epidemics and viral outbreaks• Working with Wollongong University on health initiatives• Future challenges and opportunities in healthcare
provisionTerry Clout Chief Executive, South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service
2.20 Assessing the benefits and impacts of healthcarereform from a regional perspective• What the reforms mean from a regional perspective• Can the proposals improve spending quality and
services to patients?• Implications of rationalisation and
reorganisation of the public healthcaresector
• Understanding the implications forhealthcare
• Strategies for improving standards forindigenous health
• Challenges facing healthcare provision for remotecommunities
• Is there an opportunity for further public / privatecooperation and where?
• Future challenges and opportunitiesJulie Hartley-Jones CBE, CEO, Cairns and Hinterland Health Service District
2.50 Developing primary health care strategy• Why primary health care reform should top the agenda• Key issues that need to be addressed in
developing a primary health care system• What role should GP’s play?• Update on current research trends in
cancer epidemiology• Understanding the benefits this will bringProfessor Hal Swerissen, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences
3.20 Q & A Panel Session: Key priorities in healthcare• Identifying the key priorities in modern healthcare
provision• How can you balance the competing needs and
demands?• Where is there room for change and improvement?• What can be learnt from overseas?• What are the immediate and future challenges that
need to be addressed?Speakers will be invited to join a question and answer session
3.50 Closing remarks from the chair
3.55 Close of conference
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