CSAS Annual Meeting for PCTs Nov 07, 2011
7th November 2011 (12.00 - 4.30 pm) at The Studio, Birmingham
Presentations now available for registered users here.
This meeting is free for all PCTs in England (including those working in PCT clusters, SCGs, commissioning support organisations and CCGs ). In particular it may be useful to those people who support or lead on local commissioning policy development, or considers requests for new service developments or Individual Funding Requests.
To register to attend this meeting please complete and return the registration form.
Introduction:
For the first 178 TAGs, PCTs consultees were invited by NICE to contribute to the guidance but only two were actively involved. CSAS was established in 2009 to reverse this trend and help commissioner engagement into the development of NICE technology appraisals - ensuring a vital voice was heard.
CSAS is the first working example of collaborative commissioning across all PCTs in England, allowing Consultee PCTs to be supported by a specialist service at a minimum cost. All PCTs now have a vehicle to help them inform national guidance, as well as access to evidence-based commissioning advice for local decision making.
The Objectives:
We will update and share with you what CSAS has achieved over the last year, discuss examples of real problems that we have encountered, and provide you with an opportunity to hear from PCT Consultees and from NICE.
Importantly, this meeting will be an opportunity to consider how NHS Commissioners (of specialised services, or local services) can continue to influence NICE guidance and what support you will need to be active consultees and ensure that important national guidance - 70 TAGs and 30 Care Quality Standards per annum are based on fully informed, evidence based decisions.
The Programme
| Topic | Presentors | |
| 12.00 |
Registration, lunch and networking |
All |
| 12.45 | Welcome and Introductions | Andrew Donald, CSAS Chair & Director of Commissioning Development, NHS Staffordshire Cluster of PCTs |
| 12.50 | CSAS: Post-liberation achievements and challenges | Claire Cheong-Leen, Director, CSAS |
| 13.15 |
Perspectives on being a PCT Consultee. Hear from PCTs about how to:
|
Greg Fell, Public Health Consultant, NHS Airedale, Bradford and Leeds Rasila Shah, Lead Pharmcist, Acute Commissioning, NHS Hertfordshire |
| 14.00 |
A View from NICE
|
Dr Jane Adam, Chair, Technology Appraisal Committee, NICE Steve Sparks, Associate Director Field Team & Implementation Consultant South East, NICE |
| 14.45 | Q & A Session | |
| 15.00 | Tea | |
| 15.10 |
The future of commissioner engagement: Perspectives from a NICE Scholarship Project |
Dr Mohit Sharma, NICE Scholar and Specialist Trainee in Public Health |
| 15.30 |
The future of commissioner engagement in NICE guidance
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Plenary Discussion |
| 16.20 | Next Steps | Andrew Donald |
| 16.30 | Close |
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