2010 Programme
8:30
Registration and refreshments
9:30
Opening remarks from the Chair
Professor Tony Hazell
Chair
Nursing and Midwifery Council
9:40
Exploring the new government’s vision for the future of nursing and midwifery
- Reviewing the workforce strategy: benchmarking to measure quality progress and outcomes
- Readdressing government targets: are the current government targets achievable and are they best to ensure high quality care?
- How has the delivery and context of midwifery and nursing changed?
- What funding will be available to delivering the commissions vision?
- What plans are there to develop national standards?
Howard Catton
Director of Policy
Royal College of Nursing
10:10
Degree registration for nurses: ensuring the smooth transition to degree level registration
- What will be the impact of the shift to degree level entry on the composition of the workforce and what are the implications for recruitment?
- What should be the standards and competencies that underpin degree level registration?
- What lessons can we learn from Midwifery’s transition to degree level entry?
- What provision will there be for specialist roles?
Dr Peter Carter
Chief Executive and General Secretary
Royal College of Nursing
10:45
Question and answer session
10:55
Morning refreshments
11:15
Clarifying the roles of healthcare assistants and healthcare support workers
- What will be the impact on the support worker workforce?
- How should the profession best assure and ensure competence to practice – developing standards, regulation and registration?
- Understanding the need for regulating support workers
- Future challenges in the move to an all graduate proffession
Gail Adams
Head of Nursing
Unison
11:45
Developing communication frameworks for an effective workforce and improved patient experience in nursing
- Using communication to break down the boundaries and disseminate information across all levels of the workforce
- Setting standard communication procedures to ensure everyone accesses the same information
- Clarifying individual roles for an effective workforce
Dame Donna Kinnair DBE
Director of Nursing and Commissioning
Southwark Primary Care Trust
12:15
Question and answer session
12:25
Lunch
13:25
Delivering effective teamwork for essential high quality care
- Importance of national frameworks for developing and supporting nursing roles
- How much does the legacy of previous hierarchies still define the profession and how can we move beyond these?
- Nurturing a team culture to deliver high quality and innovation
- Ensuring consistency and level of care by defining roles and responsibilities around the team
Sian Thomas
Chief Executive
Synuron
13:55
Developing nursing leadership
- What are the barriers that prevent nurses from leading services and how can they be overcome?
- Do nurses have the skills, competencies and support to take a central role in the delivery and design of the 21st century services
- How can we enable nurses to lead the development of new community based models of care?
- What are the true implications of fast track leadership developments: the impact on clinical quality
Abigail Masterson
Assistant Director, Leadership
The Health Foundation
14:25
Question and answer session
14:35
Afternoon refreshments
14:55
Spreading nursing innovation
- Building capacity for nursing and midwifery innovation
- How can we foster the rapid spread of innovative practice?
- What would encourage nurses to embrace innovation: developing and supporting ‘big’ ideas
- Making best use of technology
- How do we give nurses the permission they sometimes feel they require to develop innovative new ways of thinking?
Tony J Halton
Director of Nursing
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Jan Draper
Director of Nursing
The Open University
15:25
Delivering high quality care for patient and service users
- How can nursing provide best value in a rapidly changing world?
- Being held to account for quality and safety: how well do nurses feel that they are supported to deliver high quality care?
- How can the profession take greater responsibility and ownership of the measurement and assurance of their care quality?
- Do current systems of performance development and supervision need to change?
Dr Kuldip Bharj OBE
Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Lead Midwife for Education
University of Leeds
15:55
Question and answer session
16:05
