April 2024
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This conference focused on the independent sector and its role in healthcare delivery into the future.
Stakeholders and policymakers examined next steps for collaboration on capacity and innovative approaches to addressing backlogs in elective care, following the Government’s Elective recovery taskforce: implementation plan, which incorporates the independent sector as a key component in moving services forward.
The agenda also looked at the outlook for commissioning services, looking at the opportunities and issues following the recently launched Provider Selection Regime.
Those attending considered options for wider collaboration between the NHS and independent providers, and priorities for the independent sector in tackling elective care backlogs and supporting recovery moving forward. They also discussed the relationship between independent sector and integrated care systems.
Further sessions in the agenda focused on patient choice and accessibility, and supporting the workforce, as well as priorities for regulation and standards.
There was also discussion on alternative options for policy on the scope and nature of independent sector involvement in healthcare, and implications for the NHS, private providers and patients.
We are pleased to have been able to include keynote sessions with: David Hare, Chief Executive, Independent Healthcare Providers Network; and James Roach, Managing Director, Conclusio.
Overall, areas for discussion included:
- elective recovery backlogs: examining the progress of the Elective recovery taskforce: implementation plan - capacity of the independent sector to meet key targets
- collaboration: innovative approaches and options - best practice - case studies - priorities going forward
- commissioning: changes to commissioning - navigating ICSs and local models of healthcare - impact of the Provider Selection Regime on the independent sector
- regulation: next steps for risk assessment - approaches to regulating independent provider care services - continuity of quality care
- workforce: addressing retention and recruitment challenges - options for apprenticeships, training and education - priorities for long-term national workforce planning
- patients: choice and accessibility - improving patient understanding of their choices - addressing inequity of care provision
- next steps: future policy outlook for the independent sector and its role in healthcare delivery - policy options going forward
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from the DHSC; DoH, NI; OLS; DBT; NAO; and The Scottish Government.
