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Community Nursing – Manchester: 18th Nov

Chair: Sue Cross – South Bank University, London

AM Sessions


9.00 Transforming community services: The nursing contribution
The evolution in primary care: What is happening explained. Commissioning & PBC explained. The opportunity of providing services closer to home. What community nurses need to know. The future of community nursing & how this will affect you.
Lynn Young – Primary Care Advisor RCN

9.40 Business planning - let's make it simple
Understand why nurses need to understand about business planning. How to develop a business case.
Lynn Young – Primary Care Advisor RCN

10.20 Exhibition and Morning Coffee

11.00 Best practice: Managing long term conditions in the community
Long term conditions – the challenge. Effective support for those with LTCs in the community. Challenges & opportunities of developing services. New initiatives – examples from current practice.
Helen Lyndon – Nurse Consultant, Long Term Conditions for Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust, & clinical lead for the Department of Health Whole Systems Demonstrator Project for Long Term Conditions in Cornwall

11.40 How telecare & telehealth can help people living with long term conditions
Integrating health & social care supported by new technology. Helping people with long term conditions manage their own health & wellbeing.Supporting people with social care needs to live independently.
Speaker TBA


12.30 Exhibition and Lunch

PM Sessions


1.30 New IT systems that will change the face of community nursing
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) - A guide for community nurses. The future of mobile solutions. The challenges of collecting data. Litigation. Integrating health & social care data.
David Allan-Smith DN - Clinical Lead TPP SystmOne Project South East Essex PCT, Clinical Advisor East of England SHA

2.10 Nurse prescribing: Policy, practice, & the evidence base
An overview of recent policy developments surrounding nurse prescribing. Benefits, disadvantages & barriers to nurse prescribing.
Speaker TBA

3.00 Exhibition and Afternoon Tea

3.30 Integration - Tremeduna style
Policy. Outcomes for patients. Co-location. Culture. Single point of access. Single assessment. Integrated IT system. Outcomes for staff.
Ann Workman – Community Partnership Manager for Tremeduna Integrated Partnership Team