Programme

Registration and refreshments

Extended opening remarks from the Chair

Preparing for the changes ahead in the dental landscape and increasing access to modern focused preventative services

• Understanding  the implications of financial and political uncertainty on the future of NHS dental service delivery
• Meeting  quality and productivity obligations to improve oral health
• Determining how the new template agreement will support the procurement  services from new providers
• Ensuring providers understand the quality and productivity agenda in dental service provision
• Improving access to quality dental services that benefit both providers and patients

Implementing the Steele Report: An update on progress so far

• Assessing your current dental provision locally
• Determining what information you need to enable progress to be monitored and quality rewarded
• Learning what is working for patients and what is not
• Collecting clinical data to support shared information on quality and outcomes
• Understanding how implementation will facilitate the targeting of care to where it will provide most benefit and the move from intervention to prevention

Question and answer session

Morning refreshments

Steele Report - Pilot scheme progress

• Clarifying future timelines: What lies ahead
• Evaluating the outcomes of initial pilot scheme findings
• Understanding the lessons that can be learnt following the first wave of pilots and their impact on service provision

Delivering excellence in dental access

• The benefits of the world class commissioning approach for dental access
• Using existing capacity to meet the needs of new and re-attending patients
• Building capability for effective contract management and appropriate recall
• Effective clinical engagement approaches
• Communicating with patients about the availability of dental services and their entitlements

Case Study: Best practice from the PPS Plus Contract

Hear from practitioners already working under the new PDS Plus contract. Learn about the advantages of working within this new framework as well a, the obstacles faced and how these were overcome

Question and answer session

Lunch

Case Study: Utilising dental care pathways and increasing the skills mix of your staff to drive forward improvements in service delivery

Seema’s practice operates under a ten year PDS blended contract and is one of the wave one pioneer affiliate Steele pilots. Seema will be speaking about how the use of care pathways and skill mix has revolutionised service design in her practice, the challenges that needed to be overcome and the opportunities it presents for her team in the future.

Implementing the new Primary Care Commissioning salaried services toolkit

• Understanding the roles of the salaried dental services and what makes them different
• Exploring different contract options available to you including the new primary dental care contract currently being piloted
• Utilising metrics to monitor contract delivery
• Clarification on the specific complex areas referred to in the salaried services toolkit (e.g. general anaesthesia)
• Understanding patient complexity including referral and discharge criteria

Question and answer session

Afternoon refreshments

Commissioning dental services and effective contract management to improve service delivery

• Ensuring that your commissioning plan for primary care dental provision is effective: Delivering World Class care despite economic constraints
• Identifying areas of weakness in your current system and taking clear practical steps to address them
• Aligning  the tendering and contracting process to encourage outcome based performance and support the World Class Commissioning agenda
• Understanding the importance of collaborative working with providers to enable you both to manage under performance and improve health outcomes in a cost effective manner
• Determining how to measure the quality of services 

Improving clinical leadership: Developing the effective clinical leaders of tomorrow

• Exploring the drivers for developing clinical leadership in dentistry
• Outlining the opportunities that exist for clinical leadership in this new system
• Highlighting examples of NHS support for clinical leadership at all levels

Chair's closing remarks

Close of conference