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Thursday 15 th September 2011<br />

12<br />

28 th InTErnaTIonal ConfErEnCE ProgrammE Hong Kong<br />

ISQua Hong Kong:<br />

Thursday 15 th September<br />

opening Plenary<br />

Significance of Comparative Effectiveness through <strong>Health</strong><br />

Technology assessment<br />

Speakers: Guy Maddern; AU, Sir Michael Rawlings; UK<br />

Convention Hall a, B & C, level 1<br />

Comparative effectiveness: Just another way to restrict<br />

surgical innovation?<br />

Surgery innovates and changes with great speed, driven by new<br />

devices, procedures and advances in oncology. Comparative<br />

effectiveness aims to provide data on the relative merits of<br />

healthcare interventions. It seems reasonable to select the best<br />

value for the healthcare dollar, but will this stifle new approaches?<br />

Surgical innovation is usually more expensive, has learning curves,<br />

and often enters practice at either uncomplicated or desperate<br />

situations. How can we ensure that society does not wait too<br />

long for the next important innovation but, at the same time, is<br />

protected from expensive folly? <strong>Health</strong> technology assessment<br />

offers some, but not all, of the answers.<br />

Concurrent Sessions<br />

- morning 11:00 - 12:30<br />

A3 WHo: Strengthening capacity for safer care:<br />

Developing and supporting patient-safety leaders<br />

Speakers: Bruce Barraclough; AU, Agnes Leotsakosa;<br />

WHO, David Bates; US, Mondher Letaief; TN<br />

Convention Hall B, level 1<br />

Key Contents<br />

The session will present the WHO’s Patient Safety Programmes’<br />

approaches for building and strengthening capacity for patientsafety<br />

improvement and for patient-safety research.<br />

Developing and strengthening local expertise and leaderships<br />

is critical to achieving and sustaining safer healthcare. Capacity<br />

strengthening encompasses education and training through to<br />

strategies such as collaboration, partnership and creation of<br />

enabling environments. WHO Patient Safety and its partners will<br />

showcase key strategies in working with collaborators and partners<br />

to facilitate healthcare providers, and support ‘up and coming<br />

leaders’ to promote patient-safety culture and bring about changes<br />

in patient-safety improvement.<br />

A5a Experience from 44 healthcare accreditation<br />

<strong>programme</strong>s; analysis of responses to an<br />

international survey<br />

Speakers: Charles Shaw; UK<br />

Theatre 2, level 1<br />

Introduction<br />

This survey identifies opportunities and challenges for policymakers,<br />

accreditation leaders and international aid agencies<br />

funding health reform.<br />

Key messages<br />

The number of accreditation organisations grew from 26 in 2000<br />

to 44 in 2010.<br />

» Of organisations active before 2000, half declined or ceased<br />

to function; of those established since 2000, one third show<br />

sustained growth and activity<br />

» Technical competence in accreditation management appears<br />

less important to survival than the environment of the<br />

healthcare system<br />

» Thriving organisations are characterised by strong stakeholder<br />

relationships, collaboration with regulatory agencies,<br />

consistency with government policy, continuous innovation<br />

and secure funding<br />

» Failure to thrive may be associated with a change of<br />

government policy; failure of financial incentives to participate;<br />

lack of engagement with stakeholders; inability of health<br />

system to respond to identified deficiencies.<br />

A5b <strong>Health</strong>care regulation in Scotland<br />

– The Changing landscape<br />

Speaker: Frances Elliot; SC<br />

Theatre 2, level 1<br />

This presentation will set out the policy context for external<br />

evaluation of healthcare in Scotland and how this has changed<br />

over the last few years.<br />

It will describe the changes <strong>Health</strong>care Improvement Scotland (HIS)<br />

are making in terms of their evaluation, and why they are moving<br />

to more definitive regulation rather than the traditional peer review<br />

that they used to undertake, with an ambition to move towards<br />

accreditation.<br />

The implications for HIS as a national body in Scotland will be<br />

discussed, and what this means for their relationships with the<br />

service, both NHS and independent sector. An important element<br />

will be an explanation of why the organisation is uniquely placed to<br />

link scrutiny to improvement, by using the output from scrutiny to<br />

drive improvement <strong>programme</strong>s.<br />

A7 Improving <strong>Health</strong> outcomes in low-income Countries<br />

Speakers: Cynthia Bannerman; GA, Nadera Hayat<br />

Burhani; AF, Nana Twum Danso; GH, Mirwais Rahimzai; AF<br />

Convention Hall C, level 1<br />

This session will focus on the experience in two countries –<br />

Ghana and Afghanistan – to build national capacity for quality<br />

improvement at the policy and strategy level, and to engage in<br />

national scale-up of the health system to improve health outcomes.<br />

Case presentations will be followed by a discussion panel.<br />

lunchtime Sessions<br />

A10 Clinical audit as a quality improvement process -<br />

shifting the paradigm from audit and feedback<br />

Speaker: Nancy Dixon; UK<br />

Convention Hall C, level 1<br />

This workshop is about how the clinical audit process works when<br />

it is used as a quality improvement tool. Nearly ten years ago,<br />

clinical audit in the UK was repositioned as a quality improvement<br />

process that includes implementing changes in practice to achieve<br />

needed improvements in the quality of patient care. This shift in<br />

understanding of clinical audit recognised that feedback alone<br />

is unlikely to produce improvements in care, particularly when<br />

the causes of shortcomings are beyond the direct and exclusive<br />

control of clinicians delivering the care.

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