Developing a Sustainable Rapid Diagnostics Centre

Developing a Sustainable Rapid Diagnostics Centre
5.5 CPD Hours £299+VAT
Online Course, 5.5 CPD Hours
Mon 9 Dec 2024 09:00-15:40

Take one day out to connect with other Rapid Diagnostic Centre and Pathway professionals who are seeking out solutions and alternative approaches to becoming a sustainable and efficient service. 

Join this unique study day and discover how other organisations have overcome the challenges of securing service funding, manage increases in referrals and build successful relationships with their commissioning bodies. 

Walk away inspired after hearing a showcase of new trials and upcoming pilots and return to your team with clearer goals on how to become a sustainable service.

5.5 CPD Hours: Your Key Learning Outcomes

Do you want to discover new working models of rapid diagnostic centres and pathways? Are you wanting to feel inspired when taking the next steps for your service? Then join this exciting study day and benefit from:

  • Discovering the national approaches and options in regards to accessing funding
  • Strategies for managing the increase in service referrals and reducing your waiting times
  • Guidance on how to tailor your service to meet your patient needs
  • Benchmarking against the new pilots and trials from those currently at the forefront for improving rapid diagnostics
  • Step-by-step directions on how to make your service more efficient within your trust

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online NHS event from the comfort of your own home

Packed with examples of best practice, interactive discussions and ‘how to’ advice, this course will provide you with all the elements of an engaging day:

  • Meet each other – network and find out what’s working for other RDCs around the country
  • Listen and watch presentations and speakers’ Q&A – discover alternative approaches for accessing service funding
  • Collaborate in interactive discussions on how to meet the increase in service referrals – enabled by moderators in the breakout rooms
  • Leave with a plan: dedicated time for you to map out your next steps to become a sustainable and cost-effective service

This course is available for in-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

9:00
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Roger Prudham, Clinical Director, Northern Care Alliance Rapid Diagnostic Centre
Overcoming common referral challenges
9:40
Optimising your referral process: identifying and implementing strategies to mitigate the challenges
  • Examining NHS Lanarkshire’s approach: benchmarking your model for receiving diagnostic referrals
  • Strategies to manage the increase in service referrals and reduce waiting times
  • Evaluating service access: tailoring your pathway to meet your patients’ age, race and gender needs
Martin Downey, Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Service Clinical Lead and Associate Medical Director for Access, NHS Lanarkshire
10:10
Questions and answers from your speaker
10:20
Interactive discussion: Diving into your service challenges: tackling the impact of increased referrals
  • Describe your services’ current approach to handling the uptake in referral demands
  • What other challenges have you experience in regards to capacity and demand on your service?
  • What steps have you taken to overcome these challenges?
10:40
Feedback from interactive discussion: Diving into your service challenges: tackling the impact of increased referrals
10:50
Screen break
11:00
Enhancing and developing your internal referral processes to meet growing service demands
  • ‘How to’ guidance on Guy’s and St Thomas’s approach to effectively handling the referral process
  • Recommendations for managing the challenges of processing internal referrals
  • Exploring successful communication techniques whilst interacting with other departments
Christopher Sivell, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Rapid Diagnostic Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Improvement Manager for Rapid Diagnostic Centres, South East London Cancer Alliance (SELCA)
11:30
Questions and answers with your speaker
Enhancing your relationship with commissioners
11:40
Interactive discussion: Maintaining interest and buy-in from your commissioners
  • Describe your current relationship with your commissioning service
  • What strategies have you put into place to elevate your relationship with your commissioners?
  • What are the best approaches when communicating and maintaining interest from your commissioners?
12:00
Feedback from interactive discussion: Maintaining interest and buy-in from your commissioners
12:10
Lunch break
Incorporating MUO into your RDC
12:40
Report and feedback from South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on their MacMillian trial
Carole Goodchild, RDC Service Improvement Lead, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
1:00
Questions and answers with your speaker
Accessing service funding
1:10
Interactive discussion: Exchanging experiences of your commissioning and funding processes
  • Share your current experience with funding and how your team has accessed service funding
  • What challenges did you experience when getting your RDC service recommissioned?
  • What are your next steps for ensuring sustainability in your service?
1:30
Feedback from interactive discussion: Exchanging experiences of your commissioning and funding process
1:40
Understanding the national funding approaches to Rapid Diagnostics Centres
  • Navigating the current national approaches to RDC funding and its impact on your service
  • Creating a sustainable service: exploring your funding options and how to access support
  • Benchmarking your approach: next steps in obtaining funding
Carl Glenister, Associate Director and Cancer and Planned Care, SEL ICB
2:10
Questions and answers with your speaker
2:20
Screen Break
Evaluating your service
2:30
Evaluating your rapid diagnostic service: becoming sustainable and cost-effective
  • Understanding the different types of rapid diagnostics and the impact on your service
  • Exploring your options to adapt your RDC: offering cost-effective benefits to your commissioners
  • Step-by -step guidance on how to make your service more efficient within your trust
Luigi De Michele, RDC Consultant, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
3:00
Questions and answers with your speaker
Exploring the future of Rapid Diagnostic Centres
3:10
Interactive discussion: Your action plan: how to become a sustainable service
  • What are your main insights? What will you use from today?
  • What are the next steps for your service in regards to sustainability?
3:30
Feedback from interactive discussion: Your action plan: how to become a sustainable service
3:40
Chair’s closing remarks and close of day

Your speaker line-up:

Roger Prudham

Clinical Director
Northern Care Alliance Rapid Diagnostic Centre

Martin Downey

Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Service Clinical Lead and Associate Medical Director for Access
NHS Lanarkshire

Carole Goodchild

RDC Service Improvement Lead
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Carl Glenister

Associate Director and Cancer and Planned Care
SEL ICB

Luigi De Michele

RDC Consultant
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Christopher Sivell

Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Improvement Manager for Rapid Diagnostic Centres, South East London Cancer Alliance (SELCA)

Pricing structure

  • £299+VAT – one NHS or Public Sector place
  • Group discount - £249+VAT each for 2 or more NHS or Public Sector places

You or a colleague can claim the group NHS discount, for booking places across this and any other subsequent event, providing the same pricing structure applies. Click here to view the full list of up coming events.

For group bookings of five or more people, please email our delegate support team or call 01732 897788 for further details

This course is available for in-house training 

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation whilst waiting for your study leave to be approved, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  •  Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  •  Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  •  Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  •  Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

This course has been designed for healthcare professionals working in Rapid Diagnostics Centres and Pathways looking to benchmark their service and discover effective delivery approaches from their RDC peers. This includes, but it not limited to:

  • Rapid Diagnostic Service, Programme, Project, Strategy and Operations Managers
  • Consultant Oncologists, RDC Consultants, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Clinical Leads
  • Pathway Navigators
  • General Practitioners

If you have a team that is 30 people or more, you can have a bespoke course delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm or telephone 01732 897788.

Past attendee feedback

SBK have been producing Rapid Diagnostics study days since 2022, with many attendees receiving informative and valuable ideas to take back to their service. But don’t take our word for it, check out our feedback and join your fellow colleagues from around the country at our new course:

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Excellent opportunity to reach out and meet other colleagues working in RCDs across the Country!
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Evolving your Rapid Diagnostic Centre, December 2023
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"Very informative and great topics, very relevant to current RDS issues"
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Evolving your Rapid Diagnostic Centre, December 2023
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"Very valuable opportunity to see where other services are positioned in terms of funding - really great speakers"
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Evolving your Rapid Diagnostic Centre, December 2023
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“Very well organised and informative. Great speakers and opportunity to share ideas and experience so far”
- United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust, The Future of Cancer Rapid Diagnostic Centres, December 2022
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“Wish I could have attended something like this earlier on in our RCDS pilot”
- NHS Ayrshire + Arran, The Future of Cancer Rapid Diagnostic Centres, December 2022
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“It was brilliant, really informative and I’ve left feeling positive and motivated to take new ideas back to the team”
- United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust, Developing Cancer Rapid Diagnostic Pathways, January 2022

View further comments on Oncology National Networking Forums on Trust Pilot.

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing NHS delivery forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Sarah Kemm 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk