Take away practical, implementable transformation strategies to enhance your working practices
This leading national clinical coding forum is uniquely designed to enable Clinical Coders, Coding Managers and Auditors from across the country to come together and share the latest news. Only at this dedicated event will you benefit from insightful case studies on automated coding, reducing errors and easing workload pressures.
Make sure you book before Friday 19th April to benefit from the NHS and Public Sector Early Bird, saving you £150 per place, plus you can also take advantage of a new special offer where if you book 3 places, you can get the 4th for free!
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| 9:00 |
Registration, refreshments and morning networking
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| 9:30 |
Opening remarks
Sue-Eve Jones, Clinical Coding Specialist, Trainer and Auditor, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
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| Automating clinical coding | |
| 9:40 |
Turning to technology to improve coding efficiency and reduce coding errors
Jon Scatchard, Head of Clinical Coding, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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| 10:10 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 10:20 |
Roundtable discussion: Overcoming the challenges of EHRs
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| 10:40 |
Roundtable discussion feedback: Overcoming the challenges of EHRs
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| 10:50 |
Morning networking break
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| 11:10 |
Utilising language AI to increase productivity and boost accuracy in clinical coding
James Tao, Professor of Neurology, Kings College London
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| Natural Language Processing | |
| 11:40 |
Natural Language Processing to enhance the accuracy and completeness in clinical notes
Leilei Zhu, Head of Clinical Data Quality and Standards, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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| 12:10 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 12:20 |
Networking lunch break
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| National update | |
| 1:30 |
GIRFT update: what have we being doing?
Andy Wheeler, Head of GIRFT Clinical Coding, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
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| Utilising data | |
| 2:00 |
Understanding the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP)
Professor Sir Norman Williams, Chair National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP), GIRFT, NHS England
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| 2:30 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 2:40 |
Networking break
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| Recruitment, retention and professional development opportunities | |
| 3:00 |
Understanding the transition to electronic classifications and what it means for you
Andrew Brooke, Principal Classifications Specialist, Technology and Information Standards, Terminology and Classifications Transformation Directorate, NHS England
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| 3:30 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 3:40 |
Working through the challenges of remote working: Maintaining quality, data security and training
Sue-Eve Jones, Clinical Coding Specialist, Trainer and Auditor, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
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| 4:10 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 4:20 |
Roundtable discussion: Supporting your remote workforce
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| 4:40 |
Roundtable discussion feedback: Supporting your remote workforce
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| 4:50 |
Closing remarks and close of day
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Invaluable guidance that will keep you up-to-date
Sue is a specialist with over 30 years of experience in training, audit, standard setting, classification authoring, mapping, organisational change, mortality data review, data analysis and research. She has worked at hospital, regional and national level and in the commercial sector in the UK and overseas. NHS roles have included Head of Clinical Coding and Data Quality at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Head of Clinical Coding at the East and North Herts NHS Trust. Sue is currently a GIRFT Coding Specialist, Trainer and Auditor.
Dr James Teo is a Professor of Neurology with a specialist interest in stroke rehabilitation, general neurology, brain injury and clinical informatics.
He began his undergraduate medical training at University of Oxford and Royal Free Medical School. His postgraduate training was throughout the south east (including Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, Royal Marsden Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and University College London Hospital). He also holds a PhD in Clinical Neurology, awarded by the internationally prestigious UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square.
He is also the Joint Director for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at King's College Hospital and Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, leading the development and deployment of the CogStack as Clinical Lead and Founder.
He is KCH Investigator for the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare. His work with natural language processing AI has won AI Awards from NHSX and has been reviewed by the World Economic Forum.
He has written more than 80 peer-reviewed academic papers on topics ranging from Stroke to Parkinson's Disease. He worked with smartphones in smartphones in Parkinson’s disease (Michael J Fox Parkinson's Data Challenge in 2012), wearable cardiac patches for stroke prevention as chief investigator of EPACS trial, as well health data monitoring systems and AI for Natural Language Processing and Machine Vision.
Leilei heads up the clinical data quality, data standardisation and interoperability at UCLH and UCL Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
She was trained in Health Informatics from the University of Syndey and then continued her postgraduate study in London. She has carried out leadership roles in clinical classifications, casemix designs, business intelligence, analytics, terminologies and EHR (Electronic Health Record) system implementations.
She led the first SNOMED CT clinical data standards implementation in MEDITECH EHR in the UK. In April 2021, she initiated a program which enabled UCLH as the first Epic site in the UK to implement native SNOMED-CT data standards for diagnosis recording in Epic. Collaborating with the EPIC development team, this functionality has been integrated into the Epic Foundation system, setting a precedent for future Epic sites. In 2022, her team's efforts facilitated UCLH in becoming the pioneering trust in the country to harness the FHIR standard, establishing seamless automatic data exchange between Epic EHR and sponsors' Electronic Data Capture systems (EDCs).
She guest lectures on health informatics at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics (IHI) and serves as an editorial board member for the Digital Medicine and Health journal, sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association.
Professor Sir Norman Williams was Professor of Surgery at Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Barts and The London (1986-2016), Director of the National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation (2012-2016) and Past President of The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2011-14).
He was Senior Clinical Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health (2015-18), chaired the Rapid Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare (2018) and was a non -executive director of St George’s NHS Foundation Trust (2016-19).
He is Chair of the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP), Chair of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP), President of Bowel Research UK and a Non-Executive Director of the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN).
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Now in its 12th year and being held face to face for the first time since 2019, this leading national clinical coding forum has consistently brought together Clinical Coders from Acute Trusts, Community Services and CCGs. You too will benefit if you also work as:
Past attendee feedback
"It is great to hear from speakers who are ‘walking the walk’."
South West London and St Georges NHS Trust, Driving Forward Mental Health Clinical Coding, 2013
"A really valuable day – all speakers provided useful learning."
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Progressive Clinical Coding, 2014
"The whole day was enjoyable – well organised and good presentations. Very informative.”
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, How to Conduct a Mortality Audit, 2015
“I found this course to be interesting and has given me lots of ideas/things to think about and to take back to my Trust.”
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Coders National Networking Forum, 2016
"Very useful day. Gained a great deal from all."
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Enabling the Digital Future of Clinical Coding, 2022
"I thought that the talks by all guest speakers were excellent."
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Coding National Networking Forum, 2017
"Engaging open discussion – very practical. Enjoyed examples from practice."
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, SNOMED-CT in Practice, 2018
"Varied and diverse speakers, excellent transference of knowledge."
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Coding National Networking Forum, 2019
"It was a great first experience of an online conference. I found it user friendly and easy to navigate. Instructions were nice and clear."
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Clinical Coding National Networking Forum, 2020
“I found this course to be interesting and has given me lots of ideas/things to think about and to take back to my Trust.”
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Coding Meet the Clinicians, 2021
"Very useful day. Gained a great deal from all."
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Enabling the Digital Future of Clinical Coding, 2022
"Excellent opportunity to network with other coders and see other ways of working."
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Clinical Coding: Meet the Clinicians, 2023
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