Past Event
What is it about?
This unique day has been designed for Microbiology Leads to come together and share their experience. This friendly and interactive seminar will look at the impact of automation on the workforce, review cost and patient effective laboratory management strategies, explore methods to seamlessly connect IT solutions and share ideas for further cost efficiencies without impacting on your quality.
Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities
Have you considered sponsoring or exhibiting at this day? If you join us in 2016, you will be able to talk directly to this NHS Pathology and Microbiology audience, build familiarity and take away leads. Past exhibitor:
Reviews & Photos
Many attendees to this event completed an evaluation form, and we are pleased to share with you some of the comments made about this day:
Very valuable networking opportunity and exchange of learning ideas
Liverpool Clinical Laboratories
Enlightening and Interesting and good to know that we are all on the same track
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
Interesting, Informative, useful and inspiring
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
Very open and honest and friendly
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Very frank and honest about successes and mistakes in current situation in pathology
NHS Tayside
All presentations were excellent, frank and honest, very much a refreshing experience
Empath
A very interesting day, a good opportunity to network with colleagues from other trusts
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Another highly informative and refreshing event that has provided key ideas and suggestions in moving my department forward. It has also provided me with further motivation to continue the process of further development
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Presentation Content
The documentation from Progressing your Microbiology Service which took place on 18 May 2016 in Leeds, includes the following presentations:
- Exploring the Impact of New Technology and Automation on Workforce Planning - •Sharing best practice strategies to incorporate new technology •Examining the impact on workforce: re-profiling your staff roles •Updating your laboratory business and operation plans to incorporate automation • Maximising the benefits of automation: budgets, staffing and service delivery
- Embracing New Technology to Ensure Seamless Data Transition - •Continuous improvement tools and techniques in diagnostics •Integrating IT systems to enable sharing of patient and results data •A review of the benefits of integration •Futureproofing your system: staying up to date
- Examining Solutions to Deliver Cost and Patient Effective Laboratory Management - •Reviewing strategies to deliver cost efficiencies •Costs savings versus patient and customer service: finding the balance •Making laboratory mergers work for you •Managing the transition and moving forward with new collaborations
- Implementing Process Improvement that Delivers on Quality and Cost - •Process improvement opportunities and how to benefit from them •Turning financial restraint to your advantage •Ensuring microbiology does not hold up patient flow •Benchmarking your service: how do you compare?
Price and availability
Conference documentation in both hard and electronic copy is available for purchase at £89 (there is no VAT charge). In addition to being posted a copy, all the documentation is now available to you in electronic format so that you can access the papers and presentations online.
How to buy the documentation
Please email the customer service team or telephone 01732 897788 stating the name and date of the event you would like to purchase documentation for. Payment is required in advance and this can be done by requesting an invoice or immediately using a debit card.
On receipt of payment you will be given immediate access to the presentations on-line where they will be in a pdf format. You will also be sent a set of documentation in the post.
Welcome back
Thank you for attending an SBK: Healthcare course. We are pleased to offer you on-line access to the documentation that you received at the event. This is an exclusive benefit for all of the attendees and includes additional and updated documentation.
Please enter your email address and password which is at the front of your documentation pack. The password will also be emailed to you after the event and this is your notification that the documentation is available on-line.
If you are having any difficulty please contact enquiries@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or telephone 01732 897788.