Healthcare Science Roadshow

HEALTHCARE SCIENCE ROADSHOW - INVERNESS

Wednesday 25 October 2006

Beakers and test tubes

Ramada

Inverness

33 Church Street

Inverness

IV1 1DX

http://www.ramadajarvis.co.uk/hotel/overview.asp?hotel_id=84


PROGRAMME

Time

Speaker

Title

11-00

Registration & coffee

11-30

Robert Farley

Welcome

11-40

Jacqui Lunday

Introduction: The Chief Health Professions Officer and the Healthcare Science agenda in Scotland

12-00

Robert Farley

Healthcare Science Project Officer: Healthcare Science workforce development. Themes for today.

12-20

Lunch

13-20

Robert Farley

Reconvene - allocation of world cafe groups

13-30

Table hosts

World Café

3-00

Robert Farley

Reconvene: feedback from themes noted by hosts

3-30

Close



Healthcare Science - Opportunities and Change

Safe, accurate and effective! Approximately 80% of NHS Scotland diagnosis and treatment depends upon Healthcare Scientists working in hospital-based laboratories, clinics and also in community settings. Nearly 50 related professions that define Healthcare Scientists are less than 5% of the NHS Scotland workforce; Healthcare Scientists make a huge and disproportionate beneficial impact on modern healthcare. In delivering future healthcare, major challenges for NHS Healthcare Science include: technological developments; the shift to community-based care; the demands of education and training; immediate demographic pressures on the overall knowledge-reserve of the healthcare scientist workforce; opportunities to extend roles and carve out new ones.

The Inverness HCS Road Show is yours to air your opinion on three key areas.



Themes/Questions to be considered for World Café

Education & training

  • Is there structured training for your profession?
  • Is structured training necessary? Why?
  • If you have not received structured training, how did you acquire your healthcare science skill?
  • What are the key pressure points in terms of education and training for entry into your profession.?
  • What do you think needs to be done to align training and education with service demands?
  • How are the needs of your Service and CPD balanced? Do you think that staff are adequately trained for Service needs.
  • What examples are there of good training practice?

Role development

  • Who defines your role as a healthcare scientist? Who sets limits on your area of practice? Why is this justified? How can it be challenged?
  • Are yours skills being fully utilized?
  • What else could you be doing?
  • Why do you think your qualifications and experience entitle you to extend your scope of practice?
  • Why would this benefit patients?
  • What opportunities exist for further multi-disciplinary working? Which other disciplines could you work with more closely? How could these be implemented in your current service?

Community focus

  • How can a healthcare scientist presence in the community be strengthened?
  • What are the pros and cons of outreach services, satellite clinics and labs?
  • Are there technologies that will allow healthcare science services to be reconfigured with more of a community focus?
  • Can new working practices facilitate user convenience, throughput and a reduction in bottlenecks? How?

10. Have your say!

Today's consultation has touched on three key themes that affect healthcare science, but we recognize that you may have your own priorities and ideas.

Tell us about

  • Building more responsive services
  • Barriers to improvement
  • Models of good practice & integrated working
  • Unregulated healthcare science activity
  • Education & training
  • Role development
  • Community focus
  • Clinical pressures
  • Recruitment and retention pressures
  • Or anything else!


Page updated: Friday, November 10, 2006