Come together in Birmingham with clinical coders from across the country to find out what people have been doing nationally to boost coding practices, ask clinicians your burning questions and identify the right strategies to maximise income. Bring your colleagues around the table so you can all hear the latest updates, improve your professional development and gain inspiration to advance your clinical coding service.
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Take away practical and implementable transformation to enhance your working practices
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| 9:00 |
Registration, refreshments and networking opportunity
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| 9:30 |
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Sue- Eve Jones, GIRFT Co-Lead for Clinical Coding, Get it Right First Time
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| Boosting retention | |
| 9:50 |
Working retention strategies to grow your clinical coding team
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| 10:20 |
Questions and answers with your speaker
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| 10:30 |
Sponsored presentation opportunity
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| 10:40 |
Roundtable discussion: How can we support the workforce to grow through recruitment initiatives?
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| 11:00 |
Roundtable discussion feedback: How can we support the workforce to grow through recruitment initiatives?
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| 11:10 |
Networking break
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| Improving coding depth and quality | |
| 11:30 |
Case study: Income maximisation through quality, accurate coding
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| 12:00 |
Transitioning to electronic classifications and classifications browser update
Josh Somerville, Classifications Specialist, Technology and Information Standards Terminology and Classifications, NHS England
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| 12:30 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 12:40 |
Networking lunch break
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| 1:50 |
Ensuring collaborative working between clinicians and GIRFT
Andrew Wheeler, GIRFT Co-Lead for Clinical Coding, Get it Right First Time
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| 2:20 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| Clinical insight for gynaecology | |
| 2:30 |
Advancing coding for gynaecology coding and procedures for abnormal bleeding
Shilpa Kolhe, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Lead Consultant in Ambulatory Gynaecology, Royal Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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| 3:10 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 3:20 |
Networking break
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| 3:40 |
Roundtable discussion: Working initiatives to incentivise clinicians in collaborating with coding teams
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| 4:00 |
Roundtable discussion feedback: Working initiatives to incentivise clinicians in collaborating with coding teams
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| Clinical insight for oncology | |
| 4:10 |
Case study: Building confidence when coding for clinical trials and drugs
Dr Victoria Kunene, Medical Oncology Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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| 4:50 |
Questions and answers with your speakers
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| 5:00 |
Chairs closing remarks and close of day
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First-hand speaker experiences
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.
Andy started in clinical coding in 1995, the year that ICD10 was introduced in England. He was trained at Barts and The London NHS Trust in a wide range of specialties and stayed there until leaving to take up the role of Coding Manager at the Royal Free Hospital. For fifteen years Andy has been Head of Clinical Coding at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) and for the last five years has been seconded into the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) project as Coding Lead, full time for the last three years.
Andy has broad experience in coding and has specialised in orthopaedics through necessity. He has experience in developing clinical datasets as the RNOH uses its own procedures code schedule for waiting list and activity management. Andy was also involved in the initial development of the spinal cord injuries costing package design project on behalf of the RNOH Spinal Cord Injuries Unit.
The current focus of the GIRFT clinical coding project is to advise on how the GIRFT project uses and reports on clinical coding, as well as supporting the design of clinical activity groups for consultant level reporting in the National Clinical Improvement Programme.
Josh has worked in the NHS for 10 years, and as a Classifications Specialist within the Terminology and Classifications Delivery Service at NHS England for the last 2 years.
Previous experience includes working as a Clinical Coder and later a Team Leader at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Within the Classifications Team, Josh works on a variety of products include National Clinical Coding Standards development, OPCS-4 classification development and the NHS Classifications browser.
Josh has undertaken collaborative pieces of work alongside GIRFT and the National Casemix Office, as well as working on projects for the World Health Organisation.
Dr Kunene is a Consultant Medical Oncologist based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. She also works at Walsall manor Hospital NHS Trust. She completed Medical Oncology Specialist Registrar training in the West midlands in 2012 and was appointed to the current consultant post same year.
She treats patients with Stomach, oesophageal, Pancreatic, biliary tract, colorectal cancers and cancer of unknown primary, both early and late stages of the disease. She is a Principal investigator in various clinical trials. She previously chaired the West midlands chemotherapy expert advisory group and held a position as Chemotherapy Clinical service lead (CSL) at the Queen Elizabeth hospital Birmingham, thus involved in design of treatment pathways and guidelines relating to chemotherapy service delivery. She is now Chemotherapy CSL at Walsall Manor hospital. She is a member of the West Midlands molecular Genomic tumour advisory board and various clinical multidisciplinary teams. She is actively involved in teaching.
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Past attendee feedback
“Great opportunity to meet others in the industry and see what they’re doing”
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
“Lots of useful information and great networking opportunities”
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
“Good quality content – relevant"
Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
“Timely for our Trust. Feel like Coding Teams concerns are being taken seriously”
Sheffield Teaching Hospital
“Good and informative”
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
“Found the day very interesting. There are many points we can take back and share with our Leads for future improvement work”
Barts Health NHS Trust
“Good day, very informative and useful to share ideas”
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
“Good to get back to face to face discussions”
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
“Great event. Loads of extra info relevant for our work”
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
“Interesting, Good to catch up with old friends and connect with new people in person University”
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
“Very informative”
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
“It’s great to be face to face again”
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
“Very informative and good for networking”
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
“Good day – very informative”
Barts Health NHS Trust
“Very well-organised event. Good speakers. Lot of information and knowledge to take home”
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
“Really useful information and an insight into the future”
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
“Informative, interesting, addressing a lot of contemporary issues and a great chance to talk to others”
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
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