A conference on the Enhanced Recovery Programme, aimed at all members of the multidisciplinary team, is set to take place on Wednesday 10 November 2010, at 76 Portland Place, London.
Enhanced recovery is a new approach to the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care of patients undergoing surgery. Originally pioneered in Denmark it is now being championed in England by a growing number of surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, allied health professionals and NHS managers. It has already been shown to benefit patients undergoing colorectal, urological, gynaecological and orthopaedic surgery. There may well be wider applications in the future.
What does enhanced recovery have to offer patients and the NHS? In simple terms it does two things. It improves quality of care by helping patients to get better sooner after major surgery. Secondly, it reduces length of stay with obvious benefits to the NHS. The Enhanced Recovery Programme is therefore fully aligned with Lord Darzi’s High Quality Care for All with quality as the organising principle for the NHS. It also amply fulfils the quality and productivity criteria of the Quality and Productivity Challenge (QIPP).
Chaired by Fiona Hibberts Colorectal Consultant Nurse Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, this one day conference is for those working with patients before, during and after surgery. The Enhanced Recovery Programme is a multidisciplinary initiative aiming to prepare patients for surgery and reduce its physical impact, thus helping patients to recovery more quickly.
Professor Monty Mythen, National Clinical Lead and Director of Research and Development University College London, will give the keynote address introducing the Enhanced Recovery Programme with a focus on implementation and the potential impact on quality, productivity and financial costs.
Delegates will also have the opportunity to hear from healthcare professionals on the running Enhanced Recovery day-to-day and methods, techniques and procedures used to support Enhanced Recovery. The afternoon sessions will focus on developing multidisciplinary /multi-agency working to streamline the patient journey and support discharge planning. The recently revised operating framework for 2010/11 states that hospitals will be responsible for patients for 30 days after discharge.
For more information please contact Stephen Bennett on 020 8541 1399 or email stephen@healthcare-events.co.uk
http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/ct/td134/conf
