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NPAG PREVIEW
Connecting clinical engineering and IT
Updates and progress around medical devices and IT connectivity issues will be discussed at this year’s National Performance Advisory Group’s (NPAG) annual conference, which is taking place at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, on 12 September.
The Clinical Engineering and IT Connectivity Conference programme will focus on updating staff knowledge about managing and integrating medical devices, IT connectivity to devices and staff behaviour in using systems. The National Performance Advisory Group (NPAG) was originally established and funded by The Department of Health in 1983 to provide advice and guidance regarding pay/productivity issues for ambulance, ancillary and estates staff. In July 2006, it became a trading division of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Over the years, NPAG has grown its portfolio to become a nationally-recognised provider of services to healthcare across the country, including: l National best value and benchmarking groups.
l Benchmarking exercises. l Training workshops and courses. l Management consultancy services. l Conference organisation and event management.
The organisation’s prime purpose is to provide consultancy services and other support to NHS public sector managers in the continuous improvement of their services and this focus on improvement of their services will be a key theme throughout the Clinical Engineering and IT Connectivity Conference 2017. NPAG first established a national EBME group over 10 years ago with the aim of improving the delivery of healthcare by ‘developing, influencing and making recommendations on policy, planning and delivery of clinical engineering services, in line with MHRA guidelines – thus underpinning NHS England, NHSLA and CQC requirements’. As part of its mission to deliver continuous improvement, the group is working closely with other, related NPAG groups such as IT & connectivity, operating theatres and decontamination. The NPAG clinical engineering groups
SEPTEMBER 2017
Draft agenda
08:45 Registration, refreshments and exhibition
09:10 Chairman’s welcome and introductions Richard Steventon, NPAG North & South CE
Facilitator.Peter Smithson, NPAG IT & Connectivity Group. 09:20 Engineering solutions for the NHS: Raising the profile of clinical engineering and medical physics Dr Helen Meese, head of healthcare, Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
10:00 From blame to prison: Human factors and cyber security Professor Harold Thimbleby.
10:40 Refreshment break and exhibition 11:10 The threat to healthcare from cyber crime and what the Government is doing to support Trusts Sam B, cyber security consultant, The National Cyber Security Centre.
11:50 Penetration testing of medical devices for cyber security Dr Mike Bartley, CEO, T&VS Test and Verification Solutions Ltd.
12:30 Lunch, visit exhibition & networking opportunity 13:40 AAGBI Standards of Patient Monitoring Working Party Dr Mathew Checketts, anaesthetist,
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland. 14:20 A medical device - If you can’t clean it don’t buy it Karen Wares, deputy clinical director, GAMA Healthcare Ltd. Three shorter linked presentations around clinical device connectivity and cyber security challenges. 15:00 The medical device and connectivity landscape Martin Patten, networking specialist, Avaya.
15:10 Nemertes research overview (comparing the healthcare IOT industry options) Martin Patten, networking specialist, Avaya.
15:20 The Avaya SURGE solution overview (developed for healthcare) Jaspal Virdee, networking consulting systems engineer, Avaya.
15:40 Refreshment break and exhibition 16:00 Creating a black box culture within healthcare
Damian Cottle, managing director, Pegasus Resource Management.
16:40 Chairman’s summary and prize draw Richard Steventon, clinical engineer, NPAG.
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