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Day 1 – Thursday 6 March 2014
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8.30–9.00am
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Registration and Arrival Tea & Coffee
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9.00–9.45am
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Welcome & Introductions
Overview of Health Roundtable Costing Results for 2012/13
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9.45–10.30am
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IHPA Review of 2013 and Planned Changes for 2014
James Downie – Executive Director, Activity Based Funding, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA).
James will update us on the Pricing Framework for 2014/15, progress on pricing ED, Sub-acute, Outpatients and Inpatient Mental Health; annual cost collection and other key issues in the lead up to going live with ABF from 1 July 2014.
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10.30–11.00am
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Morning Tea/Informal Discussions
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11.00–12.00 noon
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Regional Updates on ABF Progress & Issues (10 mins each)
Each jurisdiction to provide an update on key issues members are facing on ABF and related matters in that jurisdiction including:
- Price for 2013/14 & 2014/15
- Variations to Commonwealth model
- Key Budget challenges
- Other
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12.00–12.30pm
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Group Discussion by Region
Delegates will split into regional groups to share thoughts and ideas about ABF progress and identify key tasks for 2014.
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12.30–1.30pm
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Lunch
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1.30–3.00pm
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Innovations Poster Session
Using Costing as an effective Management Tool to improve efficiency and quality in Health Service Management and patient care.
Delegates put up posters around the wall.
Presenters stand by their posters and give a 90 second elevator pitch outlining the key messages about the problem and the outcome.
Delegates will walk around and review and discuss all presentations.
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3.00–3.30pm
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Afternoon Tea
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3.30–4.00pm
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Top 3 Innovations!
Presenters of the top 3 innovations by the group will share an overview of the innovations with time for questions.
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4.00–5.00pm
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Costing Data Review – 2012/13 Results & New Reports
Overview of suite of Costing Reports for Inpatients/Emergency/Outpatients:
- Standard Cost Comparison
- Inpatient Briefings
- “Profitability” Reports & Flexible Pricing Option
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6.30pm
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Group Dinner (Optional) – Bluestone Restaurant, 349 Flinders Lane
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Day 2 – Friday 7 March 2014
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8.30–9.00am
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Arrival Tea & Coffee
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9.00–9.15am
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Review of Day 1 Issues
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9.15–10.15am
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Finding Million Dollar opportunities in your data:
- Using “top 10” reports
- Finding the “exemplars”
- Using standardised cost reports
- Reducing Cost and Improving Quality
- Discussing opportunities with exemplar organisations
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10.15–10.30am
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Improving Cost comparability between Health Services and Jurisdictions
Ø Results from Compliance Checklist
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10.30–11.00am
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Morning Tea
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11.00–11.30am
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Cost Allocation - Small group discussion on improving compliance
- Inpatients
- Emergency
- Outpatients
- Buckets
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11.30–12.30pm
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Hot Issues Walk Around
Questions raised by Delegates will be posted around the room for delegates to post suggestions, identify exemplars.
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12.30–1.30pm
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Lunch
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1.30–2.30pm
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Where to from here with Cost Benchmarking?
- Are we benchmarking the right things?
- Are there too many reports? Are we missing any?
- Are comparisons robust? How do we improve them?
- Are they relevant to line/Clinical Managers?
- How do we embed Costing KPIs into the mainstream of performance measurement?
- How to integrate Roundtable “high level” reports with detailed Health Service cost data?
- Patient Journey costing – is this a priority?
- Other ideas to improve reports.
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2.30–3.00pm
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Hospital Team Planning
Health Service teams meet to plan next steps in making cost benchmarking more relevant and prevalent in the workplace and at Executive and Board table:
- What ideas can we implement at our Health Service?
- Developing an Aim Statement
- Summarising the Plan
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3.00–3.30pm
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Afternoon Tea
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3.30–4.30pm
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OPTIONAL SESSION:
Ask HRT!
Getting Traction and understanding Clinical Costing Reports – questions and queries answered by the Team.
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4.30pm
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Meeting Concludes
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