Speakers include:
Dr Diana Rosof-Williams, Consultant Radiologist & PET CT Lead, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
'Integrated Care Systems: The Lancashire and South Cumbria Diagnostic Imaging Network'
Lecture synopsis:
Dr Rosof-Williams talk will discuss the LSC Diagnostic Imaging Network structure, the benefits of working as a network, an introduction to the key components, how success is measured by NHSE, and examples of projects in various workstreams.
Dr Robin Proctor, Consultant Radiologist, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT
‘What can you measure, what should you measure?’
Lecture synopsis:
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted” is often attributed to Einstein, but how does that apply to diagnostic imaging?
As we have become more digital what we can measure has expanded and how that data is used has expanded with it. But do we measure the right things? What is the impact of what we measure? For instance, is it even possible to measure culture?
What about quality? We are already short so how can we measure if our work is any good without yet more work?
Between them, speakers will try and cover the following from a departmental/ personal perspective rather than a regional one:
- Return on investment staff recruitment papers
- Capacity and demand across the network
- Clinical priorities, e.g.critical alerts and the Rad Alert projects
- Possibly clinical decision support tools e.g. Advice and Guidance vs iRefer vs ICan Check.
- Role of Business Intelligence
- Disaster avoidance to quality improvement - Attempts to measure quality- embedded peer review, data from MDT, surgical feedback
- Expansion of imaging indications
- Workforce developments – international recruitment, skill mix
- Impact of IT changes and AI
- Ongoing challenges