NHS Rules and Regulations (12379)
Availability | Course has taken place |
Subject | NHS management and organisation |
Description | A visiting lecturer from the BDA. Sessions are made as interactive as possible. You are encouraged to participate and ask difficult questions! |
Venue | Health Education England SW, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset View details |
Date & time | Monday 3 September 2018, 13:30 to 16:30 |
Lecturer | Dr Richard Birkin View details |
Target audience | Recommended to all |
Development outcome | No development outcome |
Course style | Interactive Workshop |
Catering | None |
Core topic | Not a core topic |
CPD hours | 2:30 |
Cost | No charge |
Aims | Aims and Objectives: • That the attendees understand the driving legislation behind NHS treatments and claims and specifically the “Contracts” (3361) and “Charges” (3477) legislation. • That they know of the relevant NHS bodies administering and monitoring NHS dentistry. • That they know of the relevant legislation and how it is enforced relating to NHS/private boundaries and submission of forms and data. • That they understand key legal terminology and specifically definitions of:- - Course of treatment - Mandatory treatment - Splitting - Urgent treatment They will achieve this by an interactive discussion investigating their understanding of these words with an open debate on case studies and examples of erroneous claiming including GDC cases. We will discuss: • change in dentistry, in legislation and regulation, and in the world at large • the objectives and design of the current NHS contract pilots • the measures defined in the quality component of proposed new contract |
Learning outcomes | Outcomes: • The attendees will understand their responsibility for accurate claiming • They will know the important definitions within the Regulations and how these are interpreted. • They will understand the pitfalls and controls around the Regulations • They will appreciate the need for accurate and full contemporaneous clinical records. The future • FDs will understand the importance of career pathways, workforce changes, direct access, skill mix and contractual changes on their lives. • Delegates should understand the impact of macro-economic factors on healthcare policy and the driving forces behind Department of Health policy-making |