Key Note Presentations

Key note presentations

Key note presentations

Alex Knight

11 February 2014

Key note presentations

Outlined below is the design for the keynote presentations covering the three sessions proposed for the first day of the conference.

Key-note opening presentation:

Healthcare is a fundamental necessity of all societies. Yet most countries struggle with increasing demand and costs. Medicine continues to advance at a rate faster than we can afford to pay for. The management of healthcare delivery systems has not kept pace; we manage by instinct and not evidence. Fire-fighting endless crises and poor patient safety have become the norm.

This presentation will follow the format of answering the following questions:

How can we get agreement on the need to change? This will start with a short summary of the research I have undertaken on the trends in expenditure on healthcare across the globe. This will compare GDP growth, growth in expenditure on healthcare and growth in healthcare expenditure as a % of GDP for a number of countries.
What should we change? From this research I will derive the common core cloud and how it is playing out in different countries. I will demonstrate the core problem is the basis of the current response.
What to change to? I will then highlight the criteria for any solution, provide an insight into why TOC is a valid contender above many others for helping to resolve these issues and how alone it will be insufficient. I will then show the proposed direction of the solution through the high levels of a healthcare S and T tree and the results that have been achieved. This will be augmented by the personal story of a leading CEO in the NHS in the UK using the approach for over twenty years and the spectacular results that have been achieved in the UK and elsewhere.

Keynote second presentation:

This session will show how the principles of TOC can be applied to the healthcare environment and the applications that have been developed for a number of specific environments within healthcare. The key differences and similarities with the standard TOC applications will be highlighted and the lessons learnt from successfully implementing these approaches across many different elements of the healthcare system. This session will also introduce the audience to a number of teaching approaches I have developed for this sector. I hope to show a new set of simulators that we are developing in conjunction with Eli Shragenheim. The aim of this session will be to educate people and help them prepare themselves for considering a broader engagement in this sector.

Keynote third presentation:

The third session will focus on how to market and introduce the approach into a new country and to ensure initial implementations are successful and results are sustained. The development needs of the consulting community and the health sector of a country or client will also be addressed.

Throughout the day I will draw on recent research, case studies of many successful implementations and extracts from my new book ‘Pride and Joy’ which is a TOC novel written for the health sector.

Please note: The copyright of the material I will be presenting will remain with myself and QFI Consulting.