Manager’s/LOOP Forum, 27th November 2015
Rooms 11 A/B, ACC Liverpool, Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 4FP
Leading and Managing the Orthoptic Team Through Change
Final Agenda
Chair of morning session: Jane Hanley, Head Orthoptist, Belfast Hospital
0930 – 1000 Registration and refreshments - Galleria
1000 – 1005 Welcome to all and who’s in the room? Any other agenda items to add?
1000 – 1045 Shelagh Morris, Deputy Chief AHP Officer NHS England followed by Q&A
1045– 1130 Clare McGartland, MBE, Lead AHP Consultant, Public Health Agency, Northern
Ireland – Making the Change in Career from Orthoptics and Q&A
1145 -1200 Coffee/tea break
1200 – 1300 BIOS Census of services: Table discussion of issues raised by Survey– Julie
Cartledge & Anita McCallum
1315 Any AOB agenda items for discussion; Placements – Alison Stanley – All
1315 – 1400 Lunch
Chair of Afternoon session: Sonia MacDiarmid, Advanced Orthoptist, Warrington & Halton
1400 – 1415 LOOP business – election of Steering Group and confirming aims, objectives and
modus operandi – Julie Cartledge
1415 – 1430 Creating a Compelling Business Case – Sonia MacDiarmid
1430 – 1445 Exemptions Project Update – Claire Saha
1445 – 1500 Nystagmus Pathway update – Julie Owen
1500 – 1515 Tea break
1515 – 1600 Vision Screening – Anita McCallum/Julie Cartledge. Survey on contract losses/wins,
staff changes & redeployment etc. Lessons learnt from commissioners.
Local Update from Cambridgeshire – Tracy Crowley
Discussion of other scenarios and plan of action
1600 - 1615 Orthoptic Codes and Agreement on Terminology – Joy White & Rowena
McNamara
1615 – 1630 AOB/actions
1630 FINISH