NPAG Clinical Engineering North Group

Sunday, 29 January 2012 19:21  |  Web master

The National Performance Advisory Group (NPAG) Clinical Engineering North Group has announced a fresh round of quarterly meetings for 2012, starting on Wednesday 21st March 2012 at Cardiac Services, Cheshire. Now in its 10th year, the group supports members in networking, sharing information and intelligence across a variety of clinical engineering service areas.

NPAG is a self-financing, not-for-profit NHS trading organisation providing consultancy services to public and private sector clients throughout the UK hosted by the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust. The group commenced benchmarking of NHS services in 1993 and has continued to develop a national programme of benchmarking and best value services in response to the demand from NHS managers for comparative data and processes to compare and improve their service functions and share good practice.

Benefits of NPAG membership include

• Regular quarterly meetings, including the September Annual Conference
• The opportunity to benchmark and compare services
• Sharing experience, policies and procedures
• Receiving presentations from guest speakers
• Identifying innovative and better working practice

Planned topics for meetings during 2012 include:

• Presentation from Cardiac Services
• Review of current KPIs for ‘Response Times’ and ‘Time to Completion’
• KPIs for PPM Management
• How PPM is done
• Presentation, ‘Communicating and Presenting Business Information’ Richard Steventon, Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust

NPAG meetings offer CPD certification as well as access to the NPAG NetWork and library, optional participation in other NPAG national benchmarking exercises and discounted delegate fees at NPAG events.

To register for all four meetings in 2012 complete and return the Registration Form: click here