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Webinar

RTT Performance Improvement

Date: Thursday 9th July

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Microsoft Teams

This webinar is free to attend for NHS staff

This session will share practical insights on how to build on this year’s progress, including:

  • Key lessons from a full year of RTT validation sprints

 

  • How to sustain and further improve your Trust’s RTT performance (targeting an additional 7% improvement in 2026/27)

  • Optimising your internal validation function and eliminating the need for prolonged external validation support

Whether you’re in performance, waiting list management, validation, or operational leadership, this session will give you actionable strategies you can apply immediately.

Speakers

Derek Hammond-Pears, Head of Information and Quality, Source Group

Derek joined the NHS in 2004 at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.  After several roles in Information and Audit he become a Senior Information Analyst in 2009 within the newly formed ‘Referral-to-Treatment Team’ where he developed the Trust’s suite of RTT reporting as well as leading its data through a wholescale PAS migration.

 

In 2016, as Elective Performance Manager, he was responsible for delivering across all of Electives as well as being Trust Lead for RTT. Then, after managing a complicated site-merger programme, he became Elective & Cancer Performance Manager in 2019. As well as overseeing a full refresh of Cancer reporting (as he had previously done for RTT), he also became the Trust Lead for Performance in Annual Planning.

 

Chris Brydon, Commercial Director, Source Group

Chris has more than a decade of experience working for organisations that support the NHS.  During his 10 years at Source Group, he has been integral in the advancement of our solutions and ensuring they are tailored to meet the client needs. Chris has account managed more than 75 validation projects, including multiple NHSEI commissioned national programmes.

 

About Source Group

Source Group are leaders in NHS data validation. With a 29 year history supporting the NHS, and 16 years with a strong focus on validation support. Source Group have provided validation to more than 102 Trusts, have validated 3.6 million pathways, have delivered 3 NHSEI national validation programmes, provided RTT training to more than 70 Trusts and have delivered validation projects using more than 21 EPR/PAS systems.

Over 250 NHS staff attended our last webinar, so we hope you can join us and hundreds of other NHS staff.

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