Registration & Networking

Chair Opening Address

• Introduction and central theme
• Virtual Care in context of 10 year plan and its delivery
• Importance of Virtual Care and the function of integration and collaboration
• Examples from my experience
• Conclusion
• Q&A

The session will delve into the opportunities of implementing Point-of-care testing across diverse healthcare settings. With a focus on improving patient outcomes, diagnostics and care accessibility, our line-up of expert panellists will explore key themes, including:

• Clinical Impact
• Operational Considerations
• Integration and Scalability
• Regulatory and Financial Aspects                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Panellists:

• Alison Davis, Clinical Quality Improvement Lead, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (Confirmed)
• Clarisse Ann Lagman, RN, BSN, Manager, Point of Care Testing and Phlebotomy (Transformation and Delivery) (Confirmed)
• Esther Birrell, Lead nurse Paediatric virtual ward, UHL University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust (Confirmed)

Morning Break & Networking

Chair Morning Reflection

Case Study - Doccla

Speakers:

Rebecca Edwards: MRI H@H Acute Service Lead​ & Prasanna Rao-Balakrishna: Joint Medical Lead MFT City-Wide H@H

Case Study - Ortus-iHealth

This session will explore the integration and collaboration between all Urgent and Emergency Care departments and Virtual Wards. It will highlight how enhanced pathways facilitate timely care, reduce pressure on emergency departments, and ensure optimal patient flow. The presentation will look into the ways in which these pathways have been integrated and collaborated to deliver the best care at home.

Case Study - Livework

Lunch & Networking

Chair Afternoon Address

Case Study - Luscii HealthTech

Discover how South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Luscii, is reshaping at-home care for asthma and cardiac patients. We’ll show how Luscii’s app works with the KardiaMobile ECG device to bring real-time monitoring into patients’ homes, reducing hospital visits and empowering self-management. You’ll hear about our co-design process with Same Day Emergency Care teams, GPs, and patients, and learn how the Atrial Fibrillation pathway was tailor made to meet individual needs.

Key takeaways:

· Hospital at Home in action: A case study of patient referral, onboarding, and follow-up for asthma and cardiac care

· Luscii + KardiaMobile ECG: How real-time data flows from patients’ homes to clinicians, enabling early intervention.

· Co-design benefits: Examples of how collaboration improved Same Day Emergency Care, GP workflows, and patient experience.

· Measurable impact: Reduced A&E attendances, better asthma compliance, and faster cardiac responses through digital monitoring.

The idea of virtual ward as it operates in Medway NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is a concept that breed the use of technology to offer hospital treatment and care to patient, at the comfort of their own homes.

It is a hospital level care that make us of electronic monitoring device to offer remote monitoring, while offering best of care. SMART virtual ward is unique in MFT because it is multidisciplinary, involving all the medical and surgical teams working together to offer acute response, recovery and rehabilitation to patient who are ordinarily should have been admitted in hospital bed; hence the name SMART (surgical medical acute recovery/rehabilitation/recovery team).

This has successfully kept patients out of hospital, reduce front door pressure in A and E and acute areas, decongest in-patient beds, free up hospital bed for more acutely unwell patient and ensure hospital avoidance- especially with our community virtual ward team in Medway and Swale. This model has also enabled the team to established various patient centred pathways, that allow acutely unwell patient to receive hospital level treatment and care without a necessary need for hospital admission, while using safety net as a key for escalation in event of deterioration.

This dynamic group of panellists will explore the practicality of adopting a team-of-teams approach to implement and scale virtual care across the NHS. Bringing together leaders from clinical, technological and operational domains the session will dive into:

• Defining the Team-of-Teams Model
• Integration Across the NHS
• Technology as an Enabler
• Workforce Dynamics
• Real-world applications and Outcomes

Our panellists will discuss and give insight into whether this approach is an aspirational goal or a practical solution for the modern healthcare challenges.

Panellists:

• Tracy Stocker, Director of Operations for Flow and Integration, Medway NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)
• Lina Ramsden, Regional Virtual Ward Lead, NHS England (Confirmed)
• Adrian Matthews, Consultancy Head of Yorkshire & Humber Region, NECS Consultancy (Confirmed)

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

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