Registration, Networking & Breakfast

Chairs Opening Address

The Four Humber and North Yorkshire Acute Trusts have come together to form a provider alliance, The Humber and North Yorkshire Collaboration of Acute Providers (CAP). All four Trusts have committed to work together in partnership with each other and with all other system providers to deliver high quality and sustainable hospital services that meet the needs of the population, focusing on harmonising ways of working to reduced unwarranted variation, exploring opportunities to deliver more sustainable services at scale, ensuring these services can meet the needs of the population and ensure the best patient experience and outcomes. The HNY Elective Recovery Programme sits within the CAP and delivers Elective Recovery through 5 Core Elective Programmes.

The ambition of the HNY Elective Recovery Programme is to deliver the milestones set out in within the National elective strategy, which is to achieve reduction of zero of patients over 65 weeks by March 2024. Since April 2022, the waiting list continues to grow with c.179, 000 patients on the active waiting list for HNY at the end of January 2023 which is an increase by c.10, 000 patients since April 2022. HNY is committed to reducing the waiting list size and controlling growth which is fundamental to the recovery of our elective services, reducing long waits and sustaining an adequate waiting time for all new patients. As part of our outpatient transformation programme we have been piloting a digital method to support easier ways to provide referral advice and to conduct referral triaging whilst reducing the burden on administration. In addition, our Connected for Health network pilot is a novel way of working which does not follow the traditional referral pathway between primary and secondary care. Instead, the model sees hospital specialists or GPs with an Enhanced Role working in partnership with GPs to provide rapid advice, guidance, support and management plans for patients.

Stella Vig, National Clinical Director for Elective Care, NHS England (Confirmed)

In this presentation Sir James Mackey explains why focussing on validating outpatient waiting lists and reducing unnecessary follow-up appointments will help to benefit patients who’ve been waiting the longest. 

How personalised care leads to system wide and personal benefits in Elective Recovery, highlighting shared decision making, including in consultation decision support tools for high volume elective procedures. NHS England » Decision support tools

Q&A Panel

Morning Break, Networking & Refreshments

Chairs Morning Reflections

Musculoskeletal represents one of the biggest pain points for the NHS today. Nearly a third of the UK’s population has an MSK condition causing pain and reduced quality of life. Unfortunately, and despite of the strong demand, access to care continues to be hard and often exceeds 6 weeks for physiotherapy and 2 years for surgery.

Sword Health developed an in-home virtual solution that pairs members with physiotherapists and the Sword Health Digital Therapist, to deliver a clinically proven, personalized treatment plan that is more effective, more accessible and less expensive.

During the presentation, we will walk you through how an innovative member journey supported by a 30 patents technology can tackle waiting lists, highlighting the clinical and economical outcomes from 22 peer-reviewed papers. 

Will provide an oversight on the context of undertaking workforce transformation in Elective Care Recovery, followed by insight into how NHSE is addressing this through work programmes and some of the tools which can help address these challenges.

Why patients miss their appointments and what we can do about that

This presentation will discuss the use of images to support the clinical prioritisation of people on long waiting lists to support elective recovery. It will consider models of image taking services and identify some of the challenges of setting up teledermatology services identified by systems and approaches about how to overcome them.

Q&A Panel

Networking and Lunch

Chairs Afternoon Address

The presentation discusses the lessons from a pilot study utilizing digital tools that help manage demand and optimise referrals for high volume MSK conditions by addressing the issues around variation in clinical practice, standardising management and optimising care in the community.

Q&A Panel

Drinks Reception, Networking and End of Day