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NHS Virtual Wards: Managing Demand and Empowering Patients
10:50 am
08 Nov, 2022
Virtual Event: GoTo
NHS Virtual Wards: Managing Demand and Empowering Patients
10:50 am
08 Nov, 2022
Virtual Event: GoTo
Virtual wards allow patients to get the care they need at home safely and conveniently, rather than being in hospital. NHS England and Improvement
Virtual wards have been set up and used in the UK for some time now, but the recent Covid-19 pandemic significantly accelerated the awareness and use of virtual wards across the UK. New research and pilots have been launched and our upcoming conference aims to showcase key findings and insights since their conception.
Throughout the recent pandemic, virtual wards were used in a number of ways to help to manage demand, and ultimately keep both NHS staff and patients safe from potential infection. Providing care in appropriate places, reducing infection transmission, and shortening the length of hospitals stay is just a few examples of how virtual wards helped to underpin the fight against covid-19.
Our upcoming conference will provide a timely platform for NHS managers and leaders to meet virtually and share key insights, while listening to an expert panel of guest speakers from across NHS and industry.
NHS Virtual Wards: Managing Demand and Empowering Patients Key Subjects
Events topics and take aways:
- Virtual Wards: Story so far and future forecasts
- Sharing best practice: Learning from the leaders
- Workforce perspective: Feedback from staff and patients
- Accessibility: A focus on inequality and patient engagement
Who will Attend
• Chief Executives
• Chief Information Officers
• Chief Medical Officers
• Chief Operating Officers
• Chief Technology Officers
• Clinical Directors/Heads/Managers/Leads
• Commissioning Directors/Heads/Managers
• Deputy Directors
• Digital Directors/Heads/Managers
• Digital Inclusion Directors/Heads/Managers
• Digital Strategy Directors/Heads/Managers
• Directors of Delivery
• Directors of Nursing
• Directors of Performance and Improvement
• General Managers
• Governance Directors/Heads/Managers
• GP Commissioners
• GPs
• Informatics Directors/Heads/Managers
• Information Assurance Directors/Heads/Managers
• Information Management Directors/Heads/Managers
• Innovation Directors/Heads/Managers
• IT Directors/Heads/Managers
• IT Security Directors/Heads/Managers
• Medical Directors
• Operations Directors/Heads/Managers
• Performance Directors/Heads/Managers
• Policy Directors/Heads/Managers
• Practice Managers
• Programme/Project Directors/Heads/Managers
• Public Health Directors/Heads/Managers
• Service Directors/Heads/Managers
• Strategic Planning Directors/Heads/Managers
• Transformation Directors/Heads/Managers
Your Pass Includes....
If you are an NHS employee, simply interested in the progression of the virtual wards programme, or are a senior leader that is currently implementing a virtual ward, this event will offer high value take away content and the chance to share your work and engage directly with guest speakers.
Attendance is exclusively for the NHS and is complimentary for the sector to attend.
Speakers
Chris Elkin
Head of Healthcare
Greg Edwards
Chief Medical Officer
Jill Ireland
CEO and Clinical Director
Jim Ritchie
Chief Clinical Information Officer
Louise Taylor
Lead Research Nurse
Sponsors & Partners
The Agenda
10:25
Virtual wards: Story so far and what’s next
Jane Sproat
Assistant Director, Virtual Ward Programme
NHS England
Virtual wards: Story so far and what’s next
Delivering the national virtual wards strategy
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance to support all Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) with virtual ward programmes.
The guidance, entitled supporting information for ICS leads: enablers for success: virtual wards including hospital at home comes in support of NHSEI asking all ICSs to extend or introduce the virtual ward model. The document aims to support strategic and financial decisions, and the planning and implementation of the model.
10:50
The Pan London Cardiac Virtual Ward Deployment
Dr. Debashish Das
Consultant Cardiologist & CEO of Ortus
Ortus Solutions Limited
Nathan Roberts
Cardiology Clinical Network Manager
Barts Health NHS Trust
We're pleased to be presenting a case study of the London wide, transformation of perioperative care spanning the region's Heart Centres.
We'll cover transformation, pathway re-design and automation, plus the implementation of technology innovation, new SOPs and workforce practices. It's all focussed on preventing unnecessary admissions, identifying & taking action for patients at risk, and facilitating early discharge. A practical walkthrough of real world problems and solutions.
11:15
Case Study - Ascom
Sophie Evans
Clinical Consultant
Ascom
Fiona Kirk
Clinical Consultant
Ascom
Ascom
11:40
Developing Digital and AI Literacy in the health workforce
Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas
Head of Blended Learning
Health Education England
Developing Digital and AI Literacy in the health workforce
The presentation will provide an overview of the processes and tools that Health Education is utilising to develop the digital readiness required for the provision of contemporary care.
It will explore the definition of digital literacy and the resources available to the workforce for their development.
It will further examine ongoing work in the Digital, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology in Education -DART- ED to provide the workforce with appropriate level of knowledge and skills in this area.
These topics will be closely linked to implications for care provision in virtual wards.
12:05
Case Study - Piota
Chris Elkin
Head of Healthcare
Piota Healthcare Apps
Piota
12:30
Break
Break
12:40
Case Study - Capita/MA
Neena Edwards
Senior Consultant
Methods Analytics
Stephen Boyle
Market Development Director (Health & Welfare)
Capita
Case Study - Capita/MA
13:05
Our Virtual Ward story, so far……
Angela Gregson
Clinical Development Lead, Virtual Ward (Frailty)
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Angela Gregson: Background to the development of the Virtual Ward (Frailty) in Leeds, operationalisation, performance, outcomes, even better if and next steps….
13:30
Setting, scaling and delivering virtual wards within the NHS and the results and outcomes that are driven by virtual ward pathways.
Jill Ireland
CEO and Clinical Director
HomeLink Healthcare
Jill Ireland, CEO and Clinical Director at HomeLink Healthcare will discuss setting, scaling and delivering virtual wards within the NHS and the results and outcomes that are driven by virtual ward pathways.
13:55
Models of virtual and remote care at the Northern Care Alliance
Jim Ritchie
Chief Clinical Information Officer
Northern Care Alliance
Virtual wards and remote care can be applied in different ways to support improved patient care. In this presentation we share some of the approaches that the Northern Care Alliance has adopted to innovate the management of patients with chronic diseases and to enhance access to tertiary care advice for in-patients in the Greater Manchester region.
14:20
Enhancing peri-operative care through virtual wards: Findings from an interim analysis
Greg Edwards
Chief Medical Officer
Doccla
Louise Taylor
Lead Research Nurse
Doccla
Enhancing peri-operative care through virtual wards: Findings from an interim analysis
14:45
Oximetry@home - Achieving Virtual, Safe and Compassionate Patient Care
Kirsty Osborn
Deputy Director Urgent Care Derbyshire
DHU Healthcare
This presentation gives an overview of a hugely successful Virtual Ward service which commenced in the early stages of the COVID pandemic.
The ability to utilise elements of a virtual ward environment ensured that our most vulnerable COVID positive patients could be managed in their home environment, reducing the risk to themselves and the need for hospital admission.
The service has been a core and integrated element of our countywide red hub and visiting service and COVID medicines delivery unit. Patients are provided with an information pack, following a clinical assessment, which includes a pulse oximeter and receive planned telephone consultations by an Advanced Practitioner.
At the height of the pandemic the virtual ward was caring for more than 150 patients and continues to observe very positive outcomes in ensuring any deterioration is recognised early and patients feel supported during their illness.
15:10
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