Registration, Networking and Breakfast

Chairs Opening Address

Collaborative ICS (place based) challenges and how we've overcome this to create the opportunity to develop a coordinated approach to caring for more patients outside of hospital in an environment familiar to them such as their own home​.

Within this panel discussion our panel of experts will be discussing:

1. Definition and Purpose of virtual wards in healthcare.
2. Implementation challenges and considerations.
3. Patient populations suitable for virtual wards and remote monitoring.
4. Outcomes and efficacy compared to traditional care models.
5. Future prospects and integration of virtual wards in healthcare systems

Panellists:

Francesca Markland, Senior Programme Manager, Remote Monitoring & Virtual Wards, NHSE London Region Digital Transformation Team (Confirmed)

The healthcare sphere is at a critical junction. As the NHS grapples with increased demand, reduced budgets, and capacity challenges, technology emerges as a key enabler in both pandemic recovery and ushering in a new era of healthcare efficiency and productivity.

Hospital overcrowding remains a significant issue, hindering patient experiences and outcomes. Leveraging IOT devices is key to extending care beyond hospital walls. Acute Virtual Wards, powered by continuous monitoring devices and a central ‘Command Centre’, facilitate real-time patient tracking, data analysis, and timely intervention. The fusion of technology, bolstered by virtual concepts such as virtual waiting rooms and remote consultations, ensures patient safety whilst empowering healthcare professionals to manage increasing populations more effectively.

Join Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO of Content Guru, to discover the key to strategically implemented IOT into Integrated Care Systems, delivering more streamlined patient experiences and driving savings through efficiency gains.

Q&A Panel

Chairs Morning Reflection

Virtual wards enabled by technology are developing across the country building upon existing models of clinical care. The opportunities for improved outcomes and experience for patients are large with impact on system pressure considered a priority particularly with winter coming. Building onto existing complex healthcare services is however challenging and this case study will reflect on learning through the development of a collaborative integrated model in Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire through service improvement, workforce development and user design.

Case Study - PMD Solutions

PMD Solutions have innovation funding of <£250k per healthcare system to implement a partnership-based pathway to reduce respiratory admissions this winter. PMD are category creators of wearable and wearable respiratory rate monitoring. Called RespiraSense, it’s the worlds’ first CE/FDA accredited for motion-tolerant trend monitoring, enabling Hospital teams and virtual wards to monitor patients with conditions such as COPD, asthma, pneumonia, flu, sepsis and heart failure, enabling intervention to be triggered upto 12 hours earlier than pulse oximetry alerts. Healthcare systems across England saw respiratory admissions increase by 80% from August – January last year, an equivalent to 500 admissions per system, accounting for 15 Hospital beds. Proven at scale in all Hospitals across Ireland, RespiraSense reduces readmissions by 50% and average hospital length of stay by 1 day. It will enable teams to avoid at least 250 re-admissions freeing-up 7-15 beds per ward.

Our current pressures often mean that we have to rapidly move to the next project, or system deployment, so does this result in us doing enough benefits realisation to really influence our future work? An exploration of benefits realisation, structuring this approach, with a specific focus on the carbon footprint.

Case Study - HomeLink Healthcare

Q&A Panel

Lunch, Networking & Refreshments

Chairs Afternoon Address

Panellists:

• Jardine Barrington-Cook, Head of Interoperability and Data, Access HSC
• Umesh Gadhvi, CDIO at North East London NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Lionel Tarassenko, Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Oxford

Innovating Healthcare: The Transformative Role of Virtual Wards in the NHS

Join us for a captivating session exploring how innovation is reshaping healthcare delivery through NHS virtual wards. In an ever-evolving healthcare landscape, virtual wards have emerged as a groundbreaking solution. This session will delve into the transformative power of virtual wards, showcasing real-world examples and success stories. We will discuss the benefits they offer, including enhanced patient care, reduced hospitalization rates, and improved resource allocation. Discover how innovation is not just changing the way healthcare is delivered but also improving the lives of patients and healthcare professionals in the NHS.

Case Study - Aetonix

The successful deployment and use of Remote Patient Management in Canadian Home Care and how an ICU Recovery Care pathway helps UK patients to recover at home.

A discussion on the specific challenges in the design and expansion of Virtual Wards in an Integrated Care Service with multiple providers focusing on four different access:

• The approach to providers at different levels of maturity.
• Effective Governance Structures and provider engagement
• Procurement of Remote Monitoring Solutions

Measuring Acuity of patients in a fair and consistent way across providers.

Q&A Panel

Drinks Reception, Networking and End of Day