Registration, Networking & Breakfast

Chairs Opening Address

Immersive technologies have the power to revolutionise health and care education and improve the quality, safety and effectiveness of care delivery. The Health Education England Technology Enhanced Learning team has contributed to key strategic publications  and are helping to accelerate the evidence-based introduction of extended reality (XR) in health and care education, training and practice. This presentation will describe how this programme is being implemented and illustrate how early adoption is being supported across education and healthcare provider contexts.

The art of the possible – Using technology to reduce GP visits, acute admissions and ED attendance This presentation describes the services provided to people in their own homes, those at the end of their life and residents in care homes by the staff in the Digital Care Hub (DCH) at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Our Joint Venture (Immedicare) was launched in 2011 and now supports 20,000 residents living in almost 800 care homes across England. Delivered remotely via the DCH, it provides immediate access 24/7, to a clinical opinion through secure video conferencing or via dedicated telephone lines. The model seeks to promote independence and quality of life whilst reducing hospital admissions, emergency department attendance and primary care visits. It is highlighted as an emerging model of care in the 5 Year Forward View and the NHS 10 year plan now encourages the use of technology and digital healthcare. A number of additional services are delivered from the hub and these include Goldline – a service co-created with patients, GPs, commissioners, and a local hospice which specifically addresses needs of patients approaching end of life and their carers. MyCare24 – a service which supports people remotely in their own homes 24/7, with COPD (6000 people), Parkinson’s and for any person turned around in ED for 72 hours post discharge.

2 year funded NIHR project to design, deploy and evaluate a digital health intervention to support long covid clinics across the UK: Combining research and service delivery. 

Q&A Panel

Morning Break, Networking & Refreshments

Chairs Morning Reflection

Case Study

The East of England Stroke Telemedicine Partnership was established in November 2010 to provide out of hours stroke expertise to 7 of our region’s hospitals. Our rurality and lack of stroke consultants presents challenges in ensuring that eligible patients presenting with an acute ischaemic stroke have access to thrombolysis. Telemedicine allows us to support local hospitals with secure access to a stroke consultant to the local decision making process

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Networking and lunch

Chairs Afternoon Address

As a market the NHS frequently appears dominated by leading corporations, often with poor reception for SME’s - so it’s important to understand the role and position of SME’s in developing innovation and driving adoption. The presentation will focus on the ‘How to’ elements that are key to a successful SME based approach.

We share lessons learnt from our programme of auditing nearly 6000 remote GP consultations conducted as part of the National COVID-19 Response Services.

In this era of increasing use of remote consultations and increasing digital health care, we share our experience of adapting existing (pre-pandemic) clinical assurance tools to achieve clinical assurance of post-pandemic remote health care.  We believe our programme of both audio and notes review of a remote GP consultations can improve patient safety, quality of care and provide critical and timely feedback to organizations on the frontline use of new technology serving as adjuncts to the remote clinical encounter.

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