The NHS Workforce Conference 2021: Putting people at the forefront of plans

Workforce & Care Integration

08:00 am
21 Sep, 2021
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester

The NHS Workforce Conference 2021: Putting people at the forefront of plans

Workforce & Care Integration

08:00 am
21 Sep, 2021
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester

The NHS Workforce Conference 2021: Putting people at the forefront of plans

Our NHS is made up of 1.3 million people who care for the people of this country with skill, compassion and dedication. We must make the NHS an employer of excellence – valuing, supporting, developing and investing in our people. NHS England and Improvement

We are hugely excited to announce our first post covid, in-person event, our Putting people at the forefront of plans: The NHS Workforce Strategy Congress will take place in central Manchester, Chamber of Commerce on September 21st 2021.

The new NHS people plan sets out actions to support transformation across the whole NHS with a particular focus on;

  • Driving more people into training and education, and recruitment to ensure that NHS services are appropriately staffed
  • Embracing new ways of working in teams, across organisations and sectors, and supported by technology
  • Providing a compassionate and inclusive culture building on the motivation at the heart of our NHS to look after and value its people, create a sense of belonging and promote a more inclusive service and workplace so that our people will want to stay.

During the COVID-19 response, NHS staff have shown energy, creativity and drive in finding solutions to new problems. The NHS needs to harness that, as part of our commitment to make real and lasting change for our people.

Our NHS Workforce Conference 2021: Putting people at the forefront of plans will provide NHS workforce leaders with a timely and safe environment to listen learn and engage with 8 sector leading guest speakers, 5 innovative solution providers and over 150 peers from across the NHS.

NHS Managers and leaders are provided with fully funded and CPD accredited attendance, places are very limited due to COVID19 restrictions so please get in touch to register your place today.

Benefits of attendance:

  • Listen to the latest policy developments and live best practice sharing sessions
  • Input directly to the discussions and panel debate sessions
  • Take part in engaging and collaborative networking sessions with public sector peers from across multiple originations and regions
  • Gain 8 CPD Points
  • Meet with 10 innovative and strategically chosen commercial providers that are helping to drive innovation within the public sector
  • Enjoy hot breakfast and lunch provided on the day along with all the coffee you can drink.

The NHS Workforce Conference 2021: Putting people at the forefront of plans

View our Safety and Sanitation Measures at our upcoming in-person events: https://www.convenzis.co.uk/safety-and-sanitation-measures/

Who will Attend

  • Chairs
  • Chief Executives
  • Chief Nurses/Directors of Nursing
  • Clinical Commissioning Group Members
  • Clinical Directors/Leaders
  • Commercial Directors/Managers
  • Contracts Directors/Managers
  • Director/Heads of Workforce and HR
  • Director/Heads of Operations
  • Directors /Heads of Finance
  • Directors/Heads of Commissioning/Procurement
  • Directors/Heads of Efficiency and Productivity
  • Directors/Heads of Organisational Development
  • Directors/Heads of Patient Engagement
  • Directors/Heads of Policy
  • Directors/Heads of Service Transformation
  • Directors/Heads of Staff Engagement/Training/HR
  • Directors/Heads of Strategy and Transformation
  • Estates and Facilities Directors/Managers
  • Finance Directors
  • Head of Commissioning Support Units
  • Improvement Programme Managers/Directors
  • NHS Trust Directors and Senior Managers
  • Operations/Performance Directors
  • Pharmacy Directors and Heads of Medicines Management
  • Service Improvement Directors

Sponsors & Partners

The programme

08:00

Registration, Networking & Breakfast

09:00

Chair Professor Wendy Dearing, Dean: Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Confirmed)

09:05

Keynote Presentation Mark Lever, Chief Executive, Helpforce (Confirmed) The Importance of Volunteers Within The National Health Service Tackling the challenges facing our NHS needs radical thinking and multiple solutions. But there’s one already available that we’re not using to anywhere near its full potential – volunteers. Mark will discuss: The importance of volunteers within the health service: how integral they are to ensuring the best possible outcomes The value volunteers bring for staff, patients, and wider communities The role that volunteers must play in the NHS’ recovery from the pandemic and its long term sustainable future

09:25

Speaker Presentation NHS Workforce Alliance Stuart Watkins, Strategic Business Manager at Crown Commercial Service (Confirmed) Bringing together people who Care The NHS Workforce Alliance is part of the NHS and we are here to help you build and maintain a sustainable workforce. We bring together people who care, to provide you with a wealth of trusted workforce procurement and commercial expertise. Therefore, the purpose of the presentation is to make you aware of how we can help you today to address some of your most pressing workforce challenges.

09:45

Speaker Presentation John Lodge & Daniela Valdes from NHS England and Improvement (Confirmed) Skills Sharing on Hexitime-Moving Resources and Moving Mindsets from competition to collaboration One of the positives of the COVID response has been a preparedness to collaborate across boundaries, both real and imagined. In the next phase, with a more depleted workforce, this becomes all the more challenging and important. This session will offer you practical wisdom and experience on how to do this within your own organisations and network at little to no cost. You will hear examples and experiences and connect with a national network of like-minded peers.

10:05

Case Study Main Sponsor Francisco Munoz, Business Development Director at Acacium Group (Confirmed) Solving the Workforce Challenges for Reset and Recovery The workforce is the biggest challenge facing the NHS in a post-pandemic world. The collaboration will be key to recovery, but traditionally conflicting interests have always restricted this. So how can we use the lessons in collaboration that we learned throughout the pandemic to ensure the long-term recovery of our health service?

10:25

Q&A Panel

10:40

Morning Break, Networking & Refreshments

11:30

Chair Professor Wendy Dearing, Dean: Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Confirmed)

11:35

Case Study Emma Thomas, Senior Manager for Leadership, Management and Development at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Rhiannon Windsor, Head of People, OD and Partnering at NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, and CMP’s Richard Peachey, Head of Business Development (Confirmed) A new approach to resolution in the NHS – a view from NHS Wales NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership have partnered with CMP to develop an all Wales mediation service, this session will be led by Rhiannon Windsor, Head of People, OD and Partnering at NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, and CMP’s Richard Peachey, Head of Business Development.

11:55

Richard Price, Learning Technologies Advisor at Health Education England (Confirmed) How is technology-enhanced learning supporting the NHS training recovery? The pandemic has significantly reduced clinical placement capacity and reduced the diversity of clinical cases. Discover how Health Education England has worked with universities, NHS Trusts and trainees to ensure their continued successful education, supported by the latest technology such as virtual and augmented reality.

12:20

Case Study James Lock, CEO at Altrix (Confirmed) The Off-framework Leakage Problem – How Technology and Dynamic Pricing Can Help Eradicate High Cost, Off-Framework Supply

12:45

Q&A Panel

13:00

Networking & Lunch

13:45

Chair Professor Wendy Dearing, Dean: Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Confirmed)

13:55

Jethro Bremner-Allison, Business Development Manager at NHS Staff Benefits (Confirmed) NHS Staff Benefits: Providing NHS Trusts with a Nil-Cost Employee Benefit portal filled with over 350+ different exclusive NHS offers. We explore how other NHS Trusts are successfully using NHS Staff Benefits at nil cost to engage with employees, how we operate and how you can use internal communications to make sure your staff don’t miss out on this service.

14:20

Q&A, Prize Give Away, Refreshments & Close of Day

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