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6th NHS Virtual Wards Conference: NHS Implementation and best practice
09:00 am
09 Jul, 2024
Radisson Blu Hotel, Manchester Airport
6th NHS Virtual Wards Conference: NHS Implementation and best practice
09:00 am
09 Jul, 2024
Radisson Blu Hotel, Manchester Airport
100
Delegates Registered
Job titles includes
Associate director of urgent and emergency care
Head of Operations Integrated Care
Head of Business Development
Improvement Manager
Head of Operations
Business Development Manager
Programme Manager for Virtual Wards
Deputy Director Transformation Programmes
Chief Executive Officer
Organisations Involved
Manchester University Foundation Trust Manchester Royal Infirmary
University College London Hospital
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
West Suffolk Hospital
Oxford University hospitals
East Surrey Hospital
Guys and St Thomas's NHS Trust
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
University Hospital of Bristol and Weston Trust
Current Landscape:
In recent years, the utilisation of virtual wards has undergone a notable surge. Originally conceived several years ago, virtual wards have progressively assumed a pivotal role, becoming increasingly prevalent against the backdrop of heightened pressures experienced by the NHS.
A virtual ward is a remote service that is designed to help patients manage their health in the comfort of their homes. NHS systems are asked to continue scaling up virtual wards, growing capacity to over 10,000 beds, with a longer-term ambition of reaching 40-50 virtual ward beds per 100,000 people.
Importance and Timeliness of the Event:
The Virtual Wards Conference aims to bring together senior healthcare professionals, policy leaders, and industry stakeholders to examine and tackle key challenges in the sector. By fostering collaboration and sharing knowledge among NHS peers, the conference aims to improve the virtual wards sector, leading to enhanced patient care.
This event serves as a timely platform to promote innovation and collaboration, crucial for the effective management of virtual wards within the NHS and the overall improvement of the healthcare industry.
Key Content Streams:
- Virtual Ward Planning and Implementation: creating understanding, confidence and credibility among patients and clinicians during the process of creating a virtual ward service for patients.
- The Future of Virtual Wards: the use of digital innovations to reduce pressures on the health and care system.
- Challenges and Opportunities of Virtual Wards: looking at the solutions to improve virtual wards, increasing their efficiency and ability to provide an effective pathway for both clinicians and patients and overcome any new and existing challenges.
- Workforce Narrative: implications of the workforce, how the NHS workforce long-term plan will play a role to better the virtual ward service.
Why Attend:
The Virtual Wards Conference North 2024 offers a unique platform for attendees to actively participate in shaping the future of virtual healthcare delivery within the NHS. By fostering collaboration, innovation, and knowledge-sharing, this event presents an opportunity for healthcare professionals to contribute to the improvement of patient care and the advancement of the healthcare industry.
We look forward to welcoming you to this transformative event. Come join us in forming a better future for the healthcare industry and the NHS.
Register now to be a part of this transformative event, where collective expertise meets innovation, and where the future of virtual healthcare
Headline Sponsor
Key Subjects
- Virtual Ward Planning and Implementation
- The Future of Virtual Wards
- Challenges and Opportunities of Virtual Wards
- Workforce Narrative
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....
Your Pass Includes:
- Multiple live keynote presentations
- Live examples of both NHS and Commercial best practice
- Breakfast, Lunch and Refreshments included
- Meet the supplier sessions.
- Networking opportunity
- Live Q&A sessions with all speakers on the day
- Drinks receptions (subject to event)
- CPD accreditation
- Prize draws
Speakers
Dr Robin Fackrell
Associate Medical Director and Clinical Lead for AcuteCare@Home (Virtual Wards), BSW Consultant Geriatrician
Sponsors & Partners
The Agenda
09:00
Registration and Breakfast
Registration - Open from 9:00 am - Closes at 11:00 am
All delegates must complete their registration process before the 11:00 AM cut-off time. Please arrive in a timely manner to allow for registration and to avoid any inconvenience. Delegates who arrive after the registration deadline will be refused entry to the event.
We appreciate your cooperation in helping us maintain the event's schedule and ensuring that everyone can fully participate in the Virtual Wards Conference. If you have any questions or require assistance, our event staff will be available to assist you with the registration process.
Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to an insightful and productive event together!
10:00
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
Douglas Hamandishe
Chief Digital Officer/Broadcaster and Presenter
Context Heath and Centric Health Media
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
10:05
Keynote Presentation - How do we develop the “Virtual Ward” workforce? Lessons so far and where are we heading? (Confirmed)
Jen Tomkinson
Associate Director NHS@home
Sirona care & health
How can we redesign models of care to attract & train our staff so our multi-disciplinary teams can support the virtual ward to be effective, safe and positive experience for staff, patients and their families?
Workforce is one of the largest challenges that NHS has to face in order to deliver and scale up virtual wards. Optimal models of delivery are evolving, as areas develop their virtual wards offer have led to variation in staffing levels.
There are a number of considerations for staffing models design and evolution, capability development and clinical leadership and this presentation will discuss local learning from the South West as we have evolved our virtual ward service in the last 18 months
10:25
The Challenges and Opportunities for Virtual Wards Panel Discussion
Andi Orlowski
Director
The Health Economics Unit
Martin Taylor
Deputy CEO and Co-Founder
Content Guru
Francesca Markland
Senior Programme Manager, Remote Monitoring & Virtual Wards
NHSE London Region Digital Transformation Team
Virtual wards are an effective way of delivering care whilst keeping patients out of the hospital and safe. The biggest challenges of virtual wards are managing inequalities and dealing with any technological issues patients could face, to overcome these challenges, and look at opportunities in the healthcare industry.
Panellists:
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Francesca Markland, Senior Programme Manager, Remote Monitoring & Virtual Ward, NHSE London Region Digital Transformation Team (Confirmed)
- Andi Orlowski, Director, The Health Economics Unit (Confirmed)
10:55
Main Sponsor - Content Guru
Martin Taylor
Deputy CEO and Co-Founder
Content Guru
Main Sponsor - Content Guru
11:15
Morning Break
Morning Break
12:15
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Douglas Hamandishe
Chief Digital Officer/Broadcaster and Presenter
Context Heath and Centric Health Media
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
12:20
Case Study - Doccla
Case Study - Doccla
12:40
Case Study - Homelink
Case Study - Homelink
13:00
Keynote Presentation - Virtual Ward Patient Feedback Challenges and Success from an Acute General Hospital (Confirmed)
Chris Prada
Virtual Ward Service Lead
Northampton General Hospital
Chris Johnson
Head of Patient Experience & Engagement
Northampton General Hospital
Virtual Ward Patient Feedback Challenges and Success from an Acute General Hospital who have implemented Virtual Wards across various specialties.
13:20
Case Study - Access
Case Study - Access
13:40
Networking and Lunch
Networking and Lunch
14:40
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Douglas Hamandishe
Chief Digital Officer/Broadcaster and Presenter
Context Heath and Centric Health Media
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
14:45
Case Study - Aetonix
Case Study - Aetonix
15:05
Keynote Presentation - Robin Fackrell , Associate Medical Director BSW ICB and Consultant Physician & Specialist in Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders BSW ICB and Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)
Dr Robin Fackrell
Associate Medical Director and Clinical Lead for AcuteCare@Home (Virtual Wards), BSW Consultant Geriatrician
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB. Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bath
The future of virtual wards
To discuss how the expansion of virtual wards will help patients manage their health and care in the comfort of their own homes. This is considered an important part of NHS planning. Virtual wards have been created as part of a solution to address the pressures of backlogs, staff shortages and waiting times.
15:25
Case Study - Inhealthcare
Case Study - Inhealthcare
15:45
Keynote Presentation - REACT: Learning from implementing a palliative care virtual ward (Confirmed)
Dr Sarah Holmes
Chief Medical Officer
Marie Curie
The Responsive Emergency Assessment and Community Team (REACT) launched as a pilot in 2022, aims to reduce unplanned and avoidable hospital admissions for patients in their last year of life. We will share initial data demonstrating some of the successes of the project, as well as challenges and learning.
16:05
Canapés, Drinks and Networking
Canapés, Drinks and Networking
17:30
End of Day
End of Day
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