The programme
09:00
Registration and Breakfast
Registration - Open from 9:00 am - Closes at 11:00 am
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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
Francesca Markland
Senior Programme Manager, Remote Monitoring & Virtual Wards
NHSE London Region Digital Transformation Team
Santosh Kumar
Lead Data Scientist
The Health Economics Unit, NHS (MLCSU)
Dr Reggie Sangha
Medical Director at Content Guru
& Doctor NHS
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)
- Santosh Kumar, Lead Data Scientist, The Health Economics Unit, NHS (MLCSU) (Confirmed)
- Dr Reggie Sangha, Medical Director at Content Guru & Doctor NHS (Confirmed)
10:55
Main Sponsor - Scaling Virtual Wards – A Two-Pronged Approach
Martin Taylor
Deputy CEO and Co-Founder
Content Guru
Main Sponsor - Content Guru
The healthcare sector is under immense pressure, with the NHS navigating reduced budgets and capacity challenges. In 2022, the NHS launched Virtual Wards in a bid to manage increasing demand without compromising patient care. As Virtual Wards rapidly expand to meet the NHS’s target of 50 beds per 100,000 people, understanding how to implement and operate Virtual Wards at scale is essential.
Despite Virtual Wards seeing some initial success, key areas for improvement have been identified. For example, the logistical aspects require meticulous planning and management. Conversely, the command centre of Virtual Wards should manage itself – with continuous data orchestration, allocating resources and updating patients automatically.
Join Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO and Co-Founder of Content Guru, for a guide on scaling Virtual Wards, building on examples of successful scaling elsewhere in the NHS.
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 - Overview of Oldham’s Hospital & Care @ Home and 2hr UCR
Case Study - Doccla
Overview of how doccla was implemented in Oldham and how this has delivered between the services.
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 - Taking an integrated approach to virtual wards
Laura Thompson
Director of Marketing
Access Group
Deborah Snook
Integrated Care Consultant
Access Group
Case Study - Access
How we can take a different look at how we deliver virtual wards, to work within existing systems and workflows. Reducing friction and making sure those providing care have the information they need to improve outcomes for people, regardless of which systems they use.
14:25
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Douglas Hamandishe
Chief Digital Officer/Broadcaster and Presenter
Context Heath and Centric Health Media
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
14:30
Case Study - Virtual care in the Canadian community and an innovative UK digital ICU recovery pathway
Michel Paquet
CEO and Founder
Aetonix
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.
14:50
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.
15:10
Case Study - The roll out of virtual wards across Leeds and West Yorkshire
Case Study - Inhealthcare
Alessia D'Angelo, senior sister for virtual wards at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Abigial Uttley, service manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust talk about the successful roll out of virtual wards across Leeds and West Yorkshire, in partnership with Inhealthcare, and the benefits to date.
15:30
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.
15:50
Canapés, Drinks and Networking
Canapés, Drinks and Networking
