• Using the Productive Theatre principles to enable theatre teams to work more effectively together and improve the patient experience
• Focusing on the safety and outcome of surgical services and effective use of theatre time and staff experience
• Enabling significant financial savings by running theatres more safely, productively and efficiently
• Using Getting It Right First Time (GRIFT) to put clinicians and clinical leadership at the heart of change to realise real and sustainable improvements
• Identifying productivity and capacity opportunities to deliver sustainable improvement in RTT waiting lists

• Delivering a net zero NHS – The Perioperative perspective
• Single-use v. re-usable
• To re-cycle more - or use less
• Volatile Anaesthetic Gases – lowering emissions
• Operating Theatre Design - Carbon efficient ventilation
• Interprofessional collaboration - Stronger together
• Operating Theatre Staff – can we take a lead?

• Increasing theatre efficiency
• Improving working conditions in theatres
• Enhancing staff morale
• Reducing clinical waste

• The impact COVID has had on elective surgery and the scale of the challenge ahead
• The role tech has played in dealing with these challenges effectively
• How can Trusts maximise theatre capacity and utilisation and how can technology help
• How the use of a streamlined digital pre-operative assessment process ensures that patients are ready for surgery

• Becoming the first centre in England to install the da Vinci Xi robotic system
• Using the latest technology to cut and manipulate tissue in the same way as a surgeon would when carrying out open surgery
• Utilising da Vinci’s extended vision, 3D imagery and magnification to enable even greater precision in surgery work
• Reducing blood loss, improving recovery time and allowing surgery to take place via tiny incisions

• What is a smart theatre? 
• Approaches to make the smart theatre a “standard theatre” making it part of generic design considering:
  • Surgical engagement at the business case stage and during design development
  • Being clear on specific theatre functionality with a focus on how a theatre is used for each procedure type
  • Where does this fit in with “technology for teaching” 
• Procurement: choosing the right technology at beginning of concept for multi-use theatres

• Working with the NHS to maximise performance
• Rewarding hard work
• Aligning all the staff
• Maintaining NHS control

• Launching a project called Observation of Non-technical Skills and Teamwork (ONSeT) in operating theatres to monitor and evaluate the benefits of local Human Factors education
• Delivering lectures, workshops and simulation sessions to multidisciplinary teams
• Observing teams at work in operating theatres and applying validated observation tools to capture and articulate how clinical teams’ performance could be enhanced
• Emphasising person-level human factors rather than system level
• Assessing the perceived usefulness of the ONSeT project and its impact in helping during the pandemic

The Ascom Digistat Surgery solution will:

1. Enhance operation efficiency by providing digital support for the full perioperative process
2. Increase OR utilisation/usage
3. Minimise documentation time and errors
4. Minimise material and resource waste
5. Help to increase patient safety

• Addressing the growing waiting lists for surgery post Covid -19 pandemic
• “I am just an Anaesthetist”
• Secondary Care Lens to view Population Health
• Case Study of our journey from Perioperative to Population Health