The Second Annual Operating Theatres North Show 2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester 12 September 2024, 9:00am - 4:00pm
8:45am
Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Mark Rigby, Head of Theatre Services, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
9:40am
Leading Progressive Change: Transforming Elective Care to Support our Patients and Colleagues
- Addressing the waiting times in elective care
- Look at best practice solutions to improve patient experience
- Creating a holistic approach to patient pathways
Stella Vig, National Clinical Director for Elective Care, NHS England
10:00am
Supporting Theatre Efficiency Performance to Overhaul Elective Care
- Understand key strategies and approaches to work through Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) recommendations through refreshed data for enhancing efficiency in elective care within theatre settings
- Explore innovative approaches and case studies showcasing the successful implementation of GIRFT recommendations to optimise theatre performance and streamline elective care workflows
- The necessity of teamwork across different specialities and achieving lasting enhancements in theatre efficiency and elective care
Mark Cheetham, National Clinical Lead, GIRFT
10:20am
A Unified Approach to Elective Care: In-Week Support via the Independent Sector
- Demonstrating how the NHS can do 40,000 more elective appointments a week without burning out the workforce
- Looking at how the NHS can access the ‘in-week’ support it needs to clear complex elective outliers with multi-morbidities
- Increasing capacity beyond surgery and outpatients – understanding how interlinked services can run more effectively with independent sector support
Martin Watts, Director of Clinical Services, Medacs Healthcare
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
Day Surgery, the Why, the What & the How
- The rationale for optimising high-quality day surgery in the UK
- What can be accomplished within the constraints of day surgery
- Maximising delivery of day surgery - overcoming barriers to change
David Bunting, President, British Association of Day Surgery
11:50am
Revolutionising Perioperative Care: Enhancing Team Culture and Efficiency through Pre-screening and Optimisation
- Thinking perioperatively: changing how we think about the process
- Improving the team culture to benefit everyone
- Pre-screening & optimisation: the key to waiting list efficiency (and so much more)
Thomas Teare, Consultant Anaesthetist & Peri-Operative Clinical Lead, Centre for Perioperative Care
12:10pm
Improving Safety and Sustainability in the OR – Innovations in Managing Surgical Fluid Waste
Frances Ryan, Product Manager - Surgical Technologies, Stryker
12:30pm
Questions and Answers Session
12:50pm
Lunch & Networking
2:00pm
Climate Change : A Healthcare Emergency
- To educate and inspire leaders within the operating theatre to drive sustainability in their working practices
- Understand the importance of adopting green incentive initiatives in all aspects of work in the operating theatre
- Reducing carbon emissions using data-driven decision-making policies
Elaine Winkley, Chair of Faculty Sustainable Healthcare, Health Education England
2:25pm
Panel Discussion: Emerging Technologies and Innovations Shaping the Future of Surgery
Thomas Teare, Consultant Anaesthetist & Peri-Operative Clinical Lead, Centre for Perioperative Care
Daniel Jones, Government Affairs Director - UK & Ireland, Stryker
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3:05pm
Break and Networking
3:40pm
Care Bundle Interventions In the Perioperative Environment: ‘Preventing Surgical Site Infection
- Examine the difference between a care bundle and a surgical site infection bundle
- Explore evidence-based practice interventions within the perioperative environment
- Outline the role of the perioperative team in the implementation of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) ‘Care Bundles’
- Discuss standardised practice, communication and implementation leading to the reduction of surgical site infections
Lindsay Keeley, Patient Safety & Quality Lead, AFPP
4:05pm
Optimising Patient Outcomes Following Surgery Through Surgical Site Infection Surveillance and Monitoring
- Describe how the National Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service supports hospitals improve patients’ surgical outcomes.
- Identify how surgical teams can minimise the risk of patients developing surgical site infections.
- Examine the impact of COVID on SSI surveillance.
Pauline Harrington, National SSI surveillance Manager, UK Health Security Agency
4:30pm
Chair’s Closing Remarks
4:40pm
Close
*programme subject to change without notice