• Understand the core goals of the Reforming Elective Care plan  
• Appreciate how patient experience, choice, and digital empowerment are central
• Explore what operational reform will look like in theatres and elective pathways

• Provide an overview of how digital and data strategies are currently being applied across London hospital operating theatre environments
• Explore how theatre data is being used to improve utilisation, patient flow, scheduling, and clinical decision-making within complex hospital systems
• Share practical insights on collaboration between clinical teams and digital teams

• How minimally invasive surgery is changing theatre demands
• The role of pre- and post-operative community pathways
• Improving turnover and reducing delays

• Understand the end-to-end surgical pathway and its impact on patient outcomes 
• Identify best-practice interventions that support safe and effective same-day surgery 
• Evaluate how pathway redesign can drive efficiency and capacity across surgical services

• Describe the evolving landscape of surgical safety through the lens of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and NatSSIPs2, and how these national frameworks can connect safety science with day-to-day practice
• Apply systems thinking and human factors principles to identify risks, strengthen teamwork, and design safer, more resilient surgical systems
• Evaluate how restorative just culture approaches can enhance staff wellbeing, learning, and improvement in perioperative settings
• Explore data-driven strategies for measuring safety culture and improvement impact
• Commit to practical next steps for embedding sustainable, learning-focused safety culture within their own surgical services and organisations

• How precision perioperative medicine can predict and reduce complications
• Biomarkers, risk modelling and data-driven decision-making
• Personalised pathways to reduce length of stay

John Jeans, Practicing Consultant Anaesthetist and National Lead, the National CLEAR Programme, 33n

Toni Bell, Lead Preoperative Assessment Nurse, East Lancashire Teaching Hospital

• Understand how clinically led, data-driven approaches can be applied to redesign pre-operative pathways to improve theatre utilisation and patient flow

• Explore the role of AI and digital tools in pre-operative assessment, risk stratification, scheduling and capacity planning

• Identify practical ways to engage clinicians in pre-op service redesign while addressing workforce pressures and variability in demand  
  
  

• Identify why many digital pilots fail to scale in theatre environments and how to avoid common pitfalls

• Learn how trusts can evaluate, govern and scale digital innovations while maintaining patient safety and clinical confidence

• Understand the role of clinical leadership in bridging innovation, informatics and frontline delivery