The Future of Hospitals Event 2021
Online Event 23 March 2021, 9:00am - 25 March 2021, 2:00pm
Day 1 - Estates
8:00am
Online Registration
9:20am
Chair’s Welcome Address
9:30am
Special Address: Transforming NHS Hospitals To Meet The Needs Of The Present And To Be Fit For The Future
- Working with teams across the wider government to provide support to the UK healthcare sector and the wider UK response to the crisis
- Increasing NHS operational performance: Building a resilient system
- Working with devolved administrations, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories
- Increasing the UK’s access to fast-growing international markets for healthcare services
- Looking ahead to the future: supporting the NHS to grow its international commercial activity
Edward Argar MP, Minister of State for Health, Department of Health and Social Care
9:50am
Questions And Answers Session
10:00am
What Part Do Universities Play In The Future Of Hospitals: Moving To A Digital Age?
Jane Perry, Dean of Health, Sport and Bioscience and Robert Waterson, Director of Careers and Enterprise and Senior Lecturer, University of East London (UEL)
10:20am
Keynote Address: The Role Of The Primary Care Estate In Transforming The NHS
- How the Primary Care estate can support NHS evolution, as Integrated Care Systems develop and acute, primary and community services are brought together
- Learnings from Covid-19, and how the NHS can extend this newfound collaboration and agility to deliver excellent patient care
- A review of major new developments across the Primary Care estate, and how they will ease pressure on acute hospitals and improve the patient experience
Adrian Powell, Development and Planning Director, NHS Property Services
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Break And Networking
11:35am
Tracking The Shifts In Acute Care Due To COVID-19 And Their Impact On Service Delivery
- The COVID-19 policy tracker: a description and timeline of national policy and health system responses to COVID-19 in England
- Understanding the key service shifts that have taken place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Tackling the barriers to sustaining the shifts: concerns about digital inclusion; limits to system-wide collaboration and maintaining community solidarity
- Creating a model of sustainable health policy change: changing the mindsets of NHS staff; employing the right resources and tools and putting in place a regulatory framework and organisational incentives
- Establishing a new equilibrium in the post-crisis phase of the pandemic
Ruth Thorlby, Assistant Director for Policy, The Health Foundation
11:55am
Case Study: Working In Partnership With The Independent Sector To Support Patient Care Delivery Throughout The Coronavirus Pandemic
Keith Chapman, General Manager Clinical Commercial, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and Patricia Warwick, Hospital Director, Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital
12:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:40pm
Chair's Summary And Close
Day 2 - Workforce
8:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Patrick Mitchell, Director of Innovation, Digital and Transformation, NHS Health Education England
9:40am
Developing The First Ever System-Wide Patient Safety Syllabus To Make Education Available To All Staff Using A Consistent Syllabus
Helen Hughes, Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning
10:00am
Panel Discussion: Developing Graduates For The Future Workforce
University of East London (UEL)
10:20am
Case Study: Keeping Nurse Vacancies At A Manageable Level Through International Recruitment
- Developing effective recruitment campaigns to help alleviate a serious nursing shortfall
- Addressing the long-term challenges facing the nursing and midwifery workforce
- Conducting Skype interview for overseas nurses that have achieved the International English Language Testing System or the Occupational English Test
- Recruiting and supporting nurses from overseas and welcoming them as part of the team
Hadrien Kieffer, Interim Director, NHS Professionals
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Break And Networking
11:35am
Keynote: Regulating Hospital Care During COVID-19: Ensuring That Services Remain Subject To Close Monitoring
- Using the additional monitoring tool – the Emergency Support Framework (ESF) to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on staff and service users
- Identifying priority areas for inspection and escalating concerns to partner organisations
- Update on the managed return to routine inspection of services
- Listening to the voices of staff on the frontline to fight infection in health settings
- Promoting closer working between hospitals, primary care, social care and community services
Nigel Acheson, Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Care Quality Commission
11:55am
Case Study: Supporting Workforce Redesign Through The NHS People Plan
- Understanding frameworks and methods of workforce redesign that were built into the NHS people plan and assessing their current implementation
- Learning from the first phase of the COVID-19 response to develop new approaches across the NHS
- Developing the NHS workforce by identifying and training peer support workers across a range of clinical specialities
- The Population and Place-based Workforce Planning Framework: allowing the future workforce to be planned more efficiently by using a combination of engagement, analytics and place-based logic techniques
Patrick Mitchell, Director of Innovation, Digital and Transformation, NHS Health Education England
12:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:40pm
Chair's Summary And Close
Patrick Mitchell, Director of Innovation, Digital and Transformation , NHS Health Education England
Day 3 - Community, Covid-19, and Digital
8:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Dr Terry Hudsen, Chair, NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
9:40am
Keynote Address: Utilising Health IT To Facilitate Largescale Transformational Change
- Reviewing the impact of Covid and how innovation will aid the NHS and healthcare sector to recover from the pandemic
- How health IT is working to improve the quality of care for outpatient treatment and exploring the frameworks necessary to maintain personal and patient-centred care
- Understanding how technological change and transformation will impact the workforce
Rishi Das-Gupta, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
10:00am
Panel Discussion: Communities And The NHS
UEL and Trust Partners
10:20am
Keynote: Learning From The Challenges Of Covid-19 And Previous Hospital Building Programmes To Guide Future Building Programmes
- Ensuring a system-wide approach to planning hospital, community and primary care services across a defined area
- The importance of planning for integrated health and social care services to ensure that care outside hospital is included
- Building more convertible space to allow clinical areas to be moved or re-equipped without major building works
- Designing for infection prevention and control through innovative layouts and more spacious ward designs
- Matching hospital facilities to new patterns of practice that have emerged due to Covid-19
Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive, Nuffield Trust
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Break And Networking
11:35am
Case Study: Significantly Reducing Avoidable Admissions To The Emergency Department Through The Implementation Of A Digital Service
- Tackling a high number of attendances to the emergency department from nursing and residential home service users
- Identifying how a telemedicine service can support care homes and developing a vision for a bespoke model for TGICFT
- Developing a pathway of treatment and referral to provide care outside of the emergency department via video link
- Expanding the range of service to support patients with long term conditions
- Adding value through better outcomes, a better experience and better use of resources
Peter Grace, Directorate Manager & Clinical Nurse Lead for Digital Health & Extensive Care, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
11:55am
Case Study: Designing A New Hospital From Scratch To Transform Healthcare Delivery For Local People
- Submitting a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) to the Department of Health and Social Care setting out the case for investing in Whipps Cross Hospital
- Setting out clinically backed new and improved models of care and service delivery
- Putting staff and community engagement at the heart of redevelopment plans
- Agreeing a concordat with partner organisations affirming how they will work together to deliver a shared vision
Alastair Finney, Whipps Cross Redevelopment Director, Barts Health NHS Trust
12:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:40pm
Chair's Summary And Close
Dr Terry Hudsen, Chair, NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
12:40pm
Consultation