The Operating Theatres Show 2021
Hilton Metropole Hotel, London 7 October 2021, 8:30am - 5:30pm
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Day 1
8:00am
Registration and Networking
9:00am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Jane Perry, Dean of Health, Sport and Bioscience, University of East London
9:10am
Special Address: Reducing Waiting Times In Operating Theatres By Increasing Productivity
- 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
Professor Tim Briggs CBE, National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency, NHS
9:40am
Increasing Surgical Productivity: The Ecological Impact
- 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?
John Dade, President, The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP)
10:10am
Stryker Neptune – The Real Story
- Increasing theatre efficiency
- Improving working conditions in theatres
- Enhancing staff morale
- Reducing clinical waste
Sarah Baker, Head of Nursing Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine; Julie Clark, Senior Operating Department Practitioner, The Friarage (South Tees NHS Foundations Trust)
10:30am
Questions And Answers Session
11:00am
Break And Networking
11:30am
The Role of Technology in Managing the Post-Covid Elective Surgical Backlog
- 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
Piyush Mahapatra, Innovation Director, Open Medical
11:55am
Using Robotic Surgery To Enable Greater Precision In Surgery And Improve Recovery Time
- 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
Dr Shahnawaz Rasheed, Consultant Surgeon, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
12:20pm
Integrated Theatres: Designing Smart Spaces
- 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
Andrew Frost, Technical Director, MTS Health
12:40pm
Questions And Answers Session
1:00pm
Lunch And Networking
2:15pm
Safe, Ultra-efficient and Cost Effective - The Theatres Dream Made a Reality
- Working with the NHS to maximise performance
- Rewarding hard work
- Aligning all the staff
- Maintaining NHS control
Dr Mathew Molyneux, Director, Glanso UK and Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS; Dr Neil Rasburn, Director, Glanso UK and Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS
2:35pm
Supporting Awareness And Basic Education Of Multi-Disciplinary Teams In Human Factors
- 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
Nicola Stroud, Operating Department Practitioner, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2:55pm
Questions and Answers Session
3:05pm
Break and Networking
3:30pm
Unlocking the Power of Digital Clinical Information with the Ascom Healthcare Platform
The Ascom Digistat Surgery solution will:
- Enhance operation efficiency by providing digital support for the full perioperative process
- Increase OR utilisation/usage
- Minimise documentation time and errors
- Minimise material and resource waste
- Help to increase patient safety
Ian Binks, Business Development Manager, Global Clinical Solutions and Sophie Evans, Clinical Sales Consultant, Ascom
3:55pm
Closing Keynote Address: Surgical Prehabilitation: Enhancing General Health and Wellbeing Prior to Major Surgery
- 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
Dr Tarannum Rampal, Consultant Anaesthetist Princess Royal & Clinical and Strategy Lead, Kent and Medway
4:15pm
Questions and Answer Session
4:25pm
Chair's closing comments with prize draw and drinks reception
Join us for a social hour to wrap up the day.
1:50pm
*programme subject to change