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Agenda 2024

GIANT Health Event 2024 is a festival format with multiple separate conferences taking place in separate auditoriums at the same time all in one building. Click on each conference below to see the agenda for the conferences.

Agenda

Time

Session Title and Description

9:45 - 10:00

Welcome from our chairman

10:00 - 10:40

How can ICBs shift the digital focus from in-year to long term?

In the current financial landscape, there is a strong focus on delivering in-year efficiency savings, and prioritising projects that return cash to the system in the short term. However, in an industry where it is known that the biggest outcomes, such as preventing lifestyle diseases, take place over a very long term. Dr Rima Makarem, Chair of Bedfordshire, Luton, and Milton Keynes ICB will be joined by other local leaders to consider how local systems can realistically embed digital for long term outcomes, and offer tips to those looking to build or offer longer term oriented solutions to local systems.

Chairperson:

Dr Rima Makarem,
Chair of Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB

Chairperson:

Joe Harrison,
Chief Executive at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Max Jones
Chief digital information officer NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)

10:40 - 10:55

WebBox

An Introduction to WebBox helping health organisations to grow their digital presence

10:55 - 11:35

“From ink to Action”: Are NHS strategies transforming healthcare or collecting dust?

The NHS system is awash with formal strategy documents, centrally, regionally and locally. But what are they and who writes them? Are they just “window dressing” or do they accurately reflect the aspirational realities of the organisations who create them? Once you’ve read one, have you read them all? And if you’re a healthtech innovator, how can a deeper understanding of NHS strategies help you to engage with the system? Join us for a deep dive into the thrilling world of NHS strategy documentation!”

Chairperson:

Phil Evans,
Independent Consultant, HealthTech Assist

Panel Members:

Liam Cahill,
Healthtech strategist, advisor to national health bodies and founder of Together Digital

Anna Bokobza,
Director of Strategy at Essex Partnership University NHS FT and Board Trustee of the North London Hospice

Chris Fleming,
Partner at Public Digital

11:35 - 10:55

Charco Neurotech

 Latest developments from Charco Neurotech improving the quality of life for those with Parkisnons

11:50 - 12:30

How can listening to communities help us deliver tech for better care?

All major NHS strategy emphasises embedding more services within local communities, and working across a range of stakeholder groups to achieve this. But when designing or redesigning local services in response, what does genuine co-design look like, how can the community play a more active role in the design, and what would communities want to see? These are questions The Health Foundation has been focusing on through funding proactive and preventative community-oriented tech initiatives. Jenna Collins, who leads this work for the THF is joined by leads from these initiatives to share their lessons, and insights into the reality of listening and design.

Chairperson

Jenna Collins,
Programme manager in the Improvement team at The Health Foundation
12:30 - 13:00

Healthnet Homecare panel discussion from GIANT

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch and Networking

14:30 - 15:25

Is the current NHS approach to technology empowering the frontline, and what can we do to improve this?

Across NHS strategy, from the Long Term Plan to the Topol Review, great emphasis is put on empowering and upskilling the NHS workforce to at the very least be involved in digital initiatives, and at best drive it themselves. But are we actually achieving this, and if not why not? This panel session chaired by Liam Cahill, and joined by a group of clinical leaders, will consider whether enough agency is being granted to clinicians, whether the technology being implemented offers enough opportunities to empower and the training, skills and learning opportunities are building the right kinds of digital skills. In this session the panel members will offer their own tips and tricks for other NHS staff, and those building technology, to drive greater empowerment for and with 'digital'.

Chairperson:

Liam Cahill,
Healthtech strategist, advisor to national health bodies and founder of Together Digital

Panel members:



Antonia Brown,
CNIO at Sussex Community Foundation Trust


Jane Sproat,
Deputy Director of Virtual Wards at NHS England


Gurnak Singh Dosanjh,
Deputy CCIO and ICB Clinical Lead at NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB


Dr. Rozelle Kane
ICS Clinical lead for Digital & Innovation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS)

15:25 - 16:20

How can we get past the Catch 22 of evidenced but unproven tech

When it comes to new health technology local systems and suppliers alike can experience the Catch 22 of ‘practical applicability’, or when a product or intervention is proven in isolation, but not proven in terms of integration within local systems. Local systems may struggle to justify commissioning without answers to practical questions, yet suppliers cannot answer these questions in isolation of these systems. In this session we will consider what can pragmatically be done on both sides, to help address this critical issue

16:20 - 17:00

What could the role of ‘digital place’ be when considering the next NHS landscape?

The principle of ‘place’ is baked into the current landscape offering connection to communities and a two way interface for systems. But when it comes to digital, which can often be big infrastructural projects and initiatives, what is the role of place and digital combined? In this session we explore what an ideal, tangible vision of place could look like, what reality looks like in a challenging landscape, and what needs to happen to ‘give place a place’ in digital.