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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

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

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

Panel members:

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)

Caroline Clarke
NHS London Regional Director, NHS England

10:40 - 10:55

What's wrong with most Health-Sector websites

 For over 16 years, WebBox has collaborated with the Health sector, witnessing the common pitfalls that many websites face. In this session, we’ll explore several of the biggest challenges hindering website performance in the sector. Join us to discover how to avoid these pitfalls and ensure your website truly serves the needs of your audience

Will Roberts
Managing Director, WebBox
10:55 - 11:30

“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

11:30 - 11:50

Improving Cyber Resilience at Scale with Asset Intelligence: Data Driven Decision Making to Minimise Risk

As the NHS embraces a myriad of connected assets, each playing a crucial role in site operations and patient care, the cyber-attack surface expands. Attacks target our healthcare systems to distribute ransomware and attempt data theft, increasing the likelihood of service disruption and posing an unacceptable risk to patient safety.

Hear from Jeffrey Wood, Deputy Director of ICT at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, as he shares insights into how they're tackling this exposure by shifting from a reactive to proactive security posture, in alignment with the DSPT updates based on the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF). Discover how the trust is continuously monitoring for vulnerabilities and other security threats, as well as implementing pre-emptive measures to thwart cyberattacks before they occur.

Jeffrey Wood,
Deputy Director of ICT, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
11:50 - 12:15

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

Panel Members:

Professor Nigel Harris
Former Director of Innovation and Growth at West of England NHS Health Innovation Network (AHSN)

Huda Hajinur
CEO of Caafi Health, Community Health Partner under The Better Care Programme
12:15 - 13:00

Beyond the Hospital: Where Community-based Solutions Meets Cutting-Edge Technology for Better Disease Management and Easing the Strain on Secondary Care

Ejike Nwokoro,
Lead, Patient Insights & Data Strategy, HealthNet Homecare

13:00 - 13:45

Workshop: How NHS procurement works?*

* The workshop will be at the same time as lunch and Networking break

Chairperson:

Lee Gutcher,
Former Head of Programmes, North Central London ICB

Panel members:

Mick Corti,
Director - Partners Procurement Service NHS, North Central London ICB

Arun Persaud,
Senior Procurement Manager - Partners Procurement Service, North Central London ICB

Nicholas Andreou,
NHS Doctor & Entrepreneur - NHS

Charlotte Roberts,
Associate Director - Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex
13:00 - 14:30

Lunch and Networking

14:30 - 15:10

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,
Head of programmes Better Care Funds


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)

15:10 - 15:25

Bringing back smiles to People with Parkinson's - a viable, cost effective solution for alleviating motor symptons of PD

Andrew Mullen,
CEO, Charco Neurotech

15:25 - 16:00

Panel discussion presentated by Armis

16:00 - 16:20

Digitally Enabled Quality Assurance

Prof. Jane Cummings,
Former Chief Nursing Officer for England, Tendable

16:20 - 17:00

Explore GIANT: Global Innovation and New Technology with our newest partner to be announced soon

More panel discussions will be announced from October. Be sure to revisit our webpage for the updated National ICS Innovation Congress - Agenda 2024.

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