The 18th National Health Summit
February 8th 2022, Virtual Summit
9.00
Welcome from the Chair

Audrey Carville
Broadcaster and Host, Morning Ireland, Radio 1
MORNING PLENARY: Health, medicine and politics in Ireland
9:10
MORNING KEYNOTE:
Delivering Universal Health Coverage: How policy-makers can succeed in achieving UHC
A review of the critical policy choices:
- What to cover? The choices and trade-offs policymakers need to make between the dimensions of population coverage, service coverage and financial protection.
- How to pay for UHC: Raising the necessary resources, then allocating and managing these resources efficiently and equitably.
- How to implement UHC: The issues that need to be addressed to implement UHC reforms successfully.

Sir David Nicholson CBE
Chair, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System (ICS) and Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and former Chief Executive of the NHS
9:40
Sláintecare implementation update

Robert Watt
Secretary General, Department of Health
10:00
Networking break
10:15
PANEL DISCUSSION: Health, Medicine and Politics in Ireland: How universal health coverage (UHC) is a political struggle and governance challenge
We have heard of “institutional resistance” to implementing elements of Sláintecare. Whether this is true or not, the fact is healthcare reform plans in Ireland have repeatedly fallen short due to political, organisational and implementation failures. How do we ensure that Sláintecare doesn’t go the same way?

Dr. Sheelah Connolly
Senior Research Officer, Economic and Social Research Institute

Tony O’Brien
Chartered Director, governance and strategy specialist, former DG of the HSE

Dr. Eddie Molloy
Director, Advanced Organisation

Dr. Donal de Buitléir
Chair of the Independent Review Group that examined private activity in public hospitals
10:55
Driving health transformation through modern data platforms

John Ward
Partner and Head of Digital & Emerging Technologies, EY Ireland
11:10
Networking break and join your stream
Choose your track
STREAM 1: Building back better or continuing as we are?
STREAM 2: Delivering on the promise of integrated care
STREAM 3: Healthcare innovation and the future patient experience
1:00
Lunch
AFTERNOON PLENARY: Enabling sustainable change
1:30
Welcome back from the Chair

Audrey Carville
Journalist and Broadcaster, host of Radio 1’s Morning Ireland
1:35
PANEL DISCUSSION: The future of healthcare regulation
The regulatory landscape for the provision of healthcare across certain parts of the sector has never been more challenging. During this panel discussion, as well as looking at broader healthcare regulation we will discuss nursing home regulation as well as the current landscape for health product regulation.

Dr Lorraine Nolan
Chief Executive, Health Products Regulatory Authority

Joanelle O’Cleirigh
Partner, Arthur Cox LLP

Tadhg Daly
Chief Executive, Nursing Homes Ireland
2:10
Healthcare delivery in a world transformed by crisis: What will the new reality look like?
In conversation with Paul Reid, Chief Executive of the HSE…

Paul Reid
Chief Executive Officer, Health Services Executive
2:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: Positive service shifts accelerated by COVID-19: Lessons for Leaders
Rapid innovation and learning have been at the heart of our response to Covid-19. We will bring together a range of perspectives to dig beneath the surface and explore what’s really needed to enable sustainable change and understand what leaders need to do to keep the momentum going.

David Beirne
Managing Director, UPMC Ireland

Dr Audrey Derveloy
General Manager and Country President, Novartis Pharma

Dr. Sara Burke
Research Assistant Professor, Public Health & Primary Care, Centre for Health Policy & Management, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Gabrielle Colleran
Vice President, Irish Hospital Consultants Association
3.10
Closing remarks and summit close

Audrey Carville
Journalist and Broadcaster, host of Radio 1’s Morning Ireland