Our opening panel discusses what we’ve learned from two decades of changing healthcare In Ireland, reflecting on progress made, challenges faced, and future goals for improving healthcare.
2024 Agenda
7:45am
Registration and light breakfast
8:40am
Welcome from the Chair
Journalist and Broadcaster, host of Radio 1’s Morning Ireland
8:50am
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Progressing change in our health system
HSE Chief Operations Officer
9:05am
Connecting people – technology and data as a bridge to integrated care
Partner and Head of Healthcare Technology, EY Ireland
MORNING PLENARY: Learning from two decades of changing healthcare in Ireland
9:25am
PANEL DISCUSSION
Understanding the past as we prepare for the future
National Manager, the Patient Advocacy Service
Independent Director, Business Advisor, Minister for Health 2004-2011
Secretary General of the Department of Health
leadership, governance and strategy consultant, columnist, Chartered Director, NED, former Director General, the HSE
10:00am
PANEL DISCUSSION
Cancer Care in Ireland – Innovating for the Future
CEO, Irish Cancer Society
Consultant Oncologist and Director of the Cancer Clinical Trials Unit, Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute
General Manager, Commercial Business, Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
10:30am
Networking Coffee Break & Exhibition Viewing
STREAM 1:
The Future of Aged Care
11:00am
Welcome from the Chair
Journalist and Broadcaster, host of Radio 1’s Morning Ireland
11:05am
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
Are we ready to face up to the impact of our ageing population: A vision for a better aged care system
The Inspector General of Aged Care is a new independent body in Australia tasked with overseeing the administration, regulation and funding of the aged care system. What can Ireland learn from Australia’s key advocate and leader in aged care, Ian Yates, as he reflects on over 30 years in the sector and sets out a vision for the systemic changes that will produce a better aged care system.
Acting Inspector General of Aged Care, Australian Government
11:20am
INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY
UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge
UK Research and Innovation’s Healthy Ageing Challenge launched in 2019 has a mission to ensure that the ageing population remains active, productive, independent and socially connected across the generations for as long as possible. We’ll hear about their mission to transform the lives of millions within a decade.
Healthy Ageing Challenge Director, UK Research and Innovation
11:40am
PANEL DISCUSSION
What are the keys to creating innovative and integrated care services as we age?
The design of the next generation of aged care services needs to respond to the demand for different types of care, diversity of options and the strong preference people have for remaining in their own home and community.
- Overcoming the challenges to change and reform in aged care
- Regulation that enables and promotes delivery of quality aged care experiences
- Creating a consumer focused, high quality aged care system
- Care in the right environment: Enabling timely discharge from hospital, technologies, and services for recovery and aging well in the most appropriate setting: How do we work to develop solutions?
- How will the sector recruit, retain and upskill the workforce of the future to meet the needs of our ageing population
Professor of Health Systems, Centre for Integrated Care and School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, DCU
National Clinical Advisor & Group Lead Older Persons, HSE
CEO, Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI)
Business Development Manager, Clanwilliam Health
12:15pm
Anticipatory care in 2024: New models for prediction and their application in Ireland
former A&E physician, former National Director, NHS 111, UK
12:30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
How can Irish policymakers approach the challenges of our ageing population?
- What tangible changes can we make now that will improve the lives of those living longer, and potentially with major illness
- Collaborating to improve health and social care and promote healthy ageing
- Perspectives of our homes and communities as we age
- Innovating within aged care, combatting digital exclusion
- Innovative interventions for community health and wellbeing
- Population ageing and the public finances: Modelling the impact of demographic and policy change
Chief Officer, National Age Friendly Ireland, Meath County Council
CEO, Sage Advocacy, the national advocacy service for older people
Principal, Rodd Bond Architecture & Service Innovation
Senior Researcher, ESRI
STREAM 2:
Moving Care Closer to Home
11:00am
Welcome from the Chair
GP, Churchtown Medical, media commentator & columnist
11:05am
FIRESIDE CHAT
Progress on Health Regions
Health Regions are due to be operational by February 2024. We’ll hear about the change programme, progress on the new regional structures, service redesign, how the new structures will impact staff, patients and local communities
Chief Executive Officer, the Medical Council
Regional Executive Officer (REO), HSE Dublin and South East
Principal Officer, Dept of Health
11:35am
PANEL DISCUSSION
Taking action to achieve the vision of moving care closer to home
- The structural, political, financial and cultural barriers that have prevented moving care closer to home
- What is needed to realise the vision at a time when the healthcare system is under severe pressure
- Are Health Regions and integrated care systems on track?
- What needs to be done to ensure integrated care works for people and populations
- Realising the potential of pharmacy and designing services to meet future needs: How community pharmacy can contribute to key goals around population health, prevention and increasing demand for primary care
Consultant Physician in General & Elderly Medicine, Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust
National Director of Public Health, HSE
Pharmacy Owner, past president of the IPU
Chief Executive, Nursing Homes Ireland
12:10pm
12:25pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
What will it take to bring improvement from the margins to the mainstream?
The HSE is facing an unprecedented range of workforce, financial and performance pressures. Leaders locally and nationally need a strategic approach capable of maximising the impact and spread of the many promising HSE-led innovations, service improvements and new technologies. What does this really take to bring these innovations from the margins to the mainstream? Our panel explores different perspectives on how to tackle the challenge of prioritising improvement in a system under pressure.
HSE Innovation Lead at HSE Spark Innovation Programme
Entrepreneurship Lead EIT Health Ireland-UK, Founder Kids Speech Labs
Chief Executive Officer ,Allview Healthcare
Business Development Director – Digital Care Record, Orion Health
STREAM 3:
The Workforce Challenge
11:00am
Welcome from the Chair
Experienced EMEA Sales Director
11:05am
INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY
Developing doctors for rural areas: The Scottish experience
Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) is a 4-year medical degree that was established in 2018 with the aim of producing doctors equipped to live and work in remote and rural Scotland. The course uses innovative approaches to achieve this whilst ensuring a robust medical training. Fiona shares these innovations, their effectiveness and considers what might be transferrable to the Irish context.
Programme Director, ScotGEM
11:25am
FIRESIDE CHAT…
How “micro” credentials are supporting the upskilling of healthcare workers
Associate Professor in Children’s Nursing and researcher in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD
11:40am
PANEL DISCUSSION
Ireland’s future healthcare workforce challenge
- What are the characteristics and critical skills necessary for the workforce of the future?
- What are the educational needs of the future health care workforce?
- How many healthcare staff will we need by 2040 and where will we find them?
- How do we reorganise workforce planning to address these changes?
- As healthcare workers retire, could AI help solve the shortage of healthcare workers?
Partner and Health Sector Lead, EY Ireland
Director, Medforce Healthcare Recruitment
Medical Director, National Doctor Training & Planning, HSE
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences
GP, Public Health & Primary Care, TCD
12:20pm
CASE STUDY
Human-centric HR: The impact that HR digital solutions have in enhancing healthcare efficiency and patient care
Our speakers discuss a transformation in medical manpower that addressed the inefficient, manual, and paper-heavy HR processes for managing the placement of critical roles in nursing, medical, support and administration. They implemented an automated system and digital overhaul that standardised procedures between multiple hospital sites and Hospital group that significantly reduced administrative time and expedited role placements.
Head of Business – Public Sector, OpenSky Data Systems
HR Director, Ireland East Hospital Group, HSE
12:40pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Creating our future digital workforce: Ensuring the health and care system has the skills, leadership and culture needed for digital change
- How we can ensure health and care staff have the training and skills required to use digital technologies
- Ensuring we have the digital solutions available to enable staff to improve ways of working and reduce workforce demand
Our panel discusses how we can prepare, support, and enable the workforce to continue to transform how digital technologies are used in healthcare.
Communities Director, ECHAlliance
CEO, Blackrock Health
Principal Consultant, Santegic
Managing Director, EIT Health Ireland-UK
1:05pm
Networking Lunch Break & Exhibition Viewing
AFTERNOON PLENARY: Creating a healthcare system fit for the future
2:10pm
Welcome back from the Chair
Journalist and Broadcaster, host of Radio 1’s Morning Ireland
2:15pm
Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Pioneering the next Revolution
Country Manager, Pfizer Healthcare Ireland
2:25pm
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE
Digital models of healthcare and international comparisons of whole systems working
independent digital consultant and analyst, Non-Executive Director, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, former CIO, Hampshire County Council, UK
2:45pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
What must the health service do to accelerate digital transformation?
We explore digital healthcare across Ireland – where are we now? And what will our future health service look like? Our panel discusses how healthcare providers need to develop a holistic digital strategy to accelerate the digital transformation journey:
- Creating a comprehensive digital healthcare strategy to streamline operations and increasing accessibility
- Ensuring an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system accessible across platforms and prioritise data security and privacy measures
- Fostering innovative and seamless clinical care through digital tools, emphasising accurate clinical decision-making and data interoperability between providers
- The integration of AI and digital tools to personalise healthcare services.
Group CIO, Children’s Health Ireland
Director, Institute for Discovery & Professor of Biochemistry, UCD
Joint Chief Information Officer, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
eHealth Director & CIO, Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, HSE
3:20pm
LOCKNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION
Health in 2040: What tangible changes can be made now that will improve the lives of those living longer?
Plus, future healthcare demand and expenditure: The impact of demographic and policy change
Managing Director, MSD Ireland
Acting Chief Economist and Head of Secretariat, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
geriatrician and stroke physician
3:55pm