STREAM 3
Sláintecare: Time for a re-set?
10:50
Welcome from the Chair

June Shannon
The Irish Heart Foundation and freelance medical journalist
10:55
Sláintecare implementation update

Laura Magahy BA, MBA
Executive Director – Sláintecare, Department of Health
11:15
Future-proofing our health system
We may have to get used to shocks to our health system. Future pandemics, increasingly severe climate events and economic shocks like Brexit will test the resilience of our healthcare system. What can we learn from international experience of building health system resilience, what strategies can we use and where do we go from here in Ireland?

Steve Thomas
Director of the Centre for Health Policy and Management, the Edward Kennedy Chair of Health Policy and Management, TCD
11:35
PANEL DISCUSSION: Sláintecare:
Are we still committed to the plan or will it be long-fingered due to the pandemic?
Including Budget ’21: Transformative funding? How should this investment be used to protect, reform and expand our health service? Where does public health feature in our future plans?

Margaret O’Riordan
President, Irish Council of General Practitioners

Steve Thomas
Director of the Centre for Health Policy and Management, the Edward Kennedy Chair of Health Policy and Management, TCD

Anthony O'Connor
Clinical Associate Professor in Gastroenterology, TCD and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Tallaght University Hospital, member of the Sláintecare Advisory Council

Dr. Debbie Stanistreet
Head of Public Health and Epidemiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Science
12:10
Networking break
12:20
Teletracking, details tbc

Stephen Boyle
RGN Dip (HE), BA (Hons) MSC, Product Specialist, UK, Teletracking
12:30
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Rethinking the role of hospitals: After Covid-19 what are the lessons and challenges ahead?
The enormous pressure that the pandemic has put on hospitals should bring about a re-examination of their role in our healthcare system. Where should hospitals fit into the future healthcare system? Our panel discusses a range of perspectives – clinical, the frontline healthcare workforce, the patient experience and the trends driving smart hospitals.

Dr Niamh Humphries
Reader in Health Systems Research, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Alan D. Irvine MD DSc
President, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association

Kathryn Reilly
Policy Manager, The Irish Heart Foundation