STREAM 3: The Workforce Challenge

11:00

Welcome from the Chair

Colin MacHale

experienced EMEA Sales Director & former Chair of Healthtech Ireland's Digital Leadership Group

11:05

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.

Dr. Fiona Graham

Programme Director, ScotGEM

11:25

FIRESIDE CHAT…

How “micro” credentials are supporting the upskilling of healthcare workers

Dr. Mary Hughes

Associate Professor in Children's Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin

11:40

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?

Prof. Brian Kinirons

Medical Director, National Doctor Training & Planning, HSE

Lana Kane

Director, Medforce

Professor Thomas O'Dowd

GP, Public Health & Primary Care, TCD

Professor Mark White (PhD, MSc, MBS, Dip HE, FFNMRCSI, FCIPD, RGN)

Executive Dean of the Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences

Dr. Ronan Glynn

Partner and Health Sector Lead, EY Ireland

12:20

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.

Roseanne Killeen

Group Director of Human Resources, Ireland East Hospital Group

Niall Griffiths

Head of Business – Public Sector, OpenSky Data Systems

12:40

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.

Caroline Whelan

CEO, Blackrock Health

Andy Bleaden

Community Director, ECH Alliance

Graham Armitage

Managing Director, EIT Health Ireland-UK