Faculty of Health and Care Inaugural Conference
Developing the profession to transform the service.
Here you will find details of our forthcoming and past conferences.
Register for our next event to be held on Thursday 10 October, 9:00am - 4:30pm
Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London, WCIN 2AB
| Time | Talk | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration - tea and coffee available | |
| Session Chair: Mr Sobath Premaratne FRCS, Consultant Vascular Surgeon |
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| 09:20 | Conference Welcome | Holly Porter, Managing Director, BCS Institute Andrew Griffiths, CEO, FEDIP |
| 09:30 | Keynote 1 | Sonia Patel, Chief Technology Officer, NHS England |
| 10:00 | Professional Development: Next Steps? This session will look at current developments in nursing informatics across the four nations and ask questions around co-ordination and equity in access. |
Sam Neville, Regional CNIO (Eastern) and BCS Nursing Informatics Group |
| 10:20 | Equipping the future pharmacist Exploring how technology will impact the pharmacy profession and how to adapt to harness this. |
Amita Aggarwal, Senior Policy Lead, NHS England |
| 10:40 | Mind the Gap Poor data quality impacts everyone – this session will help identify what these gaps are, some causes and possible solutions to help improve data quality |
Mandy Burns, CEO, IHRIM (Institute of Health Records & Information Management). |
| 11:00 | Break | |
| Session chair: Dr Ian Thompson FRCGP, General Practitioner | ||
| 11:30 | Keynote 2 | Dan West, Chief Digital Information Officer, Department of Health Northern Ireland |
| 12:00 | NICE’s journey to computable knowledge | Shaun Rowark, Associate Director Data Access and Analysis, NICE Jeremy Wyatt, Emeritus Professor and Chair BCS Computable Knowledge Specialist Group |
| 12:20 | We need to talk about social care – why social care should be front and centre to our thinking | Tommy Henderson-Reay, Lead Social Worker, Digitising Social Care Programme, DHSC/NHS England |
| 12:40 | Transforming the social care commissioning profession to better deploy Extra Care Housing Service through a data-driven approach | Jacqui Evans, Adult Social Care Commissioner, Hampshire County Council Pye Nyunt, CEO Impera Analytics James Shraiky, Chief Impact Officer, Impera Analytics and previous Professor Arizona State University |
| 13:00 | Lunch and networking | |
| Session chair: Dr Tito Castillo PhD CITP CHCIO CDMP MBCS, Enterprise Architect | ||
| 13:45 | Developing your Faculty of Health and Care: workshop | Facilitators: Justin Whatling, Wendy Dearing |
| 14:30 | Developing the digital health workforce of the future | Helen Thomas, CEO Digital Health and Care Wales |
| 15:00 | Transforming the Data and Analytics Profession to Enable Service Improvement | Emma Wright, Progamme Director, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust |
| 15:20 | Health Data Exchange Formats: IPS, EuropeanEHRxFormat and a G-HER | Henrique Martins, Associate Professor in Health Management and Leadership at FCS-UBI medical school, ISCTE business school. |
| 15:40 | TBC | Future Digital Leaders, FEDIP |
| 16:00 | Keynote 4 | Jonathan Cameron, Deputy Director - Digital Health and Care, Scottish Government |
| 16:30 | Keynote 5 | TBC |
| 16:50 | Thanks and close | Philip Scott, Programme Director, University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
Sonia Patel, FBCS, System CIO, NHS England
Bio to follow.
Helen Thomas, FBCS, LFEDIP, CEO Digital Health and Care Wales
Helen has been the CEO of Digital Health & Care Wales since 2021, leading the organisation’s impressive response to the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting NHS Wales to adopt data and digital advances at pace and scale. She has worked in the NHS for over 30 years, gaining wide health informatics experience across a number of senior roles, and has spearheaded digital transformation to deliver more effective and safer care. She was named Digital NHS CEO of the year in 2021.
Dan West, Chief Digital Information Officer, Department of Health Northern Ireland
The CDIO post was created in 2019 to bring together strategy, policy, funding, delivery structures, governance, data leadership and digital innovation in an attempt to accelerate positive impact on people's lives in the region. The goal is to help deliver a Health and Care system that is economically sustainable with better care outcomes and safety and improved experiences for citizens and staff. The CDIO post is an Undersecretary / Director General in the Civil Service, and Dan sits on the board of the Department, as well as holding leadership roles in HSC delivery organisations (HSC = Northern Ireland's NHS - noting that Northern Ireland is unique in the UK context in having a fully integrated Health and Social Care system).
During COVID Dan's focus, like many others in the NHS, shifted to delivery - working across teams in public and private sectors to meet the needs of staff and citizens as Northern Ireland reacted to the rapid changes in public health policy. The work resulted in a dozen brand new public facing Digital services. These are cloud hosted, agile delivered, smartphone apps and open, transparent public data analytics capabilities. These technologies and techniques were virtually unheard of in the Health and Care sector in the region. Post pandemic Dan's role has turned core accountabilities of developing a Vision and Strategy for the Digital transformation of Health and Care in the region, establishing the long term investment roadmap and funding commitment, building the right delivery structures to make the journey successful, changing the culture and capabilities around data and information in the sector and building a new innovation architecture to enable academic and private sector Digital innovators to be able to contribute to addressing the challenges in Health and Care in the province. The current public services economic situation provides a challenging backdrop to maintain momentum on transformational digital investments.
Jonathan Cameron, Head of Digital Health and Care, Scottish Government
Bio to follow.
Amita Aggarawal, MBCS, Senior Policy Lead, NHS England
Amita is a pharmacist by background and has worked in a variety of roles spanning digital initiatives from implementation of EPMA, to installation of a new hospital robot and roll out of automated medicine cabinets across a system. She has held several national roles too and held leadership positions.
