The 8th National Health Summit
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Redesigning Ireland's Health Services
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Agenda
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| 8:00 |
Coffee and registration |
| 8:45 |
Chairman's opening remarks |
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Vincent Barton, CEO, Prospectus Consulting |
IRELAND'S HEALTH SERVICE: CAN IT RECOVER?
December's budget revealed yet more pain for the health service, with cuts of €543million for 2012. Added to the budget cuts already endured and more to come over the next 3 years, what will be the impact on redesigning Ireland's health service?
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| 8:50 |
MINISTERIAL ADDRESS: Creating an Efficient, Equitable and Integrated Health Service |
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Dr. James Reilly, TD, Minister for Health & Children |
| 9:10 |
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Challenging Resource Realities in Healthcare Delivery. |
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What does the new financial landscape mean for Ireland's public health service? |
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Cathal Magee, Chief Executive Officer, Health Service Executive |
| 9:40 |
Is Ireland ready for Universal Health Insurance & can we afford it? |
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- Can we afford "free-for-all" universal healthcare?
- Have we done the groundwork - how prepared is the public and private Health Service for such radical change?
- The VHI in the new healthcare landscape: A strategic asset or an obstacle to competition?
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Ray Kinsella, Professor of Banking, Financial Services & Healthcare, Michael Smurfit Graduate School, UCD |
| 10:20 |
Morning break |
INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY & SAVING MONEY - CAN IT BE DONE?
In a time when the health service is forced to make difficult choices, finding new efficiencies is the top priority. Maintaining services while cutting costs means creating new efficiencies that make the most of limited and shrinking resources. But, is this possible?
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| 10.50 |
How to drive efficiencies across the entire care continuum |
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Demographic change is putting greater demands on medical services and the cost of healthcare is rising substantially not only in Ireland but worldwide. To establish effective healthcare systems over the long term, and to make healthcare affordable for everyone, we need technological innovations that improve the quality of medical care and simultaneously help save money.
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Denis O'Faherty, Siemens Healthcare |
| 11:15 |
CASE STUDY : Bolton Hospital - Improving Patient Care and Staff Morale while Cutting Costs
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Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has pioneered the use of Lean in the NHS having started its lean journey in 2005. Lean Principles have enabled Royal Bolton to improve patient care and staff morale while cutting costs. We'll hear their story from their Head of Lean Transformation, who will also outline the Bolton Improving Care System and how Lean is supporting the shift to becoming an integrated care organisation. |
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Ann Schenk, Director of Strategy and Improvement, Bolton Improving Care System (BICS), Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, UKLouise O'Donnell, Director Health Services, Impact Trade Union |
| 11.45 |
Q & A |
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| 11.55 |
PANEL DISCUSSION: How the health service can increase Productivity & Save Money |
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Making the most of shrinking resources is the top priority in the new budgetary landscape. It's hard to cut costs without compromising patient care, but it can be done. We've brought a range of informed stakeholders together for this discussion plus we'll hear about initiatives that are doing exactly that - increasing productivity whilst saving money in the delivery of healthcare. |
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- Prof. Frank Keane, National Clinical Lead in Surgery, Quality and Clinical Care Directorate, HSE on the Productive Operating Theatre initiative
- Patricia Doherty, CEO, St. Michael's House
- Stephen Mulvany, Regional Director of Operations, Dublin North East, Health Services Executive
- John Farrelly, Head of Public Sector business, SAS Ireland
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| 12.45 |
Lunch |
| 1.50 |
Welcome back from the Chair |
HEALTHCARE IN THE DECADE AHEAD...
Are new technologies part of the long-term solution for ensuring a sustainable healthcare system? From e-health to telemedicine, how can the health service best incorporate innovations despite the financial squeeze?
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| 1.55 |
Manifesto for an eHealthier Europe |
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Better Health is everybody's business. We need policy makers to:
· Accelerate the adoption of technologies that have proven value and benefits in order to reach scale.
· Re-invest savings in research, innovation, reduction of public debt, and local growth and employment.
· Focus on policies for sustainable health |
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Elena Bonfiglioli, Senior Director eHealth, Microsoft |
| 2:20 |
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Healthcare Without Walls: Transforming the cost and quality of care through Telehealth |
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Our speaker is nationally recognised in the UK as a strategic thinker on healthcare IT and telehealth. His major study into how the NHS should exploit the potential of telehealth entitled Healthcare without walls - a framework for delivering telehealth at scale outlines a vision of how the NHS can radically redesign its services, with telehealth at the centre, to reduce costs and improve the quality of health services in the UK. Ireland has yet to develop a national telehealth strategy, so, what can we learn from this report? |
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John Cruickshank, Consultant Director, 2020Health |
| 2.50 |
Q & A |
| 3:10 |
Afternoon Break |
CASE STUDIES
Real life examples of technology solutions to healthcare in action today delivering healthcare in Ireland. |
| 3:30 |
Telemedicine in Acute Stroke care |
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Prof Peter J Kelly, Consultant Neurologist and Director, Stroke Service, Mater University Hospital Dublin |
| 3.50 |
Electronic Patient Records for the provision of seamless care |
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Mary Fitzsimons, Principal Physicist, Epilepsy Programme, Neuroscience Division, Beaumont Hospital |
| 4.10 |
Haystack - A simulation tool for the training and assessment of doctors |
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Karl Quinn, Commercial Development Associate, National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) |
| 4.30 |
DISCUSSION WITH Q&A: Are new technologies part of the long-term solution for a sustainable healthcare system? |
| 5:00 |
Closing remarks and summit close |
