Digital technologies have transformed how health and care services are offered, accessed and used. As digital health and care services evolve, improve and become more widespread, they offer further opportunities to improve people’s health and experiences of services.
Through panel discussions, keynote speeches and interactive workshops, this event explored how to successfully adopt digital solutions in health and care to benefit both the health and care workforce and people use services, and the practical realities of implementation. Delegates had the opportunity to learn from good practice and discuss different digital technologies, such as virtual wards, artificial intelligence, the NHS app and remote monitoring. Participants also heard from health and care staff how digital solutions are being used innovatively to streamline work processes, enhance efficiency and alleviate workforce pressures, and heard from those with lived experience on how digital can improve the quality of their care through co-design and breaking barriers of exclusion and inequality.
What did this event discuss?
Sessions explored:
- how recent developments in technology – including artificial intelligence (AI), virtual wards, remote monitoring and the NHS App – have the potential to transform health care
- how the health and care system can tackle digital exclusion and health inequalities by ensuring that patients and communities are placed at the heart of the design and delivery of digital solutions
- the opportunities and limitations of using data to deliver improved patient outcomes across your integrated care system (ICS)
- how digital technologies can be used to support the social care workforce and improve adult social care services
- what is needed to ensure the health and care workforce has the right support and skills for a digital future
- what a digitally mature ICS looks like.
Confirmed speakers
Alice Ainsworth
Deputy Director for Adult Social Care Tech Policy, Department of Health and Social Care
Amanda Begley
Health Innovation Network
Dr Gurnak Dosanjh
GP and Clinical Lead for Home First Virtual Wards, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
Helen Dobson
Chief Executive, Citizens Online
Mark Duman
Chief Patient Officer, MD Healthcare Consultants
Lisa Emery
Chief Transformation, Innovation and Digital Officer, NHS Sussex
Dr Navina Evans
Chief Workforce Officer, NHS England
Tommy Henderson-Reay
Social Worker, Digitising Social Care Programme, NHS England
Dr Mateen Jiwani
Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, Digital Health and Telemedicine, Imperial College London
Professor Partha Kar
National Specialty Advisor, Diabetes, NHS England
Sarah McClinton
President, ADASS
Pritesh Mistry
Fellow, Digital Technologies, The King's Fund
Richard Murray
Chief Executive, The King's Fund
Rachel Power
CEO, Patient's Association
John Quinn
Interim Chief Information Officer, NHS England
Lee Rickles
Chief Information Officer, Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System
Professor Sam Shah
Chief Medical Strategy Officer, Numan
Susan Thomas
Director, Google Health UK
Dr Sonia Patel
System CIO, NHS England
Contact details
Booking enquiries If you'd like to make a booking inquiry, please email the events team at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
If you'd like to make a booking inquiry, please email the events team at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
Programme enquiries If you have any queries relating to this event programme please email Caroline Ashmore at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
If you have any queries relating to this event programme please email Caroline Ashmore at events@kingsfund.org.uk.
Sponsorship and exhibition enquiries Please email the Partnerships team: partnerships@kingsfund.org.uk.
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