Come and find out more about health innovation by visiting the AHSN Network’s Innovation Feature Zone at ConfedExpo 2022.
The event, which is being held this year at the AAC in Liverpool on 15-16 June 2022, will be the first in-person Confed Conference since 2019 and the first joint Confed and Expo Conference.
The Innovation Zone will comprise of a mini-theatre, hosting 13 content sessions about different aspects of health innovation. There will also be a networking space, where you can meet AHSN colleagues and our partners; innovator pods – showcasing 28 health and care innovators that have worked with AHSNs as well as stand presence from our partners in the Life Sciences Hub Wales and the NHS Innovation Accelerator. We will also be joined by the team behind the new NHS Innovation Service, created by NHS England’s Accelerated Access Collaborative.
The speakers and session titles are as follows:
15 June
- 10-10:30am The business case to champion diversity and inclusion in healthcare innovation
Speakers: Richard Stubbs – Vice Chair, the AHSN Network and Chief Executive, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN; Suzanne Ali-Hassan – Deputy Director, NHS Innovation Accelerator and Deputy Director Commercial and Innovation, UCLPartners
- 11-11:30am Principles for the successful adoption and spread of innovations in health
Speakers: Laura Semple – Director for National Programmes, the AHSN Network; Stuart Monk – National Programme Director – Rapid Uptake Products and MedTech Funding Mandate, the AHSN Network; Dr Alan Blighe Senior Innovation Manager - Innovation, Research and Life Sciences Group at NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Accelerated Access Collaborative
- 11:45am – 12:15pm Sustainability in health and care: how innovation can help the NHS to meet its Net Zero targets
Speakers: Kathy Scott – Deputy Chief Executive, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN and AHSN Network lead for sustainability; Frank Swinton – Climate Change Lead, West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership; Dr Michael Crooks – Consultant Respiratory Physician, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- 1:15-1:45pm Taking a joined up approach to CVD prevention: addressing health inequalities by focusing on hypertension and lipid management
Speakers: Professor Gary Ford – Chair, the AHSN Network and Chief Executive, Oxford AHSN; Dr Joe Chidanyika – AHSN Network National Programme Manager – Lipids/FH, AHSN NENC; Dr Siân Rees – Director of Community Involvement and Workforce Innovation, Oxford AHSN; Dr Matt Kearney – CVD prevention and proactive care programme manager, UCLPartners
- 2-2:30pm A deep dive into the known and unknown effects of AI-driven technologies on the NHS workforce
Speakers: Libby Graham – Project Manager, Commercial and Innovation Team, UCLPartners; Helen Hoyland – Lead for Enterprise and Relationships, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN
- 3-3:30pm Scaling innovations for children and young adults: AHSN learning from national implementation of the FOCUS ADHD and Early Intervention Eating Disorders programmes
Speakers: Laura Semple – Director for National Programmes, the AHSN Network; Mark Dines-Allen – Focus ADHD National Programme Manager, the AHSN Network; Amy Semple – Programme Manager, the AHSN Network
- 4-4:30pm Driving national impact through local insight: tackling health inequalities and improving care for excluded communities
Speakers: Dr Sean Clarkson – Head of Strategic Operations, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN; Dr Llinos Jones – Respiratory Consultant, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust; Ghalib Khan – Founder, Written Medicine; Laura Boyd – Deputy Programme Director CVD and Proactive Care, UCLPartners
- 4:30-5pm The MedTech Funding Mandate policy: innovation in action (Digital and data transformation zone session)
Speaker: Stuart Monk – National Programme Director – Rapid Uptake Products and MedTech Funding Mandate, the AHSN Network
- 4-5pm Pioneering transformation through the innovative findings of the Beneficial Changes Network (Pop Up University (PUU) session – 3 11A)
Speakers: Jenny Shand – Chief Strategy Officer, UCLPartners; Sarah Robinson – Director of Delivery and Implementations Lead, Eastern AHSN and NIHR ARC East of England
16 June
- 9:30-10am NHS Innovation Accelerator: how we help innovators scale in England’s NHS
Speakers: Suzanne Ali-Hassan – Deputy Director, NHS Innovation Accelerator; TBC – An NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow; TBC – An NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow
- 10:30-11am Transforming asthma care through system-wide collaboration and innovation
Speakers: Dr James Rose – Head of Innovation Adoption, Oxford AHSN; Dr Andy Whittamore – GP and Clinical Lead, Asthma + Lung UK; Joe Sladen – Associate Director – National Programmes, Wessex AHSN
- 10:45-11:45am Moving beyond diversity: inclusion in integrated care (Pop Up University (PUU) session – 4 11B)
Speaker: Richard Stubbs – Vice Chair, the AHSN Network and Chief Executive, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN
- 11:30am-12pm Transforming health and social care, a Welsh perspective
Speaker: Cari-Anne Quinn – Chief Executive Officer, Life Sciences Hub Wales
- 12:45-1:15pm Creating a perinatal improvement community
Speakers: Natasha Swinscoe – Chief Executive, West of England AHSN and AHSN Network lead Chief Officer for Patient Safety; Dr Karen Luyt – Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Consultant Neonatologist, University of Bristol / St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol; Hayley McBain – Health Psychologist and Evaluation Lead, South West AHSN; Sarah Bates – Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- 1-2pm Introducing the new NHS Innovation Service (Pop Up University (PUU) session – 1 4A)
Speaker: Stephen Lynn – Associate Director, Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (NENC)
- 1:45-2:15pm Driving sustained change by addressing systemic challenges with real-world data
Speakers: Amanda Lucas – Director of Information, Imperial College Health Partners; TBC - AHSN Network speaker; TBC - AHSN Network speaker
- 2:30-3:30pm Levelling up health? (Pop Up University (PUU) session – 2 - 4B)
Speaker: Richard Stubbs – Vice Chair, the AHSN Network and Chief Executive, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN
- 2:45-3:15pm Culture: a catalyst to innovation as a workforce benefit
Speakers: Juliette Kumar – Associate Director Culture and Workforce, the Innovation Agency, the AHSN for the North West Coast; Charlotte Hall – Workforce Programme Manager, Innovation Agency, the AHSN for the North West Coast; Jen Kohan – Head of the Coaching Academy, Innovation Agency, the AHSN for the North West Coast
Tickets are free for NHS Confederation members, NHS, local government and members of the wider public sector. Register to attend.
