Monday 18 September

11.30 - Bedding in the ICS and ICB system and how can these reduce end-to-end patient safety risks?
  • What are the priorities for ICBs once cost cutting targets have been met?
  • How to embed a safety-first approach in ICB thinking?
  • How can we share learning across ICBs, then ICBs share this learning across trusts?
12.25 - Achieving true integration: Lessons from mature integrated care systems outside England
  • The key challenges faced in the establishment of systems-level care through the lenses of finance, workforce and operational delivery
  • Take a closer look at the Scottish and Welsh integrated care models
  • Specific lessons you can take away from their approaches to partnership working 
  • How advanced levels of integration significantly enhanced patient safety
  • Find out what initial challenges these systems faced when starting their integration journey, as well as key elements required for ICSs to succeed

Zoe Picton-Howell, Family Representative

14.15 - Panel: Continuing patient safety across, primary, acute, social, mental and allied health pathways and boundaries

Patient flow and movement, cross-system risk

  • PSIRF plans and crosssystem learning responses – how can these improve safety management across organisational boundaries
  • Better integrating services to improve the safe handover of patients between settings
  • Closing safety gaps and improving accountability across boundaries
  • Overcoming the difficulties of collaborating on journeys across pathways
  • Integration, improvement and moving patients out of silos

Dr Rosie Beneyworth, Chief Investigator, HSIB
Charity Mutiti, Head of System Patient Safety and Learning, South West London ICB
Katharine Goldthorpe, Associate Director of Quality Improvement, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

15:10 - What did we learn in the 2022/2023 crisis about urgent and emergency patient flow and managing waiting lists?
  • Re-thinking patient flow: Innovative approaches to improving hospital flow for urgent care
  • Working post-covid to help outpatients with hybrid/virtual systems
  • Virtual clinics - triaging and linking to patient experience and priority.
  • Reducing inequalities across the system and transfer between settings
  • Surveying patients about safety during transitions
  • How private sector partners impact on what NHS is doing. Private sector waiting list initiatives. inc charity partnerships