13:00 - 13:10 Welcome
• Liz O'Riordan, author and speaker, former breast surgeon
13:10 - 13:45 75 years on: how healthcare improvement research is helping the NHS
Keynote address setting out the role healthcare improvement research has played in supporting the NHS to date and where it will add value in the future
• Keynote: Mary Dixon-Woods, Director, THIS Institute
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13:45 - 13:55 Lightning talk: James McGowan, THIS Institute
Learning from improvement programmes in English NHS maternity services, 2010-2023
13:55 - 14:35 Human factors and ergonomics in healthcare: successes and challenges to adoption
What does the evidence tell us about the role of human factors and ergonomics, and why haven’t the approaches been more widely adopted?
• Ken Catchpole, Professor of Human Factors, Medical University of South Carolina
• Susanna Stanford, Patient Safety Advocate
• Mark Sujan, Health Services Safety Investigation Body
• Matthew Woodward, Research Associate, THIS Institute
14:35 - 14:45 Lightning talk: Heather Cassie, University of Dundee
Choosing Wisely: Reducing unnecessary care in dental primary care
14:45 - 15:30 Communicating uncertainty in diagnosis
How do we communicate uncertainty in diagnosis and how is healthcare improvement research changing the approach?
• Caitríona Cox, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, THIS Institute
• Zoe Fritz, Wellcome Fellow in Society and Ethics, THIS Institute
15:30 - 15:40 Lightning talk: Nick Jelicic, University College London
Investigating the impact of infection prevention and control measures on infection outcomes and patient flow using mathematical and simulation-based models
15:40 - 16:20 Learning health systems in action
How can we use the NYU-Langone learning system model to make improvements in care?
• Leora Horwitz, Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
• Holly Krelle, Program Manager, NYU-Langone's Rapid Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) team and Senior Advisor, Health Foundation
• Bob Evans, Patient Representative
• Kristina Wanyonyi-Kay, Research Programme Leader, THIS Institute
16:20 - 16:30 Close Day 1
Malte Gerhold, Director of Innovation and Improvement, Health Foundation
Please share your insights on social media using #THISspace2023
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome
• Kamran Abbasi, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ and THIS Institute's scientific advisory committee member
09:10 - 09:55 Future NHS workforce
Back in June, NHS England published the Long Term Workforce Plan that will set the direction for decades to come. But what will it take to make the health service an attractive place to work, and how can healthcare improvement research play a part in it?
• Keynote: Kevin Fong, Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospital
• Alison Leary, Director, The International Community Nursing Observatory
• Kiran Patel, Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Medical Officer, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust
• Mary Dixon-Woods, Director, THIS Institute
09:55 - 10:05 Lightning talk: Debbie Clark, University of Leeds
Keeping it real: what really happens during intravenous (IV) medication administration in different healthcare contexts
10:05 - 10:55 Improving healthcare and addressing environmental sustainability
How can improvement learning help healthcare organisations to meet ambitious net zero targets? Considering environmental sustainability as a dimension of quality, hearing latest policy updates and accounts from our three sustainable healthcare fellows.
• Natalia Kurek, Deputy Director of Clinical Transformation and Engagement, Greener NHS, NHS England
• Mahmood Bhutta, Professor of Sustainable Healthcare, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
• Federica Pascale, Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University
• Kurannen Baaki, Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores
• Manraj Phull, Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager, Greener NHS, NHS England
• Tara Lamont, Fellowship Senior Advisor, THIS Institute
10:55 - 11:05 Lightning talk: Patrick Burch, University of Manchester
The performance of continuity in a fragmented primary care system
11:05 - 11:55 Communicating evidence to healthcare decision-makers
To what extent do senior healthcare decision-makers use research evidence and what influences the extent to which they engage?
• Sonja Marjanovic, Director of Healthcare Innovation, Industry and Policy, RAND Europe
• Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Chief Executive, New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation
• Gillian Russell, Director of Health Workforce, The Scottish Government
• Stella O’Brien, Patient representative
• Asutosh T. Yagnik, Non-executive Director, Board of the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
• Graham Martin, Director of Research, THIS Institute
11:55-12:25 Inclusive research practice
Panel discussion exploring practical examples of inclusive research practices and how different methods can support the inclusion of seldom heard people.
• Oli Williams, Lecturer at King’s College London and THIS Fellow
• Olivia Joseph, PPI Research Fellow, Bradford Institute for Health Research
• Lynn Laidlaw, Patient and Public Contributor and Patient Researcher
• Kiri Dargaville, Research Engagement and Involvement Adviser, THIS Institute
• Tony Curran, Senior Research Engagement and Involvement Manager, THIS Institute
12:25 - 12:30 Close of THIS Space
Liz O'Riordan, author and speaker, former breast surgeon
12:30 - 13:00 Meet the speakers
For participants to informally meet one another as an online version of networking. It provides delegates a second chance to engage with speakers, ask a question, or make a comment.
