Exploring the UK’s first AF virtual ward:
May 24th 2023
Exploring the UK’s first AF virtual ward:
An innovative care solution for patients with cardiovascular disease
24th May 2023
11am-12pm
Context
What does it take to successfully implement an award-winning virtual ward?
Our webinar on Leicester Glenfield’s AF virtual ward for cardiovascular disease monitoring uncovers how the ward was built, assesses the patient recruitment process and explores the meaningful relationships made along the way.
Join Stella Vig as she speaks to the pioneering clinicians behind the award-winning virtual ward to discuss how they created a secure clinical pathway centred around patients to deliver ground-breaking virtual care.
Understand the benefits and insights of patient engagement in integrated care and how it can lead to effective digital transformation. Plus, explore how medical data was gathered using transformative tech-enabled devices, the challenges and results of a multidisciplinary approach, and the technologies available to support remote patient monitoring.
Learn about:
– How to implement a successful, secure, and scalable virtual ward
– The challenges and results of a multidisciplinary approach
– The technology available to support patients from the comfort of their home
Speakers
Stella Vig
London GIRFT General Surgery Clinical Director
Stella Vig has more than 30 years’ experience in the NHS, appointed as a consultant in vascular and general surgery at Croydon University Hospital in 2006. Her specialist interests are vascular and general surgery. She is the National Clinical Director for Elective Care for NHSE. She is also the Clinical Director of Elective Recovery at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, which opened a ‘hospital within a hospital’ to safely continue planned care and surgery during the pandemic. Across London, Stella is the Regional Clinical Director for General Surgery for the ‘Get It Right First Time’ best practice programmes. With a focus on patient care, developing trainees and supporting colleagues, she has taken leading roles in clinical education, as well as service transformation. These include chairing the JSCT core surgery advisory committee to the four Royal Colleges, and the London Diabetic Foot Network, which brings healthcare professionals together, and has reduced amputation rates across London. Stella was elected as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Council in 2016.
Professor G. André Ng
Founder and Medical Director of the AF virtual ward, University Hospitals of Leicester
Head of Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Leicester and Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospitals of Leicester.
Professor Ng is an expert in the management of heart rhythm disorders and a leading figure in cardiac research who champions clinical innovation.
Suzanne
Armstrong
Clinical Lead and co-founder of the AF virtual ward, University Hospitals of Leicester
Sue Armstrong, 2022 Cardiovascular Nurse of the Year Bronze Award Winner for the British Journal of Nursing, is a highly experienced Advanced Care practitioner at University Hospitals of Leicester who specialises in cardiac arrhythmias with a special passion for digital transformation and service development.
Dr Gurnak Singh Dosanjh
GP and ICB Clinical Lead for Home First Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
Gurnak is an NHS General Practitioner and is passionate about digital innovation and reducing health inequalities. He is highly experienced in the transformation of clinical pathways, having been involved in numerous projects around the UK. These have included digital pathways for long term conditions management, virtual wards, deterioration detection in individuals with Learning Disabilities and Proactive Care at Home. He is currently the LLR Clinical Lead for Home First and Urgent & Emergency Care. Gurnak is keen to promote digital transformation whilst ensuring that innovation does not widen health inequalities. He is a keen advocate of patient empowerment and ensuring that patients remain at the very centre of any innovation and transformation.
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24th May 2023
11am-12pm
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