22nd November 2022
Defining Virtual Wards: How Virtual Wards Can Ease NHS Backlog Pressures And Improve Patient Flow
22nd November 2022
1pm-2pm
About The Webinar
NHS England & Improvement has asked all Integrated Care Systems to
extend, or introduce for the first time, the Virtual Ward model. The
guidance starts a two-year funded transformation programme to support
the development of Virtual Wards, including Hospital at Home.
In this free webinar our expert panel will discuss how Virtual Wards can
support elective recovery and improve patient flow during the critical
Winter period. Our panel will also focus on the practicalities of setting up,
rolling out and managing Virtual Wards across multiple treatments and
care pathways.
Headline discussion points:
∙ NHS pressures: where virtual wards fit in and current initiatives
∙Real life learning from setting up, rolling out and managing virtual wards
∙Impact of virtual wards on the healthcare system
What attendees will learn:
∙ What is a virtual ward and what needs to be in place to make virtual wards work.
∙ Innovation and initiatives that have been used previously to support delivery.
∙ How virtual wards can be rolled out across a system and new treatments/pathways introduced within a virtual ward.
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.
Stephanie Somerville
Director, Community Transformation at NHS England
Stephanie leads the virtual ward programme at NHS England to deliver more care at home, a better experience for patients, supported by technology. She also leads on programmes to radically improve data architecture and availability in community services as well as levelling up digital provision. Before she joined NHS England, Stephanie was Director of the Helix Centre at Imperial College London, a joint venture with the Royal College of Art and Imperial College Healthcare Trust to develop and trial digital innovations that solve problems in patient care. She also spent 10 years at the Department of Health and Social Care leading national strategy and policy initiatives.
Jill Ireland
CEO and Clinical Director, HomeLink Healthcare
Jill Ireland qualified as a registered nurse in 1985. She has held a number operational and strategic transformational roles spanning NHS, independent and third sector organisations; previous roles have included chief nurse, director of nursing and programme lead for earlier cancer diagnosis. More recently Jill was appointed CEO and clinical director for HomeLink Healthcare and with her team is focused on developing new ways of delivering ‘Hospital at Home’ services, improving patient care, efficiency, and effectiveness of clinical home care.
Emily Wells
Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO for nursing, midwives & AHPs), Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Trust
Emily Wells, Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO for nursing, midwives & AHPs), Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Trust
Emily is a senior nurse, with a background in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Gynaecology and General Surgery, who oversees strategy for the use of technology, data and evidence-based information systems to enhance processes and improve patient outcomes.
Emily is dedicated to quality improvement and her role at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Trust bridges the gap between digital and nursing and brings strategic vision and informatics knowledge combined with knowledge of clinical workflows to enhance and support the implementation of new digital systems.
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