PRSB to participate in the inaugural Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit

The PRSB is excited to announce that it will be exhibiting at a new physical event, hosted by the team behind Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT), designed to support future-focused thought leadership on healthcare innovation.

The Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit (LHIS) will take place on 9th February 2022 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, and will include more than 60 expert speakers, 14 hours of CPD accredited content, workshops and networking opportunities.

The agenda is split into three focused streams: Remote Care, Integrated Care Systems and Digital Inclusion & UX Design. The streams are designed to help senior leadership to solve the sectors most pressing challenges and opportunities in digital transformation, including data innovation, Population health, shared care records, new clinical pathways; diversity and inclusion in data and products; service and user inclusive design; remote care and patient monitoring; virtual consultations and ICS development.

During the event, Maureen Baker CBE, Chair of the PRSB, will be delivering a talk on the future of personalised care. This will cover the growth in remote monitoring, digital devices and apps, empowerment of the individual through self-testing and a vision of the self-directed patient of the future.

Nilesh Bharakhada, Executive Clinical Director of the PRSB, will also be chairing a panel session on shared care records. He’ll be joined by Emma Davis, Clinical Lead at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Care, and Paula Bennett, Chief Nurse and CNIO at Health Innovation Manchester.

Lorraine Foley, CEO at PRSB, said: “Having thoroughly enjoyed the HETT event in September 2021, we were thrilled to learn of the LHIS event launching this year. The opportunities for in-person networking and shared learning are very welcome. We look forward to working with colleagues to drive improvement in people’s experience of health and care services through better information sharing which PRSB standards help to deliver.”

Commenting on the launch of the event, Emma-Victoria Fell, Event Director at HETT, said: “LHIS will be a destination for healthcare leaders to learn, share and collaborate on the shared goal of delivering better patient experience and operational efficiencies. Attendees will leave with enhanced knowledge, information about tools, services and solutions, new connections, ideas and most importantly, answers.”

Those in senior leadership roles in the NHS / healthcare provision, the wider public sector, local/central government, charity and academia can apply to attend the event free of charge.

Once accepted, your conference pass will entitle you to:

  • Access to the full conference, including interactive features, workshops and the exhibitor floor
  • A hot lunch (dietary requirements can be stated on the form)
  • Access to a complimentary drinks reception at event close
  • Refreshments throughout the day
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CHAT theory also explicitly addresses five areas which if addressed systematically will help overcome stakeholder differences in pursuit of the common goal:

1. Understanding the artefacts that characterise the group and its activity.
• The artefacts might be clinical settings or the forms and templates used to capture and share information. During the pilot we heard about hard copy Dialog response forms; locally generated templates for collating information from different systems; letters and emails to GPs; images, poems or other non-text artefacts that service users might want to include in their ‘about me’ or care plan.

2. Understanding the multi-views of the group. Such groups are always a community of multiple points of view, traditions and interests. 
• Different participants in the group will have different roles and will bring to the group and their roles their own histories, language, and ‘rules’. During our Stocktake preparations and workshops we worked with psychiatrists, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, transformation leads and voluntary sector representatives, all professions and interests with their own language, approaches professional ‘rules’ but united in their interest in care plans, care planning.

3. Activity systems (like the ICSs) take shape and get transformed over periods of time. ‘Historicity’ is a term coined to express how the group’s problems and potentials can only be understood against their own history. 

 

• ‘We’ve always done it this way’, ‘that didn’t work before’, ‘it’s always like this’, ‘it wasn’t always like this’, ‘they are changing things again’, are all typical statements that often frustrate those charged with overseeing change initiatives. Without addressing the experiences that lie behind such comments you risk repeating mistakes of the past, alienating your stakeholders or just not understanding the real starting point for your transformation project. This is particularly the case for the implementation of the PCSP standard, the success of which will be largely reliant on point-of-care practices and information protocols as well as having systems which are user friendly and appropriately configured.

4. The central role of contradictions as sources of change and development. Contradictions are not the same as problems or conflicts. Contradictions are historically accumulating structural tensions within and between activity systems. Collectively addressing contradictions in how policy, practice, culture and technology interact will empower teams to find genuinely novel solutions for apparently intractable challenges, like interoperability and shared care plan/planning. 

This links to the fifth principle that:

5. the possibility of expansive transformations in activity systems. As the contradictions of an activity system are aggravated, some individual participants begin to question and deviate from its established norms. In some cases, this escalates into collaborative envisioning and a deliberate collective change effort. “An expansive transformation is accomplished when the object and motive of the activity are re-conceptualised to embrace a radically wider horizon of possibilities than in the previous mode of the activity.”