Health & Care
Transformation 2022
Transforming the Health & Care Sector in Scotland
Wednesday 16 March 2022 | Technology & innovation Centre, Glasgow | live
2022 Speakers
Head of Technology Enabled Care and Digital Healthcare Innovation, The Scottish Government
Margaret is Head of the Technology Enabled Care and Digital Healthcare Innovation within Scottish Government. She is responsible for the national Technology Enabled Care cross sector TEC Programme in partnership with the NHS, Local Government, Third , Housing and Independent sector providers which is aiming to support at scale deployment in Scotland . This is centred around the citizen, and focuses on improving access to services by using digital technologies, including the ability to self-manage remotely.
Margaret leads the national Digital health and Care Fest in Scotland, proving a national and international focus to developments in Scotland. She is active in the European arena and is responsible for the International Engagement Team for digital health and care. Margaret was a finalist in Digital Leaders (UK) 2019.
Margaret is currently leading a number of scale up digital programmes in the context of the COVID emergency.
Business Relationship Manager – Digital Health and Care, Digital Office for Scottish Local Government
David works for the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government and leads the team responsible for delivering Scotland’s Digital Telecare transformation programme. Prior to moving into this role, he was a Senior Manager with the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership for more than 10 years, providing senior level leadership to a portfolio of services including Community Equipment, Telecare and Citywide Supported Housing. David was also the Partnerships Lead Officer for Digital Telecare during this time. With a demonstrated history of working in the Technology Enabled Care, Housing and Third sector. David is skilled in Strategic Planning, Business Development, Organizational Development, Change Management and is a qualified Agile Practitioner. David also holds a Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) focused in Public Sector Leadership.
Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland) (Invited)
Dr Chris Williams has been a GP for the past nine years and is currently working as a salaried GP in Grantown-on-Spey. He has also worked across Highland as a sessional GP including out of hours roles and has worked in Orkney, Moray and Gairloch as part of a remote and rural GP scheme. Chris has been actively involved in RCGP since he was a trainee and has attended Scottish Council for the past seven years. He represents RCGP Scotland on the Scottish Government’s Rural Working Group and is also on the board of the Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative. Chris is currently Chair of North Scotland Faculty and is RCGP Scotland’s Clinical lead for IT and co-chair of the Scottish Joint GP IT Group.
Consultant Sexual Health & HIV Physician, NHS Grampian
Dr Steve Baguley is a consultant in Sexual Health & HIV and Clinical Director of eHealth for NHS Grampian. In 2020 he was appointed chair of clinical digital leads for Scotland.
Steve has long had an interest in information management in healthcare, completing an MSc in Healthcare Informatics in 2008 and a PG Dip in digital health leadership in 2019. In 2016 he spent a month studying digital health in Estonia and sits on various national groups that advise on Digital Health strategy and implementation in Scotland.
In his role as chair of the clinical digital leads Steve has been improving collaboration between clinicians and managers and was instrumental in establishing the Scottish Digital Health & Care Network. The goals here being to improve representation and to increase the pace of delivery – bringing benefits to citizens and staff alike.
Chief Technology Officer, NES Digital (Invited)
National Lead - Near Me Network, Technology Enabled Care Programme, The Scottish Government
Prior to his current role Marc was an Occupational Therapist in Shetland and used Near Me clinically to provide services to children & families. As the COVID 19 pandemic took hold last year he supported staff and patients in their use of Near Me to facilitate the continuity of services in a remote island community. Marc was then part of a team who created digital resources and ran webinars last year to enable wider NMAHP services across Scotland to use Near Me at pace and scale.
Marc was then seconded into the Near Me Network as the National Lead to further roll out and embed Near Me within all areas of Health, Social Care and the 3rd sector. Prior to his current role Marc was an Occupational Therapist and AHP Practice Education Lead in Shetland where he used Near Me clinically to provide services to children & families.
Chief Technology Officer, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre
Chal leads on DHI’s technical strategy and is responsible for the way we support and deliver technical innovation, by applying systems thinking and methodologies in support of the DHI innovation model. He is devoted to the idea that citizens can be empowered to take an active role in their own wellbeing. Chal believes that digital health offers the tools to achieve this, and the DHI has the fresh perspective necessary to reconceive the relationship between the citizen and those who might care for them. He brings a range of skills including a Master’s in Healthcare Management & Leadership and a Master’s in Public Health Policy: Health Systems. He has spent seven years working in digital innovation, seven years working in Scottish Government public policy and healthcare service delivery and has led the design, development, integration and roll out of many digital health and care services with several now in use at scale across Scotland.
Clinical Director for Health Innovation for The Scottish Government , Academic Emergency Medicine Consultant in the QEUH
Established EmQuire research group focusing on data, device and decisions. As WoS innovation lead have delivered against a range of projects building capability and infrastructure within the test beds. Work focusing on enhancing clinical pathways by embedding data driven approach and patient co-management and leading on range of projects across trauma for the STN (thetraumaapp.com), Dynamic COPD (support.nhscopd.scot) and OPERA (early diagnostic heart failure utilising AI). In partnership with DHI, NES Digital and NHS GGC to deliver asynchronous care solutions aligned to life science and Scot Gov remobilisation strategy. He is leading both the development and validation of AI solutions with industry and academic partners across a range of clinical use cases including unscheduled care admission, radiology and long term condition management.
Clinical Lead for e-Health and Consultant Physician, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Dr Winter was appointed Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV in Glasgow, UK in 1999 after completing a PhD in Infection at Birmingham University. Dr Winter’s main interest is in digital health leadership: he led adoption of the national sexual health system in Scotland since mid-2000s, was appointed as clinical e-Health lead in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in 2015, and in 2020 became Vice-Chair of the Scottish Health and Care Digital Network and a Scottish Government clinical adviser. He graduated from the first cohort of the UK’s NHS Digital Academy and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. He is a co-investigator in two NIHR-funded studies of digital sexual health transformation. His clinical interests are in HIV care and STI diagnostic testing.
Technology Enabled Care in Housing (TECH) Lead, SFHA
Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director General for Health and Social Care, The Scottish Government
Caroline was appointed as DG Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland in January 2021.
Caroline joined the Scottish Government in December 2019 to lead the Digital Health and Care Directorate. With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, Caroline took on a number of different roles. In March 2020, she led on our ICU surge requirements; and from May 2020 she became Portfolio Director for Test and Protect, working with colleagues from across the system to establish our arrangements for contact tracing, and providing support for isolation. In August 2020 she became Delivery Director for the Extended Seasonal Flu and Covid-19 vaccination programmes.
Caroline trained as a Chartered Accountant in London. After qualifying she came to Scotland and worked first in housing and then in higher education. Caroline joined the NHS in 2004, as Director of Finance and Corporate Resources for NHS Education for Scotland (NES). NES is one of the national NHS Boards with responsibility for training, education and workforce development. Caroline led the Digital Transformation at NES, and was appointed as Chief Executive in 2015. In 2017 she was appointed by Scottish Government to represent National Boards as National Implementation Lead for the Health & Social Care Delivery Plan. In this role she worked closely with Scottish Government and the 3 Regional Implementation Leads
Director of Data Driven Innovation, Public Health Scotland (INVITED)
Chief Executive, Scottish Care
Dr Donald Macaskill is CEO of Scottish Care which is the membership body for organisations that provide care in care homes, home care and housing support across Scotland.
In August 2018 he wrote ‘TechRights: human rights, technology and social care.’ which explores issues of AI and smart technology, arguing for citizens to be in full control of the technology they use in their homes and care. Scottish Care published a Human Rights Charter for Technology and Digital in Social Care with associated Guidance in late 2019 and a Vision for Technology in 2020.
Dr Macaskill’s interest in the necessity of a human rights and ethical framework for the use of technology and digital in social care has led to him addressing conferences across the UK and North America on this and related issues.
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Health & Care Institute
Professor George Crooks is currently the Chief Executive of the Digital Health and Care Institute, Scotland’s national innovation centre for digital health and care. He leads an organisation that is tasked with delivering innovation in digital health and care that will help Scotland’s people to live longer, healthier lives, deliver sustainable health and care services for the future and create economic benefits for Scotland. DHI provides opportunities for Scotland’s public sector, academia and industry to co-design digital solutions to some of the country’s biggest health and care challenges working with patients, service users and their families.
He was previously the Medical Director for NHS 24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth & Telecare. George was a General Medical Practitioner for 23 years in Aberdeen latterly combining that role as Director of Primary Care for Grampian. George is on the Board of the European Connected Health Alliance and is past president of the European Health Telematics Association. He is a Board member of TEC Quality, a UK organisation leading the implementation of quality standards and practices across the assisted living sector in the UK. He is an assessor for the European Commission on programmes involving digital health and care provision and is a member of the WHO roster of experts for digital health. He has been an advisor to several European governments and organisations on digital health and care. He is an advisor to Innovate UK for its Industrial Grand Challenge programme for Health Ageing. He is also an adjunct Professor of Telehealth at the University of Southern Denmark.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2011 for services to healthcare.
Clinical Lead, NES Digital
Session 1 - Digitisation & NHS Recovery
Refreshments & networking
Welcome and Chair’s opening remarks
Keynote: NHS Recovery & A Refreshed National Digital Health & Care Plan
The digital approaches at the heart of a £1bn plan to revitalise healthcare in Scotland
The future of person-centred care:
Next generation digital services as a vehicle to aid recovery and create sustainable, quality services
Moving from person-centred to person-led post Feeley:
How can technology play a part in building a more inclusive experience of care support?
More information coming soon
Expert Panel: What are the lessons from Covid and how can we use technology to build a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable healthcare system?
This session will explore how the pandemic has impacted national strategic aims and the ‘legacy effect’ of delivering care in a crisis
Refreshments & networking
Session 2 - Masterclass & knowledge Exchange Session
Masterclass & knowledge exchange session stream 1
Session 3 - Masterclass & knowledge Exchange Session
Masterclass & knowledge exchange session stream 2
Lunch & networking
Session 4 - Health & Care Leadership Streams: Data & AI; Interoperability
Data and AI:
The future of citizen health data, system demand management and mobile health applications
Interoperability:
Creating efficiencies, joining systems and common data standards
Digital Prescribing:
Transitioning from the age-old ‘script’ to a modern, patient-centred system: how electronic prescribing will provide a much-needed boost to primary and secondary care in Scotland
Refreshments & networking
Session 5 - Health & Care Leadership Streams: Innovation; Technology Enabled Care
Innovation:
How do we use healthcare data to improve services and support a vibrant Scottish tech ecosystem?
Technology Enabled Care:
Remote patient monitoring, virtual appointments, telecare and innovative uses of technology in housing
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Agenda subject to change
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