Tackling the backlog safely: Prioritising and optimising access to elective care services
Exchange Hall
Delivering quality improvement on the frontline, Radar Healthcare
Information
- Address the challenges services face to prioritise patient access to elective care and streamline patient flow. Find out what is being done to ensure that patient safety considerations are at the heart of this process
- National plans to approach the backlog efficiently and systematically, risk stratifying by clinical need and planning for increased demand in specific areas
- Hear examples of how patients are engaged in the process of prioritisation. What more needs to be done to mitigate the risks to patients with longer waits for care and treatment?
- Understand how the approach to tackling the backlog is being coordinated at a national level to ensure policy and delivery alignment. Is the right information being made available about patient treatment and categorisation in priority decisions being taken?
- Take away strategies that can help minimise further risks to patients and allow for the safe restoration of elective services
Speakers
Professor Jugdeep Dhesi
Consultant Geriatrician, POPSGuy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Kamal Mahawar
Consultant General/ Bariatric Surgeon and NatSSIP LeadSouth Tyneside Sunderland NHS FT and Visiting Professor, University of Sunderland
Annie Hunningher
Consultant in Anaesthesia Royal London Hospital, Barts Health 