Thursday 9 September | 09:15-10:15

Format: Keynote

Stream: Building Capability and Leadership

Content filters: For those new to quality improvement

Vlad Voiculescu is a Romanian social entrepreneur, patient advocate and politician. In 2019 he was awarded the European Parliament’s “Citizen of the year Award”.

One of his early initiatives – an international network of volunteers that helped over 2.500 cancer patients to receive essential medicines that were missing in Romania – was featured in an HBO documentary “The Network” in 2015. In his 2016 mandate as a health minister, Vlad offered filmmaker Alexander Nanau unprecedented access to his work in a transparency effort that guided his entire public career. Collective was the 2020 “Best Documentary” at the European Film Awards and was nominated at the 93rd Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film categories, becoming the first Romanian film to be nominated for an Academy Award.

In this session Hugh McCaughey, National Director of Improvement for NHS England, will join Vlad in a conversation about speaking truth to power, and improving systems at scale.

Vlad Voiculescu, Former Minister of Health of Romania; Romania

Hugh McCaughey, National Director of Improvement for NHS England; England