Join a collaborative community of people who are passionate about improving health and care for their communities
The programme theme in Hong Kong
Our Hong Kong programme theme is A sustainable healthcare horizon: refocus, reenergize, reconnect.
Through the programme, we will explore practical improvement solutions that prioritise the wellbeing of individuals, the planet, and healthcare systems. The programme will rest on forward thinking to ensure that we are achieving greater impact together.
Joining the conference offers a chance to refocus, regroup, and reconnect alongside an international group of improvers, passionate about delivering great care. Watch out for our programme updates and make sure to plan your attendance early to guarantee your spot.
Programme topics
Some of the topics that the Hong Kong program will address include:
- Learning from diverse healthcare systems worldwide – a highlight of the benefits of sharing strategies and dealing with patient quantity
- Implementing innovative solutions to empower patients and caregivers to provide a safer healthcare environment
- Forging collaborations between health and social care providers to deliver care that is meaningful to patients and aligned with their recovery goals
- Unlocking solutions for patient safety: How patients and families hold the key
- Resilience redefined: Innovating behavioural solutions for a safer, healthier tomorrow
- Translational gaps within the landscape of digital health and technological innovation – how do we successfully lead an organisation without failing patients and ensuring safe outcomes
- Fostering environments that encourage collaboration, innovation, and open communication
- Machine learning – leveraging cutting-edge technologies to predict and address delays in care
- Revolutionising healthcare through genomic medicine – personalising healthcare by tailoring prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies to each person’s unique genetic makeup
- Innovative leadership in healthcare that ensures sustainable innovation and progress in healthcare delivery
- The power of innovation through iterative, multidisciplinary collaboration.
Hong Kong 2024 conference streams
The Hong Kong programme will be structured around five content streams.
1 Safety
Patient safety in healthcare involves the prevention of harm through the effective mitigation of risk – and incorporating aspects of safety science including human factors. Patient safety also involves learning by investigation, reporting and change after events.
Thorugh this stream, you will focus on understanding human factors, systems thinking, implementation methodologies and processes for digital and physical systems.
2 People
Encompassing patients and citizens into our planning, prioritisation, and decision making is essential. So is providing healthcare staff with a positive environment to deliver compassionate and kind healthcare.
As part of this stream, you will focus on (but not limited to):
- Empowering Individuals in their health journey
- Value-based care / Co-Design, Co-production
- Workforce, wellbeing and culture
- Private with public partnership potential
- Co-creating the power of patient experiences
3 Populations
The integration and collaboration of traditional hospital delivery, primary care, social care, and education is fundamental for delivering healthcare to populations and preventing illness and harm. Serving vulnerable and underserved populations is a key aspect of this approach and will consider:
- Universal health – Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Equity in healthcare provision
- An Aging population
4 Change
Change is the process by which we make improvement happen.
This stream will focus on understanding change and improvement in complex systems, behaviour change, organisational change. We focus on how we think about change and how we can make change happen across a whole system. We will discuss:
- Utilising technology for better patient outcomes: Digital healthcare, innovation, disruption, IoM
- Sustainable healthcare – economical and environmental
- Culture, systems and science – navigating towards inclusive care
5 Leadership
In order to explore effective leadership in the modern era of healthcare, leaders must navigate complex challenges and promote progress across multiple dimensions, including patient outcomes, population health, sustainability, cost, and staff well-being.
This stream will host discussions around:
- Leadership strategies for embedding healthcare innovation
- Preparedness and resilience
- Approaches to workforce, wellbeing and culture
- Staff engagement and belonging
What to expect from the Hong Kong 2024 programme
In Hong Kong, you will hear the latest research on quality and safety improvement, gather new ideas and international perspectives, get outcomes-focused learning and take advantage of opportunities to connect and collaborate during and after the conference.
We are planning to deliver content rich in perspectives from around the world – see our agenda that includes presentations, case studies, and ideas not just from Hong Kong but also from Singapore, Thailand, Australia, the USA, Canada, the UK, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Turkey, Argentina, and others.
We have planned interactive workshops, curated experience days, panel discussions, lectures and more. You will interact with experts from across the health and care sector and with colleagues and patient representatives from varied backgrounds and unique experiences.
But most importantly, you will be able to be part of a powerful and collaborative community of people, passionate about improving outcomes for their communities.
We are hugely excited to be in Hong Kong in August and we invite you to join us – this is the place to come together with colleagues from around the world as well as close to home to get the inspiration we all need to embrace and drive change.