Call for Speakers is now closed.
Be part of at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has a long history of supporting and energising the international movement for health and care improvement. We connect health and care leaders, practitioners and consumers worldwide to improve outcomes for individuals and communities.
The International Forum brings together the quality improvement community to discuss the most pressing challenges in health and care today, and to share ideas and experiences from different countries, professions and healthcare systems. We showcase and discuss what works (and what doesn’t) with the aim of creating a revolution in outcomes.
As a speaker at the International Forum in Hong Kong, you will share your work with an audience that has the power to make a real difference. You will also build or increase your profile as an expert in your field.
If you are a dynamic speaker looking to discuss your quality improvement and patient safety experience and knowledge in Hong Kong on 26-28 August 2024, then we’d like to hear from you.
What are we looking for?
Speaker proposals can showcase an innovative project, run an interactive workshop or inspire a new way of thinking.
We welcome applications from across the healthcare sector and beyond, including non-clinicians, patients and carers, voluntary/social sector employees, students and first-time presenters.
We have a strong preference for content that:
- Is co-designed with or lead by consumers/patients
- Illustrates strategies facilitating interdependent approaches for achieving improvement within and across settings and systems
- Contains new and innovative ideas that have the potential to change the status quo
- Has a robust evidence base with reliable results
Call for Speakers topics for Hong Kong 2024
The programme theme in Hong Kong will be A sustainable healthcare horizon: Refocus, reenergize, reconnect.
We will bring together healthcare professionals, patients, and stakeholders to explore practical solutions that prioritise the wellbeing of individuals, the planet, and healthcare systems. Being part of this conference will be an opportunity to refocus, regroup, and reconnect through a forward-thinking approach to ensure we are achieving greater impact together.
In Hong Kong, our programme will be structured around five content streams. As such, we would like to hear about projects and initiatives that show impactful results under these streams.
Safety
Understanding human factors, systems thinking, implementation methodologies and processes for digital and physical systems. Presentations in this stream will look at:
- Systems and challenges
- QI and safety across borders
- Approaches to Certification, Licensing, and Regulation
- Learnings from international care models and other industries
People
Encompassing patients and citizens into our planning, prioritisation, and decision making is essential, as is providing healthcare staff with a positive environment to deliver compassionate and kind healthcare, this includes (but is 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
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
Change
Understanding change and improvement in complex systems, behaviour change, organisational change. This session will focus on:
- Utilising technology for better patient outcomes: Digital healthcare, innovation, disruption, IoM
- Sustainable healthcare – economical and environmental
- Culture, systems and science – navigating towards inclusive care
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. Presentations in this session will aim to discuss:
- Leadership strategies for embedding healthcare innovation
- Preparedness and resilience
- Approaches to workforce, wellbeing and culture
- Staff engagement and belonging
*Patient representation and lived experience
Submissions are expected to be co-produced with patients, service users, citizens and carers wherever possible. We have representatives on these groups in all our planning committees, and are working to increase the representation of these groups as speakers and delegates.
Notifying you
You will be notified of the outcome by email in February 2024. Please note that the email address that you supply during your speaker submission will be the email address used to correspond the results of your submission. If you change email addresses during this time, please let us know so we can update your records.