Headline Sponsors
Virginia Mason Institute
Virginia Mason Institute is a mission-driven not-for-profit education and training company specialising in partnerships that enable organisations worldwide to create, accelerate, and sustain their own patient-centred management system and embed a culture of continuous improvement.
Our multi-disciplinary team has extensive health care leadership experience and are experts in strategic planning, innovation, large-scale change, and process improvement.
Whether you are getting started on an improvement journey, facing a significant challenge, or looking for a comprehensive system-wide transformation, we have the experience and proven models and methods to help you dramatically elevate your patient experience, eliminate waste and sustain excellence long-term.
Senior Leaders Programme Sponsor
RLDatix
We have a vision of a world where patients have the best care possible.
That is why we are on a mission to make healthcare Safer.
Today we support over 16 million people every week, helping them deliver:
– A safer, better patient journey
– A safer, more supported workforce
– A safer, sustainable organization
Our solutions focus on connecting healthcare operations so the people leading healthcare organisations can be confident they have the right people at the right time delivering the right care at the right cost.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
Aqua
Our purpose is to inspire the best quality health and care for everyone. Proudly part of the NHS, we work as an improvement partner with integrated care systems, organisations, teams and individuals, in the UK and beyond to:
– Enable safe care by developing people and culture
– Develop great leadership
– Co-produce person-centred care with lived experience partners
– Embed continuous improvement
– Enable effective governance and regulatory preparedness
We address our customers’ complex needs from Board to the point of care, supporting them through project-based consultancy or long-term membership relationships.
Codonics
Safe Label System ensures safe and compliant syringe labeling in perioperative settings, meeting international standards and ISMP Guidelines to prevent medication errors. It sits on the anesthesia cart and uses barcode technology to electronically verify drug name and concentration with visual and audible confirmation, then provides a full-color, easy-to-read syringe label, enhancing medication accuracy and compliancy. It integrates with AIMS/EHR systems to improve charge capture and documentation accuracy by enabling ‘hands-free’ scanning into Epic/Cerner at administration. Discover how it’s helped to prevent 1.8+ million medication errors in leading ORs, ICUs, PACUs, and beyond, ensuring safer healthcare for all.
GS1
GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit, member-owned, standards development organisation. We help healthcare and other sectors to make their processes and solutions safer through the globally unique identification of every product, every place, and every person. We are best known for providing a system of unique numbers (GS1 standards), data carriers (e.g. barcodes and radio frequency identification tags) and information sharing standards, relevant to products, relationships, assets, locations, services and processes. By barcoding and tracking products, assets, people, locations and more, information can be captured quickly at the point of care or use – and all with a simple scan. With this information, we can be sure who did what to whom, when, where, with what and why, to improve transparency throughout the supply chain and patient care pathway. This delivers enhanced patient safety, reduces clinical variation and improves operational efficiency. GS1 is actively collaborating with authorities, hospitals, suppliers and other key stakeholders to embed the standards in their systems and processes to help drive global traceability from manufacturer to the patient bedside. For contact options, visit https://www.gs1.org/contact/overview.
Health and Social Care Quality Improvement (HSCQI) Northern Ireland
HSCQI Northern Ireland is a Quality Improvement Network whose purpose is to provide a supporting infrastructure for quality, improvement and innovation across the Northern Ireland HSC system.
Hexitime
Hexitime. The award-winning digital marketplace where users trade expertise with a time currency. We provide tech platforms and subject matter expertise to support organisational effectiveness through timely knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Improvement Cymru
Improvement Cymru is part of the Quality, Safety and Improvement directorate of the NHS Wales Executive. As the improvement service for NHS Wales, we work alongside organisations to empower, embed and elevate improvements to quality and safety, delivering all-Wales improvement programmes to achieve safety priorities.
Our aim is to support the creation of the best quality health and care system for Wales so that everyone has access to safe, effective and efficient care in the right place and at the right time.
You can keep up to date with our work by visiting our website and signing up to our digital newsletter at www.improvement.cymru.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel and Podcast, Talking Improvement.
ImproveWell
ImproveWell is an award-winning real-time feedback solution for continuous improvement and everyday innovation in health and care, helping organisations to improve staff experience and the quality of patient care. Boosting morale and empowering the frontline to drive change, 24/7 everyone can: suggest ideas for improvement; share how their workday is going; and complete pulse surveys. Insights from patients and wider stakeholder groups can also be captured. An intelligent data dashboard enables leads to gather real-time feedback, track sentiment, prioritise improvements, measure change and publish reports. From the ward to the board, everyone has a voice in improving health and care.
MEG
MEG is a cloud-based, all-in-one quality management system for healthcare delivered through configurable mobile and web app tools. MEG enables healthcare providers to make 10x gains in staff productivity and engagement across quality improvement, patient safety and compliance with accreditation/regulatory standards.
Thanks to seamless integration into existing workflows for audit, incident reporting, risk management, patient experience, complaints management, document management and training processes, frontline workers are empowered to capture related data or access live information from anywhere on any device.
Management can collate, analyse and act upon real-time information and metrics across multiple sites, consolidating data into a centralised platform. MEG is in operation in hospitals across 16+ countries, including Ireland, UK, UAE, Australasia and South America, with multilingual support.
NHS IMPACT (Improving Patient Care Together)
NHS IMPACT (Improving Patient Care Together) is a framework to support all NHS organisations, systems and providers in England to have the skills and techniques to deliver continuous improvement. Our ambition is to enable the creation of an NHS in which every organisation has the leadership with the leadership behaviours, the improvement capability and the capacity, to enable staff to solve the problems that matter to them, their patients and their populations. Visit our stand to find out more about NHS IMPACT and talk to members of NHS England’s National Improvement Board.
Opus 5k
MARS is an all-in-one system designed to collect and analyse data while automatically generating reports, alerts, benchmarks, and workflows. The latest advancements in AI have been integrated into MARS, giving clients access to the most advanced audit capabilities on the market!
Our web-based platform ensures secure access from any device, making it possible to collect and validate data at the source.
With MARS, users have complete control to create interactive forms tailored to their specific needs. The platform also offers a collaborative space, MARS XChange, where users can share audit designs.
The Actions Register feature helps track improvement initiatives related to accreditation, risk mitigation, national standards compliance or anything else clients wish to manage. MARS ensures deadlines are published, reminders are sent, and interactions are broadcast to all users subscribed to the action.
What sets MARS apart is the proactive way it orchestrates data collections, resulting in improvement actions. Gone are the days of poring over results to find areas for improvement; our integrated workflow engine analyses incoming data in real-time and automatically creates actionable improvement tasks. MARS also has the ability to selectively request re-audits in areas where performance has deteriorated. This unique approach reflects Opus 5K’s philosophy: That data collection is just the beginning – the real impact lies in harnessing that data for positive change.
Saïd Business School
Saïd Business School is a vibrant and entrepreneurial business school embedded in the University of Oxford. Our part-time postgraduate degree-level programmes aim to challenge traditional perspectives and generate impactful ideas.
The MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership, developed in partnership with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, combines Oxford University’s world-leading expertise in healthcare, business and policy, while our Executive MBA and Executive Diploma in Organisational Leadership provide unparalleled insights into leadership and change.
Together, our programmes strive to lead innovation, foster collaboration and contribute meaningfully to global healthcare leadership.
Tendable
Tendable is a HealthTech company that brings people together to understand and improve quality in health and care settings. Tendable offers a complete quality assurance solution to provide health and social care professionals the appropriate tools they need for quality audit, insight, and assurance (ward, board, committee, and regulator). Our solutions are designed alongside front-line teams to ensure that our tools are fit-for-purpose. Our products lead a transformation in the culture of quality across care and clinical settings.
The National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate (NQPSD)
The National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate (NQPSD) of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) works in partnership with healthcare workers, patient partners and others to improve patient safety and quality of care to help ensure those that use our services will receive the safest care possible.
University of Edinburgh ESO
With this Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) accredited postgraduate degree, you’ll become an expert in human factors, patient safety culture, and the latest techniques used to improve healthcare delivery.
The programme provides you with the tools to make a real difference and advance your career. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with international experts from a range of specialties and apply your learning to real-world scenarios.
With flexible online learning options, you can study at your own pace and on your own schedule.
For information email: patient.safety@ed.ac.uk
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that engage clinicians, patients, researchers, students, and the next generation of healthcare providers. With a focus on clinical effectiveness, research, and learning, our proven solutions drive quality improvement and patient safety across the continuum of care
Organisers
BMJ
BMJ is a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world. The company supports health providers globally, from individual clinicians to major institutions, with evidence-based tools and resources:
The BMJ: One of the world’s top five most cited general medical journals, The BMJ has built a reputation for challenging inadequate, unethical or outdated practice.
Latest clinical knowledge and opinion: BMJ publishes 70 journals, some of which are the most cited and influential titles in their specialty.
Clinical decision support: BMJ Best Practice is a multi-award winning app and website providing evidence-based answers to clinical questions, the latest research, and guidelines.
Learning and training: Accredited continuing medical education and continuing medical professional online courses for self-assessment and exam preparation.
Medical events and career services: Help for clinicians to improve practice in their current roles whilst also seeking new opportunities.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
For 30 years, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has used improvement science to sustain better outcomes in health and health systems across the world. IHI brings awareness of safety and quality to millions, catalyzes learning and the systematic improvement of care, develops solutions to previously intractable challenges, and mobilizes health systems, communities, regions, and nations to reduce harm and deaths. IHI works in collaboration with the growing IHI community to spark bold, inventive ways to improve the health of individuals and populations. IHI generates optimism, harvests fresh ideas, and supports anyone, anywhere who wants to profoundly change health and health care for the better.