Submit your proposal to speak by 20 November 2024
Speaking 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 Singapore, 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 Singapore on 13-15 August 2025, 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 Singapore 2025
The programme for the International Forum in Singapore will be built around the theme of ‘Moving together towards sustainable quality’. We would like to highlight the importance of cross-sector collaboration in driving positive change and achieving a shared vision of sustainable healthcare.
We will bring together system leaders, service providers, health care staff, service users (patients) and the public to explore strategies for closing the gap between theory and practice, recognising that quality and safety is a fundamental driver for both sustainability and continuous improvement.
Through collaboration, participants will foster positive change to inspire a collective movement toward redesigning a sustainable, healthy, flourishing society.
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. These sessions 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
- Promoting value-based behavioral and organisational transformation
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 late January 2025. 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.
Speaker Terms and Conditions
See the Terms and Conditions related to a proposal to speak at the International Forum. An offer to speak at the conference will be subject to terms and conditions to be agreed alongside an acceptance of that offer.