Full programme coming out in March 2025
The programme theme in Singapore: ‘Moving together towards sustainable quality’
The International Forum Singapore will be centred around the theme of ‘Moving together towards sustainable quality’, highlighting the importance of cross-sector collaboration in driving positive change and achieving a shared vision of sustainable healthcare.
By bringing system leaders, service providers, health care staff, service users (patients) and the public together, the International Forum will explore strategies to bridge the gap between theory and practice, recognising that quality and safety is a fundamental driver for both sustainability and continuous improvement.
By working together, attendees will foster positive change to inspire a collective movement toward redesigning a sustainable, healthy, flourishing society.
Key themes in Singapore
Some of the key themes we are working on integrating in the programme include, but are not limited to:
- Integration and Collaboration: Recognising the importance of breaking down silos and fostering better communication and collaboration between healthcare providers, patients, and other stakeholders
- Patient-Centred Care: Emphasising the need to put patients at the centre of care, focusing on personalised experiences, storytelling and upstream methodolog
- Quality Improvement (QI): Strategies for promoting QI initiatives and integrating QI into daily practice
- Education and Training: The importance of equipping healthcare professionals with the necessary skills, with a focus on emerging leaders
- Community and Social Care: Emphasise the role of community-based care, addressing social determinants of health, and forming partnerships with community organisations to achieve sustainable quality
- Sustainable quality: Acknowledging that we should design and implement solutions based on a holistic approach to improvement, one that meets the needs of the present but also paves the way to the health of the next generations
Conference streams
Safety
Sessions will share understanding of human factors, systems thinking, implementation methodologies and processes for digital and physical systems. Presentations in this stream will discuss:
- 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. In the sessions part of this stream, we will focus on:
- 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
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. Sessions in this session will discuss:
- Leadership strategies for embedding healthcare innovation
- Preparedness and resilience
- Approaches to workforce, wellbeing and culture
- Staff engagement and belonging
- Patient safety / fundamentals of QI
Who is the programme relevant to
Professionals from all health and care sectors and specialties as well as patients, family members and service users will benefit from the programme.
International Forum attendees include students, doctors, nurses, managers, service directors, Quality Improvement (QI) specialists, patients, public health specialists and C-suite, and others.
We have content to suit all levels of experience, whether you are new to quality improvement or an established practitioner.
