As the NHS takes steps towards a more integrated future, how are systems and care pathways transforming? How is change being implemented, and what does this look like in reality for local systems and populations?
Tom Clarke (Director, Mtech Access) explores all this and more with Debbie Morgan, (Director of Service Improvement and Transformation, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).
In this #WhispersWordsofWisdom webinar, Tom and Debbie explore the reality of transforming systems and care pathways in an NHS that’s moving towards an integrated future, asking:
- What does change look like for patients and their care pathways?
- How are systems changing, and how will decisions be made and implemented?
- What does this mean for Pharma and Medtech market access and industry’s engagement with the NHS?
To understand how systems are approaching change, Debbie and Tom explore areas such as the elective recovery programme, virtual wards, and local population needs.
As Director of Service Improvement and Transformation at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Debbie leads the Trust’s improvement programme; engaging and empowering staff and patients on the journey of improvement and sustainability. She has previously held roles as Director of Commissioning and Head of Corporate Management at the Trust. Debbie originally joined the NHS in 1993 as a Clinical Cytogeneticist, before moving into NHS management in 2011. She has undertaken a wide variety of roles over the years, including commissioning and service improvement across the local health system, and has worked at director level for over 9 years.
Debbie is passionate about maximising opportunities to empowering colleagues to transform current practices, implement sustainable improvements and thereby realise patient, organisational, and system benefits.
We were delighted to welcome Debbie to the Whispers’ Words of Wisdom webinar series.
This webinar forms part of our monthly Whispers’ Words of Wisdom series, that sees our UK market access team have in-depth, comprehensive conversations with senior colleagues from the NHS. We explore what their immediate priorities are, what they see as the greatest challenges currently faced by the NHS, and how the NHS might respond to these challenges.
Our previous webinars are available on demand:
- March 2022: ‘Population to Person: How will the NHS translate population health management into impactful person-centred service change?’ with guest speaker Dr Steven Laitner (GP, Public Health Physician, and Clinical Leader)
- January 2022: ‘Planning in a volatile environment: how will the NHS reconcile its competing priorities and operational planning to meet its challenges?’ with guest speaker Caroline Dawe (Deputy Director of Commissioning, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group)
- December 2021: Panel discussion: ‘The evolving NHS: How can Pharma and Medtech support the NHS in 2022?’ With experts on policy, hospitals, finance, primary care, systems, and medicines
- October 2021: ‘Optimising the NHS – How will medicines be valued in integrated systems?’ with guest speaker Ellen Rule (Programme Director, Gloucestershire ICS)
- September 2021: ‘A new paradigm for the NHS: Partnering to deliver lasting and meaningful care improvements’ with guest speaker Dr Phil Webb (Chief Executive of Respiratory Innovation Wales)
- August 2021: ‘Innovations to address health inequalities in the NHS and how Pharma and Medtech can help’ with guest speaker Jon Siddall (Chief Executive of South West AHSN)
- June 2021: ‘The hidden heroes of the NHS – The role of Ambulance Trusts in keeping patients and systems moving’ with guest speaker Helen Ray (Chief Executive of North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust)
- May 2021: ‘Population to Person – how will the voice of the individual drive health & care development?’ with guest speaker Steph Edusei (Chief Executive of St Oswald’s Hospice)
- April 2021: ‘Know your Place – where will power really sit in the new NHS?’ with guest speaker Dr Steven Michael OBE (Chair of East Cheshire Partnership)
- March 2021: ‘Pharmacy, Medicines, and Specialised Commissioning in the new NHS’ with guest speaker Professor Inderjit Singh (Chief Pharmacist at University Hospitals Birmingham)
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