Event details
This webinar will be discussing benefits of transforming elective care and surgical waiting lists from passive waiting lists to a proactive preparation process.
The purpose of a preparation process is to actively involve patients in their healthcare journey. It serves to educate them during waiting periods by undertaking active engagement and communication, providing instructions for rehabilitation, updating them on their current status, and screening for potential risk factors.
In April 2024, the NHS was targeted with determining their highest surgical priorities and implementing five core patient focused requirements:
- Patients should undergo screening for perioperative risk factors as early as possible in the pathway.
- Patients identified with risk factors for poor perioperative outcomes should receive proactive, personalised support to optimise their health before surgery.
- Patients waiting for inpatient procedures should be contacted by their provider at least every three months to check if their health status has changed and how such changes will impact the need for surgery.
- Patients waiting for inpatient procedures should only be given a date to come in for surgery after they have had a risk assessment and have been confirmed as fit for surgery.
- Patients must be involved in shared decision-making conversations to discuss the benefits, risks, alternatives, and likely outcomes of the surgery, as well as the postoperative recovery period.
Join this webinar if you want to learn how to change the elective and surgical waiting lists for a better patient outcome.
Presenters
François Taljard
Consultant Anaesthetist
NHS Lanarkshire
Senior Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Informatician in a substantive post at NHS Lanarkshire. I provide consultant level Anaesthesia Service cover at University Hospital Monklands (535 acute beds).
One of the NHSL Digital Health Clinical Leads & Clinical Informatician, providing clinical input into the NHS Lanarkshire eHealth/Digital Health developments.
Clinical input at UHM Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic and Perioperative Medicine.
Experienced in Healthcare and Personnel Management at senior level including Rota Consultant and Coordinator in various posts for complex anaesthesia, paediatric critical care retrieval and PICU cover.
My professional interests include pre-operative assessment, perioperative medicine, paediatric anaesthesia, quality improvement, ehealth, healthcare informatics and the application of new processes, technology and software in healthcare, clinical safety process for technology adoption (CSO) and also cyber security aspects applicable to healthcare in general, but also healthcare device security.
I support the ethics, principles and philosophy of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and my favourite operating system is Linux. Other interests computing, reading, cycling and photography.
Disclaimer: Dr J N François Taljard MBChB FRCA MBCS MFCI MSc (Health Informatics) will not be representing or speaking on behalf of NHS Lanarkshire.
Rowan Pritchard-Jones
Executive Medical Director Cheshire & Merseyside ICS
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside
Professor Rowan Pritchard Jones is a Consultant Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon at Mersey and West Lancs NHS Teaching Hospital Trust. He is an Honorary Clinical Professor at both University of Liverpool and Edge Hill University, with an academic interest in skin cancer and chemo resistance as well as population health. He has national roles, leading in research for the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon (BAPRAS) as well as leading in skin cancer for the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) and plastic and hand surgery for NIHR North West Coast.
Rowan was appointed as Executive Medical Director to the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System in July 2022. Rowan is committed to system wide improvements for patients and is determined to break down the silos of working that have been a barrier to truly joined up healthcare across social, primary, secondary and tertiary care. Rowan is also a committed collaborator with a passion for innovative solutions in a post-pandemic NHS.
Anil Vara
Associate Director for Elective Access
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
I am the Associate Director for Elective Access at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust with nearly 30 years of experience in the NHS. I have applied my experience on supporting the Elective Recovery Programme since Covid-19 working within the Northeast London ICS and the National Elective Programme at NHS England.
I have a clinical background in Nuclear Medicine and a strong operational track record in managing complex services including, but not limited to, Nuclear Medicine/Radiology, Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Urology, and General Surgery. I am democratic, collaborative leader often using emotional intelligence with a strong passion about the application of Continuous Quality Improvement methodology within Elective Care and an ambition to further embed this mind-set within clinical and operational teams to improve patient care whilst improving partnerships between clinical teams across the system.
I have delivered many successes in improving elective services during my career. With the pandemic highlighting and exacerbating health inequalities, I developed a passion for addressing these trends in elective care by improving access to elective services for all our patient population groups and improving the quality of their care. I am an accredited mentor for CMI and the NHS, supporting NHS colleagues in their own development in particular those from BAME backgrounds and successfully completed the Executive Leadership Programme through Inclusive Boards.