Lunchtime workshops
Delegates attending lunchtime workshops will have an opportunity to delve deeper into certain topics and benefit from a more interactive experience. The lunchtime workshops on Monday 9 June and Tuesday 10 June will take place from 12.45 to 14.00 in the Council Chamber.
Monday 9 June
Lunchtime workshop
12.45 - 14.00
Empowering movement and promoting patient safety: Design guidance for architects and planners
Sara Thomas
Director, Arjo MOVE Programme, UK
Sara qualified as an occupational therapist in 1991. Since that time, she has worked in a variety of acute and community settings both as a therapist and manual handling advisor.
Sara has worked in a manual handling advisory role since 1995. Employed initially as a specialist occupational therapist for home care during the mid-1990s, she was then employed as a manual handling advisor within a local authority until starting her own business as a freelance manual handling advisor and educator in 1997.
In 2005 she was a co-author of the 5th Edition to the 'Guide to the Handling of People' and author of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists manual handling guidelines in 2006. She was involved with the review of the 6th Edition to the 'Guide to the Handling of People' and wrote the Royal College of Occupational Therapists introduction for the 6th Edition. Sara has presented at many international and national safe patient handling conferences over the years. She has been employed at Arjo since 2004 and now is the Global mobility outcomes director, leading in the strategic development of outcome programmes and assessment tools for the business and clinicians.
Hans Lingegård
Director facility design, ARJO, Sweden
Hans has more than 30 years of global experience working with solutions to improve the working environments for healthcare providers. He has a long record of successful innovations and solutions to assist care providers in their daily work as well as contribute to safety and comfort for patients.
Hans is the inventor of the Arjo Mobility Gallery, an assessment tool to be used in architectural planning to identify patients' mobility needs and the space needed to handle patients in a safe way. Along with the Mobility Gallery, he has also developed a free-to-use digital platform for drawings where architects and planners can get a bird's eye view of the space requirements around, for example, patient beds, toilets, showers and corridors.
He has a Master of Science in Design and Innovation from Halmstad University.
Empowering movement and promoting patient safety: Design guidance for architects and planners
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Perhaps the most overlooked aspect when designing a healthcare facility – yet directly impacting quality of life – is sufficient space for people and equipment to move freely. Whether it is rolling hospital beds through corridors and turning them in and out of rooms or a residential facility where people are moving with the assistance of walkers or wheelchairs, the quality and right amount of space is essential. If not, the results include injuries to patients/residents and staff, lower efficiencies, higher costs and an overall unpleasant living and working environment.While it is understandable to think that the issue has been resolved by global standards, there is, in fact, still a large gap between the existing design approach and building standards that does not place patient’s mobility level and caregivers at the centre of the design process. Arjo set out to solve this issue in the mid-90s by co-creating a platform that provides the necessary resources to planners and architects.
By speaking with leading architects, ergonomics and occupational health specialists from around the world, the ‘Arjo Guide for Architects and Planners’ was created. Originally a printed book, today it presents as a digital platform, a free and interactive resource with necessary tools and information for patient-centred planning as a complement to national building standards.
In this workshop session, we will use Arjo’s Mobility Gallery and externally validated risk assessment tool, to demonstrate how the mobility levels of both patients and residents need to be understood in order to provide the right amount of space for carers to use proper equipment safely and effectively. The workshop will also show Arjo’s digital platform, covering space requirements, floor plans and how to download 2D and 3D product CAD/BIM files. We will share drawings for a number of environments and scenarios; free passage at the bed, to the toilet, in the shower, in the bath, bariatric care, turning radii, etc.
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Tuesday 10 June
Lunchtime workshop
12.45 - 14.00
Bridging the gap: Delivering system and organisational change as part of transformative capital investment
Alex Fox
Delivery director, IMPOWER, UK
Alex Fox OBE is Chair and Delivery director of IMPOWER, as well as a member of the NHS Assembly. Alex is a leading voice in social care transformation and systems change, bringing extensive experience from over a decade leading Shared Lives Plus and shaping national policy. As a respected author and advocate for co-production and human-centred approaches, he offers strategic insights into aligning capital investment with fundamental organisational and systemic transformation.
Toni Platts
Associate director of nursing, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Toni Platts is Associate director of nursing at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust. With 25 years of frontline nursing experience across critical care and emergency departments, Toni now leads the clinical and operational integration for the major 'New QEH' capital programme. She provides a crucial on-the-ground, patient-focused perspective on designing services, aligning workforce strategy, and driving digital enablement within large-scale healthcare transformation.
Grant Mills
Professor of healthcare infrastructure delivery and Bartlett faculty lead for health, University College London, UK
Prof Grant Mills is Professor of healthcare infrastructure delivery and Bartlett faculty lead for health at University College London (UCL). Prof Mills is an academic authority on advanced healthcare infrastructure delivery models, interdisciplinary design and project management. His research at UCL explores how innovative approaches to capital investment, including modular design and data analytics, can future-proof healthcare assets and intrinsically support profound clinical and digital transformation.
Nicole Samuel
Delivery director, IMPOWER, UK
Nicole is a healthcare strategist with a clinical background and a track record of delivering complex strategic transformation within the NHS. She has a proven ability to develop high-performing teams (MCA Team Leader Finalist) and deliver innovative, lasting results with C-suite clients. She is passionate about developing transformative solutions and a healthier future for all.
Nicole has designed and managed large-scale programmes (using agile and waterfall approaches), delivering strategic transformation at organisational and regional levels, developing successful business cases, designing digitally-enabled clinical services and fostering frontline ownership.
Samuel Rose
Director, IMPOWER, UK
Samuel has a strong belief in improving public services and an ability to build strong, trusted advisor partnerships with leaders to help them improve services for citizens and taxpayers.
His consulting expertise is in health and care systems and provider strategy; capital programme design and mobilisation, financial strategy and clinical reconfiguration; and digital strategy and service transformation. Key successes include:
> supporting NHS organisations in attracting over £1 billion in capital investment over the past three years;
> transformation of four-hour performance through improvements in emergency department process, patient flow and integrated discharge between NHS providers and local authorities.
Bridging the gap: Delivering system and organisational change as part of transformative capital investment
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The future of healthcare demands more than just new facilities; it requires capital investment to be a catalyst for profound clinical and digital transformation across complex organisations and systems. Programme directors and senior responsible owners (SROs) are central to navigating this ambitious shift, which is essential for tackling the pressures of an ageing population, escalating demand and workforce limitations.This panel discussion will unpack the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of embedding true transformation within healthcare capital programmes. Our distinguished panellists, bringing perspectives from strategic social care reform, frontline clinical leadership, advanced infrastructure research and complex programme delivery will share insights from both successes and pitfalls. Through examining real-world experiences where transformational ambition didn't translate into real-world change – resulting in financial, safety and operational setbacks – we will identify critical lessons.
The session will outline core principles for driving impactful change: from strategic alignment and robust governance, to ensuring deep clinical and service user engagement, designing effective operating models and meticulously planning for benefits realisation.
Led by Alex Fox OBE, this discussion offers invaluable guidance. Equip yourself with the actionable insights needed to maximise capital investment's potential for improving patient outcomes and bolstering frontline staff.
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