13th May 2026
Online

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Our 2026 programme is under development

 2025 programme below

 

09:00 Welcome from our Chair, Dr Mark Juniper
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Great Western Hospital,
Medical Director, Health Innovation West of England
09:10  Keynote: Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Healthcare
Is remote care safe?
09:45 Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, researcher, author and NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine
Listening to the voices of the medically silenced
10:20 Dave Snowden, expert in complexity theory and founder of the Cynefin Centre
How to have an impact in a complex world
10:50 Break
11:10  In parallel: poster competition and workshops
Patient Safety Workshops:
Inclusive Communication: no decision about me without me,
Dr Alison Tavare, NHSE SW Learning Disability Collaborative Clinical Lead,  Ilhem Berou, Senior Lecturer, Applied Pharmacology, University of the West of England, Rachel Roberts, Head of Involvement, Brandon Trust

Martha’s Rule in Action: Empowering Staff, Families & Patients
Dr Alison Tavare, Clinical Lead and Siobhan Lanigan Senior Project Manager at Health Innovation, West of England,
Sarah  Harper, Lead Nurse for Acute Paediatrics and High Dependency Unit (HDU), Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Quality Improvement Workshops:
The use of data in Quality Improvement work
Dr Lesley Jordan, Consultant Anaesthetist and Patient Safety Lead at Royal United Hospitals Bath
How to get your QI project published
Dr Kieran Walsh, Clinical Director at the BMJ and Dr Ourania PappaPost CCT Fellow with an interest in QI in Neonatal Medicine
12:40 Lunch 
13:10 Rhys Hadden, Barrister, Serjeants' Inn Chambers
Gillick Competency - children and consent
13:45 Dr Amar Shah, National Clinical Director for Quality Improvement, NHS England*
The rigour of Quality Improvement work - why it matters
* recorded due to scheduling conflict
14:05 Break
14:15 In parallel: poster competition and workshops
Patient Safety Workshop:
Confidentiality/ when to disclose
Dr Jessica Lee Medical Defence Union (MDU)

Quality Improvement Workshops:
QI tools, when and how to use them 
Dr Stephanie Meddick-Dyson, QI mentor, QI Clinic and Palliative Medicine doctor
How to use an audit as a springboard to a QI project
Nicola Davey, QI practitioner and founding director of the Quality Improvement Clinic (QIC)
15:45 Break 
15:55 Dr Aidan Fowler,  National Director of Patient Safety in England
Progress on the roll-out of Martha's Rule
16:35 
Dr Nathan Riddell, Anaesthetics Trainee, NHS Wales 
Scaling up improvement, a postpartum haemorrhage quality improvement project
17:00 Poster competition winners announcements and closing remarks 
17:15
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