13th May 2026 Online

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2026 programme 

5 CPD Points
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  Dr Rachel Clarke, Palliative Care Doctor and Author
Are all patients equal? - Advocating for High Quality Care at the End of Life
09:45 Dame Lesley Regan CBE, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College, London
The women's health gap - improving outcomes for women's reproductive health
10:15 Break

10:30 Discussion Panel: Improving healthcare for women 
Dame Lesley Regan CBE, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College, London
Jane Plumb MBE Women’s Voices Lead and Chair of the Women’s Network for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) 
Kelly Buckley, Partner, Browne Jacobson
Anne Kavanagh,
Partner, Irwin Mitchell LLP
In parallel
Dr Guddi Singh, Consultant in Neurodevelopmental and Social Paediatrics and TV Broadcaster (recorded)
Listening is Medicine - and why equity, excellence and patient safety depend on it.
11:15 Using QI to address health inequalities – your chance to learn and practice
Nicola Davey, Founding Partner, Quality Improvement Clinic with Dr Hannah Zhu, Consultant Community Paediatrician
12:00 Break
12:10 Keynote: Professor Gillian Leng CBE, President of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
Complexity and risk - what it means for patient safety
12:40 Lunch
13:05 Dr Hatim Abdulhussein, Chief Executive of Health Innovation Kent Surrey and Sussex 
The opportunity AI offers to improve care for patients and address healthcare inequalities
13: 40 Dr Frances Mortimer, Medical Director at The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH)
What is sustainable quality improvement?
14:10 Break
14:20
The NOAH Improvement Programme(Neonatal Oral Antibiotics at Home) 
Dr Harriet Aughey, Neonatal Paediatrician, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Dr Kelly Boxall, Knowledge Mobilisation fellow for NOAH project and Paediatric Resident Doctor, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
In parallel
QI coaching elevates impact - See and hear how!
Nicola Davey, QI practitioner and founding director of the Quality Improvement Clinic (QIC) and Bethany George, Paediatric Junior Clinical Fellow at Southampton General Hospital

Break

The HOME Programme (Home Monitoring for Expectant (and postnatal) parents 
Angela Willis, Senior Project Manager and Midwifery clinical advisor Health Innovation West of England and Leanne McVey Delivery Suite Co-ordinator, Great Western Hospitals and Project Lead on HOME
In parallel
How to talk with patients about consent
Dr Catherine Wills, Medico-Legal Adviser, Medical Defence Union (MDU)
Using clinical decision support in clinical quality improvement
Dr Kieran Walsh, Clinical Director at the BMJ 
15:50 Break 
16:00 Jacqui Holmes, Operational Lead for Inpatient Physiotherapy at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
A Quality improvement approach to prevent deconditioning in older people in hospital.
16:25  
Break
16:35 Poster competition winners announcement and closing remarks
16:55 Close