Join us for Queensland Healthcare Week Virtual Event, a completely virtual and free-to-register experience, taking place on June 28.

FUTURE-PROOFING HOSPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, OPERATIONS AND SERVICES

Wednesday, June 28, 9:50 am - 11:50 am 

EXPERT SPEAKERS:

Andrew Brie, Director of Emergency Medicine Training, Mackay Hospital and Health Service

Alex Liggins, Business Development Specialist, Q-bital Healthcare Solutions

Oystein Tronstad, Project Manager, ICU of the Future, Critical Care Research Group

Dan Axelson, Senior Director, Corporate Development and Strategy Management, Mater

In this presentation, Kate Copeland, Executive Director Assets and Infrastructure at Metro North Health, explores:

• Unique and innovative aspects of hospital projects in Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden
• Lessons learnt that can be adapted to Australia
• Challenges we need to be aware of in adapting lessons learnt and infrastructure techniques to the Australian environment 

Ahead of the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit, and Queensland Healthcare Week 2018 we chat to Wayne Jones, Chief Executive Officer of the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNLHD) about the $534 million dollar development of the greenfield Tweed Valley Hospital. In this article Wayne explores how the NNLHD is working to deliver life-changing healthcare solutions in a flexible new facility through consultation with the local community and hospital end users.

Ahead of the Digital Health Summit and Queensland Healthcare Week we chat to Cameron Ballantine, Acting Chief Information Officer at Metro South Health (MSH) about the process behind the rollout of Australia’s first fully digitised health service, and explore the comprehensive change management strategies that made this transition possible. 

Ahead of the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit, running as part of Queensland Healthcare Week 2018 we take a look at three of Queensland’s newest and most innovative hospital developments; Herston Quarter, Moura Hospital and Caboolture Hospital. These facilities, through new construction methods, master planning, innovative financing structures and collaboration are heralding the next generation of healthcare in Queensland.

With so many projects under development, including the $1.1 billion Herston Quarter in Brisbane, the $230 Million Gold Coast Private Hospital, and the $253 Million Caboolture Hospital redevelopment, the need to effectively manage project teams, budgets, stakeholders and timeframes, is of the utmost importance.

So what lessons can Queensland healthcare leaders learn from similar hospital redevelopment projects that have already been completed around the country? To answer this question we explore lessons learned and best practice project delivery strategies from some of Australia’s largest and most publicised hospital development projects. 

Ahead of Queensland Healthcare Week 2018 and the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit 2018 we chat to Jim Reid, Acting Executive Director, Bendigo Hospital. In this article Jim chats to us about the two phase hospital project and explores the structural and technological capabilities ensuring the facility is fit for purpose well into the future. Jim further delves into the importance of stakeholder engagement and a motivated and engaged workforce. 

Metro North’s new $340 Million specialist public health facility – the 182-bed Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) – is being developed for Metro North as part of the $1.1 Billion redevelopment of Herston Quarter. Expected to open in 2021, it will provide a range of specialist surgical and complex rehabilitation services in a patient-centric model of care.

In this video presentation with Debbie McNamara General Manager, STARS,  Metro North Hospital and Health Service, learn how to:

• Use an innovative public-private-partnership model to deliver public health infrastructure that meets future healthcare needs
• Design for an efficient and effective public health model by optimising models of care and facility design
• Get operationally ready in terms of people, systems, and processes in place for the commissioning of and transition into a new build
  

In this presentation from Queensland Healthcare Week 2018, Belinda Berg, Director Service Improvement at Mackay Hospital and Health Service, explores:

• Key guidelines for structuring a major improvement project and using improvement methodology to service improvement unit, with the learnings applicable to any major change management program
• How Mackay HHS is working through the phases and pitfalls of cultural shifts and selecting and integrating eHealth solutions like iEMR to assist with patient flow
• Change must be driven by your leaders – Necessity for leadership’s commitment to culture improvement

In this presentation from Queensland Healthcare Week 2018, Cameron Ballantine, Chief Information Officer at Metro South Health, explores: 

• Managing the transition to a fully digital environment by regularly consulting local clinicians, creating an extensive change champion network and establishing a comprehensive governance structure to increase visibility right across the organisation and health service
• Measures for success, including improvements in stakeholder experiences, digital literacy and culture and reduced variation in care processes
• Organisational readiness – The impactful role of leaders, culture and ICT and electrical infrastructure to support digital implementation and transformation

In this presentation from Queensland Healthcare Week 2018, Judy Morton, Executive Director Nursing & Midwifery at Townsville Hospital and Health Service and Sari Holland, Midwifery Unit Manager at Townsville Hospital and Health Service, explores:

• Staff-centric – It should be about enabling clinicians to work more effectively for patients
• Stakeholder management – The difficulty and compassion of meeting somewhere in the middle when you have a high level of competing opinions and expectations
• Change management initiatives to disrupt clinicians’ natural habits as they enter the new digital environment and experience new models of care
• Procurement and resourcing decision making processes to manage high costs associated with retrofitting

In this presentation from Queensland Healthcare Week 2018, Michael Campbell, Senior Director of Facilities & Capital Infrastructure at Queensland Children’s Hospital, explores: 

• Using digital twins to accurately model the performance and adjust the functioning and operation of the advanced tri-generation energy plant
• Reducing the carbon footprint of major healthcare and research buildings in Brisbane through tri-gen operations
• Deploying digital ePlan solutions for building plans as well as completing advanced forward planning of state-wide healthcare facilities and infrastructure to deliver care close to local communities

In this presentation Jonathan Hirst, Project Director at Logan Hospital, explores how to:

• Develop strategy and contingency planning to deliver the project sequences with minimal disruption
• Drive strong stakeholder engagement to ensure smooth operations, a shared vision and create meaningful relationships between builders, clinicians and end users
• Put the practicalities front of mind when developing in a live hospital environment
• Use regular feedback loops to monitor the stakeholders and their readiness to adopt change
  

Off the back off a hugely successful launch in 2018, Queensland Healthcare Week is back in 2019 and has doubled in size to accommodate for the growing demand for a healthcare event brings together senior level healthcare decision makers and suppliers under one roof. If you can help health leaders deliver their goals for 2019 and beyond, then this is the event for you.

Want to fast track your attendance to Queensland Healthcare Week 2019? It's easy! Simply fill in the registration form and email back to registration@iqpc.com.au