Agenda 2023

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Agenda: ALF Day 1

Monday October 2nd (subject to change / final confirmations)

Time
Item
Location
Time
10:00 - 12:00
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National Ambulance Diversity and Inclusion Forum / Peer Support Groups joint meeting

Daniel Elkeles
CEO, London Ambulance Service

Anna Parry
Managing Director, AACE

Anton Emmanuel
Lead for the workforce race equality scheme (WRES), Welsh Government

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Location
Beaumaris Suite
Time
13:45 - 14:30
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Key Note: Our passion for our people / what does meaningful allyship look like?

Prof Tracy Myhill OBE
NHS Leadership, Organisational Development & Executive Mentoring, AACE

Anton Emmanuel
Lead for the workforce race equality scheme (WRES), Welsh Government

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
15:00 - 15:25
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Making the Urgent and Emergency Care Connection

Marc Thomas
Director of Out of Hospital UEC, NHSE

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Location
Beaumaris 1
Time
15:00 - 15:25
Item

Leading the way in pre-hospital analgesia

Richard Lee MBE QAM
Chief Operating Officer / Deputy Chief Executive, St John Ambulance

John Ashworth
Emergency Ambulance Crew Volunteer, St John Ambulance

Clare Greaves
Head of Medicines, St John Ambulance

Supported by Galen
Galen

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Location
Beaumaris 2
Time
15:00 - 15:25
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Embedding AACE’s national suicide prevention and employee wellbeing work at trust-level

Kerry Gulliver
Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development, EMAS

Katy Crichton
Head of Health and Wellbeing & Paramedic, LAS

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Location
Denbigh
Time
15:00 - 15:25
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Working together – benefits and challenges: The Northern Ambulance Alliance voyage

Dr Carol Weir
NAA Managing Director, Northern Ambulance Alliance

Graham Norton
Digital Transformation Lead, Northern Ambulance Alliance

Ruth Crabtree
National Lead for Public Health, AACE

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Location
Conwy
Time
15:30 - 16:00
Item

Reducing health inequalities: How to develop partnerships to deliver meaningful change

Ruth Crabtree
National Lead for Public Health, AACE

Roger Davidson
Director of Strategy and Transformation, LAS

Lesley Butterworth
Lead Nurse Urgent Care, YAS

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Location
Beaumaris 1
Time
15:30 - 16:00
Item

Safely managing demand: Can advanced paramedics make the difference?

Andy Swinburn – QAM, FCPara
Director of Paramedicine, WAST

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Location
Beaumaris 2
Time
15:30 - 16:00
Item

NEPTS: driving the wider system

Matt Norman
Assistant Director NEPTS & Ambulance, NHSE

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Location
Denbigh
Time
15:30 - 16:00
Item

Managing the risk: Implementing a specialist electronic Controlled Drug Register (eCDR)

Rob Hurrell
Business Development Director, Aire Innovate

Supported by AireLogic
AireLogic

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Location
Conwy
Time
16:05 - 16:30
Item

Reducing misogyny and improving sexual safety

Suzanne Rastrick OBE
Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England,

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
16:30 - 17:15
Item

Key Note: Innovation and Improvement

Matthew Taylor
CEO, NHS Confederation

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Location
Caernarfon B & C

Agenda: ALF Day 2

Tuesday October 3rd (subject to change / final confirmations)

Time
Item
Location
Time
09:00 - 09:45
Item

The Decency Deficit

Nazir Afzal OBE
Chancellor of Manchester University,

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
09:45 - 10:45
Item

Research / Innovation Presentations

Introduced by Prof Julia Williams, Professor of Paramedic Science.

1: Collaboration and Partnerships – a key to making connections for improvements
Prof Adam Layland
System Partnership Director, YAS

2: Integrated Access Partnership (IAP): Intelligent Mental Health System response
Sasha Johnston
NHSE Clinical Fellow (Mental Health – South West England), NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, Research Paramedic and SWASFT Senior Mental Health Lead
& Rhys Hancock
Director of Nursing, AHPs & Governance, BrisDoc

3: A qualitative analysis of stressors affecting 999 ambulance call handlers’ mental health and well-being
Prof Liz Breen
Professor of Health Service Operations, University of Bradford

4: NHS Redirect: An outdated concept
Peter Brown
Head of Service, 111, WAST
Dr Mike Brady
Consultant Paramedic NHS 111, WAST

5: Ambulance service safety culture and its relationship with patient safety incident reporting
Aimee Lihou
Head of Quality & Patient Safety, St John Ambulance, Guernsey 

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
11:15 - 11:45
Item

Ambulance as a Digital Hub – An Operational Perspective

Chris Lucas
Business Change and Assurance Manager, ARP

Dave Howell
User Experience & Assurance Manager, ARP

Supported by the Ambulance Radio Programme
Ambulance Radio Programme

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Location
Beaumaris 1
Time
11:15 - 11:45
Item

Evidencing and developing the volunteer contribution to urgent and emergency care

Helen Vine
Strategic Lead for Volunteering, AACE

Amy Ingham
Volunteer Development Manager, YAS

Scott Montgomery
Community Resilience Manager, SECAmb

Mark Evans
Interim Head of Community Engagement, NWAS

Ryan Ware
Deputy Head of Volunteering & Community Services, SWAST

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Location
Beaumaris 2
Time
11:15 - 11:45
Item

Sexual Safety / Reverse Mentoring

Bron Biddle
Programme Lead - Reducing Misogyny & Improving Sexual Safety, AACE & WAST

Jason Killens KAM
CEO, Welsh Ambulance Service

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Location
Denbigh
Time
11:15 - 11:45
Item

Improving ambulance handover by utilising alternatives to conveyance as well as direct referral to SDEC

Dr James Ray
Emergency Medicine Consultant, Regional Clinical Director UEC London & National Clinical Advisor, NHS England and NHS Improvement

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Location
Conwy
Time
11:50 - 12:20
Item

Stress, Burnout & Recovery – Ambulance & Call Centre Staff

Jeannette Jackson
Director, Manchester Stress Institute

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Location
Beaumaris 1
Time
11:50 - 12:20
Item

Hybrid Connex, digital ambulance of the future: Pilot update

Stephen Bromhall
Chief Digital Officer, EEAST

Phil Elvidge
ePCR Clinical Lead, EEAST

Simon Hill
Chief Technical Officer, Excelerate Technology Ltd

Monica France
Programme Manager, Health & Care Transformation NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit

Tristan Wood
Managing Director, Livewire Digital Ltd

Supported by Excelerate Hybrid Connex
Excelerate

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Location
Beaumaris 2
Time
11:50 - 12:20
Item

Cross-sector Leadership

Nicola Howells
Assistant Director for Organisational Development, SCAS

Christopher Blundred
Clinical Director, Urgent and Emergency Care, George Eliot Hospital

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Location
Denbigh
Time
11:50 - 12:20
Item

CTCC – traffic light data on the patient journey

Shane Devlin
CEO, BNSSG ICB

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Location
Conwy
Time
13:30 - 14:00
Item

Improving culture in ambulance services

Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark
National Guardian for Freedom to Speak Up, NHS England

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
14:00 - 15:00
Item

Making the emergency and urgent care connection: where is the ambulance?

Panel discussion led by Lena Samuels.

Isabel Lawicka
Head of Policy & Analysis, NHS Providers

Helen Ray
CEO North East Ambulance Service

Prof Sir Keith Willett
Chair South Central Ambulance Service

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
15:00 - 15:45
Item

The Operational Impacts of Poor Workforce Wellbeing

Prof Kevin Fong OBE
Consultant Anaesthetist, UCLH and Chair of Public Engagement & Innovation, UCL,

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Location
Caernarfon B & C
Time
15:45 - 16:00
Item

Review of ALF 2023

Anna Parry
Managing Director, AACE

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Location
Caernarfon B & C