Delivering high quality digital healthcare in the Covid era

Date and time Mon 18 Jan 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location Online
Organised by Patient Safety

Gain insight and practical tips on how to get the most out of telephone and video consultations, and how to successfully set up telemedicine services.

As healthcare services continue to adapt to challenges of COVID-19, many NHS clinicians are adopting telephone and video consultations. This session will offer practical examples of redesign and deployment of telemedicine and digital healthcare services.

Topics will include:

Planning telemedicine services and challenges in the move to telemedicine
Information governance for telemedicine
Tips for clinicians on successful telemedicine consultations

This interactive webinar is perfect for public and private service managers and Clinical Directors developing telemedicine services, and clinicians (including AHPs) who are delivering telemedicine consultations.

Free CPD learning: A CPD certificate with 1 CPD credit will be issued to those joining the webinar live as well as those who watch the recording afterwards. Certificates will be issued 7 days after the webinar to those who watch it live and after 30 days for those that watch the recording.

This webinar is available for on-demand viewing. The webinar recording will be available for registered delegates up to 30 days after the live webinar broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.

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We would like to thank our sponsors EIDO Healthcare Ltd and The MDU for their support of this webinar. Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

Dr Umang Patel

Managing Director, NHS Services, Babylon Health

Speaker's biography

Umang is a clinician and executive that has been developing partnerships for the digital health unicorn, Babylon Health, since joining as employee number 10. Umang maintains his career as a doctor, working as an NHS paediatrician in Hampshire and is an NHS Leadership Fellow, frequently contributing to the development of clinical leaders and health startups. Umang uses his experience as a frontline doctor to best develop new opportunities to fully synchronise the all-too-often competing worlds of digital innovation and clinical engagement, always putting patients at the centre and setting a compelling vision for better health.

Previously, Umang led the clinical transformation function at the UK’s largest general insurer, Aviva and is a trustee at Attend, the national charity for volunteers.

Dr Rob Simister

Clinical Director, Hyperacute Stroke Unit, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Salman Haider

Neurology Consultant, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Dr Catherine Wills

Deputy Head of Advisory, Medical Defence Union

Speaker's biography

Dr Catherine Wills MA(Oxon) MB BS LLM FRCP MFFLM trained in hospital general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology. After about 15 years in the NHS, Catherine joined the MDU in 2004 as a medicolegal adviser and is an expert in advising and assisting members facing medicolegal problems, including investigations by the Coroner, Ombudsman and GMC, among others. Catherine has been an examiner for the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

View the programme here

6:00pm

Welcome and introduction

Dr Sanjay Budhdeo, Trainee Representative, Patient Safety Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Mr Tarik Amer, Trainee Representative, Patient Safety Section, Royal Society of Medicine

6:05pm

Linking doctors and paramedics for digitally enabled stroke services

Dr Salman Haider, Neurology Consultant, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Dr Rob Simister, Clinical Director, Hyperacute Stroke Unit, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

6:20pm

Getting the best value from digital health at scale

Dr Umang Patel, Managing Director, NHS Services, Babylon Health

6:30pm

Advice for telephone and video consultations

Dr Catherine Wills, Deputy Head of Advisory, Medical Defence Union

6:45pm

EIDO Vault Explainer

Panel discussion

7:10pm

Close of meeting

Dr Sanjay Budhdeo and Mr Tarik Amer

Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations.

Special rates for difficult times
The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s weekly COVID-19 Series webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.

All webinars will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.

This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.