ICS Network National Conference

Please find below the full agenda for our national ICS Network conference - Tackling today while building for tomorrow - in November. We will be adding further details of sessions and speakers shortly and session times may be subject to change. 

Once you have registered at our reception desk, please help yourself to refreshments and take a look around our exhibition, chat to colleagues and familiarise yourself with the venue as you wait for the first session to start. 

Room: London Wall 

This session will be a lively discussion on delivering system change in challenging environments. We will discuss priorities for change, overcoming barriers, and sharing best practices to achieve transformation and deliver impact at a local and system level.

Speakers: 

• Penny Dash - Chair, North West London Integrated Care Board
• Richard Leese, Chair, Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board 
• Reena Patel, Senior Healthcare Strategy Consultant and Principle Pharmacist, Leeds Health and Care Partnership
• Toni Larter, Optimisation Service Improvement Lead, Leeds Health and Care Partnership
• Nicci Briggs, Chief Finance Officer, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB

This session is in partnership with IQVIA.

Room: Broadgate Forum

Our ICS Network Chair, Kathy McLean, will officially open our annual conference for 2024 with her opening rmarks, welcoming you all to this unique event. 

Room: Broadgate Forum 

Our first plenary session of the day features a panel discussion looking at: 

• What are the new government's three policy ambitions for the 10 year plan?
• What role can ICSs play in he implementation of the 10 year plan
• What measures should be in the 10 Year Health Plan to achieve this?
• What can be achieved during the new parliament? And what will take 10 years?

• Matthew Taylor - Chief Executive, NHS Confederation
• Dr Kathy McLean - Chair, Derbyshire ICB and Chair of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
• Prof Paul Corrigan - Strategic Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care
• Oliver Coppard - Mayor of South Yorkshire, and Chair, South Yorkshire ICP 

Room: Galleria 

Help yourself to some refreshments and take the time to chat with colleagues while visiting our exhibition. It's a unique chance to network with leaders from integrated care systems across England, to share ideas, best practice and challenges. 

Breakout session 1: Partnering for prevention and prosperity: a new era in devolution?

Room: Bishopgate 1 

There are increasingly clear and growing parallels between local government devolution and integrated care systems in terms of a genuine and shared interest in geography, place, role, purpose and outcomes. With leaders now actively asking how they can work together to best serve their populations, the NHS Confederation published its flagship report Prevention, population health and prosperity: a new era in devolution in May 2024. With the new government having committed to a deepening of devolution and discussions rapidly expanding across England, this session will explore the priorities, opportunities and challenges in bringing together health and local government devolution and help ICS leaders understand how to work in partnership to make their populations both better and better off. 

Speakers: 

• Chair - Dr Kathy Mclean - Chair, Derbyshire ICB and Chair of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
• Michael Wood - Head of Health Economic Partnerships, NHS Confederation
• Jane Robinson - Pro-Vice Chancellor of Engagement and Place, Newcastle University
• Mubassir Ajaz - Head of Health and Communities, West Midlands Combined Authority
• Jenni French - Interim Consultant Homelessness and Health, East Midlands Combined County Authority 
• Oliver Coppard - Mayor of South Yorkshire, and Chair, South Yorkshire ICP

Breakout session 2: Addressing health inequalities of disease and destitution 

Room: Bishopgate 2 - in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim

Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people and arise from the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, age and work. This session sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, will explore how local systems are tackling health inequalities of disease and destitution. The focus will be on identifying hidden chronic kidney disease, improving the quality and coordination of care for people experiencing homelessness and how a systems approach is required to improve health outcomes for those experiencing overlapping risks for poor health. 

Speakers: 

• Prof Adrian Rabe, Head of RWE Centre of Excellence, Boehringer Ingelheim 
• Dee O'Connell - Director of Policy and Programmes, Pathway
• Rob Webster - Chief Executive, West Yorkshire ICB
• Tracey Murray - Director of Programmes, Kidney Research UK
• Neerja Jain - Health Equalities Programme Manager, Kidney Research UK

*Funded by Boehringer Ingelheim who have contributed to the development of the agenda

Breakout session 3: Galvanizing leadership for improvement 

Room: London Wall 

This session focuses on what improvement looks and feels like at a system level, and how you galvanize system leadership. You will hear from experienced leaders across health and care as they take you into small group discussions to talk you through their improvement work, focusing on design, mobilisation, implementation and action. In this interactive and discursive workshop attendees will move around the room listen to systems, local government and the NHS Race and Health Observatory who will provoke discussion around what it takes to embody system improvement.

Speakers: 

• Chair - Nick Broughton - Chief Executive, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West ICB
• Penny Pereira - Managing Director, Q Community, The Health Foundation
• Rahat Ahmed-Man - Senior Adviser, Partners in Care and Health (PCH), LGA
• Simon Williams - Director of Adult Social Care Improvement, Partners in Care and Health (PCH), LGA
• Kathryn Hall - Associate Director, One Gloucestershire Improvement Community, Gloucestershire ICB
• Nandi Simpson - Director, NHS Race and Health Observatory
• Jo Cogswell - Executive Director of Strategy and Joint Transformation, Surrey Heartlands ICB
• Ilse Bosch - Assistant Director, Integration and Improvement Strategy, NHS Confederation

Breakout session 4: How can we think differently about the health of children and young people?

Room: Broadgate Forum

This session will focus on the current state of health services for children and young people, and look at how integration through integrated care systems can take a different approach to meeting the needs of future generations.

Speakers: 

• Chair - Charlotte Pomery, Chief Participation and Place Officer, North East London ICB
• Haris Sultan - Former NeXt Director for Citizens and Future Generations, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
• Raj Jain - Chair, Cheshire and Merseyside ICB
• Nicola Noble - Associate Head Teacher, Surrey Square Primary

Room: Galleria 

Enjoy lunch in the Galleria and take the chance to catch up with colleagues and network with ICS leaders from across the country. Don't forget to have a look around the exhibition, and come and chat with ICS Network team members to let us know how we can support you in your role. 

Breakout session 1 - Harnessing system working to drive productivity 

Room: Bishopgate 1

• Where are the opportunities to drive productivity through system working ?
• How do we shift from cost to value?
• How do we balance allocative and technical efficiency?
• Where are we already making good progress and why?

Speakers: 

• Patricia Miller - Chief Executive, Dorset ICB
• Ed Waller - Deputy Chief Financial Officer, NHS England
• Anita Charlesworth, Chair, Productivity Commission, The Health Foundation
• Daniel Elkeles, Chief Executive Officer, London Ambulance NHS Trust 

Breakout session 2 - Using digital to further prevention 

Room: Bishopgate 2

This session will look at understanding how different parts of the ICS have approached delivering prevention in ways of care and how they use digital means and opportunity to support prevention aims across the ICS.

Speakers: 

• Chair, Cathy Elliott, Chair of West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
• Joe Harrison, National Director NHS App, CEO Milton Keynes University Hospital
• Masood Ahmed - NED, Coventry and Warwickshire Trust
• Philippa Newis- Director, Public Digital

Breakout session 3 - How can working as one across a system deliver maximum impact on urgent and emergency care services?

Room: London Wall - in partnership with Newton 

Join us to hear about what it takes as a system and place to move care closer to home, improve flow through a hospital and ultimately make a difference to people's experience and the outcomes they achieve. The session will use examples from Gloucestershire and Greater Manchester to explore some approaches that have been key to this success, the cultural shifts that were necessary, as well as how these things can serve as a blueprint for how the system works together going forwards. 

Speakers:

• Chair - Mark Fisher - CEO - Greater Manchester ICB
• Mary Hutton - CEO - Gloucestershire ICB
• Kelly Matthews - Programme Delivery Director - Gloucestershire ICB
• Ric Whalley - Partner, Newton

Breakout session 4 - Social care and the interface with the wider system 

Room: Broadgate Forum

With the growing demand for care (in the context of current and demographic trends) and unmet need for social care, the session will examine how ICSs and social care are working in partnership, whilst outlining some key principles for reform to ensure a sustainable model of care in the future. 

Speakers: 

• Cedi Frederick - Chair, NHS Kent and Medway ICS
• Jenny Paton - Director of Impact, Strategy and Policy, Skills for Care
• Camille Oung - Fellow, Nuffield Trust
• Mike Barker - Chief Officer, Oldham Integrated Care Partnership

Room: Galleria 

Enjoy a coffee in our last break of the day, and swap learnings with friends and colleagues while exploring our exhibition. What has been your highlight of the event so far? 

Room: Broadgate Forum - in partnership with Browne Jacobson 

Join our final plenary session of the conference, with a panel discussion exploring: 

• Priya Singh, Chair, Frimley ICB
• Gerard Hanratty - Partner, Browne Jacobson
• Penny Dash, Chair, North West London ICB
• Will Pett, Head of Policy, Public Affairs & Research, Healthwatch England

Room: Broadgate Forum

Room: Galleria

Join the ICS Network team for a drink to mark the end of our annual conference and for a final opportunity to network and share thoughts and views with other ICS colleagues as we draw our annual conference for 2024 to an end.