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Programme overview
In the 21st century, healthcare is experiencing a profound shift towards a more holistic approach to health and wellbeing, transcending the conventional boundaries of ‘sick care.’ Such an evolving landscape is driven by technological advances and a growing demand for more personalised care and support.
As the healthcare ecosystem evolves, staying at the forefront has never been more critical. The future of industries serving healthcare hinges on our collective ability to harness innovation, adapt to emerging and disruptive technologies, navigate complex regulatory frameworks, and reshape organisational cultures to meet the changing needs of individuals and populations.
The Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare course is a five-day programme designed to empower healthcare provider executives, policymakers, and industry leaders with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to lead and thrive in this ever-evolving landscape.
The programme will feature world-leading experts and pioneers in AI and healthcare technologies, including speakers from Google Health.
Throughout the course, you will explore and dissect critical themes such as systemic innovation, cutting-edge healthcare technologies, AI-driven advancements, policies and regulations, and leadership strategies for fostering innovation. Our expert-led sessions will offer a deep dive into the practical implementation of these concepts, ensuring you are equipped to drive impactful change within your organisation.
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare represents a transformational journey that embraces a broader and multi-faceted perspective on healthcare. This programme will empower you to redefine healthcare in your organisation, adapting to emerging technologies and delivering personalised, patient-centred care.
Embark on this extraordinary journey to elevate your leadership, expand your knowledge across healthcare domains, and drive meaningful innovation that will shape the future of healthcare.
Who should attend?
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is designed for healthcare provider executives, policymakers, and industry leaders from all areas of the healthcare value chain, such as pharma, medtech, and IT, who are influential in the sector's innovation.
This healthcare executive education programme will guide you towards greater innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to plan and deliver health services to meet emerging global needs.
Our programme is tailored to a wide audience across the healthcare spectrum, including:
- Healthcare Providers who want to re-frame approaches to health and implement effective and sustainable care delivery models, positioning their institution as a leader in the healthcare revolution.
- Pharma/medtech organisations who seek the expertise to capitalise on rapid scientific advancements while accelerating the launch of groundbreaking products into more complex healthcare and regulatory environments.
- Biotech Firms interested into the latest advancements in healthcare technologies to measure impact and scale innovations effectively.
- Digital Health and Telehealth Platforms who want to deepen their understanding of the ethical considerations, design principles, and measurable impacts of digital health innovations.
- ·Public Health Organisations who want to implement systems thinking, behavioural change, and multi-stakeholder engagement to design and implement public health initiatives that are innovative, scalable, and impactful.
- Health Insurers who want to acquire strategic insights into healthcare ecosystems, business models, and regulatory changes to lead their company through healthcare’s rapidly evolving landscape.
- Health Policy Makers and Regulators who want to develop a multi-faceted understanding of the healthcare landscape to craft policies that foster innovation while ensuring public safety
- Investors and Venture Capitalists who want to deepen their knowledge of the metrics, models, and case studies to identify the most promising and scalable healthcare innovations.
- Third sector and NGOs who want to gain knowledge of systems framework and tools to design effective, innovative programmes that can make a significant impact on public health.
Learning Objectives
Throughout our programme on leading innovation in healthcare, you will develop the skills and capabilities to:
- Examine the principles of innovation, systemic innovation, and their vital roles in healthcare.
- Reframe approaches to health and care design, implementing systems-based framework and tools to your health innovation challenges.
- Analyse the impact of health policies and regulations on healthcare innovation and learn strategies to navigate this complex landscape to design policies that foster innovation.
- Identify and evaluate the impact of key technological trends on healthcare and your own business and explore how you can embrace and help to accelerate these trends.
- Cultivate leadership strategies and create a culture that fosters and nurtures both systemic and product/service innovation within your organisation.
- Develop practical strategies for implementing both systemic and product/service innovation in healthcare and identify how to measure their impacts.
Learning journey
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is a five-day programme that unfolds through a series of immersive sessions, interactive workshops, and offsite visits, each delving deeper into key aspects of healthcare innovation.
The programme begins by examining the broader landscape of 21st century healthcare, offering insights into future health trends. It provides a deep understanding of both systemic and product/service innovations within the healthcare sector. It then delves into the intricacies of the policy and regulatory landscape and examines cutting-edge healthcare technologies, AI-driven advancements, and emerging trends in next-generation healthcare. The programme concludes with strategies to develop leadership and culture for innovation as well as implement innovation in healthcare and industry settings.
Attendees will have the opportunity to network with peers and bring their own health innovation project, which will be explored and developed within the framework of our programme material.
The core themes of our programme include:
- Innovation and systemic innovation in healthcare
- Policy and regulations in healthcare innovation
- Technological trends in healthcare.
- Leadership and culture for innovation in healthcare
- Implementing innovation in healthcare
Innovation, Systemic Innovation & Systems Thinking in Healthcare
Acquire a foundational understanding of healthcare innovation. This includes emphasising the long-term future of technology-enabled healthcare and exploring the essentials of ecosystem business model design for systemic innovation. You will be introduced to critical systems thinking, a vital skill for operating effectively in complex healthcare environments.
Sessions on day one will include:
- Welcome and introduction.
- The long-term future of healthcare in a technology-enabled 21st century
- Ecosystem Business model design for systemic innovation
- Imagining, collaborating and learning in ecosystems
- Introduction to critical systems thinking.
Public Health, Policy, Regulations and Health Ecosystem Design in Healthcare Innovation
Explore the fundamentals of product and service innovation. Delve deeper into the interplay between public health and policy to assess the impact of regulations and policies on healthcare innovation.
Enrich your day with an offsite visit for a practical perspective on digital health innovation.
Sessions on day two will include:
- The fundamentals of product/service and systemic innovation
- The impact of health policies and regulation on healthcare innovation
- Workshop: Individual health innovation projects
- A panel session on public health and inequalities
- Offsite visit: The Data Science Institute
- Experiential Activity: The Chemical Kitchen
- Welcome drinks and reception
Technological Trends and Care Delivery Innovation with Google Health, Personalised and Functional Medicine, Behaviour Change and Mental Health
Explore the transformative potential of digital technologies in healthcare, with insights from learning experts at Google Health who are at the forefront of innovation. Delve into the emerging fields of personalised and functional medicine, offering a comprehensive introduction to these concepts.
Gain insights into principles and strategies for behavioural change in healthcare and into the pivotal role of mental health in healthcare innovation.
Sessions on day three will include:
- Digital transformation and care delivery innovation in healthcare
- Behaviour changes, health and healthcare
- The future of personalised and functional medicine
- Integrating mental health
Leadership, Culture for Innovation, Care Pathway Redesign, and Behaviour Change in Healthcare
Gain insights into the principles and strategies by which organisational culture and leadership drive innovation and care redesign.
Dive into change management theories for cultivating a learning culture within healthcare.
Supplement your knowledge with an offsite visit for a real-world perspective on health innovation.
Sessions on day four will include:
- Fostering a culture of innovation and care redesign in healthcare
- Fostering change management and the creation of a learning culture
- Workshop: Individual health innovation projects
- Offsite visit
- Programme Dinner
Implementing Innovation in Healthcare
We bring everything together by offering you concrete strategies for implementing healthcare innovation. This includes introducing proven methods for measuring its impact and exploring the critical role of sustainability and planetary health in the healthcare sector.
Conclude your transformative journey by showcasing your own innovation project, applying everything you've learned throughout the programme.
Receive valuable feedback from experts to refine and further develop your innovative initiatives.
Sessions on day five will include:
- Bringing it all together: Strategies for implementing and measuring healthcare innovation
- Planetary health and sustainable healthcare
- Workshop: Individual health innovation projects
- Health innovation project presentations
- Closing and final remarks
Programme faculty and experts
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is enriched by insights from Imperial College world-leading faculty and industry experts who will expose you to the new evidence-based approaches to innovation in healthcare.
Andy Wilkins
Andy is a futurist, speaker, podcaster and founder of Future Health – a new think tank and systems convener exploring the long-term vision for health and healthcare systems in a technology enabled 21st century. He has undertaken numerous healthcare innovation and transformation projects and has authored several high-profile reports for the NHS and policy makers on the future of healthcare. Andy is a visiting lecturer to UCL and a champion for a new future based on holistic health that includes wrapping holistic, person-centred health and care around the needs of individuals and communities and the transformation from silos to health ecosystems that will make this possible.
Susannah Howard
Susannah is Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) Director at the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS).
Originally a psychologist, in the early part of her career Susannah worked in mental health at The Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Unit, Department of Health and Commission for Health Improvement.
She led the Eastern Development Centre and then the unique NHS based business unit ‘Enable East’ for which she was named Essex ‘Business Woman of the Year’ in 2013. An annual Guest Lecturer at Harvard University Extension School she has also worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in trauma affected countries.
She is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group and National Strategic Council for Obesity and has held over £12 million in grants for the Big Lottery Fund.
Chris Naylor
Chris is Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund & Policy Lead at Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Chris has a background in health policy and research and is passionate about creating sustainable health and care services that are resilient for the future. He has extensive experience working across a range of health policy issues at the UK health think tank, The King’s Fund, and also works as Policy Lead at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. In previous roles he has worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and the Public Health Foundation of India in Delhi. He has an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a BA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. He is a trained coach and an experienced facilitator and works with leaders in the health system to support practical change.
Hutan Ashrafian
Professor Hutan Ashrafian is a clinician-scientist, entrepreneur and active surgeon translating novel technologies and therapeutics in healthcare and policy. He has over 20 years of translational clinical, computational physiology, robotic surgery, health policy, digital and AI trial and product development experience including fundamental contributions in the systems biology and clinical practice of Metabolic-Bariatric Surgery, development of novel bio-incubator COVID vaccines, online teaching tools and national tracing apps.
He is currently the Lead for Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Chief Scientific Officer of Preemptive Health at the largest global venture incubator – Flagship Pioneering, which generated Moderna. He co-founded the company Oxford Medical Products.
Geoff Mulgan
Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that, he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.
Geoff helped found many organisations including Demos, the Young Foundation, the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), Uprising, Studio Schools Trust, Action for Happiness, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, the Australia Centre for Social Innovation and Nesta Italia. He has co-chaired a World Economic Forum group looking at innovation and entrepreneurship in the fourth industrial revolution.
He has pioneered many ideas used by governments and others – including creative economy strategies, joined-up government, anticipatory regulation, experimentalism, open innovation and problem-solving methods. Geoff has given TED talks on the future economy, happiness and education.
Dominique Allwood
Dominique is Director of Population Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, a large NHS teaching hospital in London where she leads work on improving population health and equity. She is also Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners, the largest Health Innovation Network in England, covering a population of 5.2 million people, 15 provider healthcare organisations and 4 academic institutions. Dominique has nearly 20 years’ experience as a doctor, in public health, and health care leadership and management.
Dominique has a master’s in public health, a master’s in business administration and a certificate in executive education. Alongside directly leading work with an impact on policy and practice, Dominique also supports leaders, organisations and systems to tackle complex challenges around improving population health, reducing inequalities and improving care so it is kinder and more equitable. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers on healthcare improvement, innovation, equity and sustainability. She is also an Associate Editor of BMJ Leader and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London.
Francesca Cleugh
Dr Francesca Cleugh is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant and Deputy Director of Innovation and Improvement at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. Since early in her career, she has complemented her clinical training with education, quality improvement and leadership development and has remained curious about the way health systems work, striving to collaboratively innovate improvements. She is leading strategic programmes across the Trust to support staff to build learning, improvement and innovation into everything they do.
Francesca continues to work at local, regional and national level in being proactive to responding to ongoing and changing pressures on the paediatric urgent and emergency care system. Through various initiatives and roles over time, she has championed a whole-system approach to innovating improvements, ensuring delivery of safe quality care.
She established an innovative acute hospital at home service for children across North West London and continues to share her expertise in development of national policy for hospital at home for children. Francesca is currently urgent and emergency care lead for children and young people in the North West London’s Integrated Care System.
Robert Klaber
Bob Klaber is a Consultant General Paediatrician & Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Bob trained as an educationalist alongside his postgraduate paediatric training in London and has a strong interest in individual and systems learning, quality improvement, digital innovation, behavioural insights work, leadership development and kindness.
He has completed a mixed methods MD researching leadership approaches in healthcare. In 2015 Bob set up a team who continue to drive an ambitious project to create a culture of continuous quality improvement across Imperial, has worked as Deputy Medical Director and has led work on the development and implementation of the Trust’s new organisational strategy. In his current director role he is responsible for strategy, research, innovation and improvement across Imperial College Healthcare, and within this role works closely with the senior leadership team with the Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College. Bob is also a strong advocate for child health and co-leads the Connecting Care for Children (CC4C) integrated child health programme in North West London, which is focused on developing whole population integrated care models of care and learning within paediatrics and child health.
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