Shaping the future of Nursing Home Care Annual Conference Programme 2013 Citywest Hotel, Dublin, Thursday 7 th November 2013
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 08.15am - 09.15am MORNING SESSION Conference Chair
Registration - Opportunity to visit Exhibitors
09.15am - 09.30am
Welcome -Tadhg Daly, CEO
09.30am - 09.45am
Opening Address
Mr. John Bowman,Broadcaster & Historian
Minister Kathleen Lynch T.D. Minister of State for Disability, Equality, Mental Health & Older People
09.45am - 10.30am
Mr.Derry Gray, Managing Partner, BDO Towards a Future Strategy for Residential Care Requirements of Ireland’s Ageing Population
10.30am - 10.45am
Questions & Answers
10.45am - 11.15am
Tea / Coffee, Opportunity to visit Exhibitors
11.15am - 12.00pm
Dr.Sarah Kagan, PhD RN, University of Pennsylvania Caring for the Resident Diagnosed with Cancer - Leading with Skilful Assessment
12.00am - 12.30pm
Marie Kehoe O’Sullivan, Director of Safety & Quality Improvement, HIQA Revision of the National Quality Standards and the development of guidance for providers
12.30pm - 12.45pm
Questions & Answers
12.45pm - 14.15pm
LUNCH - Sponsored by Unilever Food Solutions
AFTERNOON SESSION 14.15pm - 14.30pm
Opportunity to visit Exhibitors Eoghan Donnellan, First Choice Purchasing Introduction to NHI Group Purchasing Scheme and the benefits to NHI Members
14.30pm - 15.30pm
Key Note Speaker Senator Feargal Quinn
15.30pm - 16.00pm
Questions & Answers
16.00pm
Conference Close
19.30pm
NHI Care Awards Ceremony
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Appointed Minister of State for Disability, Equality, Mental Health and Older People in the Department of Health and Department of Justice, Equality and Defence, 10th March 2011. Minister Lynch was elected to Cork Corporation in 1985 and first elected to Dáil Eireann in 1994. She was subsequently elected again in 2002 and has retained her seat since. Minister Lynch was a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, 2007, Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights 2002-2007 and member of Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business, 2002 - May 2006.
Minister Kathleen LynchTD
Derry Gray
Dr. Sarah Kagan
Marie Kehoe O’Sullivan
Senator Feargal Quinn
Derry Gray became Managing Partner of BDO in June 2011, having previously been Partner and Head of BDO’s Management Consulting Department for the last 10 years. Since joining BDO in 1995, Derry has led teams in projects ranging from: the Masterplan for the development of the Docklands in Dublin: to project specific planning and development projects with a number of county councils and public/ state bodies to lead business consultant for the newly planned National Paediatric Hospital.Derry has undertaken many Nursing Home development and financial feasibility projects and was a member of the expert group appointed by the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, to examine and recommend on resource allocation in the Health Services. The Report of the Expert Group on Resource Allocation and Financing in the Health Sector was published by the Department of Health in July 2010. Nursing Homes Ireland has engaged BDO to conduct independent research to shape and inform public policy in the provision and funding of long term residential care in Ireland.
Dr. Sarah H.Kagan holds a primary academic appointment as Professor - Clinician Educator and is the Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing. Her clinical appointment is as Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where she offers advanced nursing consultation to patients, their families, nurses, and physicians on matters of symptom management, psychosocial oncology, geriatric oncology, and interdisciplinary team work. Dr. Kagan's secondary faculty appointment is in the Division of Hematology: Oncology, where her particular consultative focus is on clinical research and care of patients who have head and neck as well as other cancers and are suffering complex, cancer- related wounds and other challenging symptoms. Dr. Kagan's programme of clinical research is centered on human experience and illness, with a focus on symptom experience for older adults particularly those who have cancer. Dr. Kagan commonly examines the experience of cancer for older adults through naturalistic, interactionist inquiry using head and neck cancer as a model to understand cancer experience in older adults.
Marie Kehoe O’ Sullivan joined HIQA in July 2012, Marie and her team have been responsible for actively supporting and enabling a culture of patient safety and quality improvement across and within the health and social care system by helping to build capability and capacity in the people providing services. This is done through the development of national standards and guidance in consultation with key stakeholders and the provision of training in quality improvement methodologies and tools in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. These initiatives help the system to build a culture of continuous quality improvement and patient safety. This Directorate also operates other schemes aimed at ensuring safety and quality in the provision of services. Marie has worked in the area of Healthcare Quality Improvement for many years in the USA and Ireland. Before joining the Health Information and Quality Authority, she was as Regional General Manager for Quality and Patient Safety in the HSE where she led on a number of national projects.
Senator Feargal Quinn is founder of Superquinn. He has made many contributions to Irish life, most prominently, chairman of An Post for 10 years. He chaired the steering committee that introduced the Leaving Cert Applied as well as Chairman of Ireland’s National St. Patrick’s Festival. Since 1993 he has been an independent member of the Seanad and is Adjunct Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Feargal is the author of “ Crowning the Customer” and of “Mind Your Own Business”. He did three series of “ Feargal Quinn’s Retail Therapy” on RTE 1 which reached top ratings as well as the ‘Local Heroes - a Town Fights Back’ series on transforming Drogheda. On the international scene, Feargal has served on the board of the American-based Food Marketing Institute and of CIES, the Paris- based organisation representing retail as well as President of Euro Commerce the Brussels-based retail organisation.
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