8:50
Welcome from the Chair

Jo Carden
Director, Health Advisory Practice, EY
9:00
Ministerial Address: Health of the Nation: Creating a responsive, accessible and sustainable health service

Simon Harris TD
Minister for Health
9:20
Opening Address: The rising demand for healthcare
The policy implications of our rapidly growing and ageing population

Maev-Ann Wren
Joint Research Area Co-Ordinator for Health and Quality of Life Research, The ESRI
9:40
International Address: The politics of universal health coverage: A question of willpower?
Political will is hugely significant in moving towards a publicly-financed universal healthcare system is highly political. In this session, you’ll hear examples of how UHC has been achieved in some countries and why it has been floundering in others. How does healthcare become a political priority?

Robert Yates
Project Director, Universal Health Coverage Policy Forum, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
10:05
Value Based Healthcare: Partnering to Improve Outcomes and Lower Costs.

Jackie Fielding
Vice President, Medtronic, Uk & Ireland
10:25
Morning Keynote Address: The case for Place-Based Health and Care: Re-engineering health and care systems to secure better outcomes and a sustainable future
There is widespread recognition of the wider determinants of health, where only 20 per cent of health outcomes result from clinical treatment and the remaining 80 per cent determined by wider factors such as lifestyle choices, the physical environment and family and social networks. Reimagining health as place-based opens out the definition of health from clinical care to one that encompasses wider determinants. Health spending must shift away from treatment and towards prevention. How we can re-engineer the health and care system to secure better outcomes and become sustainable for the future?

Lord Victor Adebowale
Chair, Collaborate CIC and CEO, Turning Point, UK
10:50
Q&A with speakers
11:05
Morning Break
STREAM 1: Sláintecare
Now for the hard part… paying for and implementing Sláintecare
STREAM 2: Access to Healthcare
With some of the longest waiting times in Europe, will we finally get to grips with the chronic lack of access to care
STREAM 3: Digital Health
Technologies could help cut costs and improve care – but, it’s not easy to change
1:10
Lunch
14:10
Welcome back from the Chair

Jo Carden
Director, Health Advisory Practice, EY
14:15
Afternoon Keynote Address: Tackling wasteful spending in health
Investing in health is one thing, but doing so sustainably is another. A significant share of healthcare spending in OECD countries is at best ineffectual and at worst wasteful. Tackling the burden of wasteful spending in health is imperative. There are solutions but what are they?

Agnès Couffinhal
Senior Economist, the OECD, Paris
14:40
AI in Healthcare: The Future
Learn how the latest AI technologies and capabilities will solve some of healthcare’s toughest challenges. Plus, introducing Stevie, assisting the elderly and people with disabilities.

Stevie The Robot & Conor McGinn
Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin
15:00
The HSE’s role in implementing SlainteCare

Dean Sullivan
Deputy Director General (Strategy), HSE
15:20
Locknote Panel Discussion: A new agenda for change? Making it happen…
We’ve invited our speakers to reflect on the plan one year on from its publication and assess its chances of implementation

Dean Sullivan
Deputy Director General (Strategy), HSE

Oliver O'Connor
Chief Executive, Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association

Tom O'Dowd
Professor of General Practice, Public Health and Primary Care, Trinity College Centre for Health Services

Brigid Doherty
CEO, Patient Focus