The Conference 2024

Monday 9th September 2024 - Day 1 - Celebrating Research & Innovation

Keynote speakers 

Professor Annie Topping is a nurse, health services researcher and educator, whose primary concern is improving patient outcomes and care delivery.

She is interested in the impact of nurse staffing, ways of working and service design has on interventions to improve patient safety, outcomes, and quality of care.

Annie is the Professor of Nursing at the University of Birmingham in partnership with University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

She has considerable experience of research capacity and capability building and mentoring aspirant non-medical healthcare practitioner researchers. She joins the Birmingham Health Partners Integrated Clinical Academic Office to augment the team involved in building clinical academic careers across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands health community.

Annie leads the Organisation and Delivery of Services Research within the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Clinical Sciences.

Joanne Plumb, Director of Research, Development and Innovation University Hospitals Birmingham

After completing her Nurse training in Manchester, Jo specialised as an ITU nurse at Harefield Hospital where she developed her career in transplantation and research. Jo then joined UHB and has since held various positions including Deputy R&D Manager and Clinical Manager of the NIHR Clinical Research Facility. Jo has led and developed national research tools, NIHR costings template and the clinical research nursing workforce review. Jo led and contributed to several successful original and renewal bids for NIHR infrastructure. Currently, in her role as Director of R, D & I Jo is responsible for the strategic, operational management and delivery of research activity at UHB and regularly advises on R&D operations nationally and regionally. She has presented and published at several national and international research meetings on R&D process and research workforce capacity planning and remains a member of the national UKRD and the RD Forum. Jo is also a member of the Birmingham Health Partners Executive (a formal collaboration between UHBFT, the University of Birmingham, University of Aston, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital, City Sandwell Hospitals and The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital), which has responsibility for senior strategic and operational delivery for driving forward the research strategy for Birmingham.

Keith Couper is an Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care, based in the Emergency, Prehospital, Perioperative and Critical Care (EPPiC) research group at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit.

His research focuses on the entire patient journey of critically ill patients from the pre-hospital setting to post-discharge care. He has a particular interest in the treatment of cardiac arrest. His clinical background is critical care nursing, and he continues to work clinically as a critical care outreach nurse practitioner at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

Keith completed his PhD on debriefing after cardiac arrest in 2015. He was subsequently awarded a prestigious NIHR post-doctoral research fellowship to explore the use of mechanical chest compression devices at in-hospital cardiac arrest.

Keith holds volunteer roles with the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ALS task force member), Resuscitation Council UK (ALS sub-committee member), Royal College of Nursing (Research Forum committee member) and National Institute of Health Research (HTA prioritisation committee member). He is a member of the editorial board of Resuscitation, and is an associate editor of Resuscitation Plus.

Workshops: 

• Applying for a research training award - what makes a good application
• Pitch Perfect: Delivering An Effective Presentation
• Equality Diversity & Inclusion and patient & public involvement in research, QI and service evaluation
• Experience Based Co-Design (involving patients in service improvement)
• Research Delivery Career Opportunities
• Quality Improvement in 60 Minutes!
• Writing for publication – how to get started?

Abstracts exhibition and podium presentations * Chief Nurse Fellow, Chief Nurse Scholar and Research Showcases

Tuesday 10th September - Day 2 - Celebrating Learning & You

Keynote speakers:

Dr Phil Hammond is a doctor, journalist, broadcaster, campaigner and comedian. He qualified as a GP in 1991 and is currently works in a specialist NHS centre for children and adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME. Phil is also a presenter on BBC Radio Bristol and has been Private Eye’s medical correspondent since 1992, campaigning for patient empowerment, open data in healthcare and for the NHS to be honest and transparent about the harm it causes as well as the good it does. In 2012, he was shortlisted with Andrew Bousfield for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Investigative Journalism for a Private Eye Special Report about the shocking treatment of NHS Whistleblowers. Phil has also won awards for broadcasting, popular health journalism, comedy and teaching. He is Vice President of the Patients’ Association and a patron of Meningitis UK, the Doctors’ Support Network, the Herpes Viruses Association, Patients First and Kissing It Better.

Phil presented five series of Trust Me, I’m a Doctor on BBC2 and has appeared regularly on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show, The One Show and Countdown. He has been a Lecturer in Medical Communication at the Universities of Bristol and Birmingham,. Phil’s Radio 4 sitcom about GPs struggling with the NHS reforms – Polyoaks – was written with David Spicer and the third series airs in June 2014. Phil has written three books – Medicine Balls, Trust Me, I’m (Still) a Doctor and Sex, Sleep or Scrabble? – and released two DVDs of his tours (Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show and Confessions of a Doctor). He has currently on his third UK comedy tour with Games to Play With Your Doctor and writing his fourth book, ‘Staying Alive – How to Survive the NHS’ which will be published by Quercus in January 2015

Hannah Knowles ("H") loves nothing more than engaging and inspiring individuals to realise their full potential. Even better, she believes you are never too young or too old to start the journey.

H has what’s called a ‘portfolio career’ (that’s a posh way of saying she’s just like the rest of us – she’s been making it up as she goes along). She started out as a basil picker (yes, the herb), progressing to events manager, personal trainer and teacher. She now delivers across the spectrum of Art of Brilliance clients; kids, teenagers, adults, businesses, NHS…resistance is futile!

H has a background in Psychology and a passion for POSITIVE Psychology. In fact she’s a bit nerdy about wellbeing which is why she’s such a valuable member of the Art of Brill clan. She is on a mission. Be it an individual, school or business setting, she comes armed with strategies and insights that will help you thrive. She knows that life is busy, so she is all about giving short, practical tips that won’t take up any more of your time, in fact they might just help you save time.

H knows that wellbeing can be achieved by small simple steps, yet it is no small simple thing. Your wellbeing is massive! These small simple changes add up to make an amazing life. Beneath it all, H is a realist. She realises that she can’t change the world, but she might be able to help you change YOUR world. This sets off a positive ripple that positively impacts on your family, friends, colleagues and customers.

Whatever your age and circumstances, H wants to help you inch closer to your ideal you.

Workshops:

• Learner-Led Placement model and the lived experiences
• Join in with Well-being exercises included in our HCSW development programme
• Reflection- I would like to be the best version of myself
• Step into a Virtual Reality with our Skills & Sim team
• Experience Mindfulness with Dr. Avinash Bansode
• Try some Yoga
• Listen to our incredible Student Nursing Associate journeys
• Discover the vast selection of tailored, reactive education delivered by our Specialist Education Teams

Staff projects and talent exhibition * Bespoke stands * Roaming reflexology