PANEL SYNOPSIS

At the 2022 Committee of Supply, MOH launched Healthier SG to promote healthier living through a life course approach. Residents are encouraged to build a trusted relationship with a regular family doctor through enrolment and to develop a personalised health plan. Through this relationship, residents will receive support from their chosen family doctor to better manage their health conditions, health concerns and to set health goals.

This panel discussion brings together esteemed panellists from the government, private and public healthcare sectors to share their perspectives of how residents can take charge of their health and participate in this new vision of healthcare. The panellists will also discuss the opportunities and value propositions that could be gained across the government, providers and residents, and the roles that each party can play to make Healthier SG a success.

PANEL SYNOPSIS

The recent COVID-19 crisis has challenged the conventional model of managing our workforce. Shortage of staff to manage the surge in cases was a pertinent issue, which was compounded by staff affected by COVID-19 and staff fatigue. Is there a space for us to leverage on the concept of a Marketplace Workforce to strengthen our workforce resiliency, in both peace and crisis times? Hear from the experience of Grab, one of the leading players in this space, and the perspectives of healthcare providers, clinicians, MOH and SkillsFuture Singapore on considering Marketplace Workforce as one of our manpower strategies at the sectorial level.  Be there or be square!

PANEL DISCUSSION SYNOPSIS

Digital innovation will rapidly revolutionise clinical care. In this session, we meet with the leaders of the local health-tech ecosystem, to better understand how as healthcare professionals, we may accelerate the development and adoption of practical solutions.

As an attendee, you will:

1. See the potential that technology brings to transform the future of clinical care.
2. Appreciate the gaps that lie in innovation journey for practitioners.
3. Understand what opportunities lie ahead for all of us in the domain of tech-driven healthcare innovation.

TRACK SYNOPSIS

As we make the push for population health and a Healthier SG, we need to learn how to work better together, what shape and form our partnerships should take, and also how to finance this network. In the UK, they are developing Integrated Care Systems where health and social entities come together through contracting arrangements to care for the population.  There have been some success stories where they achieved outcomes like reduction of ED attendances, bed days, SOC visits and financial savings. We hope to achieve the same in Singapore by learning how to work with our primary and community care partners better.

Through this session’s plenary and panel discussion, we hope to create more awareness about Integrated Care Systems and how they could work in Singapore. Our panellists will represent perspectives from the Regional Health System, primary care and community care to discuss what it means to form care networks and develop communities of care to support our residents to live well and age well in the community.

TRACK SYNOPSIS

How can people who live with long term conditions be better prepared to have meaningful strengths-based conversations during their consultations with their doctors, and feel supported between clinic visits to self-manage?

Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP) is a systematic process and practice that offers the opportunity of an equal partnership approach between professionals and residents living with long term conditions. It recognises the primacy of residents in their decision making about what matters to them. As they plan their actions to achieve care goals made with them based on their abilities and the community support around them, it gives them the confidence to live well with their long term conditions. Purposeful investment in a system-based support of PCSP has been shown to transform the value and effectiveness of care.

This session will start with a presentation by speakers from Year of Care Partnerships under NHS UK on the principles of the PCSP approach, followed by sharing by local practitioners on preparing and involving residents in their care at the clinic, and the importance of building community based support. We will round up the session with a dynamic panel discussion with representatives from NHG, NUHS and SingHealth to expound on what population health means for us as providers and residents.

TRACK SYNOPSIS

This Dermatology Track will emphasize the integration of Clinical Dermatology with Research, and highlight the new avenues of Research and scientific support available to the wider research community. We will discuss the importance of Skin Research in Singapore and how we can advance the participation of patients, clinicians, allied health and researchers in meaningful clinical and translational research.

TRACK SYPNOSIS

Innovations in the public healthcare ecosystem has never been so much more necessary than in today’s new normal. The pandemic has driven an accentuated creative streak in clinicians, propelling new innovations in the MedTech space.

NHG Centre for Medical Technologies and Innovations (CMTi) brings you this session which illustrates the importance of public and private partnerships where agencies collaborate with NHG to accelerate the growth of Singapore’s MedTech Ecosystem towards a “Healthier SG”. Much can be learnt from our esteemed partners who will share their innovation journey and discuss how the ever-changing healthcare landscape will impact innovations going forward.

Track Synopsis

Healthier SG is a key multi-year national strategy by MOH to address the challenges of an ageing population and improve population health outcomes with a focus on preventive health and early intervention.

Primary care enrolment programme is central to Healthier SG whereby each resident will be invited to enrol with a family physician of their choice. The doctor will then follow up the patient regularly and discuss health goals in a care plan, thereby ensuring continuity of care.

Community partnerships is a key enabler to support better health. The regional health clusters will work with various agencies to provide services and programmes to residents so that they can achieve their health goals.

Hear from the 3 speakers as they share their rich experience on what Healthier SG means to them. They will share on their hopes, potential challenges and possible collaborations with different stakeholders in the future years.

Track Synopsis

Effective patient education goes beyond handing out standard patient information leaflets. Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) as defined by World Health Organisation (WHO) is education that helps patients acquire or maintain the competencies they need to manage as well as possible their lives with a chronic disease. It is an integral part and continuing part of patient care. It is education that aims to transform the lives of patients and their families living with chronic diseases.

This track will describe the Past, Present and the Future of TPE in NHG with a focus in diabetes care, starting with the Past – what education was prior to NHG DM School; the Present – the NHG DM School Project which started in March 2020 by the NHG DM Education Workgroup under the remit of the NHG Diabetes and Metabolic Steering Committee and moving into the Future – the roadmap ahead.

Our healthcare system has continued to respond swiftly through systemic transformation since the WHO first declared the COVID-19 pandemic three years ago. With the impact of both the pandemic and an ageing population, the healthcare system has continued to reinvent care and innovate through technology to meet the needs of the elderly person amid the global challenges. This symposium aims to expound on how the merits of marrying data science, technological innovation, and value care will place the healthcare system in a better stead in preparation for the challenges of tomorrow in providing quality care for the geriatric population in Singapore.

Track Synopsis

Over the past 20 years, technology has revolutionized the way medicine has been practiced. We are now able to diagnose pathologies quicker and more accurately, perform surgeries with greater precision, and help patients recover faster after surgery. From Minimally Invasive procedures to Artificial Intelligence to Robotic surgery, let’s take a peek at how technology has transformed our surgical practices today.   

Track Synopsis

Update on Precision Medicine throughout varies medical specialities with a focus on cancer genetics. This track will concentrate on progress made in precision medicine, local lessons learned from participation in an international clinical trial and an overview on where the usage of Whole Genome Sequencing in cancer patients has led to by an international speaker.

Track Synopsis

COVID-19 has become endemic in the world. It has changed the way patients interact with and receive care from mental healthcare providers. This session will elucidate how mental health has evolved to address the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and how healthcare professionals and patients have adapt to the new normal.

With increasing pressure on hospital beds, and emergency departments, alternatives to hospital admission are attractive both for patients and healthcare systems.

In the UK, Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC) has had a huge impact on reducing short stay hospital admissions.

AEC involves streamlining the management of patients that would traditionally be admitted to hospital. They instead can be treated in an ambulatory setting and discharged the same day with follow up, treatment and tests on subsequent days if needed as an outpatient.

In this session, UK based experts will share the nuts and bolts of AEC with some clinical examples. We will hear from KTPH who have some experience setting up AEC in Singapore. Finally, we’ll hear about other admission avoidance strategies and the evidence base for them.

It has been a rollercoaster of uncertainty during the pandemic for everyone and particularly challenging for palliative care field which strives to provide comfort and support for patients and families. In this track, we would like to show case the diverse and collaborative work with various stakeholders on embracing the challenges while we move forward with the endemic.

First part, we will share how hospital-based palliative care team ventured into National Centre of Infectious Disease (NCID) in identifying the needs of the severely symptomatic Covid-19 patients and how community team from Project CARE navigated through multiple outbreaks and restrictions while providing end of life care in nursing homes.

Next, our young and inspiring clinicians will share what truly matters for our patients and their nominated spokespersons while conducting goals of care conversations during turbulent times and not forgetting the importance of reflection through movie to process the complexity of emotions working in palliative care unit.