The Australian Healthcare Week Expo is returning to the International Convention Centre in Sydney on the 16 - 17 March 2022 and is all about continuously improving our hospitals and workforce for the future.

Don’t miss your chance to connect, learn and network with 130+ expert speakers at the largest healthcare event of the year.

We have some exciting new experiences, formats and learning opportunities in store for 2022, including:

• 100% refreshed content and the chance to hear from 130+ speakers
• 3 new free to attend stages focusing on Health Informatics & Analytics, Cyber Security For Healthcare and Mental Health Services
• The return of five of our most popular free to attend events: Nursing and Midwifery, Patient Experience, GP & Primary Care Summit, Healthcare Start Ups and Healthcare Workforce
• 12 CPD points available for the Nursing and Midwifery Program, and 4 for the Health Informatics and Analytics program to help you take your skills to the next level
• $20,000 in prizes and giveaways up for grabs, plus games, interactive learning experiences and free treats to enjoy

Register Your Free Ticket Today! 

We're excited to be bringing you the Healthcare Cyber Security event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

We're excited to be bringing you the Nursing & Midwifery event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney. 

Endorsed by the Australian College of Nursing the two-day event offers you the chance to collect up to 12 CPD points to future-proof your skills and enhance your professional development! 

Grab a copy of the agenda to learn more, or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022

• Kate Renzenbrink, Chief Nursing & Midwifery Informatics Officer, Western Health
• Jacqui Cross, Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officer, NSW Health
• Adrian Hutchinson, Chief Nursing Information Officer, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne  
• Vanessa Own, Executive Director, Nursing & Midwifery, Clinical Governance & Risk Service, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

We're excited to be bringing you the GPs & Clinicians event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

Join us at the GPs & Clinicians stage to learn more from our expert speaker panel about improving primary care delivery through technology and innovative business models.

Grab a copy of the agenda to learn more or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022

• Dr. Michael Bonning,  Chair, Australian Medical Association
• Dr. Karen Price,  President, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Ray Messom,  Chief Executive Officer, WentWest
• Gabrielle O’Kane,  Chief Executive Officer, National Rural Health Alliance
  
  

We're excited to be bringing you the Healthcare Workforce event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

Join us at the Healthcare Workforce stage to learn more from our expert speaker panel about building the workforce of the future through planning, leadership and transformation

Grab a copy of the agenda to learn more, or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022

• Julie Gustavs,  Project Manager, Australian Medical Council
• Michelle Fenwick,  Executive Director People & Culture, Northern Health
• Mike Edwards,  Director Service Delivery, NSW Rural Doctors Network
• Brian Dolan OBE,  Director, Health Service 360 (UK)
  

We're excited to be bringing you the Patient Experience event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

Join us at the Patient Experience stage to learn more from our expert speaker panel about enhancing PX through data, customer engagement and patient-centric care.

Grab a copy of the agenda to learn more, or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022 

• Jarrard O’Brien, Chief Experience Officer Alfred Health
• Susan Pearce,  Deputy Secretary, Patient Experience, NSW Health
• Anita Hodge,   National Manager Patient Reported Experience and Outcomes, Healthscope
• Jorge Silveira,  Chief Digital Health Officer, Virtus Health
  

We're excited to be bringing you the Health Informatics & Analytics event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

Join us at the Health Informatics & Analytics stage to learn more from our expert speaker panel about extracting value from healthcare data assets as well as building cyber security resiliency to protect these strategic assets.

To learn more grab a copy of the agenda, or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022

• Graeme Hart,  Chief Medical Information Officer, Austin Health
• Mitra Minai,  Chief Information Security Officer, Healthscope
  
• Dr. Ian Oppermann,  Chief Data Scientist, NSW Government

We're excited to be bringing you the Mental Health Services event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

Join us at the Mental Health Services stage to learn more from our expert speaker panel about enabling integrated mental healthcare through partnerships and new care models.

Grab a copy of the agenda to learn more, or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022

• Hon David Coleman,   Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Australian Government Department of Health
• Christine Morgan,  Chief Executive Officer, National Mental Health Commission
  
• Carmel Tebbutt,  Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Coordinating Council
  
• Julie Dixon,  Director Reform, Mental Health Commission of NSW
  
  

We're excited to be bringing you the Start Ups event as part of Australian Healthcare Week 2022 running on March 16th - 17th at the ICC, Sydney.

Join us at the Start Ups stage to learn more from our expert speaker panel about accelerating start ups to drive health, care and access innovation.

Grab a copy of the agenda to learn more, or register your free seat here! 

Spotlight Speakers in 2022

• Bronwyn Le Grice,  CEO & Co-Founder, ANDHealth
  
• Prof. Regina Crameri,  Head of Health Centre of Excellence, Australian Trade and Investment Commission
• Alister Coleman,  Founder, Managing Partner, Folklore Ventures
  Tam Nguyen, Deputy Director of Research, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
  

Logan Hospital in Queensland and Canberra Hospital in the ACT are both currently undergoing $500 million redevelopments. In these exclusive video session Project Directors from both Logan and Canberra share insights and discuss the strategies ensuring redevelopment project success in live operating environments.

Check out the full videos to learn more about:

• Key elements for a successful redevelopment in a live hospital environment.
• The importance of collaborating with clinicians to improve safety, patient experience and the working environment.
• The impact of a united vision and holistic governance strategies in ensuring project success.
  

In 2021 we saw new care models, digital services, infrastructure projects and systems continue rolling out to meet the surmounting care needs of Australian citizens, whilst highlighting the gaps in connectivity and policy across Australia’s primary, aged care and acute care services.

As we transition into 2022 the intent in the health sector is to move beyond point solution implementation and onto sector-wide sustainability.

What spatial features, technologies, solutions and workforce advancements are yielding the greatest benefits to help achieve this though?

To understand and answer this question, we’ve compiled insights from over 100 Australian healthcare professionals to uncover how their investments and priorities have been shaped by the pandemic and to glean insight into the investment priorities transforming healthcare in 2022 and beyond.

View the Aged Care Summit 2022 Event Guide - Part of Australia's largest healthcare industry event - Australian Healthcare Week, and gain access to over 200+ speakers, 170+ sessions, 3 industry specific conferences and much more!

 To reserve your exclusive $299 + GST seat* at the event simply register online now.

View the Digital Healthcare Summit 2022 Event Guide - Part of Australia's largest healthcare industry event - Australian Healthcare Week, and gain access to over 200+ speakers, 170+ sessions, 3 industry specific conferences and much more!

The unprecedented emergence and impact of COVID-19 is putting immense strain on Australia’s hospitals and healthcare system. 2020 has been a year like no other, as healthcare leaders race to quickly mobilise the workforce to cope with this unprecedented health crisis, and adjust in real-time the way we deliver care, design our hospitals and utilise new technologies.

For the fifth year running, in partnership with healthcare industry leaders, Australian Healthcare Week has conducted a survey that represents the industry’s key opportunities and challenges for the year ahead. In the last few months, we surveyed 120 leaders from across the Australian healthcare industry to uncover how they are responding to COVID-19, and the forces of change set to transform healthcare now, and in the years to come.

This exclusive report, compiled with insights from over 120+ Australian healthcare executives, explores the key healthcare investment areas and delves into the core drivers of change currently shaping the Australian healthcare industry, including:

• COVID-19: Preparing and responding to major disruption
• Rethinking the way we design, build and future-proof health facilities
• Training, up-skilling and retaining the healthcare workforce to become pandemic-ready
• Innovation and transformation through digital healthcare

Australian Healthcare Week Digital (AHW Digital) in partnership with Advantech has compiled this report to explore the challenges with operationalising a sustainable, scalable and reliable telethealth capability. The report also features insights from AHW Digital’s webinar “The Role of Telehealth in Curbing The COVID-19 Pandemic”, which ran in April 2020 and was hosted by leading health practitioners. This paper captures their responses around preparing their workforce, practices and technology infrastructure by touching upon aspects such as:

• How to identify, adopt and roll out successful telehealth models in a sustainable fashion
• Preparing and up-skilling the healthcare workforce to confidently and effectively use new telehealth technology
• Choosing the right systems: how can we best utilise existing online consultation platforms, as well as roll out new systems?
• The major inhibitors stopping hospitals, facilities and medical practices from rolling out telehealth?
• Specific examples from the panellists on how they are rolling out telehealth services in their own organisations
  

It goes without saying, the bigger a project, the more complex it is, and hospitals, with their enormous budgets, multi-year timeframes and thousands of stakeholders - whether redeveloping or building new – are by their very nature an expensive, complex and time consuming venture that pose hundreds of challenges. It is these challenges, and the reaction and planning of a project delivery team to them, that ultimately impacts the seamlessness of hospital infrastructure delivery.

With this in mind, ahead of the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit and Australian Healthcare Week 2019 we chat to Paul Lambert, Executive Director, Activation, New Royal Adelaide Project at the Central Adelaide Local Health Network in South Australia.

Adelaide BioMed City, located at the western end of North Terrace in Adelaide CBD, is one of the largest health science clusters in the southern hemisphere of its kind. The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, The University of Adelaide’s Health and Medical Sciences facility, The University of South Australia’s Health Innovations site, the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, the world’s most expensive, and one of the most digitally advanced hospitals, and the new $1.95 billion Women's and Children's Hospital utilise their proximity to collaborate on research, education, clinical care and business development.

What are the trends driving patient experience in 2020?

This report was compiled based on insights from over 100 Australian healthcare professionals and explores the major innovations, challenges and opportunities that will fundamentally transform healthcare and patient experience in the coming years.

In this video from Australian Healthcare Week Dr. Grant Rogers, Rural eMeds Chief Medical Officer at eHealth NSW explores:  

• How eHealth NSW fostered greater collaboration between executives and medical leads to deliver a common vision across the six Rural LHDs
• Enabling a clinically-focused approach to change management for enhanced usability for end users
• Generating an appreciation for the distinction between clinical engagement and clinical involvement

In this interview from Australian Healthcare Week we chat to Jim Nicolson, Manager – Aged Care Reform at the New Zealand Ministry of Health. Jim discusses:

• Recognising the valuable contribution and opportunities of an aging population and balancing these considerations in reform to generate an illness to wellness environment to promote healthy living
• Developing a new framework for home care community support as part of their reform
• Integrating models of care with other health and social housing type services
• Overcoming challenges around growing financial pressure and resource prioritisation

To manage this growth, and continue delivering superior healthcare to their residents, SESLHD engages a Strategy and Planning Team to inform all decision, prioritise investment areas and help fill service and capability gaps to ensure their Health Service effectively meets need for years to come.

Currently SESLHD has two major infrastructure projects underway. The St George Hospital Redevelopment has seen over $700m invested since 2011 and includes the construction of a new $211m Acute Services Building, and the Randwick Prince of Wales Campus project, which sees an investment of over $720m. 

Ahead of the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit 2020 we chat to Julie Dixon, Director Planning, Population Health and Equity as well as Health Planners, Wendy Uptin and Alison Sneddon from the SESLHD’s Strategy and Planning Team to learn more about the planning works supporting these large-scale infrastructure investments.

Julie, Wendy and Alison further discuss how the planning team is developing integrated health service plans to inform capital developments which focus on shifting care into the community and ensure patients receive care in the right care setting. 

Project delays, cost blowouts, poor stakeholder engagement and communication breakdowns are but a few of the problems faced in delivering any large-scale infrastructure project. With careful planning, clear communication, strategic stakeholder engagement initiatives though many of these pitfalls can be avoided. 

With this in mind, ahead of the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit and Australian Healthcare Week 2020 we chat to Hannah Seymour, Medical Director at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia, Paul Lambert, Executive Director, Activation, New Royal Adelaide Project at the Central Adelaide Local Health Network in South Australia and Toni Peggrem, Executive Director of Strategy and Planning at Gold Coast Health.

At 2.3 billion, 2 billion and 1.76 billion respectively these projects exemplify the large-scale, complex healthcare infrastructure being constructed around the country. And with Gold Coast University Hospital operational since 2013, Fiona Stanley operational since 2014 and new Royal Adelaide since 2017, and the kind of wisdom that only comes with hindsight, those involved with the delivery of these projects are ready to share their journey and lessons learned to help aid other Australian projects.

Download the exclusive eBook to learn more. 

The NSW Government is investing $470 million in delivering the new Maitland Hospital, a leading facility that will help meet growing health service needs for the surrounding communities of the Hunter Valley now and into the future.

The existing hospital in Maitland is no longer conducive to contemporary patient care. The new Maitland Hospital will offer a wider range of services  including emergency care, surgical services, critical care, maternity services, paediatric care, cardiac catheterisation, inpatient beds, mental health, rehabilitation services, palliative care and outpatient clinics, and, for the first time will also offer the region’s first chemotherapy service.

To learn more about the project we spoke to Gillian Geraghty, Executive Director, Rural and Regional at NSW Health Infrastructure , who shared her insights into the challenges of a greenfield development, and delves into the stakeholder and community engagement initiatives helping overcome these and drive contemporary care in NSW’ Hunter region.   

When manufacturing began closing down in South Australia, especially automotive manufacturing, it left a void that needed filling.

Struggling with higher unemployment rates and growing challenges in agriculture and manufacturing Adelaide looked towards reinvention. As a city Adelaide’s 1.7 million population is large enough to be a hub, yet small enough to remain agile, and boasting the lowest cost of living of all capital cities (according to the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling) makes Adelaide a natural drawcard for talent.

“We’re seeing the economy, not just in Adelaide, but Australia-wide moving more and more in to being digitally-enabled and service-oriented,” says Yvette van Eenennaam. “Adelaide had a big proportion of the local economy dependent on manufacturing, when that began closing we needed to tap into digital and look at new ways of driving innovation and economic wealth.”

Yvette, General Manager at Adelaide BioMed City is helping achieve this by driving and supporting multi-institute and the multidisciplinary collaboration through the long-term development, and continued investment into Adelaide BioMed City, a $3.6 billion initiative that co-locates institutions from research, education and clinical care into a tight-knit and collaborative precinct in the heart of Adelaide.

Ahead of Australian Healthcare Week 2020 we learn more from Yvette about this innovative precinct. 

While infrastructure projects and technological advancements will continue to revolutionise care delivery, patient experience and traditional workflows, with 2018 coming to a close what new trends are set to shape healthcare in 2019 and beyond?

To understand and answer this question, ahead of the 9^th Annual Australian Healthcare Week Summit 2019, we surveyed 116 Australian and New Zealand healthcare professionals from a cross-section of the industry, to find out what they think the major are the innovations, challenges and opportunities that will fundamentally transform healthcare in the coming years.

Who should healthcare facilities be designed for? The patient, or the clinician? This question is undoubtedly a stumbling block for many. While patient centricity, comfort and convenience is key to optimal care, if clinicians aren’t kept in mind through the design and development phase of any project, whether structural or technological, how are they expected to effectively navigate the infrastructure and deliver care?

Ahead of Australian Healthcare Week, and The Great Debate, held on the Health Facilities Design and Development stage, we speak to two expert speakers, Ian Town, Chairman of the Christchurch Health Precinct Advisory Board and Gordon Bingham, Chief Nursing Information Officer at Allied Health. Harking back to their high school debating years, our panel aims to enlighten, encourage deeper thinking, offer critical perspectives, and maybe even coerce you into seeing their point of view.