Future of Surgery 2012

Australian Healthcare Week Presents: Future of Surgery 2012

One of the greatest challenges to the prosperity and success of Australia is meeting the coming healthcare demands of the population. Whether it be access to expertise in the bush or responding to endemic health trends – what is clear that healthcare cannot be viewed in silos - a collaborative, connected solution is the only remedy.

Australian Healthcare Week has been specifically designed to bring together the key stakeholders in the provisioning and delivery of healthcare. As technologies in diagnostic imaging and surgery revolutionise the fields, how we plan and develop healthcare facilities must not only keep pace, but foresee the future and this can only be achieved by a consistent dialogue between all parties involved.

Featured Speakers Include

Winthrop Professor John Hall
Head of Unit/Winthrop Professor Surgery
ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL & Editor-in-Chief ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Professor Donald Macllean
Area Performance Manager and State- Wide Program Director of Surgery
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH NSW

Professor Julian Smith
Head of Department of Surgery
MONASH UNIVERSITY

Professor Bruce Waxman
Unit Head of General Surgery
SOUTHERN HEALTH

Evolving the surgical practice

With new and evolving surgical practice being made possible through advanced technology and the need to train and plan for the surgeons of the future, Future of Surgery 2012, which forms part of Australian Healthcare Week, will offer insights for delegates so that they can evaluate and develop plans to stay abreast of future trends in health.

Future of Surgery 2012 is one of the most important areas of hospital management and improving efficiency through good perioperative nursing, process redesign and theatre management will yield success.

With changing models of care and the need to always lower cost at our hospitals while always maintaining a high level of patient safety is critical and intrinsic to how an operating theatre should be run.

Focusing on maximising efficiency at the facility to be able to deliver the maximum of cases that can be carried out on that day is of great importance to heads of surgery and nurse operating theatre managers.

Some of the main concerns that have arisen during the research were how to:

Ensure patient safety and optimal patient outcomes
Provide surgeons with appropriate access to the operating room so that patients can have operations in a timely manner
Maximise the efficiency of the operating room utilisation, staff, and materials
Decrease patient delays
Enhance satisfaction among patients, staff, and physicians

Why attend Future of Surgery 2012?

Being able to keep of abreast of new technology and streamline processes is always of interest to surgery managers and attending Future of Surgery 2012 you will be able to benchmark and learn from your peers and further your knowledge in these core areas:

Improve Efficiency of the Operating Theatre

Ensuring Patient Safety

Strategically Looking at Future Care Needs and Planning and Changing Models of Care