The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 2 (Apr 2014) | Page 30
CONFERENCE
NEWS
NHS Health and Care Innovation
Expo 2014
This year’s Expo, hosted by NHS England, was designed to give everyone the
tools and inspiration to make positive
changes in health and care.
Hundreds of speakers delivered a comprehensive programme across the two
days. The Community stage shared the
latest insights from the health and care
sectors, from voluntary services and
from overseas. The Living Room stage
brought together some surprising people to discuss and debate the issues of
the moment in the Expo Uncut sessions. To find out more about both
programmes, click on Speakers. The
sharing continued in Camp Expo, a
democratic unconference area where
delegates set their own agenda. Camp
Expo leaders shared the challenges
they had overcome and recipes for successful innovation in their organisation.
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Other participants shared lived experience across the various zones such as
the Community space. This was a genuinely open and inclusive area where the
energy and engagement was electric.
People added their voice, perspective
and feedback through conversation,
pledges and art. The participation and
enthusiasm from everyone was exceptional and was felt across the whole
event, truly putting patients and people
at the heart of Expo.
Delegates were transported into a lively,
engaged and participative environ-
ment right across the exhibition floor.
Whether becoming a dementia friend
in the dementia café, picking up new
digital health skills in the digital zone or
making a pledge for NHS Change Day,
everyone attending experienced diverse
opportunities to be inspired, make lots
of new contacts from across the health
and care system and move the dial on
their professional ambitions.
Everyone attending Expo could create their own programme of learning
as a student at the Pop-up University, choosing their course from more
than 80 seminars and tutorials across a
range of themes including the immersive Leadership Academy experience.
Rich learning was available for everyone from commissioning for outcomes
to how social media can improve
patient care.