Timings: 12.15 Registration and Lunch, meeting start 13.00, meeting close 16.45.

Venue address: Holiday Inn Cambridge, Impington, CB24 9PH

Attending this HSJ Regional Network will provide opportunity for: 

• Meeting and networking with a range of roles attending across the health and care sector, outside of your immediate peer group
• Participation in facilitated discussion sessions that are truly multidisciplinary, value-adding and progressive conversations to aid service improvement and patient outcomes in focus areas
• Best practice sharing with innovative case studies and showcasing technology 
  • Hear how the GRIFT programme is impacting GI and Liver services  
  • How to optimise and develop care pathways for your patients 
  • How to leverage collaborative working, IT and innovation to improve patient outcomes 

Meeting Chair: Dr Bernard Brett – Consultant in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine,  Norfolk and Norwich  University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;  Chair of the East of England Clinical Senate, NHS England

Confirmed speakers:

• Vanessa Hebditch - Director of Communications and Policy, British Liver Trust 
• Dr Beverly Oates - Chair, BSG Training Committe and National GIRFT lead, GI and Liver (Developing the GIRFT programme in GI & Liver services
• Sue Thomas - CEO Commissioning Excellence, Wilmington Healthcare 
• Dr Monica Bose - Associate Medical Director for Clinical Stratgey and Clinical Lead for Gastroenterology, Princess Alexandra Hospitals NHS Trust
• Dr Mohamed Shariff - Consultant Gastroenterologist, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (STP planned care NAFLD pathway developments)
• Dr Matthew Johnson - Consultant Gastroenterologist, Luton and Dunstable Univerity Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (IT innovations)