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Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025:
Empowering People Through Transforming Care

2025 Video On-Demand Archive
Filmed at the Convention Centre Dublin on Thursday, 4 September 2025

 

Opening Plenary - HSE Integrated Healthcare Advancing Health Service Reform Conference 2025
01:22:01
Bernard Gloster - HSE Integrated Healthcare Advancing Health Service Reform Conference 2025
05:36
Ciarán Devane - HSE Integrated Healthcare Advancing Health Service Reform Conference 2025
13:50
Minister for Health: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, TD - Fireside Interview - HSE Conference
29:28
Keynote Address: Dr Richard Lewanczuk | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
26:28
Breakout 1 – Integrating Care for People and Communities | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:07:06
Breakout 2  - Continuum of Care for Mental Health Services HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:15:18
Breakout 3 – Beyond the Wait, WLAP in Action | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:16:52
Breakout 4 – Meeting the Needs of Older Adults  | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:21:13
Breakout 5 – Transforming Health Systems with Technology | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:03:20
Breakout 6 - Disability Services | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:14:22
Breakout 7 – Advancing Urgent and Emergency Care  | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:13:12
Breakout 8 – Shifting Care to the Community | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
01:20:04
An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin Closing Address at the HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
17:00
Closing Address | HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference 2025
28:28
Poster Award Ceremony: Presented by An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD, HSE Conference 2025
09:48

Agenda


All sessions are being recorded. This agenda is subject to change. HSE Integrated Healthcare Conference Agenda

Convention Centre Dublin, Thursday, September 4th


09:30 – 11:00 Welcome & Introduction: Bryan Dobson (MC)    Channel 1 Opening Address: Ciarán Devane (HSE Board Chair) Fireside Interview with the Minister for Health: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, TD (Minister for Health) Keynote Address: Dr Richard Lewanczuk

11:00 – 11:45 Coffee Break (Off Air)

11:45 – 13:00 | Morning Breakout Sessions: Please note: Breakout sessions run concurrently and will be streamed live from four rooms on - Channel 1 | Channel 2 | Channel 3 | Channel 4 Breakout 1 – Integrating Care for People and Communities    Channel 1 Opening Address by Damien McCallion (CTTO), Tony Canavan (REO, HSE West & North West)

Presentation: How will Integrated Care be delivered in the Health Regions by Mary O’Kelly (IHA Manager & Implementation Lead, HSE Dublin & Midlands)

Guest Speaker: Best international practice in integrating care for people and communities with Sarah Reed (Nuffield Trust)

Panel Discussion: Integrating Care for People & Communities: Mary O’Kelly, Sarah Reed, Anne Lawlor (Co-Chair, HSE Patient Forum), Lorna Kerin (Regional Patient Service User Lead), Mary McGrath (HSCP Regional Integration Development Lead), Eileen Whelan (RDNM), Dr. Siobhán Ní Bhriain (Regional Lead for Medicine, HSE Dublin & Midlands)

Reflections & Final Comments: Damien McCallion, Tony Canavan, Anne Lawlor

Breakout 2 – Continuum of Care for Mental Health Services    Channel 2 Welcome & Session Overview: Bryan Dobson (MC)

Presentation: Mental Health Policy Landscape by Prof. Philip Dodd (Deputy CMO & Mental Health Policy Specialist)

Case Study: Crisis Resolution Centre by Dr Elizabeth Gethins (Consultant Psychiatrist, Sligo Crisis Resolution Team), Moire McCormack and Sarah Murphy (Service Coordinators, Cork Solace Café, Cork Mental Health Foundation ), Case Study: Suicide Crisis Assessment Nurse Service by

Sally Lovejoy (National Nurse Lead, National Clinical Programme for Self-Harm & Suicide Related Ideation) Panel Discussion: Martina Queally (REO, HSE Dublin & South East), Sophie Mae Harrington (Assistant

Psychologist & Expert by Experience), Dr Amanda Burke (National Clinical Lead, Child & Youth Mental Health), Brian Higgins (AND, HSE Access & Integration - Adult Mental Health), Dr Brian Osborne (GP & Assistant Medical Director - Mental Health)

Breakout 3 – Beyond the Wait, WLAP in Action    Channel 3 Opening Address by Sheila McGuinness (Director of Access, HSE A&I)

Panel Keynote Speech: Dr Andy Phillips (REO, HSE South West)

Presentations: Mella Fitzgerald (Operations and Transformation Lead for South Dublin Surgical

Hub), Supporting achievement of the WLAP in Cardiology outpatients in Galway University Hospital by Dr Susan Connolly (ICPCD Cardiology Consultant)

Benign Gynaecology OPD Improvement Journey by Hilda Dowler (Improvement Lead), Helen Thompson (CNM III, NMH)

Panel Fireside Chat and Q&A: Dr Andy Phillips , Dr Susan Connolly, Hilda Dowler, Helen Thompson , Mella Fitzgerald

Closing Address: Sheila McGuinness

Breakout 4 – Meeting the Needs of Older Adults    Channel 4 Welcome & Introduction by Patricia Whelehan (AND, Services for Older People, A&I)

Opening Address by Amro Hamid (Vice Chair National Network of Older People's Councils)

Presentation: An Overview of Services for Older Persons Services by Kathleen Jordan (Head of Service, HSE Home Support Services)

Presentation: Meeting the Needs of Older People through an Age Friendly Health System by Dr Emer Ahern (NCAGL Older Persons) Presentation: Overview of Developments in Dementia by Dr Sean O'Dowd (Clinical Lead Dementia) Case Studies & Practice Innovation Presentations from Regional Health Areas by Mary Doolan (ICPOP Op Lead, Laois/ Offaly), Elaine McDonagh (CNS Mental Health, Sligo / Leitrim), Lisa Byrne (cANP in Older Adult Care, Royal Hospital Donnybrook), Liz Nolan (Community Connector for Older Persons, Carlow/ Kilkenny), Robert Kelly (Older Persons Services Manager, Home Support Services, HSE Dublin & Midlands)

Q&A: Patricia Whelehan

Closing Remarks: Patricia Whelehan.

13:00 – 14:25 - Lunch Break   (Off Air)

14:25 – 15:40 | Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Please note: Breakout sessions run concurrently and will be streamed live from four rooms on - Channel 1 | Channel 2 | Channel 3 | Channel 4 Breakout 5 – Transforming Health Systems with Technology    Channel 1 Introduction by Derek Tierney (A/Sec, Health Infrastructure, Department of Health)

Case Study: The Virtual Ward – Designed with the Patient at the Centre

Loretto Grogan (National Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer), Maureen Gilbert (Patient Partner)

Panel Discussion on Digital for Care, National EHR and Proposed Rollout in HSE Dublin & North East:

Damien McCallion (CTTO), Sara Long (REO, HSE Dublin & North East), Prof. Richard Greene (CCIO), Paul O’Rourke (Patient Partner) Dr. David Hanlon (NCAGL, Primary Care)

Innovation: AI / Robotics Interactive Session by Kevin Kelly (Head of AI & Automation CoE)

Breakout 6 – Disability Services   Channel 2 Opening Address by Aoife O’Donoghue (Assistant National Director, A&I)

Overview of the National Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy by Ciara Lynch (Neurorehabilitation Strategy & Managed Clinical Rehabilitation Network)

Presentation: Impact of MCRN Pilot Partial Networks to date by Emma Shortall (Brain Injury Programme Manager, NRH), Gina McLoughlin (Network Rehabilitation Coordinator)

Presentation: Bridging the Gap: An Interagency Community Clinic in Peamount Healthcare by Nuala Crosse (Senior Medical Social Worker, Peamount Healthcare)

Lived Experience Representative Stories by Aideen Phelan, Mike Preston, Anne Marie Leonard (Patient Partners)

Panel Discussion: National Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy and Neuro-Rehabilitation Services in Ireland

Ciara Lynch, Emma Shortall, Eugene Wallace (Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine), Anne Belton (Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Peamount Healthcare)

Breakout 7 – Advancing Urgent and Emergency Care    Channel 3 Introduction & Welcome by Grace Rothwell (National Director, Access & Integration)

Case Studies

Panel Discussion: Dr Andy Phillips (REO), Sonya Cotter (IHA Manager), Orlagh Claffey (IHA Manager), Paddy Clerkin (IHA Manager), Eamonn Dolan (Regional Clinical Director),

Grace Rothwell (National Director, Access & Integration)

Breakout 8 – Shifting Care to the Community    Channel 4 Opening Address by Pat Healy (ND National Services)

Enhanced Community Care: Creating the Conditions for Access and Integration, Wexford by Liz Murphy (CHN Manager), Kate Weeks (Interim Op Lead, Chronic Disease Hub), Elizabeth Sunderland (CHN Manager), Pauline Kirwan (CHN Manager)

Presentation: Virtual Care in the Community by Dr Emer Ahern (NCAGL), Dr Rory Nee (Consultant

Physician in Geriatric Medicine and ICPOP)

Panel Discussion: Martina Queally (REO), Geraldine Crowley (AND, ECC Programme & Primary Care

Contracts), Dr Richard Lewanczuk, Prof. Áine Carroll (Integrated Care and Improvement), Prof. Breda

Cushen (Respiratory Consultant, Beaumont Hospital)

15:40 – 16:00 Transition to The Auditorium (short break)   (Off Air)

16:00 – 16:30 Closing Address and Poster Award Ceremony: An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD, will provide the closing address to delegates, followed by awards to 6 regional winners and 1 HSE central office representative.   Channel 1

Contact Us

Conference Planning Team

Email: HSE.Conference@hse.ie

Join us for the Integrated Healthcare: Advancing Health Service Reform Conference in the Convention Centre Dublin to hear about transformation and reform of our health services from colleagues and experts across Ireland.

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