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Centre Stage: Shaping the Future of Healthcare (NEW)

Centre Stage is a dynamic three-day show feature designed to explore and shape the future of healthcare. Join us in Hall 2 as we take to the centre stage!

22 - 24 October 2024

Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg

Centre Stage (Hall 2)

Centre Stage is a dynamic three-day show feature designed to explore and shape the future of healthcare. Through a curated program of talks, workshops, and panel discussions, we bring together industry leaders, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and innovators to address the most pressing issues facing healthcare today. Join us in advancing the conversation, sharing insights, and driving meaningful change in the healthcare landscape.

Target audience:

  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Policymakers and Regulators
  • Industry Leaders and consultants
  • Researchers

Key Topics:

  • Digital transformation in healthcare 
  • Sustainable workforce in Africa 
  • Financing African Healthcare 
  • Regulation of healthcare practitioners 
  • Healthcare professional associations collaboration caucu

Programme

Tuesday, 17, October 2023

 

Emcee: Steve Gardner, Managing Director, Healthcare World, London, UK

11:00 | Sustainable workforce in Africa

Moderator:

Steve Gardner, Managing Director, Healthcare World, London, UK

Panellists: 

  • Helen Featherstone, Director and General Manager, General Medical Council, London, UK  
  • Senait Beyene, Senior Advisor to the Health Minister, Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Adrian Wilkinson, Director - Product Development, TalentFind Solutions Ltd, Manchester, UK
  • Mandy Rowbotham, CEO, OHR Recruitment & TalentFind Solutions Ltd, London, UK

12:30 |  Financing African Healthcare

Moderator:

Steve Gardner, Managing Director, Healthcare World, London, UK

Panellists:  

  • Altaf Faiyaz, Associate Director, Healthcare, Education & PPP, Colliers International, Dubai, UAE  
  • Dirk van den Berg, Head of Export Finance for Southern Africa, UK Export Finance, Johannesburg, South Africa   
  • Senait Beyene, Senior Advisor to the Health Minster, Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Special Sectoral Engagement Worksho

14:00 | The UK in Africa

Moderator:

Steve Gardner, Managing Director, Healthcare World, London, UK

Panellists:  

  • Anthony Lowther, Sector Director - Healthcare & Life Sciences – Africa, Department for Business and Trade, Johannesburg, South Africa  
  • Helen Featherstone, Director and General Manager, General Medical Council, London, UK
  • Adrian Wilkinson, Director- Product Development, TalentFind Solutions Ltd, Manchester, UK
  • Mandy Rowbotham, CEO, OHR Recruitment & TalentFind Solutions Limited, London, UK

 

15:30 | End of day 1

 

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Wednesday, 18 October 2023

 

Emcee: Wayne Janneker, Portfolio Executive – Health Care, BCX, Johannesburg. South Africa

Special Sectoral Engagement Workshops  

11:00 |  Digital transformation in healthcare:                

Standardizing Healthcare Data to Facilitate Interoperability for Seamless Sharing of Critical Patient  

  • Health Information Exchange: Persistent Challenges and New Strategies    
  • Designing Healthcare for the Humans who Use It, From Health 4.0 to Health 5.0  
  • Driving Innovation and Building Resilience while Maintaining Business Continuity
  • Considerations for Regulating AI in Healthcare  
  • Digital Maturity Model Steps towards Building a Secure Digital Transformation Roadmap that Harnesses the Strengths of Your People, Processes, and Technology
  •  Pharma 4.0, Digital Manufacturing for Regulate Industries
  •  Leveraging Multi-sided Network Platforms: A Focus on Teleradiology and Remote Consultation in Medical Tourism
Speakers:
  • Nkosenhle Ngongoma, Group Chief Information Officer, Ascendis Health, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Bandile Ntombela, Chief Information Officer, Department of Health Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
  • Patrick Sello, Healthcare Information Technology Consultant, TT2L Healthcare Technology (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa

12:30 | MSF Humanitarian workforce- Humanity First

James Kambaki, Head of Field – HR. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa, Kenya

14:00 |  End of Day 2

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Thursday, 19 October 2023

 

Emcee: Dr Langani Mbodi, president, SAMATU, Johannesburg, South Africa

Special Sectoral Engagement Workshops

11:30 | Healthcare professionals’ associations collaboration caucus  

  • Crafting a Framework and Institutional Mechanisms for Inter Association Collaboration on Issues of Common Interests. 
  • Multi-organisational Position Paper on Amending Key Principles within the National Health Insurance Policy to Meet Intended Health Outcomes and Curb Health Professionals’ Exodus.  -
  • Interrogating South Africa’s new 2030 Human Resources for Health (HRH) Strategy. 
  •  Council of Medical Schemes Section 59 Investigation Report.  
  • Healthcare Workers Going fromCaregivers to Victims of Violence at the Hands of Patients and Criminals Due to Poor Security Measures at Hospitals and Clinics.
  • Advocacy for the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Health Market Inquiry Conducted by the Competition Commission

    • 11:30 | Conceptualizing A Collaboration Framework

    Dr Bandile Hadebe, Managing Director, Health Accelerator, Africa Region, Johannesburg, South Africa

    1:45 |  National Health Insurance 

    Dr Zanele Bikitsha, Board Director, SAMA, Johannesburg, South Africa

    1:45 |  Update on Section 59 

    Dr Donald Gumede, Founding President, National Health Care Professionals Association, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    15:30 | End of day 3

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