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Wales Health Science Conference 2025: Building a sustainable NHS, shaping the future together.
Join us for the return of the Wales Health Science Conference where Healthcare Science Cymru and the Welsh Scientific Advisory Committee (WSAC) are working in collaboration to provide cutting-edge discussions, opportunities to explore innovative research and a platform to network that will help build a sustainable NHS in Wales.
The two-day event will host diverse speakers sharing their invaluable insights, knowledge and expertise. Each session will cover a variety of essential topics that are fundamental to services right now. The focal point being the sustainability of the NHS through various lenses of health science; these will include leadership, quality services, workforce and education, future technologies, economy and pharmaceuticals.
Engage with top experts and be part of ground breaking advancements in health science. Don't miss out on an inspiring event that pushes boundaries, fosters excellence and collaboration.
If you would like your posters presented in the conference handbook and entered for a Healthcare Science Cymru award, please send a PDF version of you poster to HEIW.HCS@wales.nhs.uk.
15th to 16th May 2025 Venue: Venue Cymru, Llandudno. To View on Map – Click here
Eventbrite: Purchase Tickets here
Please see below for the conference agenda, weekly speaker announcements will follow.
DAY ONE
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8:30 -9:30 |
Registration open |
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9:15 |
Call for delegates to take seats in hall |
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9:30 |
Welcome & housekeeping |
Prof Chris Hopkins |
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9:35 |
Opening address |
Minister |
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SESSION 1 – Sustainable Workforce and Education |
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10:00 |
Our workforce now and in the future – Exploring the workforce context. |
Cath Mullighan, HEIW |
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10:20 |
NHS Wales Healthcare Science Career Framework launch
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Dr Sarah Bant
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10:40 |
Neurodivergence in the workforce (Title TBC) |
TBC |
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11:00 |
Coffee break & time to review posters, stands and resources |
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SESSION 2 – Transformational Change |
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11:25 |
Welcome back |
Prof Chris Hopkins |
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11:30 |
Transforming Services at a National Level – an Audiology Perspective
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TBC |
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11:55 |
Tackling Cancer Survival Rates in Wales - Innovating Today, Transforming for Tomorrow |
TBC |
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12:15 |
Lunch. |
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13:15 |
SESSION 3a – Driving Research and Innovation |
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SESSION 3b – Leadership for Change |
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SESSION 3c – Quality Service Provision |
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13:15 |
Welcome |
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Welcome |
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13:15 |
Welcome |
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13:25
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Research integrity and publications |
TBC |
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TBC |
TBC |
13:25 |
Virtual Wards |
TBC |
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13:55
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TBC |
TBC |
13:55 |
Better by Betsi |
TBC |
13:55 |
Clinical Engineering (Title TBC) |
TBC |
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14:15 |
VPAG (Title TBC) |
TBC |
14:15 |
Leadership Career reflections |
TBC |
14:15 |
Respiratory Physiologies service transformation. |
TBC |
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14:35 |
Rapid topics from Clinical Scientist/HSST |
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14:35 |
TBC |
TBC |
14:35 |
Bevan Commission – Silly Rules |
TBC |
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14:55 |
Free Paper |
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14:55 |
Free Paper |
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14:55 |
Free Paper |
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15:15 |
Rejoin main conference |
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Rejoin main conference |
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Rejoin main conference |
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15:20 |
Award Ceremony
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TBC |
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15:40 |
Day 1 closing remarks |
TBC
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16:00 |
Day 1 close – coffee and networking |
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DAY TWO
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8:00 – 9:00 |
Registration open Posters, Stands and Resources available for viewing |
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8:45 |
Call for delegates to take seats in hall | ||||||||||
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9:00 |
Welcome and Housekeeping |
Teresa Owen |
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9:05 |
Day two address |
CSAH/CSO |
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SESSION 4 – Future of Diagnostics |
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9:15 |
Keynote – Physics and the future of Diagnostics (title TBC) |
TBC |
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10:00 |
Keynote – TBC |
TBC |
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11:10 |
Coffee break & time to review posters, stands and resources |
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SESSION 5 – Applying scientific evidence in NHS decision making |
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11:30 |
Welcome Back |
Teresa Owen |
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11:35 |
Macro Economic View of Healthcare across Wales – Affordability vs Cost effectiveness |
TBC |
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11:55 |
Health Inequalities and Implications |
TBC |
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12:15 |
Lunch. |
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13:15 |
SESSION 6a – AI and Data: The future is here |
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SESSION 6b – Technologies and Drugs |
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SESSION 6c - TBC |
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13:15 |
Welcome |
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Welcome |
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Welcome |
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13:25
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Data in Decision making |
(TBC) DHCW |
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Value-Based Healthcare applied to medicines (Title TBC) |
TBC |
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13:55
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AI and Data – Leading the way in BCUHB |
TBC |
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Pharmacogenomics (Title TBC) |
TBC |
13:55 |
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TBC |
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14:15 |
AI in Pathology (Title TBC) |
TBC AHCS |
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CAR-T Therapies (Title TBC) |
TBC |
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TBC |
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14:35 |
AI in Physiology (Title TBC) |
TBC AHCS |
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Dementia – New Diagnostics and Therapies |
TBC |
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TBC |
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14:55 |
Free Paper |
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Free Paper |
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Free Paper |
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15:00 |
Conference Closing Address |
CSAH/CSO |
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15:30 |
Close and coffee to go
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