IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Realistic Medicine Annual Conference 2025 is currently FULLY BOOKED. Please contact the Event Organisers (RealisticMedicine@gov.scot) if you wish your name to be added to a waiting list should a space become available.
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We are delighted to host the Realistic Medicine Annual Conference at the Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow on 16th May 2025 (09:00-16:30).
Each year, this event aims to promote Realistic Medicine as the way we should deliver care in Scotland. It provides an opportunity to celebrate success, share best practice, and provide a collaborative forum where we can discuss the challenges our system is facing and explore innovative approaches to practising Realistic Medicine and delivering Value Based Health and Care.
Programme and presentations for each of the speakers can be found below:
Welcome – Professor Sir Gregor Smith, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Realistic Medicine Casebook Launch – Professor Sir Gregor Smith, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland – Realistic Medicine Casebook, a new resource highlighting how teams and organisations across Scotland are successfully putting Realistic Medicine into practice.
Keynote 1: Professor Sir Sam Everington OBE – Vice President of the BMA, GP at Tower Hamlets, Bromley by Bow Centre.
World Café Session 1: How Value Based Health and Care can support the First Ministers Priorities for NHS Scotland.
This session will explore how RM and VBH&C can contribute to the First Ministers priorities for NHS Scotland:
World Café Session 2: Delivering Value Based Health and Care.
This session will focus on practical strategies and real-world challenges in delivering VBH&C. Participants will explore how a VBH&C approach can drive better outcomes for people, improve resource allocation, and enhance overall health and care delivery.
Keynote 2: Maureen Bisognano – President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Expert Panel Q&A
Expert Panel Discussion and Q&A, providing an opportunity for deeper engagement with the key themes of the day. The panel will feature:
Closing Remarks
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PLENARY SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Professor Sir Sam Everington MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE
Sam is a member of BMA Council and Vice President of the BMA. In 1999 he received an OBE for services to inner city primary care in 2006, The International Award of Excellence in Health Care and in 2015 a Knighthood for services to primary care. In 2022 he received the Albert Medal from the RSA. He is a member of the NHS Resolution and East London foundation Trust boards and is Fellow and Honorary Professor of Queen Mary University of London and Vice President of the Queen’s Nursing Institute. He has previously been a member of GMC Council, Cabinet appointed Ambassador for Social Enterprise, Acting Chair of the BMA, adviser to shadow cabinet ministers between 1992 and 1997, national advisor to NHS England’s New Models of Care project and Chair for 9 years of Tower Hamlet’s CCG. He is a member of the RCGP Council. He is a trained woodcarver, day skipper, and speaks Norwegian. He trained originally as a cadet pilot in the RAF and lives with his wife and family in Tower Hamlets, East End of London, and the west coast of Scotland.
Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Maureen previously served as IHI’s President and CEO for five years, after serving as Executive Vice President and COO for 15 years. She is a prominent authority on improving health care systems, whose expertise has been recognized by her elected membership to the National Academy of Medicine (IOM), among other distinctions. Ms. Bisognano advises health care leaders around the world, is a frequent speaker at major health care conferences on quality improvement and is a tireless advocate for change. She is an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. She chaired the Advisory Board of the Well Being Trust, co-chaired the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care with Dr. Atul Gawande, and serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, Indiana University Health and Nursing Now. Prior to joining IHI, she served as CEO of the Massachusetts Respiratory Hospital and Senior Vice President of The Juran Institute.