HaH Society Events
Upcoming Events for 2025
Webinar Series
Our webinar series includes topics designed to benefit those who are new to Hospital at Home and those who are already established and wish to extend their skills and/or service. Webinars will cover topics such as Point of Care testing & diagnostics, use of SIM in HaH training, working with other professions & teams, sustainability in HaH, management of specific conditions, and more.
Further details about upcoming webinars will be shown below.
Our webinars are free to attend but recordings are only available to UK Hospital at Home Society members, who have access to recordings of past webinars, via the Members' Area.
Next Webinar: Delirium - Assessment and Care in the Community
Monday 19th May 2025, at 18:00 (BST)
Chaired by:
Emma Vardy, Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical Frailty Lead, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Speakers and Panel:
Helen Pratt, Dementia United
Jayne Etches, UCR Service Lead, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Sara Harris, North West Ambulance Service
Delirium is an acute confusional state caused by underlying physical illness. It is a common reason for admission of older people to hospital. In this webinar we will hear from speakers with experience of developing and implementing pathways to safely care for people with delirium at home.
The webinar will include presentations from each speaker, followed by time for questions and discussion. The presentations will discuss various aspects of the management of delirium in the community, including discussion of the National Delirium Report, which is due to be released at the end of April.
You can book to attend this webinar here.
UK Hospital at Home Society Conference 2026
5-6th March 2026
The UK Hospital at Home Society is delighted to announce that our next conference will be held on 5-6th March 2026, at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
This conference will be an opportunity for the UK Hospital at Home community to come together to share research, practice and experience, as well as offering networking opportunities.
There will be a call for abstract submissions later this year, and further information about the conference can be found on the Conference webpage, which will be updated as further details are released.
External Events
Details of selected external events which may be of interest to our members, and others interested in Hospital at Home, are shown here when relevant.
Past Events
World Hospital at Home Congress 2025
27-29th March 2025, Vienna, Austria
The last World Hospital at Home Congress was held in Vienna, Austria on 27-29th March 2025.
This international congress brought together clinicians and researchers from the international Hospital at Home community, to discuss current and future work in Hospital at Home, recent research and innovation, and offer opportunities for networking and discussion, with 90 speakers from around the world, alongside poster presentations.
'Research and Quality Improvement in Paediatric Hospital at Home' webinar
Wednesday 19th March 2025
Chaired by:
Christina Newbould, Matron, Children's Hospital at Home and Acute - Community Children's Nursing Team, Oxford Health NHS Trust
Speakers and Panel:
Ravi Mistry, Paediatrician, Hillingdon Hospital
Anthea Manuel, Senior Sister, Hillingdon Hospital
Ashifa Trivedi, Northwest London Lead PATCH Pharmacist
Rebecca Bennet, H@H Paediatric Nurse, Oxford Health NHS Trust
Francesca Cleugh, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Zoe Tribble, Senior Nurse for Integrated Paediatrics, Royal London Hospital
This webinar had a Research and Quality Improvement focus, in particular in a paediatric Hospital at Home setting.
The webinar included three presentations followed by time for questions and discussion. The presentations discussed Ambulating newborn babies requiring IV antibiotics, The role of the pharmacist in Hospital at Home, and a quality improvement project focusing on a Community triage tool for H@H bedboard management.
'Future directions for Hospital at Home - Specialties and interventions?' webinar
Thursday 9th January 2025
Chaired by:
Karen Titchener, VP of Hospital at Home for Maribel Health, and Nurse Practitioner
Speakers:
Daniel Lasserson, Professor of Acute Ambulatory Care, University of Warwick, and Clinical Lead for Hospital at Home, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Tamsin Cargill, Academic Clinical Lecturer in Hepatology, University of Oxford
Sam Mills, Hospital at Home medical registrar, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
The first UK Hospital at Home Society webinar of 2025 looked forward to where Hospital at Home practice could go in the future. It particularly focussed on some of the innovative practices that are being used by HaH clinicians, including higher risk procedures, working with new specialties in the HaH environment, and included a live abdominal point of care ultrasound demonstration, with suggestions around how to get good POCUS images.
This webinar began with presentations involving case studies, followed by a live demonstration of POCUS of the abdomen. There was then time for questions and discussion.
'Get it Right First Time: Making the most of Hospital at Home' webinar
Tuesday 1st October 2024
Chaired by:
Shelagh O'Riordan, Consultant community geriatrician and Clinical Director, Kent Community NHS Trust
Speakers:
Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Consultant cardiologist, Liverpool University Hospitals
Sarah Mercer, Foundation consultant practitioner for frailty at Urgent Community Response and Frailty Hospital at Home Virtual Ward, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Maria Parsonage, Respiratory consultant nurse and pleural disease specialist, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Towhid Imam, Consultant geriatrician, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
The clinical leads of the 'Virtual Wards' Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) team presented about the ongoing work of the team. They work with NHS England to support NHS teams in developing and establishing new Hospital at Home services, expanding the availability of these services to more patients. Their work particularly focuses on frailty services and services for patients with acute respiratory infections. Following the presentations, there was discussion with responses to participants' questions.
'Antimicrobial Stewardship within the context of children's Hospital at Home' webinar
Thursday 25th July 2024
Chaired by:
Zoe Tribble, Senior Nurse for Integrated Paediatrics, Royal London Hospital
Speakers:
Francesca Cleugh, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Christina Newbould, Matron, Children's Hospital at Home and Acute - Community Children's Nursing Team, Oxford Health NHS Trust
Mathew Mathai, Consultant Paediatrician, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Emma Morrison, Paediatric Ambulatory Care Experience (ACE) Team Lead, Bradford Royal Infirmary
Zainab Ezimokhai, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Aisleen Bennett, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Ruud Nijman, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Antimicrobial stewardship is an important element of healthcare delivery, and is a common consideration in children's Hospital at Home services. This webinar explored this further, with relevance to both paediatric and adult services.
'Nursing within H@H - the role and the chance of career development' webinar
Wednesday 26th June 2024
Chaired by:
Karen Titchener, VP of Hospital at Home for Maribel Health, and Nurse Practitioner
Panel Members:
Anwen Collard, ACP, West Kent Hospital at Home service, England
Emma Connolly, Consultant Practitioner in Frailty (ACP), East Kent Urgent Care Service, England
Deborah Toal, Advanced Nurse Practitioner AC@HT, Southern Trust, Northern Ireland
Louise Grover, Lanarkshire Hospital at Home, Scotland
Beth Abraham, Evelina Paediatric Hospital at Home, England
Nurses are undoubtedly the main workforce for Hospital at Home programs. Maintaining a high standard of care entails investing in their education from induction to HaH to competences, and continuously fostering their ongoing development. This webinar comprised a panel discussion around training, mentorship, recruitment and education for Hospital at Home nurses.
2024 Spring Meeting | British Geriatrics Society
22nd - 24th May 2024
The 2024 BGS spring meeting was held as a hybrid event, with options to attend in-person at The VOX, Birmingham, or to attend online.
As many UK Hospital at Home services provide care to older people, this may be have been of particular interest to members, and you may even have seen some of our committee members there too!
The full programme and details on the event, can be found on the BGS website.
'Home is Where the Heart is - Management of Cardiac Disease in Hospital at Home' webinar
Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Chaired by:
Dr Amy Heskett, Specialist SAS Doctor, Community Geriatrician and Clinical Lead for West Kent Urgent Care Home Treatment Service
Speaker:
Dr Rebekah Schiff, Consultant Geriatrics and General Medicine, Medical Lead @Home, Cardiology Older Persons Service, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
This webinar began with a presentation about management of cardiac disease in Hospital at Home by Dr Rebekah Schiff, which ws followed by a panel discussion among members of the MDT, discussing their experiences of managing cardiac conditions in Hospital at Home.
UK HaH Society Conference 2024
The UK Hospital at Home Society conference was held in Birmingham on 7th March 2024.
This one-day, in-person conference brought together clinicians and researchers in Hospital at Home from around the UK, to share learning and facilitate networking about many aspects of Hospital at Home.
'Forming a Management Plan in Hospital at Home' webinar
Monday 22nd January 2024
Chaired by:
Dr Amy Heskett, Specialist SAS Doctor, Community Geriatrician and Clinical Lead for West Kent Urgent Care Home Treatment Service
This webinar involved different Hospital at Home team members discussing how they would develop and implement a management plan for a new patient who has been referred to their service. A case study was shared at the beginning of the webinar, and the panel then discussed how they would approach managing care for this patient, including utilising the skills of different MDT members and the resources they have available to triage and develop patient-centered care plans.
'How to make the most of your Hospital at Home workforce' webinar
Friday 29th September 2023
Panel members:
Dr Claire Steel, Consultant Geriatrician, Hospital at Home service, University Hospital Monklands in NHS Lanarkshire
Sophie McGlen, Lead Pharmacist for Ambulatory Care and Hospital@Home, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Penny Taylor, Lead Nurse, Hospital at Home Team, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Dr Amy Heskett, Specialist SAS Doctor, Community Geriatrician and Clinical Lead for West Kent Urgent Care Home Treatment Service
This webinar was an interactive Q&A with members of the UK Hospital at Home Society committee, from various professions, who are each working in lead roles in different HaH services in the UK. They discussed a range of topics in relation to the HaH workforce and experience, in response to questions posed.
Questions were submitted in advance, alongside attendees having the opportunity to ask questions live during the event.
2023 Spring Meeting | British Geriatrics Society
17th - 19th May 2023
The 2023 BGS spring meeting was held as a hybrid conference, with the option to attend in person in Edinburgh or virtually.
Session 1 on day 1 featured a lecture by one of the UK Hospital at Home Society Committee members, Dr Rebekah Schiff who presented on Perioperative Care and Virtual Wards.
The full programme and details on their hybrid meeting model, can be found on their website
World Hospital at Home Congress
30th March - 1st April 2023
The third world Hospital at Home Congress was held in Barcelona on 30th March - 1st April 2023.
It was wonderful to see so many members of the UK HaH Society there.
More information is available from their official website.
Complex Patient Scenarios webinar
Friday 17th March 2023
Chaired by Dr Claire Steel, Consultant Geriatrician working within the Hospital at Home service at University Hospital Monklands in NHS Lanarkshire
Panellist Speakers:
Dr Shazia Din, Geriatric/GP & Co-Lead Dundee Enhanced Community Support Acute Team (DECS-A) at Royal Victoria Hospital
Dr Firdaus Adenwalla, Consultant Geriatrician Acute Clinical Team - Neath Port Talbot, Swansea Bay UHB
Victoria Williams, Consultant Nurse, Rotherham Virtual Ward
A panel discussion covering a series of complex clinical case studies, presented by Hospital at Home clinicians, highlighted and explored some of the more complex presentations and cases that can be managed in HaH, while balancing the challenges and opportunities presented by providing this care in the patient's own home, such as:
- Clinical uncertainty
- Hospital admission avoidance
- Medications
- Complex family situations
- Comorbidities
'Not just fairy lights... twas the night before Christmas, no cannulation kit in the house...' webinar
Friday 9th December 2022
Chaired by Dr Amy Heskett, Specialist SAS Doctor, Community Geriatrician and Clinical Lead for West Kent Urgent Care Home Treatment Service
This Christmas Hospital at Home webinar was an informal opportunity to look at cases that illustrate 2 important roles of Hospital at Home teams:
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To prioritise the time that a person spends at home when living with a chronic or life-limiting condition
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To reduce the burden of hospital admission
It focused on cases that revolve around care at Christmas and will provide a context for the importance of patient-centred care and the importance of adapting to value occasions for patients and families. The impact on Clinical Teams of providing care at such a time can be profound and this will provide a forum to reflect on what we gain as clinical teams from such cases.
Virtual Wards webinar
Friday 11th November 2022
Speakers:
Dr Shelagh O'Riordan, Professional Advisor to the Discharge and Community Services team at NHS England and NHS Improvement. She is currently a consultant Community Geriatrician in Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Director for Frailty in East Kent. She was a consultant geriatrician in East Kent Hospitals NHS University Trust for fourteen years before moving into the community. Shelagh is the Treasurer for the UK Hospital at Home Society
Dr Sarah Sibley, Respiratory Clinical Lead for Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Clinical Network. Consultant Chest Physician.
Antony Perryman, Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Kent Community Health Trust
Agenda:
Do you want to know more about virtual wards? Do you wonder what the difference is between a virtual ward and a hospital at home?
Are you looking to learn from people who have been running Hospital at Home for a while to get tips and skills to get your new services off the ground? Have you wondered whether remote monitoring and other technology can help your hospital at home?
- What is Virtual Ward Vs Hospital at Home
- Frailty Hospital at Home within Virtual Wards
- Acute Respiratory Infections treated within Virtual Wards
Sponsorship
Sponsoring UK Hospital at Home Society events offers the opportunity to display your company’s services or products to a variety of clinicians, policy makers and academics with an interest in Hospital@Home. We are keen to work with sponsors and exhibitors who offer products that are relevant and add value to clinicians working within the Hospital@Home environments.
The UK Hospital at Home Society committee reserves the right to decline sponsorship or marketing offers that are deemed irrelevant to the audience or do not fit with the ethos of the society or its events.
Please contact the Society if you wish to sponsor or exhibit at one of our upcoming events admin@hospitalathome.org.uk
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