>>Jane Cummings: People I’ve spoken to that have come to Expo say that what they take
away are some new ideas, so they learn something that they would not otherwise have a chance
to do, that they meet new people, that they can build networks.
>>Nick Harding: It’s great to come to Expo, just to come and see what’s going on, the
innovation, the new things that are happening in different bits of the NHS.
>>Maryanne Mariyaselvam: I think Expo’s a great event for innovators because you really
see the future of the NHS here, and you see all of the potential that it could be, so
I think it’s a really fantastic conference, and it’s really uplifting as well.
>>Tony Young: So Maryanne and I are both front-line clinicians and, you know, just sometimes you
need to go somewhere to get an injection of “can-do” from other people who are around
you. There are lots of problems on the front line, lots of challenges we face day in, day
out on the front line, but you know coming to a place like this where you meet lots of
like-minded people from different parts of the country, addressing issues, addressing
the challenges they face in a different way, learning things from others, networking with
them and trying to come up with solutions together, it’s a great place to meet new people.
>>Emily Lawson: It’s really to seize the
opportunity of having, you know, the commercial sector, to have government and civil service,
to have members of arms’ length bodies, patients, physicians – we have basically
everybody involved in the NHS here in some form, so it’s a good wake-up call, it’s
a good challenge, and it’s a good opportunity to do some, sort of creative problem-solving
that would be hard to get any other way.
>>Kim Innes: Digital transformation is going
to need more collaboration, not only with the NHS but with tech partners as well, so
we’re here looking for the right partners to drive those outcomes for patients as quickly
and as efficiently as we can. Teva is a pharmaceutical company, and although
we’re experimenting in tech, we need collaboration both from the NHS and other digital suppliers
to really take our patients forward in being at the centre of everything and that they
can control their own health outcomes.
>>Andreas Haimbock-Tichy: In terms of my impression
of Expo – it’s that I think it’s getting better every year. It’s been – I think
it’s the third time now that we’ve participated. What I really personally like about it – I
think it brings a real pragmatic approach and insight into how we can make technology
change happen in the NHS.
>>Brett Lewis: So one of the things we’re
trying to take away from this conference together with NHS Diabetes is the fact that we’ve
moved away from just selling traditional products for people with diabetes and moving into helping
solutions for people with diabetes when it comes to healthier lifestyles. We’re actually
helping them along with the prevention of diabetes.
>>Keith Jordan: Some of the things that people might take away if they visited Roche today:
it’s really a focus on what we’re doing for the future. It’s very much focused on
people getting an understanding of how we are trying to change what we do in the way
we work with the NHS, but also challenging our own thinking about, you know, how can
people drive us to think differently and challenge what we’re thinking. So it’s very much
a collaboration and very much an opportunity to have a good debate about the future.
>>Rachel Gregson-Brown: So, we want to make sure that Microsoft is known as a brand in
healthcare. We work with all customers from ALBs right through to Trusts and independent
small healthcare organisations. So we want to make sure that everyone understands the
digital transformation journey from Microsoft and our partner ecosystem and how we are partnering
with our customers to actually move forward.
>>Matt Hancock: I can tell you today it is
great to be in the company of so many people who feel the same. It is invigorating and
exciting to be here at Expo, the gathering of people who can see the future in the health
and social care system here in Britain.
>>Simon Stevens: We are obviously going to
use the opportunity presented by a five-year funding settlement now to shape a long-term
plan for the National Health Service, looking out over the decade ahead. In doing that,
we’re going to build on a lot of the changes that are under way in terms of service redesign,
integrated care, many of the approaches that are here on display at Expo.
>>Andrea Sutcliffe: One of the things that I’ve noticed, and I’ve been coming to
Expo for a few years now, is that over that time we’ve had much better links between
health and social care. The sessions on the stage have been talking about social care,
lots of the stands have got things which would be interesting to both health and social care,
and it’s a great opportunity for people to meet up with people. I’ve bumped into
all sorts of folk I’ve worked with over the last 20-odd years so it’s a really great
place to be.
>>Jennifer Lee: The benefit of sponsoring
NHS Expo really is to show genuine partnership with the NHS. An obviously, for Johnson & Johnson
the NHS is our single biggest customer in the UK. And if you think about, you know,
where the NHS is going over the next 70 years, to be sustainable for the future, it’s the
same thing with us as the world’s biggest healthcare company, you know. It’s about
innovation and modernising and we like to think as J&J that we are at the forefront
of innovation, and things like NHS Expo show that the NHS is very interested in innovation.
>>Dido Harding: Everywhere I go across the NHS, I find pockets of absolute brilliance.
And so there is an enormous opportunity for us to learn from each other, for us to share
what’s working, not be afraid to copy, and to work together, which is very much what
Malcolm and I are trying to do with NHS England and NHS Improvement.
>>Malcolm Grant: Because we get it, actually. You can’t expect people to do things in
localities and put in an enormous amount of effort and emotional intelligence into forging
new relationships if we can’t do it nationally.
>>Stephen Powis: This is a really important
event for those in clinical leadership because not only is it an opportunity to find out
what’s going on in the NHS, it’s a great stage on which to network with colleagues,
to network with innovators and industry, who are driving the technology that will deliver
the healthcare that will improve the lives of our citizens over the next ten years.