Hot topics in ICU leadership

9.30am – 4.30pm BST, 30 June 2025 ‐ 7 hours

Leadership

9.30 - 10.45 Part one: Leading for Inclusion

10.45 - 11.15 BREAK

11.15 - 12.30 Part two: Leading for Research

12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH

13.30 - 14.45 Part three: Leading with an international lens

14.45 - 15.15 BREAK

15.15 - 16.30 Part four: Leading for wellbeing

This will be a full day across some of the hot topics in healthcare leadership right now. This includes:

1. What inclusion really means, and how do we lead and enable a meaningfully inclusive workplace?
2. How do we in the face of changing times keep a research and innovation approach in our work?
3. How do we consider the experience and wellbeing of the staff, less as an afterthought, and more of a golden thread that runs through our work?

The workshops will be led by ICU leaders in the field. Its an interactive all day workshop. You will be joining delegates on the Society’s ongoing leadership programme- LeaP.

Learning Objectives

1. Consider how as a leader you may improve the meaningful inclusion on your unit/ area of work
2. Understand what leadership in research looks like, and explore ways of maintaining research and innovation
3. Be able to understand workforce wellbeing, and how to apply staff needs like a golden thread through all work

Speakers

Dr Julie Highfield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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Dr Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist

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Dr Julie Highfield

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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Dr Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist

Aoife Abbey is a Consultant Intensivist at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. She is an Intensive Care Society, Council member and chair of the Society's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group. 

Aoife is author of an international published non-fiction book Seven Signs of Life and section editor for From the inside at Intensive Care Medicine

: @whistlingdixie4