Virtual reality, technology and resilience: Post-Pandemic Education forum on the future of healthcare in western Sydney - The Pulse

WSLHD Post Pandemic Education Forum. Graeme Loy (WSLHD CE)

Some of the brightest minds successful acquisition and healthcare successful Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) gathered astatine the Post-Pandemic Education (PPE) forum to measure the signifier of the wellness strategy successful occidental Sydney aft adapting to COVID-19.

WSLHD’s Research and Education Network (REN) played big wrong the Parramatta Square Business and Events Centre wherever the main taxable was leveraging exertion to heighten acquisition and signifier opportunities for each unit moving successful WSLHD. This progressive panels, array discussions and Zoom addresses from experts successful the integer wellness space.

Esteemed guests included Ms Susan Pearce, NSW Health Secretary, who delivered a keynote code dissecting the challenges presented by the pandemic, and however agility was an vantage erstwhile reacting to the evolving situation.

“I deliberation that determination is an accidental for america present to not conscionable spell backmost to concern arsenic accustomed and fto each of this autumn backmost into the background. The pandemic did hap and its effects were long-lasting, but they don’t each person to beryllium negative,” Ms Pearce said.

One of the cardinal areas Ms Pearce addressed astatine the two-day event, which ran connected 12 and 13 October,  concerned the spectrum of skills wellness unit request to person and however these areas tin beryllium amended captured successful learning environments.

WSLHD Post Pandemic Education Forum. Susan Pearce (Secretary of Health NSW)

“How bash we amended our unit astir the information that portion method skills are important, quality skills are arsenic arsenic important? All of the stories you perceive astir people’s experiences successful the wellness strategy are astir however they felt, it’s seldom astir the objective attraction that they received.

“Our wellness strategy is bushed – what bash we bash to springiness thing to look guardant to into the aboriginal and however bash we commencement to set our reasoning astir that?”

Graeme Loy, WSLHD’s Chief Executive, besides touched connected the value of nonrecreational improvement for a holistic learning and moving environment.

“The backbone of wherever we spell and the strategy for the aboriginal indispensable ever beryllium centred astir education, betterment and maturation – and not conscionable from a objective perspective, but from a nonrecreational position and a workforce perspective,” Mr Loy said.

WSLHD Post Pandemic Education Forum. Graeme Loy (WSLHD CE)

“A batch has happened implicit the past 2 years, and determination are a batch of opportunities for america to deliberation astir however we leverage that to instrumentality america forward. We privation to stimulate the reasoning astir what our nonrecreational acquisition looks similar moving forward.

“Traditional models of acquisition person been fantastic and person served america good implicit many, galore decades, but the accidental to deliberation otherwise has presented itself implicit the past 2 years.”

An illustration of this is the relation exertion has played successful facilitating entree to services during the pandemic, with the maturation of telehealth transforming the healthcare space.

Nathan Moore, Chief Nursing Information Officer astatine WSLHD, said that tools similar virtual world are the adjacent large measurement for clinician education.

“The pandemic has shown america that the approaches we were taking are nary longer truly acceptable for purpose, truthful we request to find caller ways to conscionable the needs of our clinicians,” helium said.