9.00 Welcoming Remarks From The Chair

Mason Stevenson
President
AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF QUEENSLAND

Innovative Designs to Support Patient Needs, and Improve Service Delivery

9.05 Establishing Current Trends In Facility Design And Anticipating Future Needs Of Patients

• Emphasising the importance of building your facility with the patient needs in mind
• Understanding the design concepts within the hospital and maximising the services you will supply to the public
• Planning for demographic growth and the implications on future needs
• Outlining how the ageing population will affect the redevelopment and construction of new health facilities

Michael Allsopp
Acting Executive Director Strategic Development
GOLD COAST HEALTH SERVICE DISTRICT, QLD

9.45 Providing Flexible Building Design To Allow For Future Modification And Expansion

• Meeting anticipated growth in demand for services and changes in clinical practice
• Ensuring development provides harmony and balance with the surrounding areas
• Retaining any significant heritage items, within a campus wide strategy for adaptive reuse
• Providing adequate car parking on site

Mary Bonner
CEO
TOWNSVILLE HEALTH SERVICE DISTRICT, QLD

10.25 Developing The Whole-Of-Site Procurement Strategy For The Sunshine Coast University Hospital Project

• Project Strategic Planning
• Understanding the whole-of-site opportunity
• Developing the procurement strategy
• Transaction management fundamentals

Mark Wilde
Executive Project Director
SUNSHINE COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PROJECT, QLD

11.35 Effective Car Parking And Traffic Sustainability Strategies For A Hospital Redevelopment

• Identifying the necessary criteria to get planning approval for a car park
• Traffic engineering reports to show how traffic flow will be effected
• Identifying where emergency vehicles will be entering the hospital grounds
• Implementing metal screen modules to reduce headlight glare overspill to neighbouring developments

Rosemary Kennedy
Executive Director Business Infrastructure
CANBERRA HOSPITAL, ACT

12.15 A Private Hospital’s View Of Implementing Innovative Techniques To Attract And Retain Key Staff For Your Health Facility

• Upskilling staff and introducing skill mix targets
• Providing innovative care delivery methods which focus on using registered nurses as team leaders
• Increased utilisation of EENs and AINs / PCAs for total patient care
• Creating a flexible work environment in your new health facility to meeting future growth needs

Richard Lizzio
CEO
GREENSLOPES PRIVATE HOSPITAL, QLD

1.55 Sustainability - Outlining Strategies For Planning A Sustainable Hospital Facility

• Combating rising energy, waste and operational costs
• Identifying innovative solutions to improve your building’s sustainability
• Changing the way you operate in an existing building
• How to manage a sustainable building to deliver energy efficient outcomes

Bill Geerlings
Project Director
GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, QLD

2.35 Planning For The Future: Establishing A Robust Master Plan That Considers Entire Functionalities Required For Future Use

• Managing a complex project with many stakeholders to ensure productive contribution from all stakeholders
• Managing a project from it’s infancy to completion: Understanding and working with agenda’s of others
• Understanding the core use of the facility and planning for flexible future use through the design phase

Rob Gray
Senior Design Manager
LEIGHTON CONTRACTORS, QLD

3.15 A Balanced Approach To The Selection Of Healthcare Flooring

• Utilising TS-7: Floorcoverings in Healthcare Buildings
• Benefits of implementing Fit for Purpose flooring
• Underfoot Safety to reduce the risk of slips, trips and falls
• Sustainability factors to enhance indoor air quality and improve building environments

Associate Professor Jane Carthey
Director
CENTRE FOR HEALTH ASSETS AUSTRALASIA (CHAA), UNSW

3.35 Afternoon Tea & Networking

4.05 Panel Discussion: Cost Benefits Of Sustainability - Affordability And Necessity

• Understanding of how to put together a coherent business strategy for sustainable health facilities
• Linking sustainability with the business strategy
• Identifying business case drivers
• Identify how to create a business case for a project and to present it

4.45 Mater Mothers’ Hospital - Incorporating Infection Control Into The Design Of A New Health Facility

• Establishing links between hospital design and the incidence of hospital acquired infection
• Determining infection control protocols for specialised areas
• Developing detailed project-specific control risk plans based on the risk assessments
• Taking a more holistic viewpoint of infection control through a review of hospital design practices

Jodie Powell
Infection Control Manager
MATER HEALTH SERVICES, QLD

5.25 End Of Conference