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09:30
  1. Exchange auditorium
    30 mins
    • Keynote
    The chairs of NHS Confederation and NHS England will welcome attendees and give a rundown of what's in store for the event.
  2. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Operational delivery
    This interactive session will explore the future of primary care. Reflecting on the Fuller Stocktake and the delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, panellists Dr Claire Fuller and Dr Ama ...
  3. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • People
    The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commits to working together to make the ambitions of the NHS People Promise a reality for everyone. This is fundamental to retaining our NHS people and improving patie ...
  4. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    Building on the foundations laid out in the ICS Design Framework, the Hewitt review set an ambition for ICSs to become ‘self-improving.’ But how does this work in practice? What are the stages and ena ...
  5. Exchange hall
    30 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • People
    • Supporter session
    Flexible working has a key part to play in the future of the NHS. What does the workforce of tomorrow look like for the NHS and how do we build a flexible workforce that meets our future needs and ref ...

    Supported by NHS Professionals

    NHS Professionals

09:45
  1. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    Local leaders are focused on delivering better care to individuals using a combination of techniques for joint commissioning, population health management and asset-based approaches. This session brin ...
  2. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    Tackling health inequalities is a statutory purpose of integrated care systems. In 2023, the NHS Confederation and partners undertook research on how funding targeted at addressing health inequalities ...
  3. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • People
    This interactive session will explore how place-based working has enabled integration, featuring speakers from across the Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent (SSOT) ICS including primary care, social care an ...
  4. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    This session will explore how hospitals have been redesigning pathways and carrying out transformational work to help address the elective backlog. Learn how they have used resources better, transform ...
  5. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    This session will look at the unnecessary variation in medicine labelling and the resultant risk of medication errors. It will consider how innovation in medicine label translation and participation b ...
10:00
  1. Exchange auditorium
    40 mins
    • Keynote
    Join Sir William Atkinson, former headteacher of Phoenix High School and leadership consultant, to learn about his experience in inspiring teams and overcoming adversity. William will reflect on runni ...
  2. Exchange hall
    30 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • People
    • Supporter session
    Delve into the realm of transformative leadership as award-winning author and academic Amy Edmondson shares her insights. Explore strategies and perspectives that will drive positive change, foster co ...

    Sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim

    Boehringer Ingelheim

12:00
  1. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    Using community assets can support sustainable improvement by building trust and brokering effective partnerships between clinicians and communities for successful, integrated approaches to tackling h ...
  2. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Our discussion will consider how fostering collaboration among healthcare providers and stakeholders, harnessing technology for data-sharing and analysis, and embracing a patient-centric approach can ...

    Sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim

    Boehringer Ingelheim

     

     

  3. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Supporter session
    Good quality data at scale is key to enabling more and better research and innovation. This session will highlight how data is unlocking new insights and bolstering diverse research efforts. If you're ...

    Supported by Moderna

    Moderna

  4. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Operational delivery
    • Supporter session
    The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) will help support health and care organisations to use data to understand patterns, solve problems and plan services for their local populations. This session wil ...

    Sponsored by Palantir Technologies UK

    Palantir Technologies UK

     

  5. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    Research is a key driver of improvements to health outcomes and patient and staff experiences, informing organisational processes and performance for providers and commissioners. In this session we wi ...
  6. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Supporter session
    More than 25 million people in England are living with at least one long-term condition (LTC). With £7 in every £10 spent on LTCs and 70 per cent of all bed days associated with these conditions, we n ...

    Supported by AbbVie UK

    AbbVie

  7. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Health inequalities improvement
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    Redesigning pathways around patients can improve access, support integration and help achieve innovation. Join this session to discuss how we can place the patient at the heart of the pathway and the ...
  8. Exchange auditorium
    40 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Google Health director, Susan Thomas and Professor Tim Chico, director of the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub, will discuss how the NHS can tackle health inequalities through technology. This sessi ...

    Supported by Google Health

    Google Health

12:15
  1. Exchange hall
    60 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • People
    This session will explore progress in relation to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, strengthening connections with the primary care workforce and the soon-to-be-published adult social care plan. We wi ...
14:00
  1. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • People
    This session explores the vital role of integrated care partnerships in creating a digital workforce and realising the benefits of technology in education and training. Technology underpins many deliv ...
  2. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • People
    This session will explore the range of contributions required to effectively tackle inequality within our healthcare services, for both patients and the workforce. It will explore: • the wider social ...
  3. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    This session will discuss how a specialist digital, data and technology (DDaT) and informatics skills base is vital to delivering and realising digital transformation in the NHS. We will hear the nati ...
  4. Exchange auditorium
    40 mins
    • Keynote
     
  5. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • People
    Making the most of our role as anchor institutions, how do we best use our position for new communities to access employment? Using best practice case studies we will identify the challenges and the p ...
  6. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    Safe and secure housing has a central role in maintaining health and wellbeing, supporting a recovery journey and preventing crisis. Housing quality has a direct impact on population health – cold, da ...
  7. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    Wherever you work, you will know that effective relationships and shared purpose are fundamental to success - but these are sometimes hard to achieve. In this session you will hear from people working ...
  8. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Addressing the complexities of managing long-term conditions including diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease and hypertension, this session unveils the need f ...

    Supported by iPLATO Healthcare 

     iPLATO Healthcare 

     

  9. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    Time is the most important currency in healthcare. This session will focus on how hospitals are supporting patients through initiatives that focus on keeping patients well and mobile by transforming s ...
15:30
  1. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    As pressures and demands continue to increase for both primary and secondary care, teams need to work together on shared issues and improve the overall interface between the two sectors. This is criti ...
  2. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    • Supporter session
    Health and care systems around the country are tackling an ever-increasing demand on urgent and emergency care, exploring various ways to improve outcomes for residents, the experience of staff and sy ...

    Supported by Newton

    Newton

     

  3. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    How can you maximise the potential of MedTech? Adopting MedTech and maximising its impact requires coordinating various partners in complex environments. Learn how effective collaboration can lay the ...
  4. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    This session will focus on how the shifting of functions and decision-making to integrated care systems is being enabled nationally and locally. Speakers will explore how system working and accountabi ...
  5. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Beamtree, the Australian AI and data analytics company, is working with the NHS Confederation to explore the formation of an NHS analytics and knowledge network, learning from Beamtree’s experience as ...

    Supported by Beamtree

    Beamtree

15:45
  1. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    If you are interested in transforming outpatient care, this workshop will highlight the work Accurx has been doing to unlock productivity gains and increase capacity for outpatient services. We'll loo ...

    Sponsored by Accurx

    Accurx

  2. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • People
    The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commits to doubling medical school places by 2031. This increase in numbers will require innovation in training and providers to review their approach to employment. I ...
  3. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Supporter session
    This session will explore how the NHS can advance clinical practice in a world of rising demand, workforce shortages and financial barriers. We will showcase examples of innovative, evidence-based and ...

    Sponsored by AstraZeneca UK

    AstraZeneca UK

08:00
  1. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Access to high-quality rehabilitation (rehab) services is vital to helping people live extra years in good health. This is true also for significant numbers of people living with a long-term condition ...

    Supported by Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

    Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

     

  2. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Supporter session
    Clinicians who have partnered with industry to redesign care pathways, provide care closer to home or even expand their professional experience and network, discuss the reality of these innovative way ...

    Sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim

    Boehringer Ingelheim

     

     

  3. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Hospital at Home is cost-effective, delivers great outcomes and excellent patient experience. NHS leaders and industry experts share their experience, followed by a Q&A. This session is supported by H ...

    Supported by HomeLink Healthcare

    HomeLink Healthcare

     

  4. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • People
    • Supporter session
    The Health T Level is the new level 3 qualification for students who want a career in health and care. An alternative to A Levels, the two-year T Level combines classroom study with a 45-day industry ...

    Supported by ICS Industry Placement Network

    ICS Industry Placement Network

  5. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Supporter session
    In this session, we focus on the barriers and constraints in getting wide sources of investment into the NHS estate, look at some of the technicalities around these issues and review a case study that ...

    Supported by Hill Dickinson LLP

     Hill Dickinson LLP

     

09:30
  1. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Join this interactive showcase session where shortlisted finalists of the AI Hackathon in Health will share their targeted AI solutions to a range of health and care challenges for judging from our ex ...

    Supported by Google Health

    Google Health

  2. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    NHS partnerships with life sciences are rapidly advancing healthcare, helping us to diagnose, treat, cure and prevent a much wider range of diseases. This session explores the ways in which the NHS co ...
  3. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Operational delivery
    This session will update on progress and invite you to help plan the next steps for the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. It will provide space to have constructive and engaging conversations on the areas ...
  4. Exchange hall
    60 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    Evidence shows that an embedded approach to continuous improvement will deliver higher-quality services and improved patient outcomes. So how do leaders create the right conditions and culture for imp ...
09:45
  1. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    This session explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on patient safety in the NHS, offering clinical and operational insights into its benefits and risks, as well as advice for systems loo ...
  2. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    With thousands of patients now benefiting from the faster and more accurate diagnoses and more targeted treatments genomic testing provides, this session will set out our progress so far in bringing t ...
  3. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    How collective decision-making and practice, enabled by innovative commissioning approaches, can lead to clinically-led and community-owned service redesign and improvement. This session draws on the ...
  4. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    The session will explore how the recently published legal duties on health inequalities can help local system leaders to identify key data and information and take action to improve health outcomes. T ...
  5. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    The Hewitt review makes clear that ‘health value’ - the economic growth that is created by investment in healthcare - is a core part of embedding long-term strategic change and the shift to prevention ...
12:00
  1. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Health inequalities improvement
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    This session will examine views and approaches on cross-sector system working and whether a strengthened NHS role in secondary prevention has the potential to genuinely reduce demand and/or improve ou ...
  2. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    • Supporter session
    In light of NHS England’s commitment to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040, this session will create momentum by examining areas that have achieved the World Health Organization’s two preventative targ ...

    Sponsored by MSD

    MSD

  3. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    The active involvement of people (patients, unpaid carers, families and communities) is key to ensuring health and care system can improve, delivering care that is integrated, meets people’s needs and ...
  4. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    • Supporter session
    Building on evidence showing digital intervention increases cancer screening uptake, this session will explore the evolution of digital intervention in improving cancer screenings, from cervical to lu ...

    Supported by iPLATO Healthcare 

    iPLATO Healthcare 

  5. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    This session demonstrates how organisations have responded to cyber attacks, highlighting the challenges and lessons learned. During this session delegates will hear from a panel of speakers who will ...
  6. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    In this session we will hear about the pioneering work in the Humber region that brings together Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, mental health, ambulance, local authorities and the p ...
  7. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    Connected technologies and unified data empower individuals and enable integrated care systems to accelerate innovation and positively impact health outcomes. Join this session to explore how Oracle H ...

    Sponsored by Oracle Health

    Oracle Health

  8. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Health inequalities improvement
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    This session will showcase good practice across the NHS, considering solutions to complex problems and how to improve mental healthcare for all communities. Attendees will discuss how co-production an ...
12:15
  1. Exchange hall
    30 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    This session will showcase examples of how leaders across the NHS are adopting innovation, through pioneering clinical trials, digital technologies and quality improvement programmes, to benefit patie ...

    Sponsored by AstraZeneca UK

    AstraZeneca UK

     

12:45
  1. Exchange hall
    30 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    • Supporter session
    This session will be a discussion on how to transform outpatient services and elective surgery pathways through digital communication. Participants will discuss what we can change today in the way we ...

    Sponsored by Accurx

    Accurx

14:00
  1. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    Supporting patients to age well in their community requires us to look beyond health. This session will draw on the expertise of providers that have improved the health and wellbeing of older patients ...
  2. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    As instances of long-term conditions and multimorbidity continue to increase, it will become even more important to find the right mix of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions to manage ...
  3. Exchange hall
    60 mins
    • Health inequalities improvement
    • Main stage - panel
    An ongoing challenge for health and social care is how we empower people to adopt and maintain a more active and engaged lifestyle. Simple, robust, clinically-led pathways and accessible community-bas ...
  4. Exchange auditorium
    40 mins
    • Main stage - panel
    Hear from Merope Mills, campaigner for Martha's Rule and executive editor at the Guardian, followed by a discussion on delivering Martha’s Rule. Hear from a hospital site delivering change and join th ...
  5. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • People
    In this session you will hear from colleagues from across NHS and social care who will share their insight into what is having a tangible impact on retention.
  6. Charter 1
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    Data is a core part of how the NHS delivers care and is at the heart of transforming services. By making better use of the data we hold we can ensure that the NHS continues to meet the needs of our co ...
  7. Charter 2&3
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • Operational delivery
    There is rising demand for mental health services and the number of children being referred to emergency mental healthcare in England has increased by more than 50 per cent in three years. A different ...
  8. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Health inequalities improvement
    This session will introduce the patient safety healthcare inequalities reduction plan and share examples of innovative and good practice to support healthcare organisations to address patient safety h ...
  9. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Supporter session
    This session will explore the current landscape in managing oncology patients, sharing two best practice solutions on how collaboration with industry could support the NHS in finding solutions. This s ...

    Sponsored by MSD

    MSD

  10. Exchange 8-10
    75 mins
    • Discursive cabaret workshop
    • People
    • Supporter session
    With more career opportunities than ever available in the NHS, ensuring today’s workforce is fully engaged is essential to supporting staffing and patient care. In this interactive roundtable discussi ...

    Supported by NHS Professionals

    NHS Professionals

15:30
  1. Charter 5
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Operational delivery
    NHS staff across the country are working hard to ensure all patients who need ADHD services are seen as promptly as possible. It has been recognised that more needs to be done to ensure people experie ...
  2. Charter 4
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • People
    This session will share tangible examples of good practice in meeting the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan through the NHS equality, diversity, and inclusion improvement plan, translating ...
  3. Exchange auditorium
    40 mins
    • Keynote
    Join Sir Steve Powis and Dame Ruth May as they discuss the NHS from their crucial roles leading England’s medical and nursing professions.
  4. Charter 7
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Best Practice Theatre
    Responsibility for commissioning some specialised services is being devolved to integrated care boards in the north west, east of England and the midlands from April 2024. The remaining ICBs will assu ...
  5. Charter 8
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • People
    Our managers and leaders in the NHS need to be supported and given access to training and development opportunities to excel in their role. This session will provide tangible examples of the benefits ...
  6. Exchange hall
    60 mins
    • Collaboration & partnerships
    • Main stage - panel
    The need to build a more holistic, preventative health and care system is not a new one. Successive national strategies, research and commitments have long stated why this matters, yet when push comes ...
  7. Charter 6
    60 mins
    • Best Practice Theatre
    • Quality, transformation and innovation
    Listening to and working with women and families with compassion is the first of four key themes in the three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services. It is a vital part of developing s ...