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Day One: Thursday 6th February | ||||||||||
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08:30 | Registration & Refreshments | |||||||||
08:55 | Chair’s Opening Remarks: Alastair McLellan, Editor, HSJ | |||||||||
09:00 | Opening panel discussion: From vision to value: What the NHS 10-Year Plan demands of digital leaders now In partnership with McKinsey Six months into the NHS 10-Year Digital Plan, this panel explores early progress, emerging barriers, and the strategic role of digital in a rapidly evolving system. As funding shifts and organisational structures change, how can leaders ensure digital drives lasting transformation?
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09:40 | Panel discussion: The Three Shifts, delivered: Turning digital potential into system-wide impact across communities, prevention and frontline care In partnership with Graphnet Despite widespread support for the NHS’s three strategic shifts, translating vision into action remains a challenge. This session explores how digital innovation can drive meaningful change across prevention, community care, and frontline delivery.
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10:20 | Panel discussion: EPRs at a crossroads: Fixing the foundations to unlock safer, faster digital care In partnership with Altera Digital Health With EPR deadlines looming and clinician burnout rising, this session explores how NHS leaders can move beyond flawed, drawn-out implementations. Learn how modular, rapid deployment models are enabling trusts to deliver safer, smarter systems at pace — while laying the groundwork for long-term digital maturity and integrated care.
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11:00 | Morning Refreshments & Networking | |||||||||
11:30 | Interactive Discussion Groups Address pertinent challenges in two pre-selected focused discussion groups led by expert solution providers. With groups of 8-12 participants, ensure you sign up early to secure your place at your preferred two tables.
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12:30 | Networking Lunch | |||||||||
1:30 | Panel discussion: From EPR to intelligent automation: Accelerating NHS digital optimisation In partnership with DXC Technology As NHS organisations move beyond EPR deployment, this session explores how automation and intelligent digital tooling can drive productivity, reduce pressure on staff, enhance patient outcomes, and deliver cashable benefits - without adding complexity.
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2:10 | Panel discussion: Foundations for building a unified digital health system by 2035 In partnership with GS1 UK
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2:50 | Panel discussion: Wiring the NHS for impact: Digital infrastructure that delivers In partnership with Snowflake As the NHS accelerates toward a data-driven future, digital infrastructure must evolve from fragmented legacy systems into a cohesive, strategic foundation. This session explores how national alignment, smarter investment, and modernised architecture can deliver tangible impact—from clinical insight and operational resilience to AI readiness and equitable digital access.
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3:20 | Afternoon Refreshments & Networking | |||||||||
4:00 | Panel discussion: Delivering value through digital: Rebuilding NHS productivity around people, data and leadership In partnership with RLDatix As the NHS confronts structural reform and financial constraint, this session explores how digital leaders can redefine productivity through smarter data use, cultural change and strategic investment. Aligned with the 10-Year Plan, it will highlight how to drive measurable impact—without burning out teams or wasting digital potential.
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4:40 | Panel discussion: AI in the NHS: From hype to high-value deployment In partnership with Microsoft How can NHS systems move beyond AI experimentation and deliver real clinical and operational value — at pace, with trust, and at scale?
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5:10 | Chair’s closing remarks: Alastair McLellan, Editor, HSJ | |||||||||
5:15 | Evening briefing: In partnership with McKinsey | |||||||||
7:00 | Networking Reception & Dinner Drinks reception from 19.00 with dinner served at 19.30. Finish around 21.30. |
Day Two: Friday 7th February | ||||
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08:00 | Morning Briefing | |||
08:50 | Chair’s Opening Remarks: Alastair McLellan, Editor, HSJ | |||
09:00 | Panel discussion: From hospital-centric to neighbourhood-enabled: Accelerating the digital left shift Delivering care closer to home demands more than vision—it requires digital infrastructure, funding reform, and system-wide coordination. This session explores what’s needed to turn neighbourhood working into a scalable, digital reality.
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9:40 | Partner showcase: Innovation in action: Solving the NHS's biggest digital challenge With the stakes higher than ever for digital transformation in the NHS, this fast-paced innovation showcase tackles a to-be-confirmed system-level challenge facing senior NHS digital leaders — from driving true integration to workforce sustainability or digital equity. Framed by the bold ambition of the 10-Year Health Plan, three leading technology partners each have just 10 minutes to demonstrate how their solutions directly address the challenge — not with theory or promise, but through proven impact, measurable outcomes, and strategic alignment to national goals.
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10:20 | Panel discussion: Leading through the crunch: Reimagining the NHS digital workforce for resilience, capability and system impact In the face of acute workforce pressure and shifting governance, this session explores how NHS digital leaders can build resilient, confident teams; redefine digital leadership; and sustain transformation amid national cuts and local complexity.
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11:00 | Networking break and HSJ Awards Winners Posters | |||
11:30 | Panel discussion: Empowering equity and trust: Realising the NHS App’s transformative role in belonging, prevention & participation The 10-Year Health Plan envisions the NHS App as the digital front door to a more equitable, preventative, and personalised health system. This session will examine how senior digital leaders can move beyond basic functionality to harness the App as a strategic tool for system transformation—empowering citizens, reducing inequalities, and building trust in a data-driven future.
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12:10 | Panel discussion: Procurement with purpose: Smarter investment for a digital NHS In the next decade, NHS procurement must stop funding fragmented tech that delivers little impact. This session speaks frankly to senior digital leaders: how do we align digital spend with the outcomes demanded by the 10 Year Health Plan - better care, faster access, and long-term value?
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12:50 | Panel discussion: The future is built-in: Delivering the NHS tech stack that works The NHS has no shortage of pilots—but it lacks a system that reliably scales transformative technologies into everyday care. This session explores how digital leaders can embed AI, genomics, robotics, wearables and data into real-world delivery, drawing insights from both UK pioneers and global exemplars.
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1:30 | Chair’s Closing Remarks: Alastair McLellan, Editor, HSJ |