ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION 2024

🗓️ 12 and 13 November 📍ACC Liverpool

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Our Annual Conference and Exhibition is a unique event that offers insights and networking opportunities to help you excel in your leadership role. Every year, we bring together over 800 senior leaders from NHS trusts, system partners and key stakeholders.

This year's theme, Next Generation, focuses on our collective efforts to maximise the social and economic value of the NHS, ensuring it remains responsive, effective, and centred on patient and community needs.

We will delve into critical topics essential for building the future of healthcare:

  • Leadership for the future: Supporting inclusive and visionary leaders who can navigate and inspire in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
  • Digital innovation and AI: Leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enhance healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
  • Reducing inequalities: Addressing disparities to ensure equitable healthcare for all.
  • Sustainability and productivity: Exploring financial sustainability in challenging times and sharing how trusts and their staff have improved productivity while sustaining high quality care.
  • Improving care for children and young people: Working together to enhance the health and wellbeing of the younger population.

We look forward to gathering in Liverpool with senior leaders from both within and outside the NHS to share insights, discuss challenges, and build a path for a stronger, more resilient health service.

 

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Our 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition is designed for NHS trust and healthcare leaders, such as:

  • Chairs
  • Chief executives
  • Non-executive directors
  • Directors
  • Leaders from integrated care boards (ICBs) and system partners
  • Aspiring trust leaders below board level
  • Other trust board members

 

why attend

This is your opportunity to connect, gain valuable insights, and network with like-minded professionals dedicated to advancing healthcare.

✓ Expert speakers: Hear from experts in the NHS, healthcare industry and from other sectors.

✓ Networking opportunities: Connect with key NHS leaders and professionals from related fields, as well and key industry stakeholders.

✓ Roundtable and panels: Participate in interactive sessions and engaging panel discussions tailored to the healthcare sector.

✓ Exclusive insights: Gain insider knowledge and strategies to enhance your role within the NHS.

✓ Engage with experts: Meet face-to-face with exhibitors to discuss how their offerings can support your work.

 

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tickets 

 

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Both days

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Conference dinner

NHS Providers’ members

£585

£400

£77

NHS Providers’ partners and ICB members

£700

£470

£77

Non for profit/charities

£855

£600

£94

Commercial

£1,200

£905

£94

🚀 Development offer for emerging NHS leaders

50% discount for NHS professional below board level.

This is a fantastic chance to develop leadership skills, network with senior healthcare professionals, and gain valuable insights. To get your discount code, contact us at events@nhsproviders.org.

 

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Group discount

Why not attend our conference with your colleagues? Take advantage of our special offer: buy three tickets and get one free! This applies to both single-day and two-day tickets. Attending as a group maximises learning and networking opportunities, allowing you to share insights and strategies to enhance healthcare services together.

This offer will be applied automatically at checkout.

 

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Programme


08.30

Registration and exhibition viewing

09.45

Welcome

Introduction

📍 Auditorium

Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling historian, acclaimed broadcaster, author and journalist will open the conference.

 

09.50

Plenary 1

Opening address from NHS Providers chief executive

📍 Auditorium

NHS Providers chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley, opens the conference reflecting on the achievements in the provider sector over the past year and looking at the priorities ahead.

 

10.20

Plenary 2

Setting up the NHS for future success: reflections on Darzi's diagnosis

📍 Auditorium

Following Lord Darzi's investigation findings, this session explores how the government and health and care leaders can work together to overcome current challenges and ensure the 10-year health plan strengthens the NHS for the future, enabling it can serve the next generation 

 

11.10

Exhibition, refreshments and networking (Exhibition Hall)

11.25

Delivering with partners 1

Building system resilience through on-demand healthcare infrastructure

📍 Theatre A

Explore how the NHS can leverage on-demand facilities and workforce solutions, such as Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) units, to relieve pressure across the urgent and emergency care pathway, particularly during peak winter demand. Our experts discuss how to create capacity that meets clinical, operational, and patient needs, and share insights into the factors driving operational success and resilience across the whole system.  

(supported by Darwin Group)

 

Boosting productivity, delivering financial, operational and clinical benefits while improving quality of care now and in the future

📍 Theatre B

Learn how procurement and supply chain strategies can secure value, productivity, and efficiency benefits in partnership with health and care systems. This session explores how these collaborative efforts contribute to improved patient outcomes and £1bn of recurrent value for the NHS. 

(supported by NHS Supply Chain)

Enabling productivity: achieving financial, operational, and clinical gains for lasting quality care

📍 Theatre C

Join us for an engaging presentation on the Managing Heart Failure @Home (MHF@Home) programme — a collaborative initiative between East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, and Doccla.

This programme has empowered heart failure patients through remote monitoring and personalised self-management, leading to significant improvements in mobility, self-care, and overall quality of life. Notably, it has achieved a complete reduction in 30-day readmissions and a 32% decrease in A&E visits for heart failure-related issues, demonstrating substantial healthcare savings.

Discover how this proactive care model is transforming chronic disease management and alleviating pressures on healthcare services.

(supported by Doccla)

12.10

Breakout sessions - Next generation leadership

Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work

📍 Room 3A

Discuss best practices in staff retention for diverse workforces in face of operational and financial pressures. Facilitators from trusts, including NHS People Promise Exemplars, lead this interactive discussion, providing insights into good practice and effective strategies. Attendees have the opportunity to share challenges, identify common issues, and explore potential solutions together.

 

Counting the cost: understanding your ethnicity pay gap

📍 Room 3B

Gain insights on how healthcare providers are addressing the ethnicity pay gap in the NHS. This panel discussion explores the gap’s impact on staff morale, quality of patient care and potential legal risks for NHS organisations. Combining Hempsons' legal expertise with insights from senior NHS HR and equality leaders, this session provides practical tools to help you develop people-centred, legally sound strategies for reducing the ethnicity pay gap in your organisation.  

(supported by Hempsons)

Leading an improvement culture: people-powered improvement cultures

📍 Room 1C

Explore how different relational aspects of leadership can drive an improvement culture with people at the heart of it. You’ll hear from trust and national leaders on different approaches theyve adopted and the impact each has had. 

 

 

13.10

Exhibition viewing, lunch and networking (Exhibition Hall)

13.25

Delivering with partners 2

Improving patient experience while waiting: safely validating and reducing waiting lists

📍 Theatre A

Explore person-centred approaches providers can take to improve patients' experience while they wait for care. Speakers will showcase strategies such as patient-led validation, technical validation through data-driven quality checks, and waiting well through targeted health coaching. These approaches aim to optimise care pathways across primary, acute, community, and mental health services. They ensure patients are on the right treatment path and empower them to manage their health, all while enhancing safety and outcomes.   

(supported by NHS South, Central and West)

 

 

Supporting diverse teams: intentionally embedding inclusive practice

📍 Theatre B

Dame Carrie MacEwen shares the latest General Medical Council (GMC) data on negative workplace experiences among ethnic minority doctors and discusses inclusivity-focused duties in the updated Good medical practice. Dr Uma Krishnamoorthy, from East Lancashire NHS Trust, presents a case study on their quality improvement campaigns focused on anti-racism and equality, diversity, and inclusion. 

(supported by General Medical Council)

Building a sustainable workforce: how technology can pave the way forward

📍 Theatre C

Gain insights from NHS leaders on how technology can support safe, flexible and sustainable workforce deployment, helping you meet both current productivity targets and long-term staffing needs. The session provides recommendations for making the most of effective rostering and temporary staffing technology to drive improvement for organisations, clinicians and patients.  

(supported by Patchwork Health)

14.10

Breakout sessions – Next generation care

Embedding a strategic focus on addressing health inequalities and translating this into action

📍 Room 3A

Explore the critical importance of setting strategic commitments to tackle health inequalities. You’ll hear from Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, both of whom have effectively embedded health inequalities into their strategic frameworks. Participate in peer-to-peer discussions to reflect on how to move from strategy to implementation. 

Collaboration in health and care: working together to tackle urgent and emergency care demand

📍 Room 3B

Discover the initiatives trusts and their partners have undertaken to manage challenges across urgent and emergency care pathways. This session highlights examples of collaboration across systems, particularly between primary and secondary care, and how these partnerships can unlock potential improvements.  

 

Leeds HomeFirst: collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes

📍 Room 1C

Learn how the Leeds Health and Care Partnership is delivering HomeFirst, a bold and innovative programme aiming to achieve a sustainable, person-centred, home-first model of intermediate care. Nearing completion, this programme’s made a significant impact on both individuals and the system. In this session, system leaders reflect on this transformation journey and describe how cross-system collaboration at all levels has been key to its success. 

(supported by Newton)

15.10

Exhibition, refreshments, and networking (Exhibition Hall)

15.25

Delivering with partners 3

Accelerating improvement: leveraging the seven levels of change

📍 Theatre A


Today's health and care challenges require a shift from the conventional thinking that initially created them. Achieving different outcomes requires embracing new thinking and doing.  Join VMI executive Wendy Korthuis-Smith and NHS chief executives Adam Sewell-Jones and Phil Wood as they explore a framework they’ve used for creating an innovative team mindset for incremental and transformative change.  

(supported by Virginia Mason Institute)

Artificial intelligence in action: enhancing workforce efficiency and patient outcomes

📍 Theatre B

Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising NHS hospitals. Learn how Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust has enhanced workforce efficiency and patient outcomes, and how innovative AI is enabling hospitals to achieve more with fewer resource.

(supported by Skin Analytics)

High stress and low morale: what can trust leaders do to support their staff?

📍  Theatre C

Discuss creative ways to tackle staff stress and low morale through co-design and partnership working. Our panel of experienced leaders share early findings of a £16m multi-partner workforce wellbeing programme that could help inform your own trust’s wellbeing strategy, fostering a healthier, happier and more productive workforce. 

(Supported by NHS Charities Together)

16.10

Plenary 3

Keynote speech from NHS England chief executive, Amanda Pritchard

📍 Auditorium

A chance to hear from NHS England’s chief executive about the key priorities for the NHS provider sector.  

 

16.50

Plenary 4

For the next generation and beyond: realising the potential of artificial intelligence in the NHS

📍 Auditorium 

A future-focused session that explores the extent to which artificial intelligence (AI) will disrupt healthcare. We'll discuss how the NHS can maximise opportunities and mitigate the challenges AI presents in delivering sustainable, high-quality healthcare for the next generation and beyond. 

 

17.40

Closing remarks

Closing speech from conference chair

📍 Hall 1A

Sathnam Sanghera, author, broadcaster and journalist, closes day one of this year's conference.

 

17.45

Drinks reception

Drinks reception

📍 Exhibition Hall

The drinks reception, supported by Newton, offers a perfect setting to connect and unwind after a day of insightful discussions.

Sir Ron Kerr, chair of NHS Providers, will hold an opening drinks reception speech.

 

19.00

Conference dinner

Conference dinner

📍 Hall 2J

The conference dinner, supported by Hempsons, will feature opening remarks from Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, alongside, Andrew Davidson, national head of employment at Hempsons.

Join us after the dinner for a nightcap at the Hempsons bar, conveniently located in the dinner hall.


07.30

Registration and exhibition viewing

08.00

Breakfast sessions

Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling inequalities through social determinants of health

📍 Theatre C

Learn about the work of the Child Health Equity Collaborative, a unique partnership between Barnardo's, the Institute for Health Equity and three Integrated Care Systems (ICSs): Birmingham and Solihull, Cheshire and Merseyside, and South Yorkshire. ICS leads will share their vision, experiences, and the role of young people in shaping the programme. Discover the interventions designed to address the social determinants of health and improve health, wellbeing, and equity of children and young people.

(supported by Barnardos)

 

 

09.00

Conference day two

Welcome to day two

📍Auditorium 

Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling historian, acclaimed broadcaster, author and journalist will open the second day of the conference.

 

09.05

Plenary 5

Keynote speech from Nicky Moffat, former British army brigadier and leadership development consultant

📍 Auditorium

Gain insights from Nicky, who, after a 27-year military career and becoming the highest-ranking woman in 2009, now helps organisations build leadership capabilities and sustainable cultural improvements. Nicky will discuss the key leadership challenges facing NHS provider organisations and share practical strategies for embedding transformative change. 

 

 

09.40

Plenary 6

Improving patient safety: learning from the past to shape the future

📍 Auditorium

Using lessons from NHS inquiries and insights from other sectors, this session explores how the NHS can overcome deep-rooted cultural challenges to transform culture and drive lasting improvements in patient safety, both now and in the future. 

 

10.25

Plenary 7

Keynote speech from Rt. Hon Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

📍 Auditorium 

One of the first opportunities to hear from the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Rt. Hon Wes Streeting MP will share his priorities and vision for the NHS at what is a pivotal time for the service.

11.00

Exhibition viewing, refreshments and networking (Exhibition Hall)

11.10

Delivering with partners 4

How NHS Open Space can help tackle vacant space within the NHS

📍 Theatre A 

Learn how NHS Open Space, launched by NHS Property Services in 2019, is addressing vacant and underutilised space across the NHS estate. This session explores how the combination of utilisation monitoring, booking platform, data and analytics has improved space management. Discover how these tools can help you gain a clear view of your portfolio while tackling vacant and underutilised space within your own NHS estate. 

(supported by NHS Property Services)

Speaker

Chris King

Putting data to work: how to support innovation and improvement while protecting privacy

📍 Theatre B  

Examine the complexities of using AI-driven technologies based on information from patient records. We'll explore key challenges such as balancing innovation with patient confidentiality, navigating regulatory requirements, and addressing ethical considerations. Additionally, the session will cover recent developments, barriers, common pitfalls, and provide insights for future improvements in this evolving field.

(supported by Hempsons)

 

Keynote speaker

Chris Alderson

Delivering the benefits of a neighbourhood-based NHS

📍 Theatre C 

Explore how neighbourhood teams can be designed to meet the holistic needs of local populations, shaping the care and support services they require. This session focuses on building effective, collaborative teams that build trust and evolve together. An expert panel share first-hand experience in delivering this model  

(supported by National Association of Primary Care – NAPC)

 

11.50

Breakout sessions – Sustaining the next generation NHS

Sustaining the NHS: how trusts and system partners are driving radical and sustainable reform

📍 Room 3A

Explore the strategic enablers necessary for successful integration with system partners. This session will discuss how to meaningfully address barriers to integration, to provide holistic care to individuals with multiple health, care and social needs. 

 

Developing a roadmap for the future: 10-year health plan

📍 Room 3B

Discuss the 10-year health plan and the changes needed to build an NHS fit for the future, in this session led by Sally Warren, director general of the Department of Health and Social Care. 

Panellists: TBC

 

 

Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity

📍 Room 1C

Join trust leaders, system partners and policy experts to discuss how the NHS can deliver value for patients by adopting a whole-system approach to improving productivity.  

 

12.50

Exhibition viewing, lunch and networking (Exhibition Hall)

13.05

Delivering with partners 5

Equitable improvement across organisational boundaries

📍 Theatre A 

Learn how the Provider collaboratives: Improving equitably (PCIE), run by NHS Providers and the Q Community, supported five provider collaboratives over nine months. This session shows how they developed shared improvement approaches with a focus on equity to address key priorities. You’ll also learn how to use continuous improvement as an enabler to advance equity and build shared approaches across provider collaboratives.

(supported by PCIE)

What is QuestPrehab and how can it help improve patient outcomes

📍 Theatre C

We would like to introduce you to QuestPrehab and discuss how prehabilitation can improve not just surgical and cancer patient outcomes but population health. We’ll explore how the virtual service is cost effective and scalable; it meets diverse patient needs and can be seamlessly implemented into trust’s existing systems, which we have demonstrated both nationally and internationally. 

(supported by QuestPrehab)

13.50

Plenary 8

Shaping better services for the next generation

📍 Auditorium 

Discover how trusts and wider system partners can improve the physical and mental health of the next generation. In this session, we'll explore the patient perspective, the challenges of rising demand and waiting times for NHS children and young people’s services, and how trusts can work with partners to tackle health inequalities and improve access to care.  

 

14.45

Plenary 9

Introduction to new NHS Providers chair

📍Auditorium

Join us to welcome the new chair of NHS Providers.

14.55

Closing remarks (Hall 1A)

Closing speech from conference chair

📍 Auditorium

Sathnam Sanghera, author, broadcaster and journalist, gives his closing remarks on this year's conference.

 

15.00

Conference closes

conference chair

Having started school in Wolverhampton unable to speak English, Sathnam Sanghera's successful career as an acclaimed writer, journalist, and broadcaster is a testament to resilience, dedication, and the transformative power of education. Here are five things you should know about him:

📚 Distinguished academic: First-class English degree from Cambridge, with honorary doctorates in journalism and social sciences.
✍️ Award-winning author: 'The Boy With The Topknot' won Mind Book of the Year; 'Empireland' was a British Book Awards Book of the Year.
🔖 Bestselling historian: 'Empireland' and 'Empireworld' are Sunday Times bestsellers on British imperialism.
📽️ Acclaimed broadcaster: Presented acclaimed documentaries, including 'Empire State of Mind' on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4 series.
🤝 Community advocate: Trustee for Rethink, chaired Creative Access, and patron for Writing West Midlands.

 

Speakers

 

Abigail Harrison
Abigail Harrison

Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

 
Abigail Harrison is the chief digital and infrastructure officer at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and vice chair of the Digital Health Chief Information Officer Advisory Panel.

She is passionate about transforming health and care for all people by harnessing technology and data and using a methodologically driven approach to improve the way services are delivered.

At Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust, Abigail has executive responsibility for digital and estates, leading development of the Digital Strategy including use of artificial intelligence, with examples of simple solutions already in use in the trust with other solutions in development and testing.

For four years prior she was the chief information officer at the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) where she led the teams to significantly improve digital maturity, taking NWAS from negative outliers to leaders in the ambulance sector, rapidly improving the infrastructure and enabling digital innovation underpinned by improvement methods.

Abigail will be joining us as a panellist at our 'For the next generation and beyond: realising the potential of artificial intelligence in the NHS' plenary session.
Adam Sewell-Jones
Adam Sewell-Jones

Chief Executive

East and North Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

 
Adam Sewell-Jones has worked in the NHS since 1992 and is passionate about continuously improving services for patients. Having joined as a trainee accountant, he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and held a number of finance and operational management roles in trusts in London and Essex.

At Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust he held the positions of director of finance and continuous improvement, chief operating officer and deputy chief executive.

He then went on to hold national leadership roles as director of provider sustainability, director of improvement and regional director for the South West of England.

In these roles he led a number of national programmes including the Virginia Mason NHS partnership, the Vital Signs programme, the Culture and Leadership programme and the Aspiring CEO programme, as well as national policies for improvement and leadership development.

Adam will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Accelerating improvement: leveraging the seven levels of change' delivering with partners session.
Aishah Farooq
Aishah Farooq

Associate Non-Executive Member and Former Board Member

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board and NHS England

 
Aishah Farooq is a dedicated and passionate leader known locally and nationally for driving change and transformation in healthcare for children and young people. 

Her commitment to improving healthcare led to roles where she strategically advised, as a young governor for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston, and now as an associate non-executive member of the Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board. 

Nationally, Aishah sits on the NHS Assembly, has contributed to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines, and is a trustee for Coeliac UK.

Aishah will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Shaping better services for the next generation' plenary session.
Alex Talbott
Alex Talbott

Director of Improvement

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

 
Alex Talbott started his career in the NHS in Communications, working across commissioning and providers before getting hooked on ops at Yeovil Hospital where he progressed to lead the Elective Care division.

He joined Salisbury to help deploy our continuous improvement management system as the route to delivering sustainable services. A large part of his role is coaching leaders and teams to develop their improvement skills. He is fascinated by the impact leadership behaviours have on people’s willingness to try to improve.

Alex will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Equitable improvement across organisational boundaries' delivering with partners session.
Amanda Pritchard
Amanda Pritchard

Chief Executive

NHS England

 
Amanda Pritchard is chief executive of NHS England, which leads the NHS' work nationally to improve health and ensure high quality care for all.

Her prior role was NHS England chief operating officer and NHS Improvement's chief executive. Amanda was previously chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to that she served as chief operating officer, after joining from Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, where she spent six years as deputy chief executive.
Amy Galea
Amy Galea

Chief Integration and Primary Care Officer

NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board

 
Amy Galea is the chief integration and primary care officer of NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board.

Amy has worked within the Sussex system since November 2020, and from 2024, her portfolio has expanded from having a sole focus on primary care to cover all primary, community and urgent care commissioning and transformation, and our joint work with local authorities across Sussex.

She is the executive lead responsible for driving integration across the triple aim of joining up: physical and mental health, primary and specialist care, and health and social care through a new integrated community team model of care. She is also the senior responsible officer for the Sussex Covid-19 and influenza vaccination campaigns, having led the programme since its launch in December 2020.

Amy originally trained as a radiographer and has held senior healthcare roles leading healthcare strategy, policy and integrated care system development, including at NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care and The King's Fund.

Amy Galea will be joining us as a keynote speaker at our 'How trusts are working with system partners to deliver radical, sustainable reform' breakout session.
Andrew Davidson
Andrew Davidson

National Head of Employment

Hempsons

 
Andrew Davidson supports employers in the health, social care and private sector on employment law issues in his role as national head of employment. He has a national reputation for his work in handling concerns about doctors (under the Maintaining High Professional Standards framework), dealing with discrimination issues, employment tribunal claims and transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) as well as expertise across healthcare employment law.

As part of NHS Providers' race equality programme, Andrew has contributed to their disciplinary gap and ethnicity pay gap guides. He regularly provides training for clients on a wide range of employment law and HR issues and is a regular speaker at national conferences.
Andrew New
Andrew New

Chief Executive

NHS Supply Chain

 
Andrew New joined NHS Supply Chain as chief executive officer in September 2021 and has focused on leading the organisation to deliver a broad range of value to the NHS.

Prior to this, Andrew was executive director for procurement and supply chain at JCB and has also held senior roles at Magnox Ltd and Babcock International Group PLC.

Andrew has extensive experience in business transformation, total lifecycle cost management, customer and supplier engagement, and deploying technology to optimise operational performance.

Andrew will be joining us as a chair at our 'Enabling greater productivity: delivering financial, operational and clinical benefits while improving the quality of care today and for the long term' delivering with partners session.
Andy Hilton
Andy Hilton

Chief Executive

Primary Care Sheffield

 
A GP by background, Andy Hilton is chief executive of Primary Care Sheffield, the cities at scale provider of a range primary care services. Andy still maintains some clinical practice keeping him rooted in the needs of patients.

As chief executive he is an influential system leader both in Sheffield's Health and Care Partnership and South Yorkshire Integrated Care System where he is chair of the primary care Provider Alliance. Andy has contributed to national primary care strategy working with both NHS England and NHS Confederation.

Andy will be joining us as a keynote speaker at our 'How trusts are working with system partners to deliver radical, sustainable reform' breakout session.
Annmarie Moore
Annmarie Moore

Former Director of Treasury for an international NGO

 
Annmarie Moore is a former director of treasury for an international NGO, and international banker.

She is now a YouTuber helping women over 60 stay relevant. After managing global finances in the financial markets for 40 years, Annemarie faced a personal battle with melanoma and colon cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. Now she focuses on thriving through fashion, fitness, and mental well-being, encouraging women to remain relevant.

Annemarie will be joining us as a speaker for our 'What is QuestPrehab and how can it help improve patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
Ash Ellis
Ash Ellis

Deputy Director for Leadership, Inclusion and Organisational Experience

Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

 
Ash Ellis joined the NHS in 2010 and has enjoyed a career spanning clinical practice, operational management, education, leadership and organisational development. He has worked in public, private, and charity organisations. He worked regionally with Health Education England, and in Acute Hospital, Community, and Mental health Trusts.

He is currently Deputy Director for Leadership, inclusion and Organisational Experience at Berkshire Healthcare where he has been focusing the organisation to become anti-racist and improve access, outcomes and experience for patients and staff.

Ash Ellis will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Counting the cost: Understanding your ethnicity pay gap' breakout session.
Caroline Baria
Caroline Baria

Director for Adults and Health

Leeds City Council

 
Caroline Baria has been the director of adults and health at Leeds City Council since February 2023. Prior to this she was the deputy director for Integrated Commissioning, a jointly funded role across the council and the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board in Leeds. In her current role, Caroline works with system leaders across the Leeds Health and Care Partnership.

Caroline has worked in various roles in different local authorities over the last 32 years, having qualified as a social worker in 1992, initially working in children's social care and youth offending services, and moving into adults' services from 2002.

Caroline is a trustee of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, leading on professional practice in social care and on equality, diversity and inclusion. She has a strong commitment to promoting effective partnerships to improve outcomes for local residents.

Caroline will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leeds HomeFirst: Collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes ' breakout session.
Cathy Elliot
Cathy Elliot

Chair

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

 
Cathy Elliott is chair of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and deputy chair of the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) within West Yorkshire's award-winning Health and Care Partnership. She also holds a Department for Transport Ministerial appointment as the independent chair of a public funding programme for communities and businesses.

Cathy was previously chair of Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; an NHS non-executive director in the Greater Manchester ICP; a senior social policy advisor, including the national Power to Change Trust; and prior to that was a regional chief executive in the North West and a national trustee in the UK community foundation network, working with the international movement of community foundations in Canada and Europe.

Cathy will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity' breakout session.
Charlie Sheldon
Charlie Sheldon

Chief Nursing Officer and Director of People

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Charlie Sheldon was appointed as the chief nursing officer at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) in October 2018.

Charlie trained as a general nurse before undertaking his orthopaedic nurse training. He worked in clinical and leadership roles at the Chelsea and Westminster, St. Thomas' and the Royal London Hospitals before being appointed deputy chief nurse for education at Bart's.

He has held chief nurse roles at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Hackney and prior to his appointment as chief nurse, Charlie was director of nursing and therapies at CLCH for five years.

Charlie was appointed as an honorary visiting professor at City, University of London in 2010. He held a dual role from February 2022 – September 2023 as both chief nursing officer for NHS North West London (Integrated Care Board) and at CLCH.

Charlie will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Embedding a strategic focus on addressing health inequalities and translating this into action' breakout session.
Chris Alderson
Chris Alderson

Partner

Hempsons

 
Chris Alderson will be joining us as a keynote speaker at our 'Putting data to work – how to support innovation and improvement while protecting privacy' delivering with partners session.
Chris King
Chris King

Head of NHS Open Space

Open Space

 
Chris King joined NHS Property Services in 2016 as a principal strategic asset manager. During his time in this role, he set up a number of business models to drive utilisation and increase utilisation.

One of these initiatives was NHS Open Space.  Through his stewardship over the next five years, this idea went from a concept into a fully-blown service in its own right, with NHS Open Space launching in 2019.

Before joining NHS Property Services, Chris worked as a senior surveyor at Knight Frank and CBRE. He is a chartered member of Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and holds an MSc in real estate.

Chris will be joining us as a speaker at our 'How NHS Open Space can help tackle vacant space within the NHS' delivering with partners session.
Chris Moulton
Chris Moulton

Clinical Lead for Emergency Medicine

Get it Right First Time

 
Chris Moulton will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Collaboration across health and care systems: working together to tackle the demand challenge across urgent and emergency care' breakout session.
Claire Low
Claire Low

Group Chief People Officer

Lincolnshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Claire Low was appointed as the new group chief people officer in July 2024 following the harmonisation of the community and acute organisations in Lincolnshire having joined as deputy director and interim director since 2022.  She is also currently the senior responsible officer for the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board.  She has a long career spanning over 20 years of working in people services within the NHS. 

Claire is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and is passionate about delivering the People Promise agenda.

Claire will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.
Claire Scrafton
Claire Scrafton

Deputy Director of HR and Governance

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

 
Claire Scrafton is the deputy director of HR and governance at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, with over 20 years of experience in HR leadership across the NHS.

She has held senior roles, including director of HR, Trafford PCT and head of people strategy at NHS Improvement.

Claire is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development with a master's in management. She specialises in system wide transformation, removing unwarranted variation and the scaling of people services though collaboration and automation.

Claire has recently been appointed as the vice president of the HPMA's north west branch. She is also actively involved with the Scout Association as a group trustee chair and explorer scout lead volunteer.

Claire will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Building a sustainable workforce: how technology can pave the way forward' delivering with partners session.
Daniel Elkeles
Daniel Elkeles

Chief Executive

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

 
Daniel Elkeles has been an NHS manager for almost 30 years, joining the management training scheme in 1995 and has worked in acute, community, regional and commissioning roles.

He has been an accountable officer for over 10 years first for five Clinical Commissioning Groups in north west London, then chief executive for Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust where he secured the funding to build a new hospital.

Since September 2021 he has been the chief executive officer at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS). Daniel is passionate about improving culture and inclusivity in the workplace.

LAS has just received its best ever staff survey results with big improvements in all of the People Promise domains and with 68% staff completing the survey the highest response rate of any ambulance trust or NHS trust in London.

Daniel will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Collaboration across health and care systems: working together to tackle the demand challenge across urgent and emergency care' breakout session.
Daniel Chilcott
Daniel Chilcott

Client Enablement Director

Patchwork Health

 
Daniel Chilcott is the client enablement director at Patchwork Health, with extensive experience in NHS workforce enhancement and leadership. He specialises in supporting trust-wide and integrated care system-wide transformation initiatives, product development, and customer onboarding. His focus is on optimising operational efficiency, reducing costs, and prioritising staff well-being and productivity.

Daniel will be joining us as chair at our 'Building a sustainable workforce: how technology can pave the way forward' delivering with partners session.
David Welch
David Welch

Head of Contract Management and Healthcare Procurement

NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit

 
David Welch has 20+ years NHS experience across different services ranging from business intelligence, finance, contracting, procurement and senior operational roles within acute hospitals.

As NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit's head of contracting and procurement, David ensures the provision of high-quality services that deliver excellent standards. He is currently working with NHS England to deliver the NHS Emeritus pilot, aimed at
connecting recently retired and peri-retired clinicians across England, with NHS providers of acute care who need the help only experienced clinicians can offer.

David will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Improving patient experience while waiting: safely validating and reducing waiting lists' delivering with partners session.
Delvir Mehet
Delvir Mehet

Group Deputy Director of People

Barts Health NHS Trust

 
Delvir Mehmet aspires to act as a visible ally within the trust leadership to create the most equitable workplace possible. He has been involved workforce and people development roles within the NHS throughout his career, working to bring together multiple hospitals and organisations to work towards common goals. This has allowed him to see much of the great progress the NHS made, but also understand what has not worked in the past and how to create a better future for our staff and citizens.

In his role he helps to ensure Barts Health has a talented, supported workforce to best serve the community. One of the responsibilities he is very passionate about is the equality and diversity agenda and in particular the power of staff diversity networks.

His role in the team is to lead, empower and co-develop the trust’s key priorities with the team, staff diversity networks, staff side colleagues and the Group Inclusion Board. It is also his role to ensure the priorities agreed translate into action that create a positive change for staff throughout the organisation.
He is a trained coach and mentor and brings this learning not only to nurture inclusive behaviours in his own teams, but also learn from those he has mentored to be a reflective leader.

Delvir will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Counting the cost: Understanding your ethnicity pay gap' breakout session.
Dominic Bellringer-Mundy
Dominic Bellringer-Mundy

Associate Director of Experience, Participation and Health Equalities

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Dominic Bellringer-Mundy has worked across the NHS for the last 11 years in several differing roles, from communications to operational management. He has worked across patient experience at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) for the last seven years and most recently has taken responsibility for the health equalities team.

Dominic has worked directly on the health equalities agenda since the development of CLCH's Promoting Equality and Tacking Inequalities Strategy was launched in 2021. He has a passion for improving access to services for each of the communities served by CLCH across London and Hertfordshire, working closely with community groups to ensure the voice of the patient, relative, carer is at the heart of everything that is done at the trust.

Dominic is also a trustee for the men's mental health charity 'Men Who Talk' where he supports men to achieve good mental health through the medium of chat.

Dominic will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Embedding a strategic focus on addressing health inequalities and translating this into action' breakout session.
Doug Simkiss
Doug Simkiss

Senior Responsible Officer for Health Equity Collaborative

Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System

 
Doug Simkiss was a paediatrician by training and retired from his position as chief medical officer and deputy chief executive at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2023.

He provides leadership to the Children and Young People's Health Equity Collaborative for Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Service. The intervention to promote health equity involves health equity champions in procurement and social value.

Doug will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling child health inequalities through the social determinants of health' breakfast session.
Dr Amanda Woolley
Dr Amanda Woolley

Founder and Principle Consultant

 
Dr Amanda Woolley is an experienced change consultant, working with cross-boundary teams and partnerships to quickly build alignment, effective ways of working and consistent external communication.

She has supported more than 50 teams, partnerships and collaboratives to mobilise system-wide change, and her NHS background spans roles in assurance, transformation, policy and leadership development. Dr Woolley received her PhD in decision psychology from King's College London in 2015. She recently founded Building20, an organisational development practice for insight, creativity and action.

Dr Woolley will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leading an improvement culture: people-powered improvement cultures' breakout session.
Dr Buki Adeyemo
Dr Buki Adeyemo

Chief Executive

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Dr Buki Adeyemo was announced as North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust's chief executive on 14 December 2023, having previously served as the trust's interim chief executive from December 2021, and medical director from 2012.

Dr Adeyemo started her medical career in Nigeria, and graduated from the University of Lagos. She came to work for the NHS in 1997, and has spent the majority of her career to date working in North Staffordshire.

She is a dual qualified old age and adults' psychiatrist, and became a consultant old age psychiatrist in 2007 at Combined Healthcare. During her career, Dr Adeyemo has specialised in medical education and psychological therapies.

Dr Adeyemo is a NHS chief executive representative on the Mental Health Network Board at the NHS Confederation.

Dr Adeyemo will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Improving patient safety: learning from the past to shape the future' plenary session.
Dr Elizabeth Crabtree
Dr Elizabeth Crabtree

Beyond Programme Director

Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System

 
Dr Elizabeth Crabtree is programme director for Beyond, Cheshire and Merseyside's Children and Young People's Transformation Programme.

She is a consultant clinical psychologist who has worked in children's mental health services, both in the NHS and private sector, for over 20 years with a particular focus on children with learning disabilities, autism and childhood trauma.

More recently she has been working strategically, across systems to advocate for a focus on starting well and to increase system focus on the needs of children and young people.

Elizabeth is a passionate advocate for the benefits of early intervention and prevention provided through cross-agency delivery and the need to address the wider determinants of health inequalities to improve outcomes for children.

Elizabeth will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling child health inequalities through the social determinants of health' breakfast session.
Dr Henrietta Hughes
Dr Henrietta Hughes

Patient Safety Commissioner

 
Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE started in September 2022 as the first patient safety commissioner, an independent role recommended by the report 'First Do No Harm'.

Acting as an independent champion for patients, Henrietta leads a drive to improve the safety of medicines and medical devices by ensuring that patient voices are at the heart of the design and delivery of healthcare in England.

A practising GP and a member of the Health Honours Committee and the guiding group of the Women's Health and Care Leaders Network, Henrietta was previously the National Guardian for the NHS and a medical director at NHS England. Henrietta has held executive and non-executive roles in the NHS and is chair of Childhood First, a children's charity.

Henrietta will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Improving patient safety: learning from the past to shape the future' plenary session.
Dr Ify Okocha
Dr Ify Okocha

Chief Executive

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

 
Dr Ify Okocha will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Setting the NHS up for success to serve the next generation: reflections on Darzi's diagnosis and forward look' plenary session.
Dr Jessica Allen
Dr Jessica Allen

Deputy Director

University College London Institute of Health Equity

 
Dr Jessica Allen is the deputy director of University College London's Institute of Health Equity. She was previously project director of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010 (the Marmot Review) and co-authored the Marmot Review 10 Years On report and Build Back Fairer: the Covid-19 Marmot review.

Jessica has worked closely with international organisations, national and local governments, businesses and the economic sector, third sector organisations and public health and health care systems. She has published widely on the social determinants of health. 

Jessica will be joining us as a panellist for our 'Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling inequalities through social determinants of health' breakfast session.
Dr Kathy Smith
Dr Kathy Smith

Medical Lead - Clinical Workforce Solutions

NHS South, Central and West

 
Dr Kathy Smith is a strategic clinical leader, GP, medical examiner and educator. Her experience spans primary, secondary and tertiary care within the NHS, charitable and independent sectors. Kathy is passionate about improving patient safety and the quality of care through innovative and cross-sector collaborative working.

She jointly leads NHS South, Central and West's clinical governance, with a particular focus on GP clinical, quality assurance and patient safety activities. Her wider portfolio encompasses work that intersects perinatal care, health inequalities, urgent care and digital healthcare.

Dr Smith will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Improving patient experience while waiting: safely validating and reducing waiting lists' delivering with partners session.
Dr Richard Azurdia
Dr Richard Azurdia

Consultant Dermatologist

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 
Dr Richard Azurdia has been a consultant dermatologist at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) since 2001.

He was skin cancer lead at the trust from 2001-2010 and established the local multi-disciplinary team. He was also co-chair of the skin cancer CNG for Cheshire and Merseyside between 2007-2010 and was then clinical director of dermatology at LUHFT (2010-2018) and again jointly (2019-2021).

He has been the secondary care clinical lead for dermatology in NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trust since 2006-2019 working on the Cheshire and Merseyside teledermatology and artificial intelligence roll-out.

Dr Azurdia will be joining us as a speaker at our 'AI in action: boosting/tackling workforce efficiency and patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
Dr Rishi Das-Gupta
Dr Rishi Das-Gupta

Chief Executive

Health Innovation Network South London

 
Dr Rishi Das-Gupta has worked to improve healthcare, patient experience and outcomes for over 20 years in a variety of roles focused on shaping and implementing government policy, working with health and care providers and redesigning services.

He is passionate about the use of technology to enable clinical and operational change and to empower patients to manage their own conditions. Rishi's experience spans UK and US healthcare systems and he is a fellow of the Sciana programme collaborating with German and Swiss healthcare leaders.

Prior to this role he has held executive roles at NHS trusts as chief information and technology officer, director of innovation and as director of operations and worked as a medical doctor. Rishi also has experience working as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and McKinsey and Company. In addition to his primary medical qualification (MBBS). Rishi holds an MA in law (University of Cambridge) and an MBA (London Business School).

Rishi will be joining us as a panellist at our 'For the next generation and beyond: realising the potential of AI in the NHS' plenary session.
Dr Ruw Abeyratne
Dr Ruw Abeyratne

Director of Health Equality and Inclusion

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 
Dr Ruw Abeyratne is University Hospitals of Leicester's (UHL) director of health equality and inclusion.

In this role, Ruw is accountable for the trust's approach to understanding and addressing health inequalities within the local population. This includes improving access to elective and non-elective care, ensuring that restoration of services is inclusive and equitable.

Recognising that understanding the role acute providers have to play in population health management and prevention is key to addressing health inequalities, Ruw works with colleagues across the integrated care system, local government and the voluntary and community sectors to ensure that the services at UHL meet the needs of the local population.

Ruw is also a practising consultant in geriatric and general medicine, with an interest in front-door frailty and admission avoidance.

Ruw will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Embedding a strategic focus on addressing health inequalities and translating this into action' breakout session.
Dr Uma Krishnamoorthy
Dr Uma Krishnamoorthy

Deputy Medical Director, System Improvement and Professional Standards

NHS England

 
Dr Uma Krishnamoorthy is a deputy medical director, NHS England North West, and associate medical director and consultant gynaecologist at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT).

She is passionate about nurturing and growing, compassionate and inclusive leadership/cultures. Dr Krishnamoorthy authored the 'LOTUS Compassionate leadership Framework and Toolkit' published by NHS England and leads on the Regional Compassionate North West initiative.

She leads on a collaborative QI project with Care Quality Academy and ELHT which commits to becoming intentionally and visibly anti-racist.

Dr Krishnamoorthy will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Supporting diverse teams: intentionally embedding inclusive practice' delivering with partners session.
Dr Vin Diwakar
Dr Vin Diwakar

Interim National Director of Transformation

NHS England

 
Dr Vin Diwakar will be joining us as a panellist at our 'For the next generation and beyond: realising the potential of AI in the NHS' plenary session.
Dr Wendy Korthuis-Smith
Dr Wendy Korthuis-Smith

Executive Director

Virginia Mason Institute

 
As executive director of Virginia Mason Institute, Dr Wendy Korthuis-Smith provides leadership and vision for the strategic growth, operational excellence, and business development of the institute.

With robust experience in developing and implementing large-scale transformation and transition plans, Wendy came to Virginia Mason Institute from Deloitte Consulting Strategy and Operations, where she led state, national, and international consulting engagements. Wendy first worked at Virginia Mason early on in her career as a leadership development consultant, delivering leading edge experiences for executive leaders.

Wendy will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Accelerating improvement: leveraging the seven levels of change' delivering with partners session.
Duleep Allirajah
Duleep Allirajah

Chief Executive

Richmond Group of Charities

 
Duleep Allirajah is chief executive of the Richmond Group of Charities, a coalition of 14 national health and care charities.

Duleep has worked in policy and influencing roles, predominantly in the voluntary sector, for over 25 years. His previous roles include assistant director of policy and campaigns at the Royal College of General Practitioners, head of insight and public affairs at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and head of policy at Macmillan Cancer Support.

Duleep will be joining us as a chair at our 'How trusts are working with system partners to deliver radical, sustainable reform' breakout session.
Ellie Orton OBE
Ellie Orton OBE

Chief Executive

NHS Charities Together

 
Ellie Orton has been chief executive of NHS Charities Together since July 2018. She was instrumental in leading the charity's award-winning Covid Urgent Appeal during 2020 and has since led a complete transformation within the charity.

This was recognised by being awarded Charity Times Outstanding Individual Achievement Award in 2021; Association of Project Management Outstanding Organisational Award in 2021 and being named in HSJ Top 100 Chief Executives in 2021 and Charity Times Most Pioneering Chief Executives.

Ellie was previously chief executive at a Coventry based charity working with vulnerable and sexually exploited women, and interim chief executive at the Jon Egging Trust, supporting young people with barriers in their lives to reach their full potential.

Ellie is passionate about social change and the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which literally translates as 'humanity'. She loves beaches, running, and her family, including the dog. She was proud to be awarded an OBE in June 2021 for services to the NHS.

Ellie will be joining us as a speaker at our 'High stress and low morale – what can trust leaders do to support their staff?' delivering with partners session.
Foluke Ajayi
Foluke Ajayi

Chief Executive

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

 
Gerard Sammon
Gerard Sammon

Faculty Member

National Association of Primary Care

 
Gerard Sammon, National Association of Primary Care faculty member, has nearly 30 years' experience working across all sectors of the health service, and has held various board roles of NHS provider organisations, including time spent as a chief executive, strategy and partnerships director and chief operating officer.

Appreciated for his pioneering approach he has a strong track record of integrating care across system, place-based and neighbourhood health and care partnerships including the generation of innovative 'models of care' as part of the national vanguard programme.

Having gained a wide-ranging experience of delivering change, he has used it to design and put into operation a number of successful system and organisational strategies and plans. Gerard has a passion for supporting people and developing leadership in delivering better care, and more recently his focus has been on building community-based solution to improve healthy years of life for local populations.

Gerard will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Delivering the benefits of a neighbourhood-based NHS' delivering with partners session.
Heather Tierney-Moore OBE
Heather Tierney-Moore OBE

Chair

NHS Supply Chain

 
Heather Tierney-Moore OBE joined the board of Supply Chain Coordination Limited, when it was established in September 2018, as a non-executive director and was appointed chair on 1 November 2022.

She has worked in healthcare for over 40 years, initially training as a registered general nurse. Most recently, Heather was chief executive of Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, retiring in March 2019 after 10 years in post.

Heather was made Officer of the British Empire for services to Healthcare in December 2001.

Heather will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Enabling greater productivity: delivering financial, operational and clinical benefits while improving the quality of care today and for the long term' delivering with partners session.
Isabel Lawicka
Isabel Lawicka

Director of Policy and Strategy

NHS Providers

 
Isabel Lawicka is NHS Providers' director of policy and strategy. She holds responsibility for the organisation's policy, public affairs and analysis work and helps to lead strategy and development.

Prior to joining NHS Providers, Isabel worked for a leading health policy communications consultancy and held a number of patient advocacy and policy roles in London and Edinburgh.

Isabel will be joining us as a chair at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.
Jacob Lant
Jacob Lant

Chief Executive

National Voices

 
Jacob Lant joined National Voices as chief executive in May 2023. He is a committed advocate for working with people accessing health and care services and the wider public to help improve the accessibility and quality of the care they receive.

Jacob loves to combine deep qualitative insights with quantitative data to challenge traditional thinking on how to tackle policy challenges. Prior to working for National Voices, he spent almost 10 years helping to build the Healthwatch network. In this time, he led successful nationwide policy influencing campaigns on a huge variety of topics, from maternal mental health services to access to NHS dentistry.

Jacob will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Setting the NHS up for success to serve the next generation: reflections on Darzi's diagnosis and forward look' plenary session.
Jennie Dwerryhouse
Jennie Dwerryhouse

Deputy Chief People Officer

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 
Jennie Dwerryhouse is deputy chief people officer at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Jennie has worked in the NHS for 18 years as a people professional across a number of portfolios including employment services, medical revalidation and lead employer for Doctors in Training. A key focus of Jennie's is maximising technology across the workforce to improve workforce experience, having led on a number of workforce technology projects including the implementation of RPA to support process improvement across people functions.

Jennie will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Building a sustainable workforce: how technology can pave the way forward' delivering with partners session.
Jenny Reindorp
Jenny Reindorp

Director of Development and Engagement

NHS Providers

 
Jenny Reindorp will be joining us as chair at our 'Counting the cost: Understanding your ethnicity pay gap' breakout session.
Jinjer Kandola MBE
Jinjer Kandola MBE

Chief Executive

North London Mental Health Partnership

 
Jinjer Kandola MBE is an experienced NHS chief executive and has worked in the NHS for more than 35 years. Her experience covers both mental and physical healthcare at a senior level.

Jinjer joined Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust in north London in July 2018 as chief executive. In October 2021, Jinjer also became chief executive of neighbouring Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and now leads both trusts, who are working together as the North London Mental Health Partnership.

As chief executive, Jinjer leads the Partnership's work to improve outcomes for service users and make the Partnership a great place to work for staff.

Jinjer will be joining us as a keynote speaker at our 'How trusts are working with system partners to deliver radical, sustainable reform' breakout session.
Jodi Williams
Jodi Williams

Divisional General Manager

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 
Jodi Williams is the divisional general manager for medicine at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which includes dermatology services at Broadgreen and Aintree.

Jodi works as part of a multi-disciplinary team who lead a range of inpatient and outpatient services. She started her NHS career in 2003 as a medical secretary and in 2011 moved into leadership; progressing through a range of operational roles across many different specialities.

Recognising the challenges faced by the NHS, Jodi is motivated by innovative approaches that will help patients receive timely, gold standard care – recent examples include the launch of Skin Analytics DERM AI combined with a one-stop service and the reconfiguration of a dedicated medical day case unit.

Jodi will be joining us as a speaker at our 'AI in action: boosting/tackling workforce efficiency and patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
John Drew
John Drew

Director of Workforce, Training and Education

NHS England

 
John Drew is regional director of workforce, training and education for the Midlands region of NHS England, including education and training, workforce strategy, planning and transformation, talent management and equality, diversity and inclusion.

Before that, he was director of staff experience and engagement in the national workforce, training and education team, with responsibility for the NHS Staff Survey and health and wellbeing.

Prior to joining NHS England, he was director of improvement and culture at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, having previously been a partner in McKinsey's Healthcare practice.

John will be joining us as a speaker at our 'High stress and low morale: what can trust leaders do to support their staff?' delivering with partners session.
Jonathan Coulter
Jonathan Coulter

Chief Executive

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

 
Jonathan Coulter has worked within the NHS for over 30 years, having started his career in local government. Since joining the NHS, Jonathan has taken on a number of roles, working in various hospital trusts and commissioning organisations across Yorkshire, including being the director of finance for North Bradford PCT.

During this time, Jonathan also obtained a postgraduate qualification in health and social care management.

Jonathan was appointed as finance director at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust in March 2006. Since arriving at Harrogate, He has contributed significantly to the success of the organisation, within his roles as finance director, deputy chief executive, and since February 2022 as chief executive.

Jonathan will be joining us as a keynote speaker at our 'How trusts are working with system partners to deliver radical, sustainable reform' breakout session.
Katrina Percy
Katrina Percy

Joint Chief Executive Officer

National Association of Primary Care

 
Katrina Percy is National Association of Primary Care's joint chief executive officer and has worked across all sectors of the health service, including internationally, since joining on the NHS graduate management training scheme over 27 years ago.

Katrina was an NHS chief executive for nearly 10 years. She is known for leading transformational and innovative change through the creation of integrated primary and community care teams.

More recently her focus has been on working with systems and their senior leaders to enable the delivery and implementation of the integrated neighbourhood care model and leadership development.

Katrina will be joining us as chair at our 'Delivering the benefits of a neighbourhood based NHS' delivering with partners session.
Kudzai Nyamupfukudza
Kudzai Nyamupfukudza

Clinical Education

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 
Laura Bunt
Laura Bunt

Chief Executive

YoungMinds

 
Laura Bunt has been YoungMinds' chief executive since April 2023. Most recently she was at Public Digital, having previously been deputy chief executive at With You, a charity for people experiencing issues with alcohol, drugs or mental health.

Laura has also worked at Citizens Advice, Nesta and the RSA and is a trustee at Samaritans. She is passionate about working with young people to challenge the systems and structures that impact their mental health. Alongside YoungMinds, she believes that young people have the power to make change happen for themselves and others and wants to see a future where all young people feel hopeful and valued.

Laura will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Shaping better services for the next generation' plenary session.
Lianne Jongepier
Lianne Jongepier

Deputy Director of Transformation

Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative

 
Lianne Jongepier is a dedicated healthcare professional with a clinical background in respiratory care.

After several years of clinical commissioning, developing a deeper understanding of healthcare systems, healthcare design and monitoring, she now works as deputy director of transformation for the Mid and South Essex Community Collaborative; a partnership arrangement between three community providers.

Lianne is passionate about community health care and hopes to contribute to raising the profile and role of community services as part a effective and sustainable system.

Lianne will be joining us as a speaker for our 'Equitable improvement across organisational boundaries' delivering with partners session.
Lorraine Sunduza OBE
Lorraine Sunduza OBE

Chief Executive

East London NHS Foundation Trust

 
Lorraine Sunduza was appointed as chief executive officer of East London NHS Foundation Trust with effect from 17 May 2024, having formally been the interim chief executive from August 2023.

Lorraine graduated from De Montfort University with a mental health nursing qualification. She has over 20 years' registered nurse experience having started her career working in adult mental health inpatient services and joined the trust in 2002 as a charge nurse in the forensic directorate. 

In 2010 Lorraine was appointed as head of nursing for Forensic Services and in 2015 was appointed as deputy director of Nursing for London – Mental Health. She became interim chief nurse in November 2017 and was substantially appointed in June 2018.  She was appointed as deputy chief executive officer at the trust in June 2021.

Lorraine is a member of NHS England London People Board including the London Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Lorraine will be joining us as a chair at our 'Leading an improvement culture: people-powered improvement cultures' breakout session.
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan

Principle Architect

Darwin Group

 
Louis Sullivan is an award-winning architect, lecturer, and educator. With more than a decade of experience in international practice, he has led the design and delivered mixed-use developments around the world ranging from sensitive Grade-II-listed restorations to city-centre skyscrapers and urban-district masterplans.

He is currently the principal architect at Darwin Group, specialising in designing healthcare solutions for the NHS and striving to further what best-in-practice looks like.

Louis graduated from The Bartlett, University College London for RIBA Parts 1, 2, 3 and was awarded the RIBA Silver Medal Commendation at the RIBA Presidents Medal 2014.

He is passionate about the future of architectural education and is a regular guest critic and lecturer across the country. Louis has taught architecture at universities for more than half a decade, aspiring to inspire the next generation of architects.

Louis will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Building system resilience through on-demand infrastructure' delivering with partners session.
Lynette Smith
Lynette Smith

Deputy Managing Director

Humber and North Yorkshire Collaboration of Acute Providers

 
With over 20 years of experience in local government and the NHS, spanning Clinical Commissioning and Trust Operations, Lynette Smith is currently the deputy managing director of Humber and North Yorkshire Collaboration of Acute Providers. She is passionate about using collaborative approaches to improve services for patients, drawing on my diverse background to drive impactful change.

Lynette Smith will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Equitable improvement across organisational boundaries' delivering with partners session.
Mahmud Nawaz
Mahmud Nawaz

Chair

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

 
Mahmud Nawaz has been chair of Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Royal Primary Care NHS Foundation Trust since February 2024. He combines that part time role with being a senior leader at Lloyds Banking Group.

Previously, Mahmud has also been a non executive director at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, a charity chair at Relate Bradford and Leeds, a school governor and a multi-academy trust director and brings varied and rich experience from the public, private and third sectors.

Mahmud's professional career has been focused on both management consulting and the financial services sector, where he has built a strong track record in leading on customer strategy, segmentation, experience and transformation. 

He is passionate about tackling health inequalities and ensuring everyone has the right access, experience and outcomes that they deserve, and for 20 years has been an active organ donation campaigner and is also an organ donation ambassador for NHS Blood and Transplant. 

He has been recognised at the end of 2023 by his peers as one of 75 national ethnic minority health leaders by both the Seacole Group (ethnic minority NHS non-executive directors group) and South Asian NHS Leaders Network, and most recently in September 2024 he has been named as one of Europe's Top 50 Influential Muslims in Europe by Equality X.

Mahmud will be joining us as a speaker at our 'High stress and low morale: what can trust leaders do to support their staff?' delivering with partners session.
Marie Bell
Marie Bell

Senior Project Manager

South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Provider Collaborative

 
Marie Bell is a senior project manager at South Yorkshire Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Provider Collaborative leading the STOMP QI project as part of the Q/NHS Providers peer learning and coaching programme – improving equitability programme.

With a focus on continuous quality improvement approaches to embed STOMP (stop over medicating with people with learning disabilities and/or autism) and address systemic challenges across South Yorkshire.

She is currently studying for a master's level senior leadership diploma at Sheffield Hallam University.

Marie will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Equitable improvement across organisational boundaries' delivering with partners session.
Marika Stephenson
Marika Stephenson

Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of People Services

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

 
Marika Stephenson has extensive international experience of leadership roles in HR.

She joined the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) in 2021 after 10 and a half years with Rio Tinto, a FTSE 100 global mining company where she had led a large HR team based across US, Canada, South America, Africa and Europe.

Since being with EEAST, Marika's leadership has driven the transformation and growth within the people services team, as well as overseeing innovative transformation projects across the wider trust such as Time to Lead, a restructure programme for operational management and staff. She is MCIPD qualified and a mental health first aider.

Marika will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.

She will also be joining us as a speaker at our 'High stress and low morale – what can trust leaders do to support their staff?' delivering with partners session.
Martin Watts
Martin Watts

Director of Clinical Services

Medacs Healthcare

 
With a background as a divisional director for three large NHS trusts, Martin Watts has held wide-ranging responsibilities across urgent and emergency care services, leading system-wide improvement programmes for bed and ward management, emergency flow and patient pathways, reducing length of stay and admissions avoidance.

15 years on, having stepped away from the NHS into an independent sector role, Martin now has the perspective and the flexibility to develop fresh approaches to building true system resilience. This has led to a new partnership between Darwin Group and Medacs, and a suite of capacity solutions that aim to address bed and staffing shortages simultaneously.

Martin will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Building system resilience through on-demand infrastructure' delivering with partners session.
Mary Elford
Mary Elford

Chair

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

 
Chair of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust since 2020, Mary Elford is also a board member and trustee for NHS Providers.

Mary has undertaken leadership roles in the public and private sectors, including vice chair of East London NHS Foundation Trust, member of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel for the NHS, non-executive director of Health Education England and as a lay council member for the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Mary's commercial career was with the John Lewis Partnership, where she held a range of senior executive positions.

Mary will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Shaping better services for the next generation' plenary session.
Maryann Ferreux
Maryann Ferreux

Non-executive Director

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

 
Maryann Ferreux is the chief medical officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and a non-executive director for Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust.

She has 20 years clinical experience working across the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and population health.

Maryann has a special interest in researching health equity and the impact of social determinants of health; her current doctoral studies explore the impact of organisational behaviours and policy making on health inequalities in the NHS.

Maryann will be joining us as a chair at our 'Collaboration in health and care: working together tackle urgent and emergency care demand' breakout session.
Megan Rowlands
Megan Rowlands

Programme Director

Leeds Health and Care Partnership

 
Megan Rowlands is programme director for HomeFirst. HomeFirst is Leeds Health and Care Partnership's ambitious programme to improve the intermediate care offer and deliver positive impacts for people, families, staff and the system.

Megan has worked in a wide range of health and care settings, with extensive senior experience of working in partnership to lead, develop and deliver integrated community services.

Megan will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leeds HomeFirst: Collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes ' breakout session.
Miriam Deakin
Miriam Deakin

Co-Director of Development and Engagement

NHS Providers

 
Miriam Deakin began her career in local government in a number of business and team management roles in social care, before moving to work for national representative bodies, first supporting local government leadership on consultancy and support projects at the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government and then making the policy case for investment initiatives to improve services for the Local Government Association.

Miriam worked within NHS Providers' influencing arm for a number of years and as director of policy and strategy for six years.  She recently took up the new post of director of development and engagement at NHS Providers, as a job-share with Jenny Reindorp, director of engagement and development. 

Miriam is working with the development and engagement team to develop a coherent strategic framework to take forward our well regarded offer of events, networks and peer learning, for trusts, in challenging times.  She takes a particular lead for our growing board development offer, for networks, commercial partnerships and national events, complementing Jenny's focus on programmes.  Both Jenny and Miriam are members of NHS Providers executive management team.
Natalie Woods
Natalie Woods

Programme Manager - Health Inequalities

Barnardo's

 
Natalie Woods is a programme manager at Barnardo's, leading on a range of projects aimed at addressing health inequalities for children, young people, and families.

Before joining Barnardo's, Natalie worked in public health, leading on initiatives in mental health, suicide prevention, and health intervention commissioning.

With a diverse background in various children's charities, she has held roles in supporting parents of young children with disabilities, young carers, and the development and implementation of localised digital tools for parents and parents-to-be.

Natalie will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling child health inequalities through the social determinants of health' breakfast session.
Nicky Moffat
Nicky Moffat

Former British Army Brigadier and Leadership Development Consultant

 
Nicky Maffot's first career spanned 27 years in the Armed Forces, serving both in the Field Army and in strategy, policy and transformation roles in Army Headquarters and the Ministry of Defence.

She has led people across a broad spectrum of technical, leadership development and operational delivery roles, including as commander of a training regiment and director of the 4,500 soldiers within the Army's personnel and finance function. As military private secretary, she worked at the heart of government, supporting the Secretary of State for Defence.

In 2012, Nicky set up What Good Leadership Looks Like to help companies and organisations develop their thinking around leadership, culture and change. Sharing expertise and insight, alongside the techniques and tools that she employed throughout her career in Defence, she offers practical advice to inspire the development of empowered, trusting and trusted, high performing teams. She supports executive teams and individuals – including within the NHS – as a leadership coach and mentor.

Nicky will be joining us as a keynote speaker to discuss key leadership challenges facing NHS provider organisations at our plenary session.
Nicola Ennis
Nicola Ennis

Children and Young People's Alliance Programme Director

South Yorkshire Integrated Care System

 
Nicola Ennis initially qualified as a RGN in Scotland and for the past 30 years has worked in both the voluntary sector and NHS, undertaking further training as a public health nurse and obtaining a MA in Sociology.

She completed research on the physical and mental health inequalities of looked after children and following the research publication established a looked after children's health service in West Dunbartonshire.

Nicola went onto project manage the redesign of specialist children service in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and managed Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Glasgow and then Sheffield. Nicola now leads the South Yorkshire Children and Young People's Alliance across South Yorkshire.

Nicola will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling child health inequalities through the social determinants of health' breakfast session.
Paul Scott
Paul Scott

Chief Executive

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

 
Paul Scott has extensive experience at board level and across the NHS. Prior to taking up his role as chief executive of Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in 2020, Paul was executive director of finance, strategy and performance at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, where his remit included leading on long term partnerships as well as information and IT, before taking up his post at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust as chief financial officer, where he also had leadership responsibility for system development and integration.

He previously held senior roles in the East of England Ambulance Service and at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust.

Paul is motivated by improving the way our health and care services work in partnership to deliver improvements to the services we provide.

Paul will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leading an improvement culture: people-powered improvement cultures' breakout session.
Phil Garrigan
Phil Garrigan

Chief Fire Officer

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service

 
Phil Garrigan joined Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in 1990 and during that time he served in a variety of roles across community fire stations, working with some of Merseyside's most vulnerable and deprived communities. He was appointed as chief fire officer in 2018.

In addition to his role as chief fire officer, he is also the vice chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), and NFCC lead for children and young people.

Phil is a national strategic advisor which has more recently involved him taking the national lead for the Fire and Rescue Service UK's response to Covid-19, as well as taking the lead for the deployment of fire engines and equipment to aid Ukraine.

He is also a trustee and member of, the Hive Youth Zone, Firefit Hub, and Rainbow Education Multi Academy Trust, as well as an ambassador for the Cash for Kids Charity.

Phil will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Improving patient safety: learning from the past to shape the future' plenary session.
Professor Aldo Faisal
Professor Aldo Faisal

Science and Innovation Director

The Alan Turing Institute

 
Professor Dr Aldo Faisal is director of science and Innovation at the Alan Turing Institute responsible for the Health Grand Challenge.

He is Professor of artificial intelligence (AI) and Neuroscience at Imperial College London and director of the £50m UKRI Centres in AI for Healthcare. He holds a chair in digital health at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Aldo also holds a prestigious UKRI Turing AI Fellowship. He is one of the few computer scientists world-wide that leads clinical trials to take his work from algorithm to the bedside and won numerous international research prizes and awards.

He is an advocate for proactive adaptation of AI and healthcare regulation working with regulators and international organisations, and his work and contributions have been regularly featured in the global media.

Aldo will be joining us as a panellist at our 'For the next generation and beyond: realising the potential of AI in the NHS' plenary session.
Professor Andy Hardy
Professor Andy Hardy

Chief Executive

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

 
Professor Andy Hardy was appointed chief executive of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, one of the largest tertiary acute trusts in the country, in 2010.

For six years prior to that he was chief finance officer, and deputy chief executive from 2008-2010. Andy sits on a several boards, including chair of UK University Hospitals Association and the Health Innovation West Midlands. 

In 2023 Andy was appointed as deputy chair for the new NHS England National Improvement Board. He is Professor of Industry at the University of Warwick, an Honorary Professor at Coventry University and a member of the Global Impact Committee.

Andy will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity' breakout session.
Professor Bob Klaber
Professor Bob Klaber

Director of Strategy, Research and Innovation

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Professor Bob Klaber studied at the University of Cambridge and Bart's and The London School of Medicine, before completing his postgraduate training in paediatrics in hospitals across London.

He has also trained as a medical educationalist in quality improvement and, through an MD at University College London, in mixed methods research. He is a professor of practice (population health) at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, a member of the NHS Assembly and a trustee of the Nuffield Trust.

In his current executive director role, he is responsible for strategy, research, innovation and improvement across the trust. This also involves clinical leadership around redevelopment, sustainability, improving population health, developing the trust's role as an anchor institution and improving health equity.

Bob continues to work as a consultant paediatrician at the trust and as part of Connecting Care for Children, an integrated child health programme in north west London. Bob is also one of the leaders of Kindness in Healthcare, a network of 1,400 people from 34 different countries.

Bob will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leading an improvement culture: people-powered improvement cultures' breakout session.
Professor Bola Owolabi
Professor Bola Owolabi

Director

NHS England

 
Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen
Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen

Chair

General Medical Council

 
Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen is chair of the General Medical Council, appointed in May 2022. She has been a member of council since January 2021 and served as acting chair from August 2021 to May 2022.

Carrie is a consultant ophthalmologist for NHS Tayside and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. She served as chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges between 2017 and 2020 and is past-president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Carrie has served on several committees in support of education, training and assessment of healthcare professionals and NHS committees regarding service re-design for medical services. She is a trustee of the Moorfields Eye Charity.  She chaired the trustee board of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership until the end of 2023, and she was a member of the council of the University of Exeter.

Carrie will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Supporting diverse teams: intentionally embedding inclusive practice' delivering with partners session.
Professor Dr Durka Dougall
Professor Dr Durka Dougall

Chief Executive

Centre for Population Health

 
Professor Dr Durka Dougall is an award-winning influential ethnic minority health and care leader in the UK with over 25 years' experience.

Not only is she the founder and chief executive of the Centre for Population Health, but she is also the acting deputy chair for an NHS acute and community trust, the chair of The Health Creation Alliance, a Professor of population health and public health supporting University College London and University of East London. She is also a leadership development expert supporting clinical, board, and system development across the UK and internationally.

For the last 10 years, Durka has been leading efforts to develop leadership capability across the UK and more globally across a variety of roles. She has supported many individuals, boards of organisations, and systems to progress their efforts for population health and tackling health inequalities and is proud to be recognised as a trusted leader in this space.

Durka is proud of her Sri-Lankan heritage and of being Mum for her two teenage children.

Durka will be joining us as a panellist for our 'Setting up the NHS for future success: reflections on Darzi's diagnosis' plenary session.
Professor Jenny Simpson
Professor Jenny Simpson

Senior Advisor

Newton

 
As a young doctor, Professor Jenny Simpson's heart was set on a career as an acute paediatrician. Acute paediatrics led to an increasing interest in paediatric trauma at Sheffield Children's Hospital, specifically in improving the quality and consistency of emergency paediatric care.

Jenny realised early on that effective running of healthcare needs clinicians who understand all aspects of management and who can develop an appropriate skillset to lead colleagues and drive change. Jenny set up and then ran the British Association of Medical Managers (BAMM), which worked closely with both clinical leaders at the local level and with Secretary of State, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and a wide range of national NHS bodies, to bring about clinically driven improvement and change across the NHS.

As BAMM's chief executive, Jenny was asked to join the DHSC modernisation board, becoming one of the original signatories to the Labour government's NHS Plan.

In 2015, Jenny joined Newton as part of its senior advisor team. Since then, she has taken on a wide range of projects, from direct on-site involvement in projects, to supporting Newton's national urgent and emergency care work, to providing training programmes and coaching for Newton people, to strategic thinking and future planning for the organisation.

Jenny will be joining us as a chair at our 'Leeds HomeFirst: collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes' breakout session.
Professor Mel Pickup
Professor Mel Pickup

Chief Executive Officer

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 
Mel Pickup joined Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as chief executive officer in November 2019. Prior to this, she qualified as a registered general nurse in 1990 and after a number of clinical roles, worked in management before moving back into a professional nursing leadership role. She been a chief executive across different hospitals since 2011.

Mel is a champion in the area of equality, diversity and inclusion with a focus on tackling inequalities that lead to poorer, shorter lives, and a strong advocate for the role that the arts and culture play in creating a sense of wellbeing and improved health outcomes. This includes chairing the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Council at Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

Mel was place lead/accountable officer for the place of Bradford District and Craven (one of the five 'places' that make up the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System) between July 2022 and May 2024, creating the 'Act as One' approach that underpins the Health and Care Partnership.

Mel will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.
Professor Phil Wood
Professor Phil Wood

Chief Executive

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

 
Professor Phil Wood is the chief executive at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He joined the organisation in 2002 first as a consultant immunologist and has since held other roles including chief medical officer and deputy chief executive.

Phil was also the senior responsible officer for the Covid-19 vaccination programme in West Yorkshire. He is currently chair of the Northeast and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Board, a member of the NHS England National Genomics Board and a director/board member at the NHSA.

Phil will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leeds HomeFirst: Collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes ' breakout session.

He will also be joining us as a speaker at our 'Accelerating improvement: leveraging the seven levels of change' delivering with partners session.
Professor Simon Kenny
Professor Simon Kenny

National Clinical Director for Children and Young People

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

 
Professor Simon Kenny graduated in 1990 from the University of Birmingham and underwent general and paediatric surgical training in Liverpool and Melbourne. He was appointed as consultant paediatric surgeon to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in 2003.

His surgical interests include minimally invasive paediatric surgery and urology. He has developed research interests in regenerative medicine and long-term outcomes in paediatric surgery. As clinical director from 2009-2016 he played a key role in delivering Alder Hey's strategic plan to become a world leading children's hospital including moving to the multiple award-winning new hospital Alder Hey in the Park.

Since 2017 Simon has been the national clinical lead for paediatric surgery in the GIRFT programme concentrating the most complex surgery in fewer centres and reducing thousands of unnecessary surgical procedures in children. He is a national clinical adviser and board member of the National Clinical Improvement Programme which gives clinicians benchmarked outcomes of their treatments.

Simon was awarded OBE in 2024 for services to paediatric surgery.

Simon will be joining us as a panellist for our 'Shaping better services for the next generation' plenary session.
Professor Tara Rampal
Professor Tara Rampal

Founder and Director

QuestPrehab

 
Professor Tara Rampal has a proven track record of developing world class, award winning, patient optimisation services.

During her tenure at Medway NHS Foundation Trust she led the development Prehab Unit which was rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

In her NHS role, she leads Perioperative Prehab service at Princess Royal University Hospital (King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) and revived commendation for her culturally inclusive approach.

She is the founder of Britain's leading comprehensive, multi site digital prehabilitation service, QuestPrehab- established in September 2020.

Tara will be joining us as a chair at our 'What is QuestPrehab and how can we help improve patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
Professor Tim Orchard
Professor Tim Orchard

Chief Executive

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Professor Tim Orchard is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist and was appointed chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare in 2018.

He is a professor of gastroenterology at Imperial College London and he currently sits on the board of the Office of Strategic Coordination of Healthcare Research representing the NHS.

Since becoming chief executive, he has focused on developing a collaborative, inclusive and kind organisational culture, with three consecutive years of improvement in the NHS staff survey.

Tim will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.
Raghuv Bhasin
Raghuv Bhasin

Chief Operating Officer

Buckingham Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Raghuv Bhasin joined the trust as chief operating officer in March 2022. Prior to this Raghuv worked at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as director of strategic partnerships and previously led on planned care operations, outpatient transformation and commercial development at the trust.

During the pandemic Raghuv was seconded to help set up and lead NHS Test and Trace as chief of staff and a member of the executive committee of the organisation.

Raghuv started his career in the civil service working in the Department of Health and Social Care across a range of policy, finance and performance areas.

Raghuv spent three years directly supporting ministers including as Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Health. His first role in the NHS was in NHS Improvement where he helped set up the national Urgent and Emergency Care Programme.

Raghuv will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Delivering the benefits of a neighbourhood based NHS' delivering with partners session.
Rachel Clarke
Rachel Clarke

Deputy Group Director of Operations Medicine and Emergency Care

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

 
Rachel Clarke has over 25 years of experience working for the NHS. She has worked in various roles within diagnostics, clinical services, planned care, and most recently as the operational lead for urgent and emergency care for Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust.

Under her leadership, an urgent treatment centre was opened in 2021 and soon after medical same day emergency care services were opened across both hospital sites.

Rachel is also responsible for transforming urgent and emergency care pathways in preparation for the move into the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospitals in October 2024. With her wealth of knowledge and expertise, Rachel has helped improve patient access, experience and outcomes across Sandwell and West Birmingham.

Rachel will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Building system resilience through on-demand infrastructure' delivering with partners session.
Rebecca Barry
Rebecca Barry

Health Correspondent

ITV News

 
Rebecca Barry is the health correspondent at ITV News. Her analysis and exclusive investigations are broadcast on the UK's most watched commercial news programme, the ITV Evening News, as well ITV's flagship News at Ten programme. She also produces content for their digital platforms and regular podcasts.

Most recently Rebecca has investigated failings in mental health care, covered the long-awaited outcome of the Infected Blood Inquiry, reported on Lord Darzi's review of the NHS and held to account outgoing and incoming health secretaries. 

Rebecca began her journalism career in local radio, before becoming a producer and reporter at BBC News. She later moved to ITN, where she became the health correspondent at 5 News.  She's been at ITV News since 2014.

Before specialising in health, Rebecca reported on some of the biggest national and international stories, including the 2020 US Presidential Election, the war in Ukraine, the death of the Queen and the Israel-Gaza war.  She also presented an ITV documentary, Tabloids on Trial, featuring a world-exclusive interview with Prince Harry. 

Rebecca will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Setting up the NHS for future success: reflections on Darzi's diagnosis' plenary session.
Rhea Kankate
Rhea Kankate

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Robert Cragg
Robert Cragg

Chief People Officer

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

 
Robert Cragg joined the NHS in 2001 and has enjoyed a career spanning operational management, leadership and organisational development. Robert, throughout his career, has helped trusts to focus on improvements to culture and inclusion; creating working environments that improve both staff and user experience alike.

Robert's career has seen him work at local, regional and national level, as well as being fortunate to gain experience in both the private and academic sectors. He was formerly the deputy director of organisation development, education and inclusion at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, a post he held for three years before joining Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. 

He is currently the chief people officer for the trust, where he has enjoyed the most recent three years of his career.

Robert will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.
Roberto Laza Cagigas
Roberto Laza Cagigas

Head of Operations

QuestPrehab

 
Roberto Laza Cagigas has theoretical and practical experience designing, implementing, and supervising prehabilitation programmes for patients preparing for treatment.

He is interested in gaining an understanding of the role that lifestyle plays in the prevention and/or development of metabolic diseases.

Roberto is currently studying a PhD in human sciences analysing among other things the effects of prehabilitation programmes on functional capacity and length of stay in patients with cancer.

Roberto will be joining us as a speaker at our 'What is QuestPrehab and how can it help improve patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
Rt. Hon Wes Streeting MP
Rt. Hon Wes Streeting MP

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care

 
Rukshana Kapasi
Rukshana Kapasi

Director of Health

Barnardo's

 
Saffron Cordery
Saffron Cordery

Deputy Chief Executive

NHS Providers

 
Saffron Cordery has been NHS Providers deputy chief executive since 2018, and between June 2022 – February 2023 she was interim chief executive. She has worked in the healthcare sector since 2007.

Saffron has extensive experience in policy development, influencing and communications. Before moving into healthcare, Saffron was head of public affairs at the Local Government Association, the voice of local councils in England. Her early career focused on influencing EU legislation and policy development, and she started working life in adult and community education.

She has a degree in modern languages from the University of Manchester, for 10 years she was a board member and then chair of a college in Hampshire. She is currently a trustee of GambleAware, a leading charity committed to minimising gambling-related harm.

Saffron will be joining us as a chair at our 'Supporting diverse teams: intentionally embedding inclusive practice' delivering with partners session.

She will also be joining us as chair at our 'Embedding a strategic focus on addressing health inequalities and translating this into action' breakout session.
Saira Ramadan
Saira Ramadan

Partner

Hempsons

 
Saira Ramadan qualified as a barrister in 2006, and cross qualified as a solicitor in 2009. She is an expert in employment law with particularly extensive experience of employment tribunal litigation. She routinely represents clients in complex, high profile, and high value claims.

Saira has particular expertise in discrimination and equal pay, and led on one of the leading test cases in the national NHS equal pay litigation. She advises clients on the full range of employment and HR issues.

Saira will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Counting the cost: Understanding your ethnicity pay gap' breakout session.
Sally Warren
Sally Warren

Director General

Department of Health and Social Care

 
Sally Warren is director general for the government's 10-year health plan, leading a joint Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England team.

Prior to this, Sally was the director of policy for five years at The King's Fund. She has over 20 years of experience working in health and care, with roles including director for social care policy at DHSC, director of programmes at Public Health England, director of EU exit preparedness and response at Defra and deputy chief inspector at Care Quality Commission.

Sally will be joining us as a chair for our 'Developing a roadmap for the future: 10-year health plan' breakout session.
Salma Yasmeen
Salma Yasmeen

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

 
Salma Yasmeen is the chief executive of Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, taking up post in July 2023.

Prior to July 2023, Salma was deputy chief executive and director of strategy and change at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Salma started her career as a mental health nurse and joined South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in 2017.

Prior to this she was the director of nursing and transformation for a large medical city in the Middle East. During this time she led the development of the medical city's approach to transformation and building capability across the diverse workforce.

Salma brings a wealth of knowledge, leadership skills and experience from her time in health and care systems, leading innovation and change in organisations and across systems with people at the centre.

Salma Yasmeen will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity' breakout session.
Sam Prince
Sam Prince

Executive Director of Operations

Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

 
Sam Prince is executive director of operations at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust and has a wealth of health and social care experience. She has worked across all sectors of the NHS including community, mental health, commissioning, and acute services.

Sam is committed to working in a way that patients and their families can understand, she has led many partnerships across the city, collaborating with both the public and voluntary sector to improve access and outcomes for people in need of care and support.

Sam will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Leeds HomeFirst: Collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes ' breakout session.
Sara Polding
Sara Polding

Senior Transformation Manager

Skin Analytics

 
Sara Polding, senior transformation manager for Skin Analytics, works with healthcare providers such as integrated care boards and trusts to design, mobilise and deliver skin cancer pathways using artificial intelligence.

Working within the digital health space, she understands the governance structures and requirements within the NHS. Her career has been grounded in solution finding, working in service managements and delivery across different healthcare settings, incorporating digital tools and solutions.

Sara has supported a variety of healthcare providers develop pathways, operational measures and build successful skin cancer services.

Sara will be joining us as chair at our 'AI in action: boosting/tackling workforce efficiency and patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
Sarah Bierley
Sarah Bierley

Director of Strategy

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

 
Before joining Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, Sarah Bierley worked in a range of corporate and operational roles across a range of NHS trusts including the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Barts and the London NHS Trust (St Bartholomew's Hospital), North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

She held successive roles including divisional director, director of business development and partnerships and executive director of strategy.

In October 2020, Sarah took on the role of joint director of strategy for both East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust before joining the trust full time in August 2021.

Sarah will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Enabling productivity: achieving financial, operational, and clinical gains for lasting quality care' delivering with partners session.
Sarah Warren
Sarah Warren

Deputy Director Clinical Services: Care Navigation

NHS South, Central and West

 
Sarah Warren is a senior NHS leader, with 16 years of experience in delivering and commissioning services across primary, community and secondary care. She is passionate about inclusive, person-centred care, focusing on making every contact count. She compassionately leads NHS South, Central and West's Care Navigation Services (CNS), ensuring patients are empowered to make informed decisions about their care and access this in a safe, timely and equitable way.

CNS' public-facing contact centre delivery includes waiting list management, patient transport advice and clinical workforce solutions.

Sarah will be joining us as chair at our 'Improving patient experience while waiting: safely validating and reducing waiting lists' delivering with partners session.
Shana Tribe
Shana Tribe

Client Development Consultant

QuestPrehab

 
Shana Tribe has been working clinically for over 10 years as a physiotherapist in a range of London NHS trusts before specialising in cancer Wellington Regional Hospital, New Zealand.

She has first-hand experience delivering successful NHS business cases and efficient cancer prehab and rehabilitation services.

In her role as a client development consultant for QuestPrehab™ she brings her clinical leadership, project management and quality improvement experience to help deliver virtual prehabilitation programmes and customise QuestPrehab™'s technology platform to meet client's needs.

Shana will be joining us as a speaker for our 'What is QuestPrehab and how can it help improve patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.
Siobhan Melia
Siobhan Melia

Chief Executive

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

 
Siobhan Melia was appointed as chief executive of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust in 2016. She has a clinical background obtaining undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in podiatry and received her MBA in 2012. Siobhan has been chair of the national Community Network (which is jointly hosted by NHS Providers and NHS Confederation) since 2021.

Siobhan completed a secondment as interim chief executive at South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust in 2023. Following this, she led a review of the culture within the ambulance sector commissioned by NHS England.

Siobhan will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Collaboration across health and care systems: working together to tackle the demand challenge across urgent and emergency care' breakout session.
Sir Julian Hartley
Sir Julian Hartley

Chief Executive

NHS Providers

 
Sir Julian Hartley joined NHS Providers as chief executive in February 2023, having been chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals since 2013.

During his decade of service at Leeds, Sir Julian led a major programme of culture change and staff engagement to deliver improved quality, operational and financial performance. Sir Julian was awarded Knight Bachelor for services to healthcare in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Sir Ron Kerr
Sir Ron Kerr

Chair

NHS Providers

 
Sir Ron Kerr has spent all his career in the health and care sector and has been a chief executive at national, regional and local level for over 30 years, latterly as chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust until 2015.

He is currently a board member of the GEL/NHS England Partnership Board and is also a trustee of Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation and King's College London. He was knighted for services to the NHS in 2011.
Sue Colbeck
Sue Colbeck

Chief Procurement Officer

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside

 
Sue Colbeck joined NHS Cheshire and Merseyside as the chief procurement officer in September 2023 leading at-scale procurement across the integrated care service which consists of 16 NHS Trusts.

Sue previously held the role of associate director of procurement at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and other senior roles within London Procurement Partnership and Akeso & Co leading NHS Supply Chain Category Tower 8. 

Throughout her career as a procurement professional, Sue has witnessed first-hand the critical role that efficient procurement and supply chain management plays in delivering quality healthcare services to patients.

Sue will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Enabling greater productivity: delivering financial, operational and clinical benefits while improving the quality of care today and for the long term' delivering with partners session.
Suresh Periyasamy
Suresh Periyasamy

Head of Nursing for Recruitment, Retention, and Pastoral Care

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

 
Suresh Periyasamy is the head of nursing for recruitment, retention, and pastoral care at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL). He also serves as the executive lead for the British Indian Nurses Association for East Midlands.

Suresh began his nursing career in England in 2001 after being internationally educated in India. Since 2009, he has worked as an advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) across multiple specialties, with a strong emphasis on urgent and emergency care. He also currently practices as the lead ACP at the MIaMI Unit within the emergency department at UHL.

With a wealth of experience and a proven track record in leadership, Suresh is deeply committed to enhancing nursing practice, promoting the professional development of his colleagues, and fostering staff retention through a focus on pastoral care, particularly for internationally educated nurses.

Suresh will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work' breakout session.
Tamsin Hooton
Tamsin Hooton

Programme Director

Joined Up Care Derbyshire

 
Tamsin Hooton's career in the NHS spans 30 years, starting as a graduate trainee in finance before moving into commissioning, strategic change and transformation roles.

Tamsin has worked in a number of systems in London and the east Midlands and is currently the director of the Joined-Up Care Derbyshire provider collaborative. She has a keen interest in improvement, integrated care models and developing system leadership.

Tamsin will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Equitable improvement across organisational boundaries' delivering with partners session.
Tara Donnelly
Tara Donnelly

Advisor/Founder

Doccla/Digital Care

 
Tara Donnelly is an authority on tech enabled home health care models, and their potential to transform care globally, having worked as chief digital officer for the NHS and undertaking two chief executive roles in health care in London.

She now runs Digital Care supporting health systems and tech innovators to scale this model and is an Advisor to Doccla.

Tara will be joining us as a speaker at our 'Enabling productivity: achieving financial, operational, and clinical gains for lasting quality care' delivering with partners session.
Thea Stein
Thea Stein

Chief Executive

Nuffield Trust

 
Thea Stein is the chief executive of the Nuffield Trust. She took up the post in September 2023.

Thea was previously chief executive at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and before then chief executive of Carers Trust, Yorkshire Forward and North East Leeds Primary Care Trust. Thea has also held a number of non-executive roles in housing organisations and academia.

Thea will be joining us as a chair at our 'Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity' breakout session.
Tim Phillips
Tim Phillips

Director for Health Value for Money

National Audit Office

 
Tim Phillips is one of two directors in the National Audit Office's (NAO) Health Value for Money team.

He was responsible for much of the NAO's work on the Covid-19 pandemic, including 'Readying the NHS and adult social care in England for Covi-19', one of the first independent reports on the government's pandemic response, and 'The government's approach to Test and Trace in England.

Tim has also authored reports on the NHS' attempts to deal with backlogs in elective care, the New Hospital Programme, and the modelling that informed the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. His most recent report was on NHS financial management and sustainability.

Tim will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity' breakout session.

Previously, Tim directed the NAO's Value for Money work on the BBC and the Department for Education, and he has extensive experience auditing the court and prison systems of England and Wales.

He has served as the NAO's principal liaison with the chair of the House of Commons public accounts committee.

Tim will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity' breakout session.
Vincent Sai
Vincent Sai

Partner and Chief Executive

Modality Group

 
Vincent Sai, group chief executive and partner at Modality Partnership, has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare sector nationally and internationally.

Under his leadership, Modality grew from two sites and 25,000 patients to a national footprint and services reaching over 8.7 million citizens.

An Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vincent champions collaboration, digital transformation, and scalable care models. He has also led on pioneering innovative, data-driven approaches to link primary and secondary care.

Vincent will be joining us as a panellist at our 'Collaboration across health and care systems: working together to tackle the demand challenge across urgent and emergency care' breakout session.
William Franklin
William Franklin

Chairman

IHSN Healthcare Limited

 
William Franklin is the chair of IHSN Healthcare, leading its strategic direction and growth.

With over 25 years in international business, including the last eight years in healthcare and pharmaceutical consulting, he has been pivotal in developing IHSN's services.

William focuses on building strong partnerships between suppliers and healthcare providers. Notably, he established the first-ever commercial collaboration between private hospitals in the UK and Shanghai.

His work in the UK and abroad has opened new pathways for IHSN to explore opportunities and collaborations.

William will be joining us as a speaker at our 'What is QuestPrehab and how can it help improve patient outcomes' delivering with partners session.

Exhibitors 

We would like to thank our exhibitors and sponsors who will be joining us at this years Annual Conference and Exhibition 2024. Find out more about our sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities here.

If you would like to learn more about the products and services that they offer to NHS trusts, do view their profiles below and get in touch if you would like to learn more.

Barnardo's



Barnardo's is the UK's leading children's charity and one of the most comprehensive providers of integrated health and social care services for babies, children, young people and families.

Stand number: 36

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Bevan Brittan LLP

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Bevan Brittan LLP is a multi-award winning UK Top 100 commercial law firm and one of the UK's leading health and social care legal and regulatory advisors. They act for over 60% of all NHS trusts and clinical commissioners, including a range of other NHS organisations such as NHS Resolution and NHS Property Services.

Stand number: 11

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Billmonitor



Billmonitor is a specialist consultancy service, trusted by public sector organisations to reduce their mobile phone costs. Combining our proprietary software with a dedicated team, Billmonitor finds the mobile phone plan that works best for their clients, saving them money and time. They are also truly independent of any mobile network and offer a risk-free approach: 'no saving = no fees'.

Stand number: 37

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British Red Cross

For the last 150 years, they put kindness into action. The British Red Cross has been helping millions of people in the UK and around the world get the support they need when crisis strikes.

Stand number: 6

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Browne Jacobson

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Browne Jacobson powers success in health and social care, helping commissioners, providers, and regulators nationwide. Across the private and public sectors, they're a trusted advisor to over 100 NHS bodies, 150 local authorities and independent providers. Their straight-talking lawyers' extensive sector knowledge, progressive approach, and exceptional service achieves the outcomes clients need.

Stand number: 26

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Capgemini


Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society.

They unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in artificial intelligence, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

Stand number: 1

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Capsticks

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Capsticks is a leading UK law firm providing specialist legal advice to the health, housing, regulatory and social care sectors. For over 40 years Capsticks has worked with the NHS, providing specialist full-service legal advice, so they truly understand the unique challenges and opportunities that trusts face. They advise on some of the most ground-breaking, high-value and politically sensitive cases across a vast range of practice areas including employment, procurement, real estate and litigation.

Stand number: 28

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Darwin Group

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At Darwin Group, they firmly believe every patient should have access to world-leading healthcare facilities that empower staff to deliver exceptional care. They work in partnership with the NHS and private healthcare providers to create outstanding healthcare environments completely aligned with clinical needs. Whatever the problem, they have the solution – from immediate temporary buildings to permanent complex structures.

Stand number: 31

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Doccla

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Doccla is a leading provider of virtual ward and remote patient monitoring services, supporting over 40 NHS organisations. Our comprehensive solution enhances clinical capacity, reduces hospital admissions, and improves patient outcomes. With Care Quality Commission accreditation, seamless NHS system integration, and proven cost savings, Doccla offers a scalable, end-to-end service that optimises healthcare delivery.

Stand number: 33

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GatenbySanderson



GatenbySanderson is the UK's leading people advisory firm across public services, not for profit and education. Working within complex, challenging and highly scrutinised environments they deliver executive search, interim leadership and leadership development and consultancy.

Stand number: 5 

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General Medical Council

They work with doctors, patients, and other stakeholders to support good, safe patient care across the UK. They set the standards doctors and those who train them need to meet, and help them achieve them. If there are concerns these standards may not be met or that public confidence in doctors may be at risk, they can investigate, and take action if needed.

Stand number: 16

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Health Service Journal

HSJ provides a deep understanding of the NHS through a wide range of services and solutions – news, analysis, insight, data, live networking events and a unique best practice database – aimed at professionals in the UK healthcare industry.

They employ the largest team of expert healthcare analysts and journalists in the UK, who provide unparalleled news and analysis on national policy decisions and deliver the most up-to-date information on developments within the NHS. HSJ is the media partner for this year's Annual Conference and Exhibition. 

Stand number: 13

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Healthcare Management

Healthcare Management is the new fortnightly magazine for senior management in NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Boards, primary care and local government public health providing a holistic overview of the healthcare sector and a comprehensive and accessible round-up of the big stories. It also includes interviews with key industry figures, expert analysis, thought-provoking comment and the latest senior healthcare management vacancies. The print edition is available free and the magazine is also available as a digital edition at healthcare-management.uk.

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Lee Peart (editor): l.peart@hgluk.com
David Harris (publisher) – d.harris@hgluk.com

 

Hempsons

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Hempsons, a specialist health and social care law firm working across the public, private and third sectors, acts for over 150 NHS organisations nationwide on strategic and operational issues including integrated care, collaborations, service reconfigurations, patient safety, estates projects and workforce.

Hempsons is a longstanding partner of NHS Providers and support them on a range of activities where legal issues are an important consideration. Please see Hempsons' webinars and podcasts for advice on a range of legal issues.

Stand number: 19

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Hunter Healthcare

Hunter Healthcare

Hunter Healthcare is an award-winning resourcing business that places people at the epicentre of healthcare. Where disciplines, geography and potential intersect. They match the future of the industry with the people who'll build it.

Stand number: 17

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iBABS



iBabs board portal provides secure, paperless meeting solutions for NHS boards. It offers easy access to documents, agendas, and minutes, saving time and reducing paperwork. Visit their booth to learn how they support 30+ NHS trusts in making board and committee meetings more effective.

Stand number: 3

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Lapsafe

Lapsafe logo

 

LapSafe is a leading expert in providing innovative solutions such as self-service smart lockers, trolleys and cabinets that assist in the management of assets. Having supported the Healthcare and Emergency Services for many years, Lapsafe's Smart Lockers issue devices, pharmaceuticals, confidential paperwork, and medical equipment to staff 24/7.

Stand number: 7

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Liaison Group

Liaison Group is a trusted partner to the NHS, specialising in recovering cash for reinvestment and freeing up time to deliver more care. Through their workforce, financial and care businesses support integrated care systems and organisations with technology and expertise.

Stand number: 27

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Love and charity: a history of giving in the NHS

Love and charity: a history of giving in the NHS celebrates the vital impact of charities, who contribute over £1.2 million daily to support NHS staff, patients, and communities. Led by NHS Charities Together and internationally renowned photographer Rankin, the series features inspiring portraits celebrating NHS charity partnerships across the UK.

Stand number: 42

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Newton

Newton logo

Newton is a strategic delivery partner for health and care systems, helping to deliver change which tackles the intense pressures of today, while innovating for a brighter future. They work alongside all health and care partners to tackle their most pressing challenges, such as improving productivity or urgent and emergency care, and also look ahead at fundamentally reimagining and redesigning how services are delivered.

Stand number: 24

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NHS Business Services Authority


NHS Business Services Authority is delivering a brand-new workforce solution to over 1.8 million NHS colleagues that will ultimately replace the current electronic staff record. Organisations need to prepare now for the future solution by promoting a culture of self-service and making best use of technology and digital solutions.

Stand number: 4

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NHS Charities Together

NHS Charities Together logo

They are the national charity caring for the NHS, supporting a network of over 230 NHS charities based in every hospital, health board, ambulance, community, and mental health trust across the UK and helping the NHS go further for everyone. Together, NHS charities give over one million pounds a day to benefit NHS staff, patients and volunteers. During 2020, NHS Charities Together's Covid Appeal raised £160 million and has reached every NHS Trust and Health Board, funding thousands of projects. 

Stand number: 38

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NHS Commissioning Support Unit lounge 

NHS Commissioning Support Units work collaboratively to provide clinical and transformational support as well as value-adding back-office transactional services. They enable providers to deliver their ambitions for population health, effective care and sustainable use of NHS resources with services including: 

  •  Workforce transformation, planning and optimisation
  •  Improving productivity and efficiency
  •  Digital transformation and digitalisation
  •  Clinical strategy, redesign and patient flow
  •  Insight, analysis and business intelligence
  •  Provider collaborative empowerment and consolidation.

Stand number: 35

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NHS England EDI



The equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) function is designed to integrate an EDI perspective into all activities related to achieving the objectives of the Long Term Workforce Plan, maintaining the People Promise with its exemplar sites, and collaboratively overseeing the implementation of the EDI Improvement Plan. The Mandated Standards team aims to leverage insights and analysis from national data sources, such as the National Staff Survey and the Workforce Disability and Race Equality Standards, to inform initiatives that enhance workforce experience by addressing disparities. 

Stand number: 18

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NHS Open Space



Launched in 2016, NHS Open Space is an award-winning all-in-one space management system, specially developed by the NHS for the whole healthcare sector. It provides all NHS and public sector landlords with a suite of specialist estates management, booking and analytics tools, complemented by expert support and guidance from healthcare sector specialists.

Stand number: 12

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NHS Providers

NHS Providers logo

 

NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. We help those NHS foundation trusts and trusts to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care by enabling them to learn from each other, acting as their public voice and helping shape the system in which they operate.

Currently, we have all trusts in England in voluntary membership, collectively accounting for £115bn of annual expenditure and employing 1.4 million staff. We work across a range of disciplines, including policy and analysis, communications and media, support and training, public affairs and influencing.

Stand number: 25

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NHS Supply Chain

NHS Supply Chain manage the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products and services for the NHS across England and Wales. They are an integral part of the NHS family, working collaboratively to ensure our supply chain is cost efficient, resilient, and responsive to frontline needs – helping the NHS deliver exceptional care.

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Oxehealth

Oxehealth logo

 

Oxehealth is a leader in intelligent patient monitoring for inpatient mental health. The company is dedicated to helping clinical teams deliver safer, higher-quality and more efficient care. Oxehealth partners with half of NHS England’s mental health providers and is beginning to transform inpatient care in Europe and the US.

Stand number: 23

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Patchwork Health

Patchwork logo

Patchwork Health is on a mission to make flexible and sustainable working a reality for all healthcare staff. Their fully integrated workforce management solution helps optimise outcomes for organisations, managers, staff and patients. Built by a team of healthcare veterans, and co-created with the NHS, their technology and services have been embraced by over 100 healthcare sites. 

Stand number: 32

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Providers Deliver



Through the Providers Deliver programme, NHS Providers highlight, celebrate, and promote the innovations and achievements of NHS trusts and foundation trusts, alongside their partners.

This year we will feature two key reports: Achieving value for money and Shifting care upstream.

Stand number: 34 

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QuestPrehab



QuestPrehab is the UK's leading digital prehabilitation service, preparing patients for cancer treatment or major surgery. Built on decades of scientific study, it leads innovation in peri-operative and cancer care.

Proven and used successfully in the NHS, QuestPrehab's technology-enabled method overcomes common challenges, increasing patient adherence and service efficacy. Scalable and cost-efficient, QuestPrehab supports multiple NHS trusts. With extensive NHS experience, our flexible engagement models integrate seamlessly with your team's existing setup, helping free up clinical resources.
Stand number: 10

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Skin Analytics

Skin Analytics logo

Skin Analytics are working for a future where no one dies from skin cancer.

By leveraging DERM, the only UKCA Class IIa Artifical Intelligence as a Medical Device for dermatology, Skin Analytics helps dermatology teams build world-leading skin cancer pathways that enable better patient outcomes and sustainability for health systems, globally.

Stand number: 15

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Sleep and Health Clinic

The Sleep and Health Clinic is a CQC registered organisation, and is one of the largest private sleep clinics in the UK, specialising only in sleep disorders. 
Stand number: 20

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TERN Group

TERN logo

TERN provides a smarter approach to international hiring of the best healthcare talent for the NHS. The TERN platform matches the best talent to key vacancies and streamlines the end-to-end process to provide cost savings to the NHS, improve retention and reduce locum spend.

Stand number: 29

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Thiscovery

Thiscovery connects our clients (the NHS, Royal Colleges, government, universities and commercial organisations) to a growing community of experts using rigorous engagement methods that provide credible and actionable insights. Building on established knowledge of digital platforms and improvement, they have created an infrastructure for research, engagement, consultation, and collaborative design.

Stand number: 14

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Virginia Mason Institute

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Virginia Mason Institute is a global transformation and improvement organisation specialising in partnerships across the NHS that enable organisations to create, accelerate, and sustain their own patient-centric management system and embed a culture of continuous improvement. 

Their multi-disciplinary team has extensive expertise in healthcare leadership, strategic planning, innovation, large-scale change, and process improvement across all healthcare environments. Virginia Mason Institute have the approach, proven models, and methods to help you dramatically elevate your patient experience, eliminate waste, and sustain high quality care. 

Stand number: 9

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Weightmans

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Weightmans is a national law firm employing more than 150 specialist healthcare lawyers across the country. Our client base comprises over 160 NHS organisations including trusts, and commissioners. Our expert team combines legal and medical expertise, supporting legal teams and boards within NHS organisations on all areas of health-related law.

Stand number: 30

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accommodation 

We've secured special rates at selected hotels for our delegates. To take advantage of these deals, please book your accommodation by Friday 11 October. Rates may vary after this date, and availability cannot be guaranteed.

 

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 Accessibility

Our events and conferences are designed to be accessible to all. If you have any specific accessibility needs or questions, please feel free to reach out at events@nhsproviders.org before booking. For detailed information on the venue's accessibility, please visit the ACC Liverpool accessibility page.

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Sponsorship oportinities

Showcase your brand and engage with key leaders from NHS trusts, system partners, and industry stakeholders by becoming a sponsor. We offer a range of tailored sponsorship packages to enhance your visibility and drive meaningful connections.

Discover more by downloading our sponsorship brochure or reach out to Roberta Henry at roberta.henry@nhsproviders.org to discuss how you can get involved and make a significant impact at our event.

Cancellation policy 

  • Four weeks+ prior to the conference start: any cancellations will incur a £100 fee per delegate.  
  • 14 October 2024 to the conference start: 100% of the value of the delegate/dinner place(s) cancelled is non-refundable. 
  • If a cancellation is made within a group booking the discount for the remaining members will also be re-calculated. Any refunds will be paid via the original payment method.  
  • These charges cover the administration costs we incur on cancellation. 
  • Cancellations can be completed via the booking website or via email: events@nhsproviders.org 
  • Refunds will be processed after online booking for the event has closed. 

Contact us

If you have any queries about the conference, please contact our events team by emailing events@nhsproviders.org