Annual Conference and Exhibition 2025
11 - 12 November 2025
Manchester Central
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Join over 800 NHS leaders, system partners and changemakers shaping the future of healthcare.
Over two days in Manchester, senior NHS leaders will come together at our Annual Conference and Exhibition to exchange insight, hear from decision makers and thought leaders within and beyond the sector, and engage in honest, strategic discussion about how the NHS can evolve to meet the needs of patients and communities.
A call to reflect, reconnect, and refocus
This year’s theme, Recharge, responds to the level of reform underway across the NHS and the energy, commitment and leadership that providers will bring to it. It also recognises the importance of creating space to reflect, learn, and re-examine relationships across the NHS, with local communities, staff and wider partners.
Whether you’re navigating operational pressure, shaping strategy, or leading change across a system, this event gives you access to the conversations and perspectives that matter most.
Overall, and having attended many NHS Provider conferences, I felt this was the best and in particular had relevance in every session to the wider range of organisations NHS Providers represents, community, mental health, ambulance services etc.
Why attend
Our Annual Conference and Exhibition gives you the time, access and perspective to support high-quality decision making at board level.
🎙️ Hear from sector leaders
Get up-to-date thinking from across the NHS and wider public services, with strategic insight from national and local leaders.
🤝 Make valuable connections
Build relationships with peers, partners and stakeholders facing similar challenges — and explore new ways of working together.
💬 Join practical discussions
Take part in panel sessions, board-level debates and targeted roundtables designed to support your role.
🧠 Stay ahead of the curve
Access intelligence and approaches that can strengthen your board’s oversight, delivery and impact.
🌐 Engage with exhibitors
Meet partners offering relevant tools and services that can support your trust’s priorities.
The event feels supportive to leaders - its encourages and 'feels real'. Guest speakers were excellent.
Tickets
👥 Group discount
Get one free ticket for every three you buy (two days and single day).
🌱 Non-director level discount
25% off on two-day ticket for NHS Providers members. Cannot be combined with any other discounts, does not include the dinner.
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Built for leaders
Focused sessions, honest discussion, and space to reflect. Join us in Manchester this November.
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Who should attend
Designed for decision-makers and emerging leaders across trusts and systems, including:
- Chairs
- Chief executives
- Non-executive directors
- Directors
- Leaders from integrated care boards (ICBs)
- System partners from primary care, social care and the voluntary sector
- Aspiring trust leaders below board level
Programme
Keynote
Delivering with partners
Breakout session
Plenary session
09:45Welcome to day one
Opening address from NHS Providers chief executive
NHS Providers chief executive Daniel Elkeles will welcome all delegates to the first day of Annual Conference and Exhibition 2025 and set the tone with an introductory speech to kickstart the day.
Speaker
Daniel Elkeles
10:15Keynote
Senior leader from the Department of Health and Social Care
More information will be provided soon.
11:00Two-minute silence for Armistice Day
11:05Exhibition, refreshments, and networking
11:20Delivering with partners sessions
Delivering with partners session (supported by Darwin Group)
More information to be provided soon
Delivering with partners sessions (supported by NHS Supply Chain)
More information to be provided soon
12:05Breakout sessions | Recharging providers
Board autonomy and accountability in the new world order
Explore the implications of trusts gaining greater freedoms as the health and care system continues to evolve. With providers remaining central to NHS delivery, you will gain insight into how the new operating model could shift the balance between autonomy and accountability, and what this means for patients, service users and local communities.
Chair
Siva Anandaciva
Panellist
Alison Cottrell
Panellist
Matthew Winn
Recharging NHS performance through compassionate leadership
Learn how compassionate and inclusive leadership can help build and sustain high-performing NHS organisations. You will explore case studies and actionable strategies to support your teams to create lasting improvements and work more effectively.
13:05Exhibition viewing, lunch, and networking
13:20Delivering with partners sessions
Digital prehabilitation: empowering patients and the NHS (supported by QuestPrehab)
If you are a non-executive director, chief financial officer, transformation lead or service manager, you'll be familiar with the impact of surgical backlogs, stretched resources and the need for more proactive care models. Digital prehabilitation, where patients use digital tools to prepare for treatment, is helping address these challenges. This cost-saving approach is improving outcomes, reducing length of stay and increasing operational efficiency. You'll explore how it supports value-based care and aligns with strategic priorities from board to ward, with practical insights on optimising resources and improving recovery across the system.
High intensity use: a person-centred approach (supported by British Red Cross)
Explore the national High Intensity Use (HIU) programme and what we can learn from the experiences of HIU clients. With a focus on person-centred support and reducing avoidable A&E attendance, this session brings together insights from frontline teams and system leaders. You'll hear how innovative service models are being delivered in practice, and how investment and commissioning decisions are shaping impact across the wider system.
14:05Breakout sessions | Recharging care
Recharging commissioning: Lessons from mental health for system-wide impact
Discover how commissioning approaches developed in mental health are improving outcomes and partnership working across systems. With a focus on parity between physical and mental health, explore ways to embed inclusive, collaborative practice that supports stronger integrated care boards and provider performance.
Chair
Dr Nick Broughton
Panellist
Dr Christopher Hilton
Panellist
Kuli Kaur-Wilson
Panellist
Patricia Miller
Quality pays for itself
Challenge the narrative that cost and quality are at odds. Investing in better care has delivered long-term value, improved efficiency and stronger outcomes. Explore examples from across the system and the open discussion on how to embed a quality-first mindset without compromising financial grip. Join peers to exchange strategies and reflect on how to make the case for sustained improvement.
Panellist
Hardev Virdee
15:05Exhibition, refreshments, and networking
15:20Delivering with partners sessions
Delivering with partners session (supported by NHS Charities Together)
More information will be provided soon
16:05Plenary
No one left behind: Serving the whole person
Explore how Baroness Casey's independent review of social care aligns with key ambitions in the 10-year health plan. In this solutions-focused discussion, you will reflect on the review's emerging priorities and consider how NHS and social care leaders can work together to better support people with complex needs and deliver lasting reform.
16:50Plenary
More information will be provided soon
17:40Closing remarks
17:45Drinks reception (supported by Newton)
Sir Terence Stephenson opening drinks reception speech
📍 Exhibition Hall
Chair
Sir Terence Stephenson
19:00Conference dinner (supported by Hempsons)
More information will be provided soon
📍Alexandra Suite, The Midland Hotel
Chair
Daniel Elkeles
Conference chair and speakers
Gilian Joseph
Conference Chair (News Anchor)
Gillian Joseph is a veteran broadcaster with more than 30 years of experience in the industry. She currently presents Sky News at Ten and has covered some of the most significant events of our time. She has reported from Kyiv on the war in Ukraine, covered royal weddings and funerals, American elections, the EU referendum and every UK General Election since 2001. Prior to joining Sky News, Gillian presented the news on BBC Breakfast TV and on BBC London. She also worked as a presenter for BBC News 24.
Alison Cottrell
Non-executive Director
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Daniel Elkeles
Chief Executive
NHS Providers
Dr Christopher Hilton
Chief Operating Officer (Local Services)
West London NHS Trust
Dr Nick Broughton
Chief Executive
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire Integrated Care Board
Hardev Virdee
Group Chief Finance Officer
Barts Health NHS Trust
Kuli Kaur-Wilson
Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer
Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust
Laura Taylor-Green
Director
Northeast Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Matthew Winn
Chief Executive
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Patricia Miller
Chief Executive
Dorset Integrated Care Board
Professor Ian Ashworth
Director of Population Health
Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
Sir Terence Stephenson
Chair
NHS Providers
Siva Anandaciva
Director of Policy Events and Partnership
The King's Fund
Therese Patten
Chief Executive
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Accommodation
Discounted rates are available at selected hotels. To get the best deal, book your accommodation by Friday 10 October. Rates may vary after this date, and availability cannot be guaranteed.
Exhibition
Alongside the main programme, our exhibition offers space to connect with organisations supporting NHS trusts and systems. Explore tools, services and solutions aligned with your priorities, and speak directly with partners working across the sector.
We still have a range of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities available, with flexible packages to suit every budget.
Discover the options and secure your preferred package here.
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross has been supporting health and social care systems since the NHS was established. We have vast experience in providing valuable support to people when they most need it. Our UK-wide infrastructure enables us to deliver quality assured, scalable and efficient services, delivered responsively and flexibly according to local needs.
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Capsticks
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. Like the organisations they represent, making a positive impact on people's lives is important to them, and the work they do means just that. Capsticks pride themselves on being world-class in their services, taking a commercial approach and treating all clients, employees and stakeholders with kindness and respect.
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Darwin Group
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, we have the solution – from immediate temporary buildings to permanent complex structures.
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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 we deliver executive search, interim leadership and leadership development and consultancy.
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Hempsons
Hempsons, a specialist health and social care law firm working across the public, private and third sectors, act for over 200 NHS organisations nationwide on strategic and operational issues including integrated care, collaborations, sustainability and transformation partnerships, service reconfigurations, estates projects and workforce.
Hempsons continue to support their NHS trust clients through the Covid-19 pandemic and have worked with NHS Providers on a joint publication Covid-19: Key legal considerations arising from the pandemic, which looks at the legal liabilities that are likely to arise due to the environment created by the pandemic and suggests ways in which trust boards could respond.
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Healthcare Management
Healthcare Management is a new cutting-edge, bi-weekly publication, offered as a free subscription (print and digital) and tailored for senior, non-clinical healthcare executives, delivering essential news, insight and strategic perspective you won't want to miss.
In addition to the publication, Healthcare Management also offers a weekly newsletter, roundtables and forums.
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iBABS
iBabs is a leading board portal for managing NHS Board and Committee Meetings. It provides a centralised platform for governance, streamlining meeting preparation, execution, and follow-up. Trusted by 30+ NHS trusts, iBabs meets industry-leading security standards, enhancing efficiency and collaboration in board management.
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IMPOWER
IMPOWER helps public service leaders to produce lasting, positive change in complex systems. Our unique IMPOWER Index and EDGEWORK® approach is a different way to co-produce organisational change and shift mindsets. Creating a focus on outcomes and working across organisational and system boundaries and providing the systems and tools that make that easier.
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MiH Solutions
MIH is your trusted partner for strategic communications and PR. We specialise in crisis handling, media training, video production, and more. Our expert team delivers tailored solutions to elevate your brand, influence behaviour, and achieve your goals. Let us make it happen for you!
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Newton
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.
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NHS Providers' Providers Deliver
Providers Deliver celebrates and promotes the work of NHS trusts and foundation trusts, along with their partners, in delivering care. It aims to influence and shape the environment in which trusts operate, highlighting the challenges they face while ensuring that the extraordinary work and achievements of trusts and their staff are recognised and lessons learned are shared. While trusts are rightly held accountable when standards are not met, their successes also deserve to be celebrated, with approaches and ideas that could benefit patients shared widely across the NHS. Providers Deliver plays an important role in making this happen.
NHS Supply Chain
NHS Supply Chain manage the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products and services for the NHS across England and Wales.
We 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 is a leading healthtech company tackling some of the biggest challenges in inpatient mental health care. Partnering with half of NHS trusts and expanding globally, its contactless patient monitoring platform empowers teams to adopt a data-driven approach to clinical practice, driving measurable improvements in safety, quality and efficiency.
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Psyomics
Psyomics is clinically led and specialises in NHS digital mental health. With products designed to drive clinician productivity, champion the patients voice and reduce time to treatment; Psyomics has platforms for adults, children's and neurodevelopmental services. Psyomics is on the NHS Innovation Accelerator.
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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, their flexible engagement models integrate seamlessly with your team's existing setup, helping free up clinical resources.
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Skin Analytics
Skin Analytics are helping more people survive skin cancer.
By leveraging DERM, the only Class III CE mark AI 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.
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Virginia Mason Institute
Virginia Mason Institute is a not-for-profit partner helping healthcare organisations worldwide build patient-centred systems. Whether you're starting with a single department or pursuing system-wide change, our expert team supports strategic planning, innovation, and improvement efforts to transform care, eliminate waste, and sustain excellence.
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Weightmans
Weightmans is a leading UK law firm employing more than 150 specialist healthcare lawyers. Their client base comprises over 160 NHS organisations including trusts, commissioners, and national bodies including NHS Resolution. Their expert team combines legal and medical expertise, with doctors, nurses and other health professionals contributing specialist knowledge.
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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 Manchester Central accessibility page.
Contact us
If you have any queries about the conference, please contact our events team by emailing events@nhsproviders.org
Cancellation policy
- Cancellations made by Friday 10 October: a £100 administration fee will be charged per delegate.
- Cancellations made on or after Saturday 11 October: the full cost of your delegate place and/or conference dinner will be non-refundable.
- Group bookings: If one or more delegates within a group booking cancels, the group discount will be recalculated based on the remaining number of attendees. Any difference will be charged.
Refunds (where applicable) will be processed via the original payment method after bookings have closed.
To cancel, please use the booking website or email events@nhsproviders.org.
Sponsorship
Download our brochure to discover tailored sponsorship and exhibitor packages designed to put you in front of the right audience, and find the perfect fit for your goals.
