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.
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.
tickets
Delegate profile |
Both days |
Single day |
Conference dinner |
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NHS Providers’ members |
£585 |
£400 |
£77 |
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NHS Providers’ partners and ICB members |
£700 |
£470 |
£77 |
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Non for profit/charities |
£855 |
£600 |
£94 |
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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.
Programme
08.30
Registration and exhibition viewing
09.45
Welcome
Introduction
Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling historian, acclaimed broadcaster, author and journalist will open the conference.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
09.50
Plenary 1
Opening address from NHS Providers chief executive
NHS Providers Chief Executive, Sir Julian Hartley opens the conference, reflecting on the achievements in the provider sector over the past year and the priorities ahead.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
Keynote speaker
Sir Julian Hartley
10.20
Plenary 2
Setting the NHS up for success to serve the next generation: reflections on Darzi's diagnosis and forward look
This plenary session will explore the future of the NHS following the findings of Lord Darzi's investigation into the state of the health service. It will provide an opportunity to consider how the government and health and care leaders can work together to overcome the challenges facing the healthcare system and ensure the 10 year health plan strengthens the NHS and sets it up for success to serve the next generation.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
Panellists
Jacob Lant
11.10
Exhibition, refreshments and networking
11.25
Delivering with partners 1
Building for the future of the NHS: the role of adaptable estates (supported by Darwin Group)
This session will provide insights and examples for NHS leaders and all those involved in the design and management of healthcare estates. Join us to understand how adaptable healthcare estates can support the evolving needs of the NHS, ensuring that both staff and patients experience safe and efficient care environments.
Join this session to explore:
- What does adaptable healthcare estates mean for the NHS?
The importance of flexibility in healthcare facilities, including the ability to deploy and reconfigure spaces quickly and efficiently to meet changing clinical needs. - Prioritising adaptability without compromising safety and experience
How healthcare organisations can balance the need for adaptable spaces with the imperative of maintaining high standards of safety and patient experience. - Temporary solutions leading to permanent successes
How interim solutions, such as modular buildings and temporary facilities, can be leveraged for long-term gains, offering a pathway to future-proof healthcare infrastructure.
Speakers: TBC
Enabling greater productivity: delivering financial, operational and clinical benefits while improving the quality of care today and for the long term (NHS Supply Chain)
Presenting with system partners, Andrew New and Heather Tierney-Moore will share insights into how our procurement and supply chain business secures value, productivity and efficiency benefits, in partnership with health and care systems – working with you to deliver improved patient outcomes and £1bn of recurrent value for the NHS.
Chair
Andrew New
Further information to follow
Details to be announced shortly.
12.10
Breakout sessions – Next generation leadership
Improving staff retention: trust led initiatives on making the NHS an attractive place to work
An interactive discussion led by facilitators from trusts, including NHS People Promise Exemplars, that will encourage attendees to explore examples of good practice regarding staff retention for their diverse workforces, against the backdrop of a challenging operational environment and finances. This session will also be an opportunity for attendees to share challenges they are facing, identifying common concerns and potential solutions.
Counting the cost: understanding your ethnicity pay gap (supported by Hempsons)
Join us for an insightful and engaging panel discussion on the issue of the ethnicity pay gap in the NHS and how healthcare providers are successfully tackling this inequality. Our expert panel will explore the implications of this gap, including its impact on staff morale, quality of patient care, and potential legal risks for NHS organisations.
This session brings together Hempsons' extensive legal expertise with real-world experience from senior NHS HR/equality leaders, offering a unique blend of legal insight and practical knowledge. By attending this discussion, delegates will be equipped with valuable knowledge and practical tools to develop effective, people centred, legally sound strategies aimed at reducing the ethnicity pay gap in their own organisations.
Chair: TBC
Panellists: TBC
Leading an improvement culture: people-powered improvement cultures
This session will explore how different relational aspects of leadership can drive an improvement culture with people at the heart of it. Attendees will hear from trust and national leaders on the different approaches they have adopted and the impact it has had.
Chair
Sir Julian Hartley
13.10
Exhibition viewing, lunch and networking
13.25
Delivering with partners 2
Improving patient experience while waiting - safely validating and reducing waiting lists (supported by NHS SCW)
Across the NHS waiting lists are at an all-time high.
Too often, patients are not getting access to timely diagnosis and treatment, creating poorer clinical outcomes, impacting their quality of life, and resulting in urgent and emergency care that could otherwise have been avoided. Optimising care pathways – across primary care, acute, community, and mental health services – is key to counteracting this.
Our session showcases the person-centred approaches providers can take and build upon, to safely improve patients' experience while they are waiting. This includes:
- Patient-led validation through clinically informed conversations to ensure that they are on the most appropriate pathway.
- Technical validation through insight-driven data quality checks.
- Waiting well through targeted health coaching to empower patients to manage their health.
Chair: TBC
Supporting diverse teams: intentionally embedding inclusive practice (supported by GMC)
Dame Carrie MacEwen will share latest General Medical Council (GMC) data on negative experiences of some groups of doctors in the workplace, and discuss inclusivity-focused duties in updated good medical practice. Her co-host from East Lancashire NHS Trust will present a case study on their quality improvement anti-racist and equality, diversity and inclusion campaigns.
Chair
Saffron Cordery
Building a sustainable workforce: how technology can pave the way forward (supported by Patchwork)
With insights from NHS leaders, discover how technology can support safe, flexible and sustainable workforce deployment, helping you meet current productivity targets and long-term staffing requirements. Leave the session with recommendations for making the most of effective rostering and temporary staffing technology, to drive improvements for organisations, clinicians and patients.
14.10
Breakout sessions – Next generation care
Embedding a strategic focus on addressing health inequalities and translating this into action
This session will provide an opportunity to explore the importance of setting strategic commitments to tackling health inequalities. You will hear from two trusts that have effectively embedded health inequalities within their trust's strategic framework and have the opportunity for peer-to-peer discussions to reflect on how to move from strategy to implementation.
Chair
Saffron Cordery
Collaboration across health and care systems: working together to tackle the demand challenge across urgent and emergency care
This session explores different initiatives trusts and their partners are taking to help manage the urgent and emergency care pathway at this challenging time. The examples provided and the subsequent discussion will focus on how collaboration across system, and primary and secondary care in particular, is key to unlocking potential improvements.
Chair
Miriam Deakin
Leeds HomeFirst: Collaborative partnership working and its impact on people's outcomes (supported by Newton)
For the last year and a half, the Leeds Health and Care Partnership has been delivering 'HomeFirst', a bold and innovative programme aiming to achieve a sustainable, person-centred, home-first model of intermediate care that is joined up and promotes independence.
The programme, nearing completion, has had an incredible impact, for people and for the system. In this session, system leaders will reflect on this transformation journey and describe how cross-system working at all levels has been a core enabler to the results this work has achieved.
Chair: TBC
15.10
Exhibition, refreshments, and networking
15.25
Delivering with partners 3
Accelerating improvement: leveraging the seven levels of change (supported by Virginia Mason Institute)
The critical challenges in health and care today demand a departure from the conventional thinking that initially created them. Achieving different outcomes requires us to embrace new perspectives and strategies for thinking and doing.
This session offers executives and practitioners valuable tactical insights into the Seven Levels of Change, a practical framework designed to stimulate innovation, foster continuous improvement, and drive high performance.
Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring Wendy Korthuis-Smith, executive director of the Virginia Mason Institute, alongside NHS chief executives who bring extensive first-hand experience implementing change. Come prepared to explore salient examples of how they have successfully cultivated both incremental improvement and transformative change within their organisations.
AI in action: boosting/tackling workforce efficiency and patient outcomes (supported by Skin Analytics)
Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising NHS hospitals at this must-attend session for senior NHS decision makers. Explore how our partner trust has enhanced workforce efficiency and patient outcomes, and learn how AI innovations are enabling hospitals to achieve more with fewer resources, particularly in improving skin cancer diagnosis and treatment pathways.
High stress and low morale – what can trust leaders do to support their staff? (Supported by NHS Charities Together)
This session will discuss creative ways to tackle staff stress levels and low morale through co-design and partnership working. The panel of experienced leaders will draw from the early findings of a £16m multi-partner workforce wellbeing programme. This could inform your trust's wellbeing strategy, helping to create a healthier, happier and more productive workforce.
Speakers: TBC
16.10
Plenary 3
Keynote speech
Details to be announced shortly.
Keynote speaker: TBC
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
16.50
Plenary 4
For the next generation and beyond: realising the potential of AI in the NHS
A future focused session that will explore the extent to which artificial intelligence (AI) will disrupt healthcare. We will explore how the NHS can make the most out of the opportunities and mitigate any challenges AI presents to delivering sustainable, high quality health care for the next generation and beyond.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
17.40
Closing remarks
Closing speech from conference chair
Sathnam Sanghera, author, broadcaster and journalist, closes day one of this year's conference.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
17.45
Drinks reception
Drinks reception
Sir Ron Kerr, chair of NHS Providers, will hold an opening drinks reception speech.
Chair
Sir Ron Kerr
19.00
Conference dinner
Conference dinner
Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, gives his closing remarks alongside our event partner Hempsons.
Chair
Sir Julian Hartley
07.30
Registration and exhibition viewing
08.00
Breakfast sessions
Shifting the dial on child health: how healthcare systems are tackling child health inequalities through the social determinants of health (session delivered by Barnardo's)
Details to be announced shortly.
Chair: TBC
09.00
Conference day two
Introduction to the second day of Annual Conference and Exhibition
Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling historian, acclaimed broadcaster, author and journalist will open the second day of the conference.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
09.05
Plenary 5
Further information to follow
Details to be announced shortly.
Keynote speaker: TBC
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
09.40
Plenary 6
Improving patient safety: learning from the past to shape the future
A thought-provoking session on improving culture and patient safety, reflecting on the learnings from NHS inquiries, and experiences outside of the health sector. The session will explore how the NHS can overcome deep-rooted cultural issues to improve patient safety for the future.
10.25
Exhibition viewing, refreshments and networking
10.35
Delivering with partners 4
Further information to follow (supported by NHS Property Services)
Details to be announced shortly.
Putting data to work – how to support innovation and improvement while protecting privacy (supported by Hempsons)
Details to be announced shortly.
Delivering the benefits of a neighbourhood based NHS (supported by NAPC)
Neighbourhood teams can and should be designed to meet the holistic needs of a local population which in turn informs the care and support services required for that community. In line with the Fuller Stocktake, teams work in an integrated way with expertise from a range of providers.
Effective and efficient neighbourhood teams evolve together, building trust and cohesion. They are creative and innovative, developing new ways of working to improve the health of their neighbourhood. Communities are empowered and flourish, which improves the overall wellbeing of those in the neighbourhood.
What will you get out of this session: you can explore what is needed to create effective collaborative neighbourhood teams with an expert panel providing first-hand experience of their work to deliver this model.
Speakers: TBC
11.20
Breakout sessions – Sustaining the next generation NHS
How trusts are working with system partners to deliver radical, sustainable reform
The session will aim to provide an opportunity for attendees to think strategically about the enablers to integration with a range of system partners. As well as how to meaningfully address barriers to integration in order to provide holistic care to individuals with multiple health, care and social needs.
Chair
Duleep Allirajah
Further information to follow
Details to be announced shortly.
Improving value for money through a whole system approach to productivity
This session will bring together trust leaders, system partners and policy experts to discuss how the NHS can deliver value for patients through adopting a whole system approach to improving productivity.
Chair
Thea Stein
12.20
Exhibition viewing, lunch and networking
13.20
Plenary 7
Keynote speech
Details to be announced shortly.
Keynote speaker: TBC
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
13.55
Plenary 8
Shaping better services for the next generation
Explore how trusts and wider system partners can help to improve the physical and mental health of the next generation. In this solution focused session we will explore the patient perspective, the challenges around rising demand and waiting times for NHS children and young people's services and how trusts can work with wider partners to tackle health inequalities and improve access to care.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
14.50
Closing remarks
Closing speech from conference chair
Sathnam Sanghera, author, broadcaster and journalist, gives his closing remarks on this year's conference.
Chair
Sathnam Sanghera
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
Adam Sewell-Jones
Chief Executive
East and North Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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.
Aishah Farooq
Associate Non-Executive Member and Board Member
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board and NHS England
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.
Amy Galea
Chief Integration and Primary Care Officer
NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
Andrew Davidson
Head of Employment
Hempsons
Andrew New
Chief Executive
NHS Supply Chain
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.
Andy Hilton
Chief Executive
Primary Care Sheffield
Caroline Baria
Director for Adults and Health
Leeds City Council
Cathy Elliot
Chair
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
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.
Charlie Sheldon
Chief Nursing Officer and Director of People
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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.
Chris Alderson
Partner
Hempsons
Chris Moulton
Clinical Lead for Emergency Medicine
Get it Right First Time
Claire Low
Group Chief People Officer
Lincolnshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Daniel Elkeles
Chief Executive
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
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 Chilcott
Client Enablement Director
Patchwork Health
David Welch
Head of Contract Management and Healthcare Procurement
NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit
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.
Dominic Bellringer-Mundy
Associate Director of Experience, Participation and Health Equalities
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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.
Doug Simkiss
Senior Responsible Officer for Health Equity Collaborative
Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System
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.
Dr Amanda Woolley
Founder and Principle Consultant
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 Bob Klaber
Director of Strategy, Research and Innovation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Elizabeth Crabtree
Beyond Programme Director
Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System
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.
Dr Henrietta Hughes
Patient Safety Commissioner
Department of Health and Social Care
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.
Dr Kathy Smith
Medical Lead - Clinical Workforce Solutions
NHS South, Central and West
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 Rishi Das-Gupta
Chief Executive
Health Innovation Network South London
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).
Dr Uma Krishnamoorthy
Deputy Medical Director, System Improvement and Professional Standards
NHS England
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 Vin Diwakar
Interim National Director of Transformation
NHS England
Dr Wendy Korthuis-Smith
Executive Director
Virginia Mason 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.
Duleep Allirajah
Chief Executive
Richmond Group of 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.
Heather Tierney-Moore OBE
Chair
NHS Supply Chain
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.
Isabel Lawicka
Director of Policy and Strategy
NHS Providers
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.
Jacob Lant
Chief Executive
National Voices
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.
Jennie Dwerryhouse
Deputy Chief People Officer
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Jinjer Kandola MBE
Chief Executive
North London Mental Health Partnership
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.
Jodi Williams
Divisional General Manager
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Laura Bunt
Chief Executive
YoungMinds
Marika Stephenson
Director of People Services
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Mary Elford
Chair
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
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.
Megan Rowlands
Programme Director
Miriam Deakin
Co-Director of Development and Engagement
NHS Providers
Nicola Ennis
Children and Young People's Alliance Programme Director
South Yorkshire Integrated Care System
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.
Paul Scott
Chief Executive
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Phil Garrigan
Chief Fire Officer
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
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.
Professor Andy Hardy
Chief Executive
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
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.
Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen
Chair
General Medical Council
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.
Professor Mel Pickup
Chief Executive Officer
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Phil Wood
Chief Executive
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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.
Professor Sanjiv Sharma
Chief Medical Officer and Acting Deputy Chief Executive
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Tim Orchard
Chief Executive
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Richard Azurdia
Consultant Dermatologist
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Robert Cragg
Chief People Officer
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Rukshana Kapasi
Director of Health
Barnardo's
Dr Ruw Abeyratne
Director of Health Equality and Inclusion
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
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.
Saffron Cordery
Deputy Chief Executive
NHS Providers
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.
Sam Prince
Executive Director of Operations
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Sara Polding
Senior Transformation Manager
Skin Analytics
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.
Sarah Warren
Deputy Director Clinical Services: Care Navigation
NHS South, Central and West
CNS' public-facing contact centre delivery includes waiting list management, patient transport advice and clinical workforce solutions.
Siobhan Melia
Chief Executive
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Sir Julian Hartley
Chief Executive
NHS Providers
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
Chair
NHS Providers
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
Chief Procurement Officer
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside
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.
Thea Stein
Chief Executive
Nuffield Trust
Tim Phillips
Director for Health Value for Money
National Audit Office
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.
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.
Vincent Sai
Partner and Chief Executive
Modality Group
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.
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
Bevan Brittan LLP
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.
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Browne Jacobson
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.
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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.
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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.
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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, they have the solution – from immediate temporary buildings to permanent complex structures.
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Doccla
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.
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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.
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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, 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. Please see Hempsons webinars and podcasts for advice on a range of legal issues.
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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.
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Hunter Healthcare
Lapsafe
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.
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Newton
They partner with health and care systems to deliver change which tackles the intense pressures of today and innovates for tomorrow. They focus on redesigning health and care pathways and services to answer some of the most complex challenges facing the healthcare sector including urgent and emergency care, productivity, and prevention. In doing so, they guarantee to deliver meaningful outcomes for people and staff, as well as realise significant and sustainable financial benefits.
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NHS Charities Together
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.
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NHS Providers
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.
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NHS South, Central and West
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 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.
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Patchwork Health
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.
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The British Red Cross
Skin Analytics
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.
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Tern Group
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.
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This Labs
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.
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Virginia Mason Institute
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.
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Weightmans
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.
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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.
♿ 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