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The National Operating Theatres Show 2026

The Kia Oval, London 10 March 2026, 9:00am - 4:00pm

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8:30am
Registration & Networking
9:30am
Chairs Opening Address
9:40am
Reforming Elective Care: Delivering Choice, Capacity and Timely Treatment
  • Understand the core goals of the Reforming Elective Care plan  
  • Appreciate how patient experience, choice, and digital empowerment are central
  • Explore what operational reform will look like in theatres and elective pathways
10:00am
Digital and Data Transformation in Operating Theatres: Lessons from London Hospital Systems
  • Provide an overview of how digital and data strategies are currently being applied across London hospital operating theatre environments
  • Explore how theatre data is being used to improve utilisation, patient flow, scheduling, and clinical decision-making within complex hospital systems
  • Share practical insights on collaboration between clinical teams and digital teams
Usman Khan, Executive Director of Improvement, Transformation and Partnership, NHS England
10:20am
Main Stage Speaking Session
10:40am
Questions & Answers Session
11:00am
Break & Networking
11:30am
Transforming Surgical Pathways: Minimally Invasive Approaches and Improving Flow from Community to Theatres
  • How minimally invasive surgery is changing theatre demands
  • The role of pre- and post-operative community pathways
  • Improving turnover and reducing delays


11:50am
Prehabilitation, Perioperative Care, and Same-Day Surgery
  • Understand the end-to-end surgical pathway and its impact on patient outcomes 
  • Identify best-practice interventions that support safe and effective same-day surgery 
  • Evaluate how pathway redesign can drive efficiency and capacity across surgical services
Session Reserved for British Association of Day Surgery
12:10pm
Main Stage Speaking Session
12:30pm
Questions & Ansswers Session
12:50pm
Lunch & Networking
1:50pm
Safety in Surgery 2026: From Frameworks to Flourishing
  • Describe the evolving landscape of surgical safety through the lens of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and NatSSIPs2, and how these national frameworks can connect safety science with day-to-day practice
  • Apply systems thinking and human factors principles to identify risks, strengthen teamwork, and design safer, more resilient surgical systems
  • Evaluate how restorative just culture approaches can enhance staff wellbeing, learning, and improvement in perioperative settings
  • Explore data-driven strategies for measuring safety culture and improvement impact
  • Commit to practical next steps for embedding sustainable, learning-focused safety culture within their own surgical services and organisations
Annie Hunningher, Consultant Anaesthetist, Barts Health NHS Trust
2:15pm
Precision Perioperative Care: Using Translational Medicine to Reduce Risk & Improve Outcomes
  • How precision perioperative medicine can predict and reduce complications
  • Biomarkers, risk modelling and data-driven decision-making
  • Personalised pathways to reduce length of stay


2:40pm
Break & Networking
3:10pm
Clinically Led Redesign of Operating Theatre Capacity and Workforce
  • Examine how using clinically-led, data-driven approaches to redesign theatre activity, workforce models and capacity planning

  • Identify practical methods for engaging clinicians in service redesign while improving productivity, flow and sustainability in theatres

  • Highlight transferable insights and tools that trusts can apply to address workforce pressures and optimise theatre performance

3:30pm
From Pilot to Practice: Scaling Digital Innovation Safely in Operating Theatres
  • Identify why many digital pilots fail to scale in theatre environments and how to avoid common pitfalls

  • Learn how trusts can evaluate, govern and scale digital innovations while maintaining patient safety and clinical confidence

  • Understand the role of clinical leadership in bridging innovation, informatics and frontline delivery

3:50pm
Chairs Closing Remarks
4:00pm
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