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The Future NHS Summit: Building a Healthcare System Fit for the Future

CorpAcq Stadium, Greater Manchester 2 December 2025, 9:00am - 4:00pm

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8:30am
Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Professor Tim Wheeler, Deputy Chair, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
9:40am
Opening Keynote: A Healthcare System Fit for the Future
  • Exploring the long-term vision for NHS reform, digital maturity, and sustainable healthcare
  • Understanding the policy and structural enablers shaping tomorrow's health service
  • Questions and answers
Matthew Swindells, Chair of the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative
10:10am
Beyond the AI Hype: Building a Framework for Responsible Healthcare Innovation
  • Questions and answers
Alex Johnston, Country Leader, North Europe Region, Solventum
10:30am
Panel Discussion: Towards Integrated, Place-Based Care
  • Discuss what effective, integrated, place-based care looks like?
  • Understand how ICSs are enabling local collaboration across health, care, and VCSE sectors
  • Address barriers around governance, workforce, data sharing, and community engagement
  • Explore how to use population health insights, shared accountability, and co-production to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes locally
  • Questions and answers


Tracey Vell MBE, Medical Director for Primary Care, Greater Manchester ICS

Dr Kathy McLean OBE, Chair of NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board, chair of NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board, and chair of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

Lisa Taylor, Health and Wellbeing Programme Director and VCSE Partnership Programme Lead, VONNE (Voluntary Organisations' Network North East)

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11:00am
Break and Networking
11:30am
Reaching Out To The Community, Self-Health Management, Promoting Sleep And Wellness For Non-Medicated Solution – A Wellcare’s Solution
  • Wellcare offers a suite of scientifically-backed, non-medicated solutions, including Hydrotherapy, Electric Blankets, and Naturcare Sound Relaxation, designed to improve sleep quality and life to reduce the risks of chronic diseases and self-health management. Recognising the critical bi-directional relationship where pain disrupts sleep, which in turn exacerbates pain, Wellcare addresses widespread conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia. The initiative specifically targets a significant public health need within the UK, aiming to provide therapeutic benefits to over 1.6 million people with disabilities and more than 7 million caregivers, thereby offering potential support for the NHS. Central to the company's philosophy of is the understanding that the product is merely a carrier, and the core lies in the solution. This prioritises professional, people-centred service and health education as the most effective path toward improving community wellness and a healthier future.
  • Questions and answers
Cindy Wu, Founder and President, Wellcare Co., Ltd
11:50am
Leadership, Safety, and Quality in a Changing NHS
  • Embedding safety, transparency, and continuous improvement as everyday practices
  • The relationship between leadership behaviours and organisational culture, staff engagement, and patient experience
  • Lessons from recent HSSIB investigations
  • Questions and answers
Neil Alexander, Senior Safety Investigator, Health Services Safety Investigations Body
12:10pm
Main Stage Session
  • Questions and answers
TBC, Formstack
12:30pm
Realising the NHS’s 3 Shifts with AOTI’s patient applied Topical Wound Oxygen (TWO₂®) therapy
  • Delivering the NHS’s 3 Shifts: How our patient-applied TWO₂ therapy enables an “engaged outcomes’ approach that safely moves care into the community, reduces wound recurrence, and supports remote therapy monitoring fostering true value-based decision-making.
  • Reducing operational and financial burden: How durable healing and a low-impact, low-risk at-home model using TWO₂ therapy can prevent readmissions, reduce LOS, and free capacity - improving productivity across ICSs and providing proven cost savings along the way.
  • Supporting PAC-aligned priorities: How TWO₂ therapy helps the NHS progress against key PAC-highlighted performance targets.
  • Questions and answers
Dr Mike Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director, AOTI
12:50pm
Lunch and Networking
1:50pm
Bridging the Gap Between Private and Public Sectors
  • Questions and answers
Dr Ian Gargan, Chief Executive, Private Healthcare Information Network Limited
2:10pm
Panel Discussion: Tackling Health Inequalities Through Data-Driven Population Health
  • Discuss how data and analytics can uncover and address local health inequalities
  • Understand how building cross-sector partnerships can turn insight into targeted interventions
  • Questions and answers


Frances O'Callaghan, Chief Executive Officer, North Central London ICB

Professor Durka Dougall, Chief Executive, Centre for Population Health 

Laura French, Director of Population Health Management, NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB

Sunil Lad, National Clinical Director for Health and Justice, NHS England

Professor Zafar Iqbal, Vice President of the Faculty of Public Health

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2:40pm
Designing Inclusive, Accessible, and Equitable NHS Services
  • Embedding inclusive design and accessibility in digital service development
  • Ensuring services meet the real needs of diverse patient groups and staff
  • Questions and answers
Rochelle Gold, Head of User Research and User Centred Design, NHS England, and Max Marulli de Barletta, Inclusive Design Lead, NHS England
3:00pm
Break and Networking
3:20pm
Driving Change Together: The Role of NHS Charities in the Future of the NHS
  • Explore the growing strategic role of the NHS Charity Sector for the NHS
  • Understand how the NHS Charities Together and NHS England partnership is making a difference for the workforce wellbeing of NHS staff
  • Sharing of case studies and emerging key themes from projects funded by the Workforce Wellbeing Programme
  • Questions and Answers
Kelly Drewry, Programme Lead for Workforce Wellbeing, NHS Charities Together, andJo Gennari, Senior Improvement Lead of Workforce, Training & Education, NHS England
3:40pm
Closing Keynote: Using Benchmarking to Drive Improvement Across the NHS
  • Current challenges facing the NHS
  • The role of benchmarking in improvement
  • Future vision
  • Questions and answers
Emma Bamber, Associate Director – Programmes, The NHS Benchmarking Network
4:00pm
Chair's Closing Summary
Professor Tim Wheeler, Deputy Chair, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
4:05pm
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