13th NHS Radiology & Imaging Conference: Building Resilience and Capacity
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13th NHS Radiology & Imaging Conference: Building Resilience and Capacity
A Strategic Summit on Diagnostic Innovation and Workforce Sustainability - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Radiology continues to serve as the foundation of NHS diagnostics yet demand for imaging now exceeds available capacity across multiple pathways. In early 2025, more than 430,000 patients waited over six weeks for scans, contributing to delays in urgent and cancer care. Workforce shortages remain significant, with some trusts reporting more than 29% of radiologist posts unfilled.
Meanwhile, fragmented PACS and RIS infrastructures constrain interoperability across ICS boundaries, while Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) and AI-enabled triage are redefining clinical workflows.
The NHS 10-Year Health Plan and Diagnostics Strategy set a clear ambition: a connected, data-enabled, and workforce-ready imaging service by 2028.
Achieving this will require sustained focus on governance, digital integration, and workforce resilience. The 13th NHS Radiology & Imaging Summit convenes national and regional leaders to translate this ambition into operational delivery, supporting the creation of safe, sustainable, and digitally mature diagnostic systems.
Summit Focus:
The Radiology & Imaging Summit is a strategic forum designed to support the NHS diagnostic community in moving from policy awareness to applied implementation. Delegates will engage with evidence-based frameworks, peer-derived insights, and tested delivery models for enhancing imaging capacity and resilience.
Dedicated Skill Clinics provide practical tools, checklists, and templates to strengthen operational capability, governance, and workforce design.
Lessons Learned Sessions offer honest reflections from NHS leaders on the challenges, adjustments, and successes that shaped their improvement journeys.
This is not a showcase of what to achieve, but a skills exchange on how to achieve it, translating national ambition into measurable improvement.
This year’s event is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave understanding:
- The alignment of imaging transformation with NHS policy and strategic investment priorities.
- Methods for strengthening workforce resilience through skill mix, automation, and retention strategies.
- Approaches for establishing interoperable PACS and RIS infrastructures that support cross-ICS data exchange.
- Frameworks for evaluating and scaling AI solutions safely within diagnostic workflows.
- Models that enhance imaging access across cancer, CVD, MSK, and frailty pathways.
- Principles for embedding governance, safety, and interoperability to drive consistent improvement and assurance.
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
- Build confidence through applied, practice-based learning focused on measurable outcomes.
- Access frameworks supporting interoperability, governance, and workforce sustainability.
- Gain insight from NHS peers leading service recovery and diagnostic transformation.
- Take away practical artefacts, toolkits, and action plans to accelerate local delivery.
- Join a national network of professionals committed to capability-building and continuous improvement in diagnostic care.
Who Would Benefit:
This summit is designed for radiology and imaging leads, consultant radiologists, sonographers, reporting radiographers, service managers, and PACS/RIS teams. It will also benefit ICB and ICS leaders, operational directors, workforce planners, and quality improvement professionals overseeing diagnostic reform.
Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will gain a strategic understanding of NHS priorities, skill development needs, and the digital enablers underpinning the next generation of imaging services.
Sponsors & Partners
Who will Attend
- Chief Technology Officers
- Consultant Radiographers
- Consultant/Senior Surgeons
- Clinical Directors/Heads/Managers/Leads
- Commissioning Directors/Heads/Managers
- Consultant Radiologists
- Directors/Heads of Radiology
- Engagement Directors/Heads/Managers
- Governance Directors/Heads/Managers
- Heads/Directors of Pathology
- Heads/Senior Radiographers
- Informatics Directors/Heads/Managers
- Information Management Directors/Heads/Managers
- Innovation Directors/Heads/Managers
- Medical Imaging Directors/Heads/Managers
- Radiology Services Manager
- Procurement Directors/Heads/Managers
- Service Directors/Heads/Managers
Your Pass Includes....
- This conference is CPD accredited. Attendees will be eligible to gain 8 CPD points upon completion of the event.
- Access to a leading conference speaker programme
- Interactive Q&A sessions
- Leadership lessons from the front line
- Cross-sector best practice
- Meet the supplier opportunities
- Hot breakfast & Lunch included
- Access to post event drinks reception and Street food
Tickets For NHS Senior Managers
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Event Speakers
Charlotte
Beardmore
Executive Director of Professional Policy
The Society and College of Radiographers
Read biography
Glenda
Shaw
Quality Improvement Partner
Royal College of Radiologists & College of Radiographers
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Huw
Shurmer
AXREM Chair & Strategic and Government Relationship Manager FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
AXREM / FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
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Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc
FIBMS
Chief Executive Officer of Sleight Insights
Formerly Chief Officer of the Greater Manchester Diagnostic Networks
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The programme
Registration & Networking
Registration & Networking
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
Welcome and overview of the day. NHS imaging transformation amid backlogs, digital maturity, and system shifts.
Presentation - Radiology 2030: Building Resilient, Intelligent & Human-Centered Imaging for the NHS (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
This presentation explores the current status of AI within the NHS, focusing on its impact across various stakeholders. It examines key shortcomings, setbacks, and opportunities for enhancement, alongside the implementation strategies being adopted. The session will also highlight the role of AI across different imaging networks and practical applications, evaluating its influence on clinical workflows, radiographers, and radiologists. Further discussion will cover AI’s integration into MDT meetings, its effect on patient outcomes, and important considerations surrounding ethics, confidentiality, and governance.
Rebuilding the Radiology Workforce: Strategies to Balance Capacity, Demand, and Wellbeing Panel Discussion (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
As demand for imaging continues to outstrip available capacity, the NHS faces the dual challenge of workforce shortages and rising diagnostic backlogs. This panel brings together clinical, professional, and digital leaders to explore practical strategies for strengthening workforce resilience, from innovative skill-mix models and cross-specialty collaboration to AI-supported triage and automation.
Speakers will share grounded insights on retention, recruitment, and redesigning workflows to sustain both service quality and staff wellbeing.
The session will identify what must change over the next decade to transform the imaging workforce into one that is scalable, adaptive, and future-ready.
Morning Break & Networking
Morning Break & Networking
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Case Study - Delivering Direct Access Pathways to Diagnose Cancer Earlier
Case Study - C the Signs
Every day matters when diagnosing cancer. C the Signs supports clinicians to identify patients at risk earlier and connect them directly to the right diagnostic test - first time.
In this session, we’ll explore how we’re delivering direct access pathways that bridge the gap between patients and diagnostics, helping to reduce delays and improve early diagnosis. Using our Post-Menopausal Bleeding pathway as an example, we’ll show how data, clinical evidence, and intelligent automation come together to remove bottlenecks, standardise referrals, and make early diagnosis everyone’s reality — not just an ambition.
Working in partnership with NHS trusts and ICBs, C the Signs is redefining how pathways are designed, implemented, and scaled. By aligning clinical guidance with local service capacity and using AI to guide decision-making, our platform helps the NHS act faster and more confidently, ensuring patients access the investigations they need without unnecessary appointments or waits.
This case study illustrates what happens when early diagnosis is built into the system itself - empowering clinicians, optimising capacity, and giving every patient the best possible chance of survival.
Case Study - From Insight to Impact: How AI-Driven Decision Support Can Enhance Appropriateness, Reduce Waiting Lists, and Transform Capacity Across the Diagnostic Pathway
Case Study - xWave Technologies
AI-driven Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is transforming how radiology services manage demand, optimise capacity, and reduce waiting lists. In this session, xWave Technologies CEO Mitchell O’Gorman will show how embedding AI and evidence-based guidelines directly into referral and vetting workflows helps clinicians select the best test first, streamline operations, and unlock diagnostic capacity across the NHS. He’ll also introduce xWave Insight, an AI-powered audit and analytics tool that automatically reviews referral appropriateness, supports CQC and IR(ME)R compliance, and enables smarter triage of radiology waiting lists - turning clinical insight into measurable impact across the diagnostic pathway.
Leadership lessons from the front line - AI in Radiology – Pilots, Pitfalls & What Works (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
Evaluating AI tools in triage and reporting assistance, scalability, safety, and clinical impact.
Case Study - Radiology Unlocked: The Global Radiologist Report 2025
Case Study - Everlight Radiology
Earlier this year Everlight Radiology published "Radiology Unlocked: The Global Radiologist Report 2025". This report stems from a survey of over 700 consultant radiologists from across 50 countries. The resulting report showcases the significant challenges facing the radiology profession, driven by increasing imaging demands and a global shortage of specialists, as well as perceived opportunities.
Join us for this 20-minute session outlining the results of the research, common global themes among radiologists and what people saw as the biggest threats and opportunities in radiology.
Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Presentation - How the Quality Standard for imaging (QSI) can help address workforce pressures in radiology (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
This presentation will focus on how the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) offers targeted, practical strategies to address workforce pressures in radiology departments.
This includes how the clear standards within the QSI framework, supports services to optimise their workforce; the standards on skill mix and competencies put staff where they need to be in order to deliver the most effective service and the standards on supporting staff wellbeing enables the retention of this critical resource whilst reducing time spent on recruitment.
We will discuss the broad-ranging benefits of QSI adoption for radiology services, focusing on improved service delivery, leaner pathways leading to the achievement of key performance indicators. We will highlight how embracing QSI can streamline workflows, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and provide measurable outcomes that positively affect both patient experience and staff morale.
The session will showcase how radiology teams have used QSI to overcome operational challenges, driven quality improvement initiatives, and built resilient, supportive work environments through peer learning and shared success.
Presentation - The Future of Digital Diagnostics: Imaging (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
Exploring the priorities for the next 4 years of digital imaging.
Accelerating Recovery: Data, Technology, and People Solutions for Imaging Backlogs Panel Discussion (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
Persistent imaging delays remain one of the most visible pressures across NHS pathways, from cancer to urgent and elective care. This session will dissect the root causes of these backlogs, including demand surges, infrastructure fragmentation, and workforce constraints, and highlight proven interventions delivering real-world results.
Through a blend of national perspective and local case studies, panelists will examine how digital transformation, AI-driven triage, operational redesign, and cross-ICS collaboration can restore equilibrium in diagnostic delivery.
Delegates will gain actionable insights into scaling solutions that cut waiting times while maintaining safety, efficiency, and patient trust.
Chair Closing Remarks (Confirmed)
Chair Closing Remarks (Coonfirmed)
Drinks & Nibbles
Drinks & Nibbles
End of Day
End of Day
