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.
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