13th NHS Radiology & Imaging Conference: Building Resilience and Capacity

Clinical Diagnostics & Medical Sciences

08:30 am
05 Nov, 2025
The Studio, 3rd Floor, 7 Cannon St, Birmingham B2 5EP

13th NHS Radiology & Imaging Conference: Building Resilience and Capacity

Clinical Diagnostics & Medical Sciences

08:30 am
05 Nov, 2025
The Studio, 3rd Floor, 7 Cannon St, Birmingham B2 5EP

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.

Headline Sponsor

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

 

The programme

08:30

Registration & Networking

Registration & Networking

09:30

Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

Jeevan Gunaratnam
Chair, AXREM | Director of Health Systems
Philips UK & Ireland

Welcome and overview of the day. NHS imaging transformation amid backlogs, digital maturity, and system shifts.

09:40

Keynote Presentation - Radiology’s Role in the NHS 10-Year Plan

Speakers:

  • Alex Pinches, National Imaging Transformation Lead, NHS England (Invited)
  • David Lawson, Diagnostics Policy Lead, Department of Health and Social Care (Invited)

Focus: Radiology as a cornerstone of diagnostic reform and community care.

10:00

Tackling Imaging Backlogs: Workforce Realities and Strategic Solutions for the Next Decade Panel Discussion

Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Ex Diagnostics Leader within the NHS
Charlotte Beardmore
Executive Director of Professional Policy
The Society and College of Radiographers
Mrs Donna Holdcroft
Professional Officer
British Medical Ultrasound Society
Shirou Shadieh Masoodi
Radiology Resident
NHS
Stefan McDonald
Chief Growth Officer
xWave Technologies

Panellists:

  • Charlotte Beardmore, Executive Director of Professional Policy, Society and College of Radiographers (Confirmed)
  • Chris Sleight, Chief Officer, Greater Manchester Diagnostics Network (Confirmed)
  • Donna Holdcroft, Professional Officer, British Medical Ultrasound Society (Confirmed)
  • Richard Evans, CEO, Society and College of Radiographers (Invited)
  • Shirou Shadieh Masoodi, Radiology Resident, NHS (Confirmed)
  • Stefan McDonald, Chief Growth Officer, xWave Technologies (Confirmed)
  • Paige Ward, Future Leader, AXREM & Radiographer (Provisionally Confirmed)
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Focus: Workforce expansion, skill mix, and reducing staff burnout.

10:30

Main Sponsor

Main Sponsor

10:50

Morning Break & Networking

Morning Break & Networking

11:50

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Jeevan Gunaratnam
Chair, AXREM | Director of Health Systems
Philips UK & Ireland

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

11:55

Case Study - Delivering Direct Access Pathways to Diagnose Cancer Earlier

Luke Wyatt
Director of Partnerships
C the Signs

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.

12:15

Case Study - From Insight to Impact: How AI-Driven Decision Support Can Enhance Appropriateness, Reduce Waiting Lists, and Transform Capacity Across the Diagnostic Pathway

Mitchell O’Gorman
Chief Executive Officer
xWave Technologies

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.

12:35

Fireside Interview - AI in Radiology – Pilots, Pitfalls & What Works (Confirmed)

Mr Graham King
Convenor, AI Special Focus Group
AXREM

Focus:

Evaluating AI tools in triage and reporting assistance, scalability, safety, and clinical impact.

12:55

Case Study - Everlight Radiology

Case Study - Everlight Radiology

13:15

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking

14:15

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

Jeevan Gunaratnam
Chair, AXREM | Director of Health Systems
Philips UK & Ireland

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

14:20

Case Study

Case Study

14:40

Presentation - How the Quality Standard for imaging (QSI) can help address workforce pressures in radiology (Confirmed)

Glenda Shaw
Quality Improvement Lead
RCR/CoR
Pam Wood
Quality Improvement & Review Partner
RCR/CoR

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.

15:00

Case Study

Case Study

15:20

Presentation - The Future of Digital Diagnostics: Imaging (Confirmed)

Dr Joe Barnett
National Specialty Advisor for Imaging (AI and Digital)
NHS England

Session exploring the priorities for the next 4 years of digital imaging.

15:40

Imaging Backlogs – Causes, Solutions & Case Studies Panel Debate

Huw Shurmer
AXREM Chair & Strategic and Government Relationship Manager FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
AXREM / FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
Dr Joe Barnett
National Specialty Advisor for Imaging (AI and Digital)
NHS England

Panellists:

  • Huw Shurmer, Chair, AXREM (Confirmed)
  • Richard Evans, CEO, Society and College of Radiographers (Invited)
  • Dr Joe Barnett, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust; National Specialty Advisor for Imaging (AI and Digital), NHS England (Confirmed)
  • ICS Leader (TBC)

Session Overview:

Examining the root causes of NHS imaging backlogs and highlighting practical solutions, including triage models, workforce strategies, and technology-driven approaches to accelerate recovery and improve patient access.

16:00

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

17:00

End of Day

End of Day

Convenzisvents

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
  • Fireside interviews
  • Cross-sector best practice
  • Meet the supplier opportunities
  • Hot breakfast & Lunch included
  • Access to post event drinks reception and Street food

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