2nd NHS Endoscopy Conference: From Transformation to Implementation Advancing Endoscopy Service Delivery and Safety
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2nd NHS Endoscopy Conference: From Transformation to Implementation Advancing Endoscopy Service Delivery and Safety
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Building on the momentum of NHS Endoscopy: Beyond the Device in London, the conversation now shifts to Manchester—this time with a sharper focus on implementation, operational delivery, and unlocking untapped value within endoscopy services.
As NHS England’s endoscopy recovery funding enters its final year (2022/23–2024/25), the sector stands at a pivotal moment. The foundations are in place: national goals have been defined, and systemic challenges identified. The task ahead is clear—transforming plans into measurable outcomes.
In alignment with the priorities outlined in Fit for the Future: the 10-Year Health and Care Workforce Plan for England, this event will explore how endoscopy services can strengthen capacity, workforce, and infrastructure to meet rising demand and deliver sustainable, integrated care closer to home.
Key Themes:
- Translating national priorities into sustainable, local models of care.
- Unlocking clinical capacity and safety through smarter decontamination and reprocessing approaches.
- Managing the entire waiting list—not just 6WW—to prevent care backlogs and lost revenue.
- Building scalable digital infrastructure and data transparency.
- Workforce resilience: balancing capacity demands with long-term wellbeing.
- Aligning quality, efficiency, and patient experience across integrated pathways.
- Maximising the impact of capital investment to modernise infrastructure and expand diagnostic capacity.
Waiting List Strategy: The Untapped Opportunity:
While national focus remains heavily skewed toward meeting the 6-week diagnostic standard, many trusts are now finding that their longer-term treatment, surveillance, and routine scopes are slipping off the radar—creating bottlenecks, patient risk, and operational instability. This agenda will shine a light on how trusts can:
- Build strategic plans for total waiting list management.
- Balance diagnostic growth with therapy, screening, and follow-up services.
- Create new capacity to unlock latent clinical revenue and future-proof services.
- Prevent waiting list spirals that undermine system performance.
Attendees will hear from leaders who are actively redefining capacity planning beyond national metrics, with an eye toward whole-pathway excellence.
Why Attend:
Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
This conference provides a timely platform for NHS endoscopy professionals and service leaders to gain insight into what’s working—and what’s next.
Real-world case studies, expert panels, and focused sessions, delegates will explore models that are delivering results in areas like digital adoption, workforce planning, and service redesign. A key focus will be on the practical role of decontamination in enabling clinical capacity, scope availability, and operational throughput—not just compliance.
The agenda will also shine a light on a growing but often unaddressed risk: total waiting list management. As diagnostic services expand to meet 6-week targets, many trusts are seeing backlogs grow in therapy, surveillance, and maintenance scopes—creating service strain and lost revenue.
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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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Conference Speakers
Catherine
Boylan
Programme Lead National Endoscopy Training Programme
NHS Scotland Academy
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Dr Phedra
Dodds
National Endoscopy Programme Lead (Wales)
NHS Wales Performance and Improvement
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Dr Roger
Prudham
Lead Cancer Clinician, Chair, Colorectal Pathway Board
Northern Care Alliance
Read biography
Mr Anil Vara, Bsc (Hons), Msc, MBA, CMgr,
FCMI
Head of Elective Care
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
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Prof. Adrian
Stanley
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board
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The programme
Registration & Networking
Registration - Open from 8:30 am - Closes at 11:00 am
All delegates must complete their registration process before the 11:00 AM cut-off time. Please arrive in a timely manner to allow for registration and to avoid any inconvenience. Delegates who arrive after the registration deadline will be refused entry to the event.
We appreciate your cooperation in helping us maintain the event's schedule and ensuring that everyone can fully participate in the Conference. If you have any questions or require assistance, our event staff will be available to assist you with the registration process.
Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to an insightful and productive event together!
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
Workforce Resilience: Balancing Capacity Demands With Long-Term Wellbeing Panel Discussion
This panel explores the critical challenge of sustaining workforce resilience in endoscopy services amid increasing demand and operational pressures. Experts will discuss strategies to balance service capacity with the long-term wellbeing of staff, including innovations in workforce planning, support mechanisms, and leadership approaches. Drawing on frontline experience and emerging best practices, the session will provide actionable insights into fostering a healthy, motivated, and sustainable workforce for the future of endoscopy care.
Panellists:
- Ash Bassi, Clinical Lead for Endoscopy (NW), NHS (Confirmed)
- Phedra Dodds, National Endoscopy Programme Lead, NHS Wales (Confirmed)
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Prof. Adrian Stanley, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board (Confirmed)
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James Pyke, Network Manager, Surrey Heartlands and Frimley Endoscopy (Confirmed)
Main Sponsor - Pentax Medical
Main Sponsor - Pentax Medical
Welcome to the World of Intelligence with PENTAX Medical. A leading provider of flexible endoscopy products and accessories, designed to meet an extensive spectrum of clinical specialties including Gastroenterology, Pulmonology, Urology and ENT.
Our mission is to improve patient care and healthcare delivery with a focus on QUALITY, CLINICALLY RELEVANT INNOVATION, and SIMPLICITY.
Morning Break
Morning Break
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Case Study - Capsule sponge unlocks more clinic time for NHS Lothian
Case Study - Cyted Health
NHS Lothian’s capsule sponge service has been helping the team cut waiting times and find cancers early since 2021. Now they are sharing their findings, best practice and service set up, to help other sites free up clinic time with EndoSign.
Case Study - Avensys Medical & Endoscopy
Case Study - Avensys
- What are the issues?
- What did Avensys Medical Create?
- What do Avensys Medical Provide?
Presentation - The National Endoscopy Training Programme in Scotland- a national approach to improving endoscopy quality (Confirmed)
A brief introduction on why the programme exists, what’s happened to date, the impact on patients and endoscopy quality and what’s next.
Keynote Presentation - Productivity data transparency (Confirmed)
Reliable data harvested from JAG, public sources such as waiting list data and centrally held databases, can when analysed and synthesised provide direction for national programmes, improve understanding at a regional and local level and encourage greater evidence based argument at Trust / Health Board level. Topics and trends can be more readily identified and actioned.
Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Presentation - The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Endoscopy (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
- Focus will be on Computer assisted Detection (CADe) (benefits and drawbacks).
- Discuss the introduction of Computer assisted Diagnosis (CADx) in clinical practice.
- Mention briefly, emerging technology such as CADq, Lesion sizing.
- Mention briefly about the accountability and ethical dilemma.
- Comment on the Clinician – AI interaction, and it’s benefit in extracting the best out of the technology.
Presentation - Working Together for Better Endoscopy: Partnership, Value, and Accountability
This session highlights how collaborative partnerships can enhance NHS endoscopy services. Through practical examples, we’ll explore how shared goals, clear metrics, and mutual accountability drive value, improve performance, and support sustainable service improvement. Delegates will gain concise, actionable insights to strengthen effective partnerships across their own services.
Presentation - Optimising Gastrointestinal patient referral pathways (Confirmed)
This session will summarise how we can improve the use of endoscopy resources when investigating patients referred from Primary care, including those with Dysphagia, potential Coeliac disease, reflux symptoms, and Colorectal symptoms.
Presentation - Endoscopy Pathway Innovation in Greater Manchester (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
Summary of specific projects undertaken across Greater Manchester to improve access to key diagnostic tests particularly for cancer pathways.
Food, Drinks & Networking
Food, Drinks & Networking
End of Day
End of Day
