CareAnywhere 2027: The NHS Virtual Hospitals Strategy Conference
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CareAnywhere 2027: The NHS Virtual Hospitals Strategy Conference
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
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From Digitally Enabled Pathways to Hospital-Level Care Beyond Traditional Settings
Current Landscape and Challenges
The NHS is entering a new phase of digitally enabled care, moving beyond individual remote monitoring services towards fully integrated virtual hospital models.
Virtual hospitals bring together acute specialists, community services, primary care, remote diagnostics, digital platforms and multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated hospital-level care beyond traditional hospital settings.
These models have the potential to improve patient flow, reduce avoidable admissions, support earlier discharge and provide patients with more personalised care closer to home.
However, creating a sustainable virtual hospital requires more than technology alone. NHS organisations must redesign clinical pathways, establish clear governance arrangements, integrate data across multiple systems and develop workforce models capable of supporting care across physical and digital environments.
The challenge now is to move from isolated digital services to coordinated virtual hospital systems that are clinically safe, operationally sustainable and embedded within everyday NHS delivery.
Summit Focus
CareAnywhere 2026 brings together NHS leaders responsible for developing virtual hospitals, hospital-at-home services, remote clinical pathways and digitally enabled models of care.
The conference will focus on the practical delivery of virtual hospital services, exploring how NHS organisations can bring together clinical teams, digital infrastructure, community services and operational pathways into one coordinated model.
Delegates will hear directly from NHS teams implementing new approaches to remote care, early supported discharge, specialist monitoring and hospital-level treatment outside traditional clinical environments.
Through NHS case studies, skill clinics, deep-dive sessions and peer-led discussion, the programme will examine the frameworks required to design, govern, scale and evaluate virtual hospitals successfully.
Learning Outcomes and Key Takeaways
Delegates will gain practical insight into:
- Designing integrated virtual hospital pathways across acute, community, primary care and home settings.
- Moving from individual remote monitoring programmes to coordinated virtual hospital services.
- Establishing safe clinical governance, accountability and escalation frameworks.
- Integrating remote monitoring platforms with EPRs, shared care records and community systems.
- Developing multidisciplinary workforce models for hybrid and remote care delivery.
- Identifying appropriate patient cohorts for hospital-level care outside traditional settings.
- Measuring the impact of virtual hospitals on admissions, discharge, capacity, productivity and patient outcomes.
- Ensuring digitally enabled care remains inclusive, accessible and patient-centred.
- Building sustainable operating and funding models for long-term delivery.
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Why Attend?
- Earn 8 CPD points.
- Learn from NHS leaders developing and delivering virtual hospital services.
- Explore practical models for hospital-at-home care and remote clinical delivery.
- Understand how to connect acute, community and primary care pathways.
- Gain insight into governance, workforce, interoperability and clinical safety.
- Examine how virtual hospitals can improve patient flow and hospital capacity.
- Take away practical frameworks and service-design approaches for local implementation.
- Build relationships with NHS colleagues facing similar operational challenges.
- Help shape the next stage of digitally enabled NHS care.
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Key Challenges
The conference will address the practical challenges NHS organisations face when developing virtual hospitals, including:
- Creating joined-up clinical pathways across organisational boundaries.
- Integrating remote monitoring data into existing clinical systems.
- Establishing clear clinical ownership and accountability.
- Designing safe escalation and emergency-response processes.
- Coordinating multidisciplinary teams across hospital, community and home settings.
- Supporting higher-acuity and more complex patients remotely.
- Developing workforce confidence in hybrid care environments.
- Demonstrating measurable clinical and operational outcomes.
- Securing sustainable funding beyond short-term transformation programmes.
- Addressing digital exclusion and unequal access to technology-enabled care.
- Maintaining patient choice, experience and confidence.
- Ensuring cybersecurity, data protection and clinical safety.
Relevance for Sponsors and Partners
CareAnywhere 2026 provides a highly targeted platform for organisations supporting the development and delivery of virtual hospitals across the NHS.
The conference will bring together senior NHS leaders, clinicians, digital teams, transformation managers and operational decision-makers responsible for redesigning care pathways and investing in digitally enabled services.
Sponsors and partners will be able to demonstrate how their solutions support:
- Virtual hospital platforms and remote care infrastructure.
- Remote patient monitoring and connected diagnostic technologies.
- Digital care coordination, workflow and clinical escalation.
- EPR integration, interoperability and shared data exchange.
- Artificial intelligence, automation and clinical decision support.
- Population health management, risk stratification and patient identification.
- Real-time operational dashboards and outcomes measurement.
- Patient engagement, communication and self-management.
- Virtual multidisciplinary team working.
- Workforce planning, scheduling and hybrid service delivery.
- Cybersecurity, information governance and clinical safety.
- Service redesign, implementation, training and transformation support.
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Through speaking opportunities, exhibitions, case studies and structured networking, commercial partners can align their expertise directly with NHS priorities around hospital capacity, admission avoidance, earlier discharge, integrated care and digital transformation.
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
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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
Chair Opening Address
Keynote Presentation - Building the NHS Virtual Hospital: Delivering Integrated Care Beyond Traditional Hospital Walls
Session Overview:
This opening keynote will explore how NHS organisations can move from individual remote services towards coordinated virtual hospital systems.
Key themes will include:
- The strategic role of virtual hospitals within NHS transformation.
- Connecting acute, community and primary care services.
- Delivering hospital-level care through digitally enabled pathways.
- Moving from short-term initiatives to sustainable operating models.
- Ensuring services remain clinically safe, inclusive and patient-centred.
Morning Skills Clinic - Designing Safe and Scalable Virtual Hospital Pathways
Session Overview:
This practical session will provide NHS teams with tools for designing virtual hospital pathways across acute, community and home settings.
Participants will explore:
- Patient selection and clinical eligibility.
- Admission, transfer and discharge criteria.
- Escalation and emergency-response pathways.
- Multidisciplinary team structures.
- Clinical governance and accountability.
- Technology and data requirements.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Morning Break & Networking
Morning Break & Networking
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Interview Session - Delivering Hospital-Level Care at Home: From Surgery to Remote Clinical Monitoring
Session Overview:
This interview will explore how digitally enabled pathways can support patients before and after treatment, including same-day discharge, remote diagnostics and ongoing specialist oversight.
The discussion will examine:
- Supporting earlier discharge following surgery.
- Using remote diagnostics and connected devices.
- Maintaining clinical visibility outside hospital.
- Improving patient experience and recovery.
- Scaling services across multiple specialties.
Case Study
Case Study
Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - From Standalone Services to a Sustainable Virtual Hospital Model
Session Overview:
This case-based deep dive will examine how NHS organisations can bring separate digital and remote services together into one coordinated virtual hospital model.
Key insights will include:
- Developing sustainable operational structures.
- Embedding services into hospital flow and discharge processes.
- Aligning clinical, digital and community teams.
- Establishing governance and accountability.
- Demonstrating impact on capacity and patient outcomes.
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Connecting the Virtual Hospital: Integrating Clinical Teams, Data and Digital Platforms
Session Overview:
This session will explore the digital and operational infrastructure required to support safe virtual hospital delivery.
Discussion points will include:
- Connecting remote monitoring platforms with EPRs.
- Sharing information across acute and community services.
- Coordinating multidisciplinary clinical teams.
- Creating real-time visibility of patient status.
- Supporting complex and higher-risk patients.
- Building resilient and scalable digital infrastructure.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Virtual Hospital Collaboration: Joining Up Acute, Community and Home-Based Care
An interactive session exploring how NHS organisations are working across traditional boundaries to develop coordinated virtual hospital services.
The discussion will focus on:
- Building trust across organisations.
- Establishing shared clinical responsibility.
- Coordinating hospital and community teams.
- Overcoming operational and cultural barriers.
- Creating a consistent patient experience.
- Turning collaboration into sustainable service delivery.
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