CHCFuture 2026: The NHS Continuing Healthcare Conference
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CHCFuture 2026: The NHS Continuing Healthcare Conference
A Strategic Summit on Navigating CHC Policy, Funding, and Delivery - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
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The NHS is facing mounting pressures in delivering Continuing Healthcare (CHC) services, driven by an ageing population, rising complexity of need, and constrained funding. Recent data shows a decline in eligibility and uptake, highlighting the challenges ICBs and providers face in ensuring equitable access while maintaining sustainability. At the same time, national policy frameworks, emphasise the need for integrated, patient-centred approaches and robust governance.
CHC remains a critical area for operational and clinical leadership, demanding practical strategies for improving assessment accuracy, streamlining funding decisions, and enhancing patient and family experience. This conference provides a forum for senior NHS leaders to share insights, explore tested approaches, and build actionable capability across health and social care systems.
Summit Focus:
The CHC conference is a premier event for sharing best practice and innovation, designed to help NHS professionals move from awareness to applied implementation. Delegates will gain hands-on frameworks, tested delivery models, and peer-derived insights on embedding safe, equitable, and sustainable CHC delivery.
Dedicated Skill Clinics provide practical sessions offering tools, checklists, and implementation templates to streamline assessments, fast-track pathways, and governance processes.
Lessons Learned Sessions deliver candid reflections from NHS leaders on real-world challenges in eligibility assessment, workforce deployment, and collaborative commissioning, highlighting course corrections and innovations that work.
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:
- CHC Eligibility and Assessment: Apply robust frameworks for Continuing Healthcare (CHC) eligibility and assessment across multidisciplinary teams.
- Operational and Digital Efficiency: Enhance operational and digital processes to optimise funding allocation and fast-track pathways.
- Workforce Development: Strengthen workforce capability through targeted training, recruitment, and professional development in CHC.
- Governance, Equity, and Interoperability: Embed governance, equity, and interoperability across health and social care interfaces.
- Patient and Family Experience: Achieve measurable improvements in patient and family experience.
- Collaborative Access and Sustainability: Implement collaborative models that increase access, efficiency, and sustainability of CHC services.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions with actionable tools, checklists, and templates for assessment, funding, and care planning
Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders on eligibility, fast-track decisions, and collaborative commissioning
Peer Learning Circles: small-group discussions to explore shared challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs and provider networks
Action-Driven Case Studies: insights into process and workforce innovations that have delivered measurable CHC improvements
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for eligibility assessment, fast-track pathways, and collaborative governance.
- Hear authentic experiences from peers and leaders navigating NHS CHC challenges.
- Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and action plans for local rollout.
- Join a network of NHS leaders committed to capability-building and sustainable CHC delivery.
Who Would Benefit:
This conference is ideal for clinical, operational, and digital leaders driving NHS transformation, including ICB and ICS teams, Chief Nurses, AHP leads, CCIOs, CIOs, service managers, and transformation directors. It will also benefit community providers, GP leaders, workforce planners, and patient experience teams seeking practical guidance on delivering equitable, sustainable CHC.
Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will gain insight into implementation priorities, workforce skill gaps, and the real-world enablers shaping the next decade of NHS continuing healthcare delivery.
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
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Registration & Networking
Registration - Open from 8:20 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!
Keynote Presentation - CHC Eligibility and Assessment: Strengthening Multidisciplinary Approaches (Speaker TBC)
Keynote Presentation
This session explores robust frameworks for Continuing Healthcare (CHC) eligibility and assessment, focusing on effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. Participants will learn practical strategies to enhance consistency, fairness, and accountability in CHC decisions, supported by real-world examples and best practices.
Morning Skills Clinic - Workforce Development in Continuing Healthcare (TBC)
Morning Skills Clinic
This interactive skills clinic will explore strategies to strengthen workforce capability within the NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) sector. Participants will gain practical insights into targeted training, effective recruitment, and professional development initiatives designed to enhance staff competence, confidence, and retention. Through case studies and group discussions attendees will learn how to build a resilient, skilled CHC workforce capable of delivering high-quality, person-centred care. The session will also address challenges such as workforce shortages, skill gaps, and evolving regulatory requirements, providing actionable solutions to support sustainable workforce growth.
Speakers:
- Bose Adegbola, Independent CHC Nurse (Confirmed)
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Rachel Melton, Deputy Associate Director All Age Continuing Healthcare (AACC), NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (Provisionally Confirmed)
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Case Study - IEG4
Case Study - IEG4
IEG4 - Enabling a Digital Society. IEG4’s unified suite of products is proven to optimise service and care delivery, increase productivity and provide transparency. Our digital solution for the end-to-end management of Continuing Healthcare includes stages for referral, consent and DST, and with Fastrack functionality, notifications are automated, and the process is streamlined and efficient.
The solution mirrors the NHSE National Framework and includes workflows to manage patients, care, and payments for all aspects of NHS CHC, including NHS Funded Nursing Care, Mental Health, and Children’s CHC.
Our portfolio of digital solutions delivers significant results and supports the public sector in responding to the changes and challenges that it faces. Putting #PatientsFirst.
Case Study - Evondos Group
Case Study - Evondos Group
Evondos Group is a health-tech company that provides automated medication-dispensing robots designed for use in people’s homes within the community. The system ensures patients take the right medicine at the right time, supporting safe and independent medication management without the need for physical visits, while enabling remote monitoring for caregivers to improve safety, independence, and care efficiency.
Panel Interview Session - Governance, Equity, and Interoperability in Health and Social Care
Session Overview:
Join us for an open, peer-to-peer conversation on the real challenges and opportunities around governance, equity, and interoperability across health and social care interfaces. In this session, we’ll cut through the jargon and talk candidly about what’s working, what isn’t, and what it takes to embed these principles in practice. Expect honest reflections on the gaps between policy and reality, practical approaches to making data and systems talk to each other, and ways to ensure equity is not just a checkbox but a lived experience for patients and carers.
Case Study - Beam
Case Study - Beam
Session Overview:
Beam is a social enterprise that crowdfunds job training for homeless people and supports them into stable work. Working in partnership with registered charities and local authorities in London, Beam is helping hundreds of homeless people to gain work in sectors facing critical skills shortages. At the same time, Beam is also providing employers with diverse talent in careers ranging from accounting to healthcare.
Beam has amassed a giving base of more than 5,000 supporters, who between them have donated over £1m. 100% of all donations go directly towards the end campaign, with each cost tracked and visible to the public. This radically transparent model allows supporters to see exactly how their money is being used to change lives. They can also leave members of encouragement when they donate, providing an extra layer of support.
Case Study
Case Study
Presentation - Using data to manage flow
Session Overview:
Show how we have moved from paper trackers to managing data electronically from our database, if it isn’t on the database it hasn’t happened principle.
Case Study
Case Study
Presentation - The Mental Health Act 2025 and CHC – Risks and Opportunities (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
The new MHAct 2025/26 presents very significant opportunities and challenges across the NHS landscape. The latest revisions will present a vicarious impact upon all NHS Continuing Healthcare services across England and Wales.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Patient and Family Experience: Achieving Measurable Improvements (TBC)
Afternoon Skills Clinic
This interactive skills clinic will explore practical strategies for enhancing patient and family experiences within healthcare settings. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises and case studies designed to identify key touchpoints, gather meaningful feedback, and implement interventions that drive measurable improvements. The session will focus on translating patient and family insights into actionable change, fostering stronger relationships, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement. By the end of the clinic, attendees will leave equipped with tools and techniques to assess, monitor, and elevate the experience of patients and their families, ensuring care delivery that is compassionate, responsive, and measurable.
Speakers:
- Rachel Hutchings, Fellow, Nuffield Trust (Confirmed)
- Rachel Melton, Deputy Associate Director All Age Continuing Healthcare (AACC), NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (Provisionally Confirmed)
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