The programme
08:30
Registration & Networking
Attendance Policy:
Please note that attendance at this event is strictly by pre-registration only. Only registered NHS delegates and approved attendees will be admitted on the day. Private sector representatives or unregistered guests will not be permitted entry.
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09:30
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
Chair Opening Address
A welcome to delegates and framing of the summit focus.
09:40
Keynote Presentation - Driving productivity on the frontline through optimisation (Confirmed)
Derm Ryan
Director of Digital Transformation, Transformation Directorate
NHSE
Derm will share insights from the national team on current strategy, programme progress, and emerging priorities for EPR optimisation. With 94% of NHS Trusts now live with an EPR, the focus is shifting from adoption to optimising these assets to deliver measurable improvements for staff and patients to truly transform care and improve system-wide outcomes. He will also outline how national frameworks, including the NHS Ten Year Plan, are shaping these efforts and the important role we all have in achieving those objectives.
Derm will host a 10 Minute Q&A at the end. Submit your questions here - https://tally.so/r/Npo1DW
10:10
Presentation - Foundations Under Pressure: Applying Pre‑Hospital Principles to Strengthen EPR‑Enabled Care (Confirmed)
Harry de Voil
Chief Information Officer for Nursing & Allied Health
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Session Overview:
High‑pressure clinical environments expose weaknesses in digital workflows long before any formal review does. As a recent paramedic‑turned‑CXIO, I’m discovering how clarity, predictable information flow, and well‑supported teams shape how effectively an EPR performs on the wards. Across Worcestershire, this is informing our approach not only to our recent ePMA deployment, but also to other digital priorities such as sepsis enhancements, ambient voice technology, and workforce readiness.
This session will share practical lessons from engaging directly with ward teams, addressing gaps uncovered during operational pressure, and reflecting on successes and failures in alignment of digital change with clinical expectations. It will also outline how these foundations are shaping upcoming work, including electronic bed capacity management, ensuring our EPR supports safer, more consistent care across the Trust.
10:30
Main Sponsor - Altera Digital Health
Main Sponsor - Altera Digital Health
About us:
Altera Digital Health is a leading provider of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems in the UK. Our flexible, integrated EPR brings together clinical, administrative, and patient flow capabilities, helping the NHS deliver safer, more reliable care while accelerating digital maturity. At Altera Digital Health, over 45% of our UK team has direct NHS experience—a figure that’s not just a statistic, but a reflection of our alignment with the values, challenges, and priorities of the NHS. This deep-rooted understanding allows us to design and deliver solutions that truly resonate with clinicians, administrators, and patients alike.
10:50
Morning Break & Networking
Morning Break & Networking
11:50
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
Chair Morning Reflection
Summary of morning themes and introduction to mid-day sessions.
Case Study - Aire Logic
Aire Logic is a health tech consultancy that partners with the NHS, public sector and life sciences organisations to deliver meaningful, measurable digital transformation. We work best with forward-thinking teams who value collaboration, seek sustainable impact and are ready to do things differently. Many organisations struggle with siloed systems, limited in-house capability and overwhelming technical debt, that’s where we come in.
As a trusted, independent enabler, we co-design and build simple, scalable infrastructure that empowers patients, improves outcomes and makes staff lives easier. Employee-owned and B-Corp certified, we prioritise societal value overprofit. We invest in open, reusable solutions and always act in the best interests of our partners. Whether we’re supporting local trusts or shaping national programmes, our teams leave our customers in a better place than where we found them. We don’t just deliver software. We enable change and help create a more connected, proactive and sustainable health and care system.
12:15
Case Study - Proact IT LTD
Case Study - Proact IT LTD
About us:
Through our portfolio of technology solutions, Proact support healthcare organisations on the journey to digital maturity. With over 25 years of industry experience, Proact Healthcare Solutions helps providers drive improved patient care. We work with you, optimising systems to deliver highly available and secure data that can be accessed anywhere.
12:35
Joined-Up Care Across Settings – Making Electronic Patient Records Work for the Whole System
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
Dr Daven Amin
Clinical Director of Urgent & Emergency Care
Frimley Health
Danielle McCourt
Health Records Manager
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Nisha Wheeler
Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer
NHS South East London ICB
Session Overview:
As healthcare becomes increasingly complex, the ability to share meaningful, real-time information across care settings is no longer optional, it’s essential. This session brings together leaders from ambulance services, primary care and acute trusts to explore how electronic patient records (EPRs) can better support truly joined-up care.
Through a mixed panel discussion, we will examine the practical and cultural challenges of connecting data across organisations, the realities of interoperability, and what “good” looks like when information flows seamlessly from the point of first contact through to ongoing community care. The panel will share real-world experiences, lessons learned and examples of where integration is already improving safety, efficiency and patient outcomes.
This session will provide valuable insights into how collaboration across ambulance, primary and hospital settings can unlock the full potential of EPRs and move systems closer to genuinely integrated care.
12:55
Case Study - Strategic Foundations for Digital Care - A CCIO's Blueprint
Dr Bishoy Dimitri
CCIO, Clinical Director UKI
Dedalus
Case Study - Dedalus
Session Overview:
Bishoy will outline how the NHS is moving from a focus on digitisation toward an emphasis on productivity and measurable improvement. He will explore how strong digital foundations, thoughtful clinical design and effective interoperability enable technology to support safer and more efficient care. He will describe how Dedalus solutions contribute to this shift by simplifying clinical work and improving coordination across services. The session will offer practical guidance for CCIOs on creating the right strategic conditions for digital systems to deliver meaningful operational and financial benefits, helping organisations move from adoption to demonstrable impact.
14:15
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
Chair Afternoon Address
Setting up the afternoon’s maturity and optimisation focus.
14:20
Case Study - From Digitisation to Productivity: Turning National Investment into Frontline Impact
Maria Moors
Senior Account Director
BridgeHead Software
Case Study - BridgeHead Software
Session Overview:
The NHS has invested heavily in digitisation over the past decade, particularly through EPR adoption, establishing essential digital foundations across secondary care. However, as NHS England has made clear, digitisation alone does not deliver sustained frontline productivity. This session explores why productivity loss often occurs between systems rather than within them driven by fragmented patient information, legacy technology drag, and the ongoing effort required to reconstruct patient history. It examines how moving from isolated data fragments to a coherent, trusted patient record can reduce risk, remove inefficiency, and turn national digital investment into meaningful frontline impact, enabling one patient story to be understood across organisations, care settings, and time — without adding complexity.
14:40
Presentation - Interoperability: A clinicians perspective from the coalface of healthcare (Confirmed)
Kanthan Theivendran
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust
Session Overview:
Moving beyond high-level digital strategy, this session exposes the critical gaps in healthcare interoperability through the eyes of a frontline surgeon. It contrasts the promise of "digital maturity" with the reality of data silos and physical implant cards that leave clinicians "digitally blind" in emergencies. The presentation argues for a fundamental architectural shift toward an Open Platform approach (using openEHR) that separates data from applications to ensure true semantic interoperability. Featuring the openOutcomes case study, it demonstrates how a "collect once, use many times" model can eliminate administrative burden, populate national registries automatically, and crucially, close the loop on patient safety.
15:00
Case Study - InterSystems
Gary Mooney
Clinical Solution Executive
InterSystems
Case Study - InterSystems
About us:
When you’ve been given the remit to be EPR enabled, and the clock is ticking, you need an experienced supplier that can not only quickly get you up to speed, but who will also help you along your journey.
With over 45 years’ experience delivering healthcare solutions, and working with over 60% of NHS Trusts, we know how important information is to the care provider, and presenting the right information, at the right time is critical, especially in high octane, multi-device departments like Emergency.
We also know implementing an EPR is hard, and it involves change, but you can rest assured that with our global experience in deploying TrakCare in 29 countries, and our focus on customer success, we will be with you all along your entire EPR journey and beyond.
15:20
Panel Discussion - EPR Optimisation Challenges (Confirmed)
Dr Penny Kechagioglou
Chief Clinical Information Officer and Consultant Clinical Oncologist
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Janet Young
Director of Digital Transformation & Systems
One Lancashire and South Cumbria CIO
Harry de Voil
Chief Information Officer for Nursing & Allied Health
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Making EPRs Work for Staff: Funding, Workforce and Maturity
Frontline Digitisation has delivered EPR coverage across 90% of Trusts but owning a system isn’t enough. This session examines how to optimise EPR use through workforce alignment, better funding models and strategic maturity planning, ensuring digital tools truly support staff and patients.
15:40
NHS Case Study - From Frontline Pressure to Digital Progress: Lessons From the Ambulance Service (Confirmed)
David Davis
Chief Clinical Information Officer
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Session Overview:
David shares candid stories from the ambulance sector where fragmented systems, data gaps, and operational pressures collide and highlights how new technologies and smarter integration can transform response, safety, and flow. He will make the case for a standardised, connected EPR ecosystem that still respects the needs of each clinical environment.
16:00
Panel Discussion - Aligning national policy with frontline EPR delivery (Confirmed)
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
Andy Meiner
CEO
Si-Squared
Gayle Dellow
Lead Digital Midwife | Chair of MNDN for East of England
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sarah Lomax
VP - Healthcare
Capgemini
Facilitator:
- Sarah Lomax, Vice President and Head of Health Consulting, Capgemini (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
With England close to universal EPR coverage, this session shifts the conversation from go-live to real value. The panel will explore the disconnect between national digital ambition and frontline delivery, asking what digital maturity truly looks like in practice — and why impact has lagged behind implementation.
Drawing on perspectives from across trusts, systems and suppliers, the discussion will examine how national policy translates (or fails to translate) into local delivery, the foundations needed for meaningful interoperability, and the leadership required in a post-go-live NHS. The session will also look ahead to what success should look like for EPRs by 2026 and the key decisions that will shape the next phase of digital care.
16:20
Closing Remarks (Confirmed)
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
