The programme
08:30
Registration & Networking
Attendance Policy:
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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 - Unlocking value in your EPR: A clinician’s perspective
Mark Hutchinson
Executive Vice President
Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA)
Dr. Constantin Jabarin
CCIO
Altera Digital Health
Dr. Tom Mitchell
Emergency Medicine Consultant | Clinical Medical Information Officer
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Main Sponsor - Altera Digital Health
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Chair: Mark Hutchinson, Executive Vice President, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA)
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Dr. Tom Mitchell, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Clinical Medical Information Officer, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr. Constantin Jabarin, CCIO, Altera Digital Health
Session Overview:
With core digital foundations in place, in this session, Tom Mitchell, a consultant in emergency medicine at Gloucestershire Hospitals, will share how the trust is unlocking value through the Altera Sunrise EPR platform. Tom will highlight how usability, user-centred design, and flexible approaches are creating strong foundations for innovation at Gloucestershire, improving productivity, and enhancing patient care. Joining Tom in conversation will be Altera's CCIO, Constantin Jabarin, who will provide additional insights and expertise on the partnership between Gloucestershire Hospitals and Altera.
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.
11:55
Case Study - AI at the Edges: The Next Productivity Gains Won’t Come From Your EPR
Mike Odling-Smee
Co-Founder
Aire Logic and Aire Innovate
Case Study - Aire Logic
With EPR adoption largely complete, the next wave of NHS productivity gains is unlikely to come from replacing core systems, but from removing the friction between them. Despite digital maturity progress, frontline teams continue to manually upload documents, rekey referral information and code inbound correspondence where integration remains limited
This session explores where automation and artificial intelligence is already delivering measurable impact, not by transforming the EPR itself, but by strengthening the workflows around it.
Through practical examples, it will demonstrate how AI can structure inbound paper documents in seconds, validate referral completeness before submission, digitise paper-based pathways and convert patient-reported outcomes into structured, reusable clinical data. Deployed within existing governance frameworks, these targeted interventions reduce duplication, improve data quality and deliver tangible productivity improvements within weeks.
If optimisation is the priority for 2026, the opportunity may not lie in what sits inside the EPR, but in what happens at its operational edges.
12:15
Case Study - Next‑Gen EPR Hosting: building secure, resilient and UK‑sovereign foundations for digital care
Darius Virabi
Head of Healthcare
Proact
Laura Mumby
Deputy Director for Digital and Technology
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Case Study - Proact IT LTD
Session Overview:
In this session, we’ll explore how you can turn EPR capability into measurable improvements in productivity, clinical quality and employee experience. We’ll share how modern, secure and UK-sovereign cloud foundations can support the next phase of EPR hosting, improving cost efficiency, strengthening security controls and enhancing resilience.
Alongside this, you’ll hear a real-world perspective from Laura Mumby, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust on how improving digital maturity is directly enhancing patient outcomes, building a stronger, safer foundation for future care.
12:35
Joined-Up Care Across Settings – Making Electronic Patient Records Work for the Whole System (Confirmed)
Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
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 - Discovery Before Deployment: A Productivity-First Approach to EPR Optimisation
Gary Mooney
Clinical Solution Executive
InterSystems
Case Study - InterSystems
Session Overview:
Productivity gains and improved clinical outcomes are the primary justification for EPR investment. NHS England's strategy now makes this explicit: the focus is shifting from technology acquisition to technology exploitation from deploying EPR solutions to realising measurable value from them.
This presentation sets out the InterSystems approach that places service transformation, not system deployment, at the heart of programme delivery. A rigorous, service-led discovery methodology grounds productivity investment in evidenced workflows rather than assumed ones addressing the core risk that accompanies every shift from acquisition to exploitation.
To illustrate the approach, we draw on a recent national-scale programme for the Health Service Executive in the Republic of Ireland, where a 40-week structured discovery engaged frontline staff and executives across six regions to build a clinically-validated blueprint before a single implementation decision was taken.
The session concludes by examining why, as AI-based solutions accelerate across healthcare, the case for evidence-based discovery has never been more critical. AI amplifies whatever it finds and without a rigorous understanding of current-state workflows and behaviours, it will accelerate dysfunction, not productivity.
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
Dan Wintercross
Associate Director
Digital Services for Integrated Care | Digital Primary Care | NHS England
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
