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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Chair Opening Address

A welcome to delegates and framing of the summit focus.

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

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.

Main Sponsor - Altera Digital Health

• Chair: Mark Hutchinson, Executive Vice President, Altera Digital Health (UK & EMEA)
• Dr. Tom Mitchell, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Clinical Medical Information Officer, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr. Constantin Jabarin, CCIO, Altera Digital Health

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Morning Break & Networking

Chair Morning Reflection

Summary of morning themes and introduction to mid-day sessions.

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.

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.

Case Study - Dedalus

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Lunch & Networking

Chair Afternoon Address

Setting up the afternoon’s maturity and optimisation focus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Closing Remarks

Canapés & Drinks

End of Day