EstatesVision 2026: The Health Estates Conference
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EstatesVision 2026: The Health Estates Conference
A Strategic Summit on Estate Transformation and Sustainability - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
The NHS estate faces a pivotal moment. With over 40% of hospitals built before the internet era and many primary care facilities originally designed as residential properties, outdated infrastructure and fragmented maintenance systems are constraining the delivery of safe, accessible, and digitally enabled care. The imperative to modernise has never been more pressing, as articulated in the Fit for the Future: 10-Year Health Plan and supporting workforce and digital strategies.
This conference provides a practical forum for NHS leaders, estates teams, and partners to translate policy ambition into actionable plans. Delegates will explore sustainable, efficient, and digitally enabled approaches to estate modernisation, addressing both immediate operational pressures and long-term strategic priorities. This conference focuses on building capability, sharing best practice, and equipping teams with the tools to deliver measurable improvements across the NHS estate.
Summit Focus:
The Health Estates Conference 2026 is a premier event for sharing best practice and innovation, designed to help NHS professionals move from awareness to applied implementation. Delegates will gain practical frameworks, tested delivery models, and peer-derived insights on embedding safe, equitable, and sustainable transformation within their estate.
Dedicated Skill Clinics will provide hands-on tools, checklists, and implementation templates for estate assessment, decarbonisation, digital integration, and operational optimisation. Lessons Learned Sessions offer candid reflections from NHS leaders on real-world redevelopment challenges, course corrections, and successful outcomes.
Sessions address key questions: how to modernise ageing buildings within budget, decarbonise without disruption, integrate digital infrastructure to enable care, and optimise estate use to support patient-centred services.
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:
- Applying frameworks for estate transformation: Strategies to modernize and repurpose underused NHS and public estate into fit-for-purpose healthcare environments.
- Improving digital and operational resilience: Investment in digital systems, diagnostic infrastructure, and smart building technologies to enable data-driven care and optimize estate performance.
- Strengthening workforce capability: Innovations in medical and healthcare engineering, facilities management, and clinical systems to support staff in delivering high-quality care.
- Embedding safety, governance, infection control, and sustainability: Addressing backlog maintenance, infection prevention and control measures, decarbonisation, energy efficiency, waste sustainability, and regulatory compliance to ensure estates that are safe, resilient, accessible, and environmentally sustainable.
- Delivering measurable service improvement: Capacity expansion, new facilities, patient-centric design, and community integration to enhance healthcare delivery and patient experience.
- Improving equity, patient outcomes, and experience: Cost optimization, smart healthcare buildings, and health and wellbeing initiatives that directly impact patient access, satisfaction, and outcomes.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions focused on actionable tools, checklists, and templates for estate assessment, decarbonisation, and digital integration.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing what went wrong, what changed, and what succeeded in estate modernisation.
- Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges to explore common challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs, provider collaboratives, and estates teams.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: demonstrating not only outcomes achieved, but how results were delivered through financing, sequencing, and operational handover.
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for governance, digital integration, and sustainable estate management.
- Hear real experiences from peers and leaders delivering NHS estate transformation.
- Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and implementation guides for immediate local application.
- Join a network of NHS professionals committed to capability-building and sustainable delivery.
Who Would Benefit:
This conference is ideal for NHS estates, facilities, and capital planning professionals, sustainability leads, digital infrastructure teams, and finance officers driving modernisation programmes. Operational and clinical leaders seeking insight into how the built environment supports safe, efficient, and patient-centred care will also benefit. Suppliers, private partners, and innovators will gain understanding of evolving priorities, investment opportunities, and implementation challenges shaping the next decade of NHS estate transformation.
Sponsors & Partners
- Associate Directors of Estates & Facilities
- Chair
- Chief Executives
- Clinical Directors/Leaders
- Commercial Directors/Managers
- Deputy Directors of Estates & IT
- Directors/Heads of Estates & Capital
- ProjectsDirectors/Heads of IT
- Directors/Heads of Organisational Development
- Director/Heads of Operations
- Electrical Engineering Estates Managers
- Energy Managers
- Estates Compliance Managers
- Head of Estates Compliance
- Heads of Estates
- Health & Safety Managers
- Mechanical Engineering Estates Managers
- Net Zero Managers
- NHS Trust Directors and Senior Managers
- Senior Estates Managers
- Strategic Estates Advisors/managers
- Sustainability Managers
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
Tickets For NHS Senior Managers
We have an invite only option for NHS Senior Managers for our conference, to see if you qualify for a complimentary place please click the button below.
Conference Speakers
David
Jones
Director of Estates, Facilities & Capital Development
University Hospital of Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Philip
Tamuno
Head of Sustainability and Net Zero
Homerton Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust
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Jamie
Clegg
Head of Digital Innovation
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Janet
Smith
Head of Sustainability
Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
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Nicola
Theron
Director of Strategic Estates
North Central London Integrated Care System
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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!
Keynote Presentation - Modernising and Repurposing the NHS Estate (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
This presentation examines how the NHS estate can be modernised and repurposed to support evolving models of care, improve patient outcomes, and make better use of existing assets. It addresses challenges such as ageing infrastructure, inefficient space, and sustainability demands, and outlines strategic approaches including refurbishment, flexible design, digital integration, and the reuse of underutilised buildings.
Skills Clinic: Building Sustainable and Smart Infrastructure – Decarbonisation, Energy Efficiency, and Collaboration in Practice (Confirmed)
This skills clinic will explore how sustainable infrastructure can transform NHS estates. Focusing on decarbonisation, energy efficiency, and smart technologies, participants will learn practical approaches to designing, operating, and managing greener, more resilient healthcare facilities. The session will also highlight how private sector collaboration and innovative financing can drive delivery, improve health outcomes, and ensure long-term financial sustainability across the NHS estate.
Panellists:
- Janet Smith, Head of Sustainability, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust (Confirmed)
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Dr Philip Tamuno, Head of Sustainability and Net Zero, Homerton Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust (Confirmed)
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Mary Aladegbola, Senior Net Zero Technical Energy Lead, NHS England (Confirmed)
- Charlotte Houghton, Energy and Sustainability Manager, iFM Bolton (Confirmed)
Case Study - Accelerating the transition to a zero emission NHS road fleet
Case Study - Energy Saving Trust
Will you reach net zero by 2040 for the emissions the NHS controls directly? How are you performing, in the context of reducing your road transport emissions by 80% from 2028 to 2032? Much progress is being made but what else can you do and by when and at what cost? Today, we present a case study on a NHS Trust and how we’ve helped them move towards achieving their net zero aims and ambitions.
Morning Break
Morning Break
Case Study - Sustainable, Resilient, and Smart: Future-Proofing Healthcare Estates through Decarbonisation and Digital Innovation
Case Study - Equans
Session Overview:
Simon will present Equans’ experience in supporting healthcare estates through decarbonisation, climate adaptation, and digital transformation. He will outline how our structured five-stage decarbonisation plan prepares NHS Trusts for funding opportunities and PFI complexities, while enabling delivery in live clinical settings. Our climate adaptation toolkit equips clients to manage climate-related risks and build resilience across operations and financial planning. Simon will also discuss how Equans’ smart hospital expertise helps develop digital strategies that enhance patient flow, asset maintenance, and staff well-being - showcasing the pivotal role Estates & Facilities play in improving hospital performance and sustainability.
Case Study - The future of NHS Parking
Case Study - Group Nexus
About us:
GroupNexus offers an end-to-end service; from first-class Car Park Management services to technology that allows you to monitor and analyse parking data.
We recently launched our Bespoke NHS Permit System. Designed to address the complex and time consuming checks and controls required to manage staff and visitor permits. And it's set-up to manage the new Parking Concessions.
We're also focused on innovation and supporting our clients with their EV strategy and Net Zero targets.
We'll be talking at the event about our vision for the future of NHS Parking.
Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - Backlog Maintenance and Safety (Confirmed)
Fireside Interview
Addressing maintenance backlogs to ensure the estate remains safe, accessible, and environmentally sustainable.
Case Study - How NHS Trusts Can Build a Business Case to Secure Additional Budget and Address the £15.9b Maintenance Backlog
Case Study - SFG20
Learn how NHS Trusts can build a robust business case to secure additional maintenance budget and tackle the £15.9bn backlog. In this session, we will outline a practical approach: quantify compliance costs, prioritise non-statutory work through risk, align the case to stakeholder priorities, and present funding needs clearly using SFG20 to evidence costs and outcomes.
Lunch and Networking
Lunch and Networking
Case Study - YESSS Electrical
Case Study - YESSS Electrical
Speakers: Giles Parker and Steve Nelson
About us:
We’re the fastest-growing electrical wholesaler in the UK with over 95 stores nationwide and have been established in Europe for over 50 years. We've branches located across the UK, including London, Sheffield, Glasgow, Leeds, Belfast, Nottingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham and even the Channel Islands! You can find your nearest branch here. Each branch has a helpful knowledgeable team, with their own delivery drivers.
YESSS offer a full range of support services including EV & Renewables, Industrial, Security and Lighting, with each division having a team of specialists within their industry. Can we support your business? YESSS we can!
NHS Deep Dive Session - Underused NHS and public estate can be repurposed into modern, sustainable, and digitally enabled facilities that support contemporary models of care (Confirmed)
Session Overview:
NEL ICB and provider partners have been working as an Estates Collaborative since 2019 with a single Infrastructure Strategy. We work closely with our 8 local authority partners along with the VCSE sector to create modern sustainable premises for the delivery of care. We will present three case studies.
Main Plenary Skill Clinic - Digital and Diagnostic Infrastructure for Data-Driven Care (Confirmed)
This skills clinic will provide practical guidance on strengthening digital and diagnostic infrastructure to support data-driven care. Participants will explore how to implement interoperable electronic health records, apply AI diagnostics and telemedicine, and use data to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. The session will also cover smart estate management, including energy monitoring and optimising theatre usage, giving attendees hands-on strategies to create connected, efficient, and sustainable healthcare systems.
Panellists:
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Andrew Stradling, Chief Medical Officer, NHS LPP; M&S H&CP; HCSA National Council (Confirmed)
- Jamie Clegg, Head of Digital Innovation, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)
Breakout Skill Clinic - Building a Sustainable Supply Chain for the NHS Estates of the Future (Confirmed)
This interactive session explores how NHS Estates teams can lead on sustainability through smarter, greener supply chain management. Aligned with the NHS Net Zero goals, the clinic offers practical tools for embedding sustainability into procurement, engaging suppliers, and tracking environmental outcomes.
Using real NHS case studies, participants will learn how to:
- Integrate sustainability criteria into procurement and contracts
- Identify high-impact carbon reduction opportunities
- Build partnerships for innovation and social value
Pannelists:
- Mr Krys Stanton, Chief Operating Officer, NCZ Group (Confirmed)
- Janet Smith, Head of Sustainability, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust (Confirmed)
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Clare Nash, Head of Clinical Products Management, Black Country Alliance (Confirmed)
Hot Buffet Food & Drinks
Hot Buffet Food & Drinks
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