A Skills-Focused Summit on Point of Care Testing & Diagnostic Transformation - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Context and Policy Landscape:
The NHS faces an era of unprecedented transformation, with the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan, the Workforce Plan, and the National Data Strategy driving both opportunity and complexity. Point of Care Testing (POCT) is central to these reforms, offering potential to improve patient pathways, operational efficiency, and clinical decision-making.
Yet translating national ambition into sustainable, locally deliverable outcomes remains a challenge. Services must navigate workforce pressures, digital integration, and governance standards while ensuring safe, equitable care. FuturePOCT 2026 provides a practical forum for NHS leaders to exchange knowledge, explore innovations, and strengthen capability across diagnostic and point-of-care services.
Summit Focus:
The FuturePOCT 2026 Summit convenes senior NHS leaders to translate strategy into action. Delegates will explore tested delivery models, frameworks, and peer-derived insights, focused on embedding safe, sustainable, and equitable transformation in their services.
Dedicated Skill Clinics offer practical tools, checklists, and implementation templates to support immediate application in local contexts. Lessons Learned Sessions provide candid reflections from NHS leaders, highlighting real-world challenges, adjustments, and successful interventions.
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:
- The application of frameworks and aligning strategy with local and national priorities.
- Methods to enhance digital and operational resilience within services.
- Approaches to strengthen workforce capability and team effectiveness.
- Techniques to embed safety, governance, and interoperability standards.
- Delivering measurable service improvement and value-based outcomes.
- Strategies to improve equity, patient outcomes, and experience.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions with practical tools, checklists, and templates for immediate implementation.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing challenges, course corrections, and successes.
- Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges exploring common challenges and co-designing solutions across ICBs and provider collaboratives.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: highlighting not only outcomes achieved but the processes and workforce innovations enabling delivery.
Why Attend:
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for governance, interoperability, and workforce transformation.
- Learn from the real experiences of peers and leaders driving NHS improvement.
- Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and action plans for local rollout.
- Join a community of NHS professionals committed to capability-building and sustainable delivery.
Who Would Benefit:
FuturePOCT 2026 is designed 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. Community providers, GP leaders, workforce planners, and patient experience teams will also gain practical insights into scalable, interoperable models of care.
Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will benefit from understanding implementation priorities, workforce skill gaps, and the practical enablers shaping the next decade of NHS transformation.
