GenomicsConnect 2026: The NHS Genomics & Clinical Integration Conference
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GenomicsConnect 2026: The NHS Genomics & Clinical Integration Conference
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Delivered in partnership by Convenzis Group and Healthcare Innovation Consortium.
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Current Landscape and Challenges:
Genomics is rapidly transitioning from specialist research environments into routine NHS clinical care. Through the NHS Genomic Medicine Service, genomic testing is increasingly embedded across cancer pathways, rare disease diagnostics, pharmacogenomics and personalised treatment decision-making.
From April, the NHS moves into a new phase of delivery where genomic laboratories and the wider Genomic Medicine Service operate as a single integrated national model, designed to support genomic testing at scale across the health system.
However, while national infrastructure and testing capability have advanced significantly, many NHS organisations are now facing the practical challenge of integrating genomic medicine into everyday clinical workflows.
Key challenges include:
- Embedding genomic test ordering into existing EPR and clinical requesting systems.
- Ensuring genomic results are delivered into local systems in structured, clinically usable formats.
- Connecting genomic informatics platforms with hospital digital infrastructure.
- Supporting clinicians across specialties to confidently interpret genomic results.
- Establishing governance frameworks for genomic data sharing and decision support.
- Scaling genomic services without adding complexity to already stretched clinical teams.
As genomic testing becomes part of routine care pathways, success will depend not only on national infrastructure, but on how effectively genomic services integrate into frontline clinical delivery across the NHS.
Importance and Timeliness of the Event:
The NHS is entering a critical implementation phase for genomic medicine.
Over the next three years, the focus will shift from building genomic infrastructure toward making the unified Genomic Medicine Service fully operational across clinical pathways.
This means solving practical challenges around digital connectivity, test ordering, reporting, interpretation and workforce capability. Interoperability between genomic systems, laboratories and clinical environments will be essential to ensure genomic insights can be used safely and effectively in patient care.
At the same time, clinicians across specialties are increasingly expected to incorporate genomic insights into diagnosis, treatment selection and personalised care planning.
This conference provides a focused forum for NHS leaders to explore how genomic medicine is being operationalised today, sharing real-world lessons from national programmes, genomic service leaders and NHS organisations integrating genomics into routine care.
Summit Focus:
GenomicsConnect 2026 is a skills-led summit focused on the operational delivery of genomic medicine across the NHS.
The programme concentrates on the practical challenges organisations face as genomics becomes embedded in mainstream healthcare, including:
- Integrating genomic test ordering into clinical systems and care pathways.
- Connecting genomic informatics infrastructure with local EPR environments.
- Delivering genomic results into clinician workflows in usable formats.
- Developing workforce capability for genomic interpretation and application.
- Ensuring governance, safety and data standards support genomic medicine at scale.
- Aligning national genomic programmes with local NHS delivery.
Sessions combine national strategic insight with practical implementation experiences from NHS genomic programme leaders, digital architects, clinicians and service transformation leads.
Key Themes:
- Operationalising the Unified NHS Genomic Medicine Service: Understanding how the NHS genomic model is evolving and what organisations need to prepare for as genomics becomes embedded across clinical services.
- Genomics Informatics and Interoperability: Exploring how genomic systems must connect with EPR platforms, laboratory systems and clinical workflows to enable safe and scalable genomic medicine.
- Genomic Order Management and Electronic Requesting: Practical insight into implementing genomic test ordering and result delivery within routine clinical systems.
- Using Genomic Insights in Clinical Practice: Supporting clinicians to interpret and apply genomic information within diagnostics, treatment planning and personalised care.
- Workforce Capability and Education: Preparing the NHS workforce for the increasing role genomics will play in everyday healthcare.
- Governance, Data Standards and Clinical Safety: Ensuring genomic data sharing and interpretation are underpinned by strong governance and national standards.
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
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Conference Speakers
Deborah
Porter
Deputy Director Genomics Service Transformation
Genomics Unit, NHS England
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Registration & Networking
Registration - Open from 8:20 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 - From Genomic Data to Clinical Action: Delivering the Unified Genomic Record Across the NHS
Session Overview:
As genomic medicine becomes part of everyday care, the NHS must ensure genomic information can move safely and meaningfully between laboratories, clinical systems and multidisciplinary teams.
This keynote will explore the role of data and digital infrastructure in enabling genomic medicine at scale, including the development of the Unified Genomic Record, the relationship between genomics and EPRs, and the standards, governance and interoperability required to make genomic insights accessible at the point of care.
Key themes:
- The strategic role of data and digital in genomic medicine.
- The Unified Genomic Record and its potential to support lifelong, patient-centred care.
- Connecting genomic laboratory systems, informatics platforms and local EPR environments.
- Making genomic results structured, shareable and clinically usable.
- Building the foundations for safe, scalable genomic medicine across the NHS.
Morning Skill Clinic - Building the Digital Foundations for Genomics Integration: Workflows, EPRs and Clinical Readiness
Session Overview:
This practical skill clinic will focus on the core foundations needed to embed genomics into routine NHS services. The session will explore how organisations can align clinical pathways, digital infrastructure and workforce capability to support genomic test ordering, result interpretation and informed clinical decision-making.
Key themes:
- Mapping where genomic testing fits within existing clinical pathways and EPR workflows.
- Preparing electronic requesting, order management and reporting systems for genomic care.
- Designing clinician-friendly access to genomic results and decision support.
- Establishing clear data flows between genomic laboratories, digital teams and frontline services.
- Reducing complexity for already stretched clinical teams.
- Building readiness for the wider adoption of genomic medicine.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Morning Break
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Case Study - C the Signs
Case Study - C the Signs
C the Signs is an AI-driven platform, created by NHS doctors, that leverages cutting-edge data analytics to detect cancer early: when it is most treatable.
Implemented in primary care, C the Signs analyses patient-reported data and electronic health records to identify patients at risk of cancer, determine the type of cancer, and guide healthcare professionals to the appropriate diagnostic or referral pathway.
C the Signs has already detected cancer in over 50,000 patients, spanning more than 50 cancer types, including rare and hard-to-detect cancers. With 99% sensitivity, 99% negative predictive value, and 94% accuracy in predicting tumour origin, it is transforming how cancer is diagnosed and treated.
This year, we’ve expanded the scope of our impact with the launch of C my Signs in the NHS. C my Signs empowers patients to use self-assessments for direct referrals, in collaboration with hospitals and diagnostic hubs, increasing the patient touchpoints that can lead to earlier detection.
C the Signs is a UKCA-marked Class I medical device, fully integrated with electronic health records and compliant with the highest security standards. It has been implemented across 1,600 GP practices in England, in partnership with Integrated Care Boards and Cancer Alliances.
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Interview Session - Leading Genomics Transformation in Practice: Digital Change, Clinical Adoption and Service Delivery
Session Overview:
This leadership interview will explore the operational and cultural challenges of bringing genomic medicine into everyday NHS care.
Discussion will focus on how leaders can align clinical, genomic, digital and informatics teams; build confidence among clinicians; manage change across complex pathways; and ensure new systems genuinely improve care rather than add administrative burden.
Key themes:
- Leading change across clinical, diagnostic and digital boundaries.
- Building effective partnerships between genomic services, EPR teams and frontline clinicians.
- Supporting adoption of new digital workflows and decision-support tools.
- Creating confidence in the use, interpretation and sharing of genomic information.
- Lessons from delivering sustainable genomic transformation at scale.
Case Study
Case Study
Lunch and Networking
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Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Integrating Genomic Testing into Clinical Pathways: EPRs, Electronic Requesting and Practical Lessons for NHS Teams
Session Overview:
This NHS deep dive will explore how genomic testing can be embedded into existing clinical pathways without adding unnecessary complexity for clinicians or patients.
The session will focus on the practical steps required to support electronic test ordering, referral processes, result management, multidisciplinary working and the use of genomic insight within local EPR environments.
Key themes:
- Embedding genomic testing into routine clinical and EPR workflows.
- Improving electronic requesting, referral and order-management processes.
- Ensuring genomic results are delivered in clinically usable formats.
- Supporting multidisciplinary interpretation and decision-making.
- Connecting local delivery with national genomic infrastructure.
- Lessons for scaling genomic testing across specialties.
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Genomic Data, the Unified Genomic Record and EPR Interoperability: Making Insight Usable at the Point of Care
Session Overview:
This session will examine the digital and data challenges involved in making genomic information accessible, shareable and actionable within NHS clinical environments.
The presentation will focus on how genomic informatics platforms, laboratory systems, the Unified Genomic Record and local EPRs need to connect in order to support safe, scalable and effective use of genomic insight.
Key themes:
- The role of the Unified Genomic Record in enabling connected, patient-centred genomic care.
- Connecting genomic informatics platforms with local NHS digital infrastructure.
- Delivering structured genomic results into EPR and clinical systems.
- Interoperability, data standards and electronic requesting.
- Supporting safe clinical decision-making through better data flow and decision support.
- Reducing fragmentation between laboratories, clinicians, informatics and digital teams.
Afternoon Skill Clinic - Using Genomic Insights in Clinical Practice: Interpretation, Digital Decision Support and Workforce Confidence
Session Overview:
This practical skill clinic will focus on how NHS teams can support clinicians to interpret and apply genomic information within everyday care.
The session will explore workforce education, digital decision-support tools, data governance and the practical steps needed to ensure genomic insights are used safely, consistently and confidently across clinical services.
Key themes:
- Supporting clinicians to interpret genomic results confidently.
- Building genomic literacy across specialties and care settings.
- Using EPR-integrated decision support safely within clinical workflows.
- Managing consent, governance, access and data-sharing considerations.
- Translating genomic insight into diagnosis, treatment and personalised care.
- Ensuring technology supports, rather than complicates, frontline delivery.
Tea, Coffee & Networking
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End of Day
Every attendee makes a difference. We’ll donate one tree for every delegate attending the conference to our partners over at Play it Green and £1 to our Charity of the Year, Stockport Without Abuse.
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