LungVision 2026: The NHS Respiratory Transformation Conference
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LungVision 2026: The NHS Respiratory Transformation Conference
A Strategic Skills-Focused Summit on Transforming Respiratory Care Across the NHS - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
LungVision 2026 is an NHS conference focused on the practical delivery of improved respiratory services, with an emphasis on earlier diagnosis, integrated care pathways, and the effective use of data, digital tools, and the workforce. As community-based care, virtual wards, and diagnostic recovery become standard expectations, the event concentrates on how these models are being implemented in real-world settings. Chaired by Chris Sleight, it brings together leaders, clinicians, researchers, and delivery teams to share successes and ongoing challenges.
The conference takes place against a backdrop of increasing pressure on respiratory services across the NHS, including rising demand, workforce shortages, and diagnostic backlogs. At the same time, innovations such as AI-enabled monitoring, remote care technologies, and cross-sector collaboration present opportunities to improve outcomes. Sessions explore how these advancements can be safely and consistently integrated into existing systems, with contributions highlighting research priorities, pathway coordination, and the complexities of bridging hospital and community care.
Throughout the day, speakers examine both the effectiveness and limitations of current approaches. There is also a strong focus on measuring clinical, operational, and economic impact using real-world data, alongside incorporating patient perspectives on support, education, and engagement. Overall, the programme highlights the importance of coordinated, evidence-based approaches to transforming respiratory care.
Conference Focus:
This delivery-focused programme centres on real-world NHS implementation across respiratory care pathways. Sessions include a hands-on skills clinic on integrating hospital and community services, exploring how virtual wards and shared-care models are being deployed in practice. A series of case-led presentations examine community-based breathlessness pathways and the realities of remote monitoring, including where current tools fall short and how services are adapting.
The agenda also includes a focused NHS deep dive on medicines optimisation, prescribing and the use of data in respiratory management, led by Ravijyot Saggu. This session addresses how pharmacy, digital and clinical teams are working together to improve outcomes and support quality improvement.
The day concludes with a skills clinic on sleep therapy and diagnostics, with contributions from Gurnak Singh Dosanjh, Sriram Iyer and Claire Allen. This session explores how services are managing rising demand, diagnostic backlogs and the shift toward home-based testing and treatment.
Throughout, chair reflections are used to connect sessions and draw out practical implications for ICSs, ICBs and provider organisations.
The day is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave understanding:
- How emerging diagnostic approaches and research priorities are translating into NHS practice
- How to implement and scale integrated respiratory pathways across hospital and community settings
- The strengths and limitations of current remote monitoring tools and how to apply them effectively
- How to measure impact and demonstrate value using real-world data and health economic approaches
- How prescribing, medicines optimisation and data can support respiratory outcomes and quality improvement
- How to incorporate patient perspectives into service design and delivery
What’s New for 2026:
Greater emphasis on applied learning and capability building, including two dedicated skills clinics focused on pathway integration and sleep diagnostics, alongside an NHS-led deep dive on prescribing and data. The programme places less emphasis on policy discussion and greater focus on how change is being delivered, adapted and sustained in practice.
Why Attend:
A practical, implementation-focused conference for NHS leaders working across respiratory care. Learn directly from peers delivering pathway redesign, digital deployment and service improvement, and leave with grounded, actionable insight that can be applied within local systems.
Who Would Benefit:
Senior NHS leaders across ICSs, ICBs and provider organisations responsible for respiratory services, diagnostics, digital delivery and long-term condition management. Particularly relevant for clinical leads, operational leaders, pharmacists, digital and data leads, and those involved in pathway redesign and community care transformation.
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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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Event Speakers
Dr Sriram
Iyer
Consultant Respiratory & Sleep Physician
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Gurnak Singh
Dosanjh
Deputy CCIO | Digital Healthcare Consultant | CSO | ICB Clinical Lead
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
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Lucy
Marsden
Lead Respiratory Advanced Practitioner
South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust
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Michael
Crooks
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
NHS Humber Health Partnership and University of Hull
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Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc
FIBMS
Chief Executive Officer of Sleight Insights
Formerly Chief Officer of the Greater Manchester Diagnostic Networks
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Ms Ravijyot
Saggu
Lead Pharmacist, Medicine & Respiratory
NHS Portfolio Role/Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, NHS Trust London
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Ms Yasmin
Zobedey
Former NHS Health Economics Lead (HInM) | Part-time NHS Pharmacist | System Partnerships Senior Manager at GSK
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Nawaid
Ahmad
Consultant Respiratory and acute Physician
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS trust
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Rachel
Williams
Associate Chief Operating Officer
South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust
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The programme
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 - Lung Research Grand Challenges: where next for respiratory diagnosis
Session Overview:
The objective of the presentation is to introduce the Lung Research Grand Challenges as a framework to drive cross-sector collaboration between attendees and the research community.
The session will home in on ambitions to transform respiratory diagnostics and share new research into cutting-edge AI tools that passively monitor respiratory health and detect deterioration.
We will also showcase efforts to improve primary care diagnostics that demands close collaboration between clinicians, innovators and the research community. Through joint working we aim to drive smoother integration of new innovations into existing NHS pathways and improve patient outcomes.
Morning Skills Clinic - Bridging Hospital & Community in Respiratory Care
Session Overview:
A practical, hands-on session delving into the integration of respiratory services across care boundaries. Discussion will focus on virtual wards, shared-care pathways, and overcoming workforce and data challenges in moving care closer to home.
Case Study - Advancing Care in COPD: Burden, Biologics, and Pathways to Equitable Access
Case Study - GSK
Presentation - Respiratory Virtual Wards: Integrated Community Care
Session Overview:
Virtual wards are now a core part of delivering acute care closer to home, but moving from concept to day‑to‑day delivery brings practical challenges. This session provides a grounded, operational overview of how a multidisciplinary virtual ward functions in practice, focusing on the clinical processes, pathways, and systems that enable safe and effective patient care outside of hospital settings. Using real examples from an established virtual ward service, the presentation will explore how patients are identified and onboarded, how clinical decision‑making is supported remotely, how teams manage risk, & escalation. Plus the use of Point of Care testing, remote monitoring technology, multiple EPR systems will be discussed as well as the challenges faced with communication across acute, community, and primary care interfaces.
Presentation - Beyond the Dashboard: What Remote Monitoring Tools Miss in COPD Care and What Real-World Digital Twin Deployment Shows
Session Overview:
My work sits at the intersection of NHS respiratory care and housing, developed in partnership with both housing associations and NHS teams to monitor and support COPD patients in their homes. This gives us a genuinely cross-sector perspective on what current virtual ward and remote monitoring tools do well, where they fall short in practice, and what more integrated, proactive approaches have demonstrated in real deployments.
The session would cover a critical appraisal of existing remote monitoring tools and their limitations around reactive alerting, cumulative exposure, and stakeholder usability, an introduction to our NHS-housing partnership model and how it was built, and real case study evidence of what a digital twin approach adds beyond conventional monitoring.
Depending on timing, I could also include a live interactive demonstration of the developed digital twin, giving delegates the opportunity to explore the system directly and draw their own practical takeaways for moving from reactive to proactive respiratory care in community settings.
Leadership Interview Session
Session Overview TBC
Presentation - Measuring Impact and Demonstrating Value of Innovation in Respiratory Care
Session Overview:
This presentation explores how to evaluate respiratory innovations using real-world data and health economic approaches, highlighting how to demonstrate clinical, operational and economic value in the context of limited NHS data.
Presentation - The Sleep Apnoea Trust: the patient voice: Supporting patients and healthcare professionals
Session Overview:
The Sleep Apnoea Trust provides a wealth of information on its website for patients, a helpline, and membership as well as an online yearly conference to our members. The Trust also supports healthcare professionals by offering free leaflets, facilitating volunteers at sleep clinics and offering to share research opportunities with patients.
NHS Deep Dive - Medication, Prescribing, & Digital Data in Respiratory Management
NHS Deep Dive - Foreshortening Lung Cancer Diagnostic Pathways, Reducing Time to Staging
Session Overview:
Alliance Medical experience of LCS converted to PETCT scanning early in follow-up process.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Sleep Therapy and Diagnostics in NHS Respiratory Care
Session Overview:
Sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnoea, are a growing concern affecting millions of patients across the UK. We will explore how NHS respiratory services are innovating to improve diagnosis and treatment, from home-based sleep studies to CPAP and emerging therapies. Experts will discuss current challenges, including rising demand, workforce pressures, and diagnostic backlogs, and highlight strategies to deliver patient-centred, efficient care in line with the NHS Long Term Plan. Join us to hear how evidence-based sleep therapy is transforming respiratory care and improving patient outcomes.
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