Maternity 2026: The NHS Neonatal & Midwifery Transformation Conference
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Maternity 2026: The NHS Neonatal & Midwifery Transformation Conference
A Strategic Skills-Focused Summit on Maternity and Neonatal Transformation
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Context and Policy Landscape:
The NHS enters 2026 at a strategic inflexion point in maternity and neonatal services. The 10 Year Health Plan for England places maternity care among its core priorities, signalling renewed national commitment to reform quality, safety and equity of care. With persistent workforce pressures, service variation and inequities, there is an urgent need to align local delivery with emerging national standards and expectations.
Frontline teams face increasing complexity: rising demand, constrained capacity, record-keeping fragmentation and variable patient outcomes. As the national review by the newly formed Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce concludes and the 10 Year Plan ushers in a data-driven, quality-first approach, providers must translate strategic ambition into sustainable and consistent operational practice.
Summit Focus:
The Maternity 2026 Summit provides a focused environment for senior NHS colleagues to test ideas, stress-check plans, and build capability for practical transformation. The summit supports a shift from discussion to implementation, offering frameworks and peer-validated approaches that help teams embed consistent, safe and data-enabled maternity and neonatal services.
Skill Clinics provide structured, practical sessions designed to equip delegates with tools, templates and implementation checklists to support operational delivery.
Lessons Learned Sessions offer candid reflections from NHS leaders detailing the challenges, missteps and corrective actions that shaped their improvement journeys.
Delegate Outcomes:
- How to align local planning with the National Maternity & Neonatal Action Plan and emerging policy requirements.
- Methods for strengthening digital, operational and safety processes, including real-time monitoring and interoperable records.
- Approaches to building workforce capability, resilience and retention across midwifery and neonatal teams.
- How to embed consistent governance, safety and equity standards across pathways and provider collaboratives.
- Ways to deliver measurable service improvement through redesigned models of care and community-driven pathways.
- How to reduce inequalities while improving experience and outcomes for women, birthing people and families.
What is New for 2026?
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions providing tools, checklists and templates ready for immediate application.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from leaders on what went wrong, what changed and what ultimately enabled progress.
- Peer Learning Circles: facilitated small-group exchanges to surface shared challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs and provider collaboratives.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: focused on the processes, workforce models and operational steps that delivered tangible results.
Why Attend?
- Build confidence through applied learning grounded in real operational delivery.
- Access frameworks that support governance, interoperability and workforce transformation.
- Hear directly from peers and national leaders shaping maternity and neonatal improvement.
- Leave with practical artefacts, templates and action plans to support local implementation.
- Join a community committed to strengthening capability and sustainable, high-quality care.
Who Would Benefit?
This summit is designed for senior clinical, operational and digital leaders working across maternity and neonatal transformation. This includes ICB and ICS teams, Chief Nurses, Heads of Midwifery, AHP leaders, CCIOs, CIOs, service managers and transformation directors. Community providers, GP leaders, workforce planners and patient-experience teams will also benefit from exposure to scalable, interoperable models of care.
Suppliers, digital partners and academic collaborators will gain insight into implementation priorities, workforce capability needs and the practical enablers influencing the next decade of maternity and neonatal improvement.
Sponsors & Partners
Who will Attend
- 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
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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 - NHS Maternity & Neonatal Care: From Scrutiny to Sustainable Safety (TBC)
Session Overview:
This session sets the scene for maternity and neonatal services, reflecting on the outcomes of national investigations and the progress made since their publication. It explores how safety surveillance systems such as MOSS are maturing, where variation in care still exists, and how workforce, infrastructure, and financial pressures continue to shape services. The session also addresses patient experience, inequalities, and the long-term challenge of embedding learning into everyday practice.
Morning Skill Clinic - Delivering Safe Maternity Care: Tools, Data & Workforce (TBC)
Session Overview:
The clinic focuses on how frontline teams can deliver safer care in a more data-driven and accountable environment. It covers effective use of the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool, high-quality MSDS submissions, and sustainable workforce planning across obstetrics, anaesthetics, midwifery, and neonatology. The session draws on learning from high-performing Trusts and evolving expectations within the Maternity Incentive Scheme.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Case Study - Medexs
Case Study - Medexs
Medexs Medical Systems Limited. We are leaders in providing top-tier solutions for Ultra Clean Ventilation and Air Handling Units, meticulously crafted for hospital environments. Our systems strictly adhere to HTM03-01 guidelines, and we integrate MMC concepts across the spectrum of manufacture, installation, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance. This comprehensive approach guarantees the highest standards throughout the system's lifecycle.
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - Leadership, Culture & Accountability: Lessons for the Next Phase of Maternity Safety (TBC)
Session Overview:
A reflective conversation on leadership and culture in maternity services following years of intense scrutiny. The discussion explores how Trusts are responding to inquiry recommendations, strengthening the Duty of Candour, and shifting from reactive assurance to proactive safety leadership. The session looks ahead to what system leaders must prioritise to sustain improvement beyond national reviews.
Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - The Economics of Harm: Managing Risk, Claims & Sustainability (TBC)
Session Overview:
This deep dive examines the ongoing financial impact of maternity-related harm. It explores NHS Resolution’s role, trends in claims volumes and costs, and why maternity negligence continues to account for a disproportionate share of NHS liability. The session considers how improved safety, earlier intervention, and learning from claims can help reduce long-term financial and human costs.
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Safety, Data & Oversight: What Good Looks Like Now (TBC)
Session Overview:
A detailed look at how maternity safety oversight is evolving. This session reviews expectations around board accountability, use of safety intelligence, implementation of coroner and inquiry recommendations, and addressing inequalities in outcomes. It also considers the role of the Maternity & Neonatal Improvement Support Team and the ongoing challenges of estate, digital maturity, and workforce resilience.
Afternoon Skill Clinic - Reducing Harm, Improving Outcomes: Practical Actions for Now and Beyond (TBC)
Session Overview:
The final session focuses on practical, evidence-based actions that Trusts can implement immediately. Topics include reducing high-impact harm, improving escalation and clinical decision-making, embedding learning from incidents and claims, and meaningfully involving families in service improvement. The session concludes with guidance on sustaining compliance, maintaining momentum, and translating national expectations into consistent, day-to-day safe care.
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