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.
