NetZeroNHS 2026: The NHS Sustainability & Innovation Conference
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NetZeroNHS 2026: The NHS Sustainability & Innovation Conference
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
A Strategic conference on Building a Climate-Resilient and Sustainable NHS
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The NHS is working towards one of the most ambitious environmental goals in the public sector: achieving net-zero emissions for its direct carbon footprint by 2040 and for its wider footprint by 2045. These targets, aligned with the 10 Year Health Plan and national sustainability commitments, represent a transformative shift in how care is delivered, energy is consumed, and resources are managed across the NHS.
With the publication of the Fourth Health and Climate Adaptation Report, there is now a clear national mandate to embed climate resilience into healthcare delivery, ensuring that every Integrated Care System (ICS) and provider plays an active role in decarbonisation while protecting population health. The challenge is no longer about awareness, but about practical delivery: retrofitting estates, electrifying transport, greening supply chains, and embedding sustainable digital and clinical models of care. The NetZeroNHS 2026 conference provides a collaborative platform for NHS leaders to turn these ambitions into measurable, system-wide outcomes.
Conference Focus:
The NetZeroNHS 2026 conference is a premier event for sharing best practices and innovations, designed to help NHS professionals move from awareness to applied implementation. Delegates will gain hands-on frameworks, tested delivery models, and peer-derived insights on how to embed safe, equitable, and sustainable transformation within their services.
Dedicated Skill Clinics will provide practical tools, templates, and checklists for reducing emissions across estates, supply chains, and digital infrastructure. Lessons Learned Sessions will offer candid reflections from NHS leaders who have navigated implementation barriers, from retrofitting and transport decarbonisation to waste reduction and digital sustainability.
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:
- Aligning local sustainability strategies with the NHS Net Zero and Climate Adaptation plans.
- Improving operational and digital resilience through low-carbon infrastructure and green digital principles.
- Strengthening workforce and system capability to embed sustainability in everyday practice.
- Enhancing governance, procurement, and reporting to support accountable net-zero delivery.
- Delivering measurable reductions in emissions across estates, logistics, and clinical operations.
- Improving health equity and patient wellbeing through access to green spaces and nature-based prescribing.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions focused on actionable tools, checklists, and templates delegates can implement immediately.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing what went wrong, what changed, and what succeeded.
- Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges to explore common challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs and provider collaboratives.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: showcasing not only outcomes achieved, but how results were delivered through process and workforce innovation.
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning in sustainability leadership.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for decarbonisation, green estates, and circular procurement.
- Hear directly from peers and system leaders driving the NHS Net Zero agenda.
- 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:
This conference is ideal for NHS directors, sustainability leads, estates and facilities teams, digital and transformation leads, ICB and ICS managers, Chief Nurses, CCIOs, CIOs, and workforce planners. It will also benefit public health specialists, community providers, and patient experience teams embedding sustainability within service delivery.
Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will gain valuable insight into implementation priorities, workforce skill needs, and the operational enablers shaping the next decade of NHS decarbonisation.
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 - Connecting Local Strategies to NHS Net Zero: Practical Pathways to Climate-Resilient Care (TBC)
Session Overview:
This session will explore how local sustainability strategies can be effectively aligned with the NHS Net Zero and Climate Adaptation plans, ensuring that organisational priorities support national ambitions for carbon reduction and climate resilience. We will discuss practical approaches for integrating local initiatives with system-wide goals, highlight examples of successful alignment across regions, and outline the governance, collaboration, and reporting mechanisms needed to drive measurable progress.
Morning Skills Clinic - Improving Operational and Digital Resilience Through Low-Carbon Infrastructure and Green Digital Principles (TBC)
Session Overview:
This practical skills clinic explores how the NHS can strengthen operational continuity and digital reliability while advancing its net-zero ambitions. Participants will examine the intersection of infrastructure design, digital strategy, and sustainability, focusing on how low-carbon estates, energy-efficient technologies, and greener digital practices can enhance system resilience. The session will cover approaches for reducing carbon impacts across data centres, digital workflows, and clinical technologies; integrating climate-adapted, resource-efficient infrastructure; and embedding “green digital” principles into everyday operations and procurement. Attendees will leave with actionable methods for improving service reliability, reducing environmental footprint, and building a more robust, future-proof health system.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Case Study - Apollo Fire
Case Study - Apollo Fire
Case Study - Good Energy
Case Study - Good Energy
Lessons Learnt from the Frontline – Strengthening Workforce and System Capability to Embed Sustainability in Everyday Practice (TBC)
Session Overview:
In this session, we will share frontline experiences of embedding sustainability into everyday NHS practice, highlighting lessons learned in strengthening workforce and system capability. Discuss how targeted training, clear roles, supportive leadership, and integrating sustainability into existing quality-improvement processes have helped make green practice part of routine care rather than an add-on. While also reflecting on the importance of visible data, multidisciplinary collaboration, and empowering local innovation, which have enabled small, practical changes to deliver real environmental, financial, and patient-care benefits. Through these insights, we will offer a candid perspective on what works, and what more is needed to make sustainable practice the norm across the NHS.
Case Study - Xwatts
Case Study - Xwatts
xWatts firmly believe that in order to achieve Net Zero by 2050, we need to lean into the world’s most challenging buildings which are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the Built Environment’s carbon emission, using innovative solutions to deliver faster carbon reductions at lower costs - further fuelling their decarbonisation pathways.
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Enhancing Governance, Procurement and Reporting to Support Accountable Net-Zero Delivery in the NHS (TBC)
Session Overview:
This deep-dive session explores how the NHS can accelerate accountable net-zero delivery through strengthened governance, sustainable procurement, and robust reporting. Participants will examine practical strategies for embedding sustainability into decision-making at board and operational levels, leveraging procurement to reduce supply chain emissions, and implementing transparent, actionable reporting systems.This session will demonstrate how integrated governance, procurement, and reporting frameworks create accountability, drive measurable carbon reductions, and enable continuous improvement, equipping attendees with tangible tools to advance their trust’s net-zero journey.
Case Study - ISS UK
Case Study - ISS UK
ISS Facility Services Limited is a leading workplace experience and facilities management company. With a presence in more than 30 countries worldwide, and with more than 28,000 employees across the UK and Ireland alone, ISS provides innovative workplace solutions that contribute to better business performance aimed at making life easier, more productive, and enjoyable for all delivered to high standards by people who care.
NHS Deep Dive - Nature as Medicine: Improving Health Equity and Patient Wellbeing through Green Spaces and Nature-Based Prescribing (TBC)
Session Overview:
This deep dive session explores how access to green spaces and nature-based prescribing can improve patient wellbeing, reduce reliance on medications, and address health inequalities. Attendees will learn about the evidence linking nature to better physical and mental health, practical examples of NHS and community initiatives, and strategies to ensure equitable access for all patients. The session will highlight how integrating nature-based interventions into care pathways can enhance patient outcomes, support preventative health, curb overprescribing, and contribute to sustainable, patient-centered healthcare.
Afternoon Skills Clinic: Delivering Measurable Reductions in Emissions Across Estates, Logistics, and Clinical Operations (TBC)
Session Overview:
This skills clinic will equip NHS staff with practical, evidence-based strategies to achieve measurable reductions in carbon emissions across estates, logistics, and clinical operations. Participants will explore energy efficiency measures, including the deployment and optimisation of on-site renewable energy such as solar panels alongside sustainable procurement, low-carbon clinical pathways, and smarter logistics planning.
This session will demonstrate how data-driven approaches can be used to track performance, quantify savings, and build robust business cases for investment. Attendees will leave with actionable, replicable tools to deliver tangible sustainability improvements across healthcare operations, supporting trusts in accelerating progress toward net-zero carbon targets.
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