NHTeams 2026: The NHS Neighbourhood Teams Conference
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NHTeams 2026: The NHS Neighbourhood Teams Conference
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Current Landscape and Challenges:
The NHS is at a pivotal moment. Hospitals are under sustained pressure from rising demand, constrained capacity and workforce shortages, while a growing proportion of care, particularly for long-term conditions, rehabilitation, frailty and mental health, can be delivered more effectively outside traditional acute settings.
Neighbourhood-based models are no longer conceptual. They now require robust digital infrastructure, interoperable platforms, data-led population insight and scalable operational models to function safely and at scale.
Integrated Care Systems are being asked to redesign services while simultaneously addressing legacy estates, fragmented digital tools, variable data quality and inconsistent access to enabling technology across community, primary and social care.
Timeliness of the Event:
The NHS 10-Year Plan, the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme and the continued expansion of virtual wards mark a decisive shift toward digitally enabled, preventative and community-centred care.
Neighbourhood Health Centres and extended-access hubs are now moving from policy ambition into delivery. This creates immediate demand for enterprise-grade digital platforms, remote monitoring, workforce optimisation tools, interoperable records, analytics and population health technologies that can operate across organisational boundaries.
Neighbourhood Teams 2026 arrives at the point where systems must move beyond pilots and funding announcements and focus on operationalising technology, data and workforce models that can scale safely and sustainably.
Summit Focus:
Neighbourhood Teams 2026 is a delivery-focused forum designed to support NHS leaders as they translate neighbourhood strategy into operational reality.
The programme is intentionally structured to address both service design and the enabling digital, data and infrastructure layers required to make neighbourhood models work in practice.
Delegates will engage with applied frameworks, real-world case studies and skills-led sessions covering how neighbourhood teams are designed, funded, staffed, digitised and governed at scale.
Dedicated Skill Clinics provide practical tools, checklists and implementation templates across digital enablement, workforce deployment, estates utilisation, data integration and service governance. Lessons Learned Sessions offer candid reflections from NHS leaders on what has worked, what has not, and what had to change mid-delivery.
This is not a showcase of aspiration, but a working session on how neighbourhood care is actually built, enabled and sustained.
Key Discussions and Event Flow. This year’s programme is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave with practical insight across:
- Service Redesign and Operating Models: Aligning neighbourhood services with the NHS 10-Year Plan, including prevention, personalised care and extended access delivery models.
- Digital Enablement of Neighbourhood Care: Deploying platforms that support virtual wards, remote monitoring, digital triage, shared care records and cross-team coordination.
- Data, Insight and Population Health: Using neighbourhood-level data, analytics and dashboards to stratify risk, target interventions and measure outcomes.
- Workforce and Productivity Technologies: Tools and approaches that support multidisciplinary working, workforce optimisation, scheduling, delegation and skill-mix redesign.
- Safety, Governance and Interoperability: Ensuring digital, clinical and operational governance across community settings, including interoperability with acute and social care systems.
- Patient Flow and System Efficiency: Reducing avoidable admissions, supporting discharge, and relieving A&E and elective pressure through neighbourhood delivery models.
- Equity, Access and Experience: Designing neighbourhood services that reduce inequality, improve access and deliver consistent experience across diverse populations.
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points through a skills-led, outcomes-driven programme.
- Build confidence in delivering neighbourhood care models that are digitally enabled and operationally sustainable.
- Gain practical frameworks for technology adoption, workforce redesign and service governance.
- Learn from NHS peers implementing neighbourhood, virtual ward and community transformation at scale.
- Leave with actionable tools, templates and delivery insight for local rollout.
- Engage with a senior NHS audience shaping the next generation of community-based care.
Who Would Benefit:
This conference is designed for senior NHS decision-makers and delivery leaders, including ICS and ICB executives, primary and community care leaders, digital and data leaders, estates and infrastructure teams, workforce planners and transformation directors.
It is particularly relevant for those responsible for platform strategy, digital investment, population health, virtual wards, neighbourhood health centres and cross-sector integration.
Technology suppliers, digital partners and innovators will gain deep insight into where systems are investing, how decisions are made, and what operational problems NHS leaders are actively trying to solve, making this a strong environment for strategic, high-value partnerships.
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
Anna
Young
Advance Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care Independent Prescribing Development Lead & Advance Practice Training Programme Director
Primary Care Doncaster / NHSE / Firth Park Surgery / RCN
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Dr Lia
Ali
Doctor and Digital Health Strategist
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Read biography
Dr Minal
Bakhai
Director for Primary Care and Community Transformation & the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme NHS England
| NHS GP | UK rep for Health Innovation | Health Exec in Residence UCL GBSH | Board Trustee
Read biography
Estefania
Costa
Regional Primary Care Nursing Workforce Educator Lead, East of England
NHS England
Read biography
Gil
Ramsden
Professional Lead for General Practice Nursing
Leeds Community Healthcare Trust
Read biography
Gurnak Singh
Dosanjh
Deputy CCIO | Digital Healthcare Consultant | CSO | ICB Clinical Lead
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
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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!
Session to be announced...
We are delighted to welcome Dr Minal Bakhai MBE to Neighbourhood Teams 2026. As the National Director for Primary Care and Community Transformation and the Senior Responsible Officer for the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, Minal plays a central role in shaping how integrated, community-based care is delivered across England.
A practising NHS GP and one of the leading voices in modernising primary and community services, Minal brings deep expertise in:
- Neighbourhood-level transformation and multidisciplinary working
- Embedding prevention, personalisation and community assets in routine care
- Supporting local systems through the “eyes-on, hands-off” national approach
- Data, insight and improvement methods that drive real change
- Empowering frontline teams through testing, learning and rapid improvement cycles
Full session details will be announced shortly.
Morning Skills Clinic - Leading Change at Scale - Building Sustainable Models for Digital and Clinical (TBC)
Session Overview:
- Understand how to align interoperability programmes with organisational strategy and system priorities.
- Explore funding and partnership models that sustain digital innovation in primary and secondary care.
- Learn approaches for engaging diverse stakeholders and securing lasting change across ICSs.
- Take away tools for translating vision into actionable, measurable delivery plans.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Case Study - Evondos
Case Study - Evondos
About us:
Evondos Group is a health-tech company that provides automated medication-dispensing robots designed for use in people’s homes within the community. The system ensures patients take the right medicine at the right time, supporting safe and independent medication management without the need for physical visits, while enabling remote monitoring for caregivers to improve safety, independence, and care efficiency.
Case Study - Aire Logic
Case Study - Aire Logic
Aire Logic is a health tech consultancy that partners with the NHS, public sector and life sciences organisations to deliver meaningful, measurable digital transformation. We work best with forward-thinking teams who value collaboration, seek sustainable impact and are ready to do things differently. Many organisations struggle with siloed systems, limited in-house capability and overwhelming technical debt, that’s where we come in.
As a trusted, independent enabler, we co-design and build simple, scalable infrastructure that empowers patients, improves outcomes and makes staff lives easier. Employee-owned and B-Corp certified, we prioritise societal value overprofit. We invest in open, reusable solutions and always act in the best interests of our partners. Whether we’re supporting local trusts or shaping national programmes, our teams leave our customers in a better place than where we found them. We don’t just deliver software. We enable change and help create a more connected, proactive and sustainable health and care system.
Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - Keeping Digital Innovation at the Heart of Neighbourhood Care
Session Overview:
As the NHS strengthens its focus on integrated, neighbourhood-based models of care, there is a growing risk that digital innovation may slip from view amid operational and workforce pressures. In this discussion, Tara Donnelly, Founder of Digital Care and former Chief Digital Officer at NHS England/NHSX, will explore why maintaining digital momentum is critical to the success of Neighbourhood Teams. Drawing on examples from virtual wards, proactive home care, and digital triage, Tara will highlight how technology can improve safety, efficiency, and patient experience, and how local systems can translate national digital ambitions into real-world delivery.
Drawing on examples from virtual wards, proactive home care, and digital triage, Tara will highlight how technology can improve safety, efficiency, and patient experience , and how local systems can translate national digital ambitions into real-world delivery.
Case Study - Hope Haven Whitehaven: delivering walk-in mental health support through VCSE collaboration
Case Study - Access
Session Overview:
Hope Haven in Whitehaven is a neighbourhood mental health hub, one of six pilot schemes to provide more mental health support in local communities. It offers walk‑in, no‑referral mental health and wellbeing support from the high street. People access emotional, practical, and social support in one place, delivered by teams working side by side rather than across separate pathways. It’s a collaboration of VCSE and NHS providers including Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW); Everyturn Mental Health; Cumbria Health; Home Group; iCan Wellbeing Group CIO; The WELL Communities CIC and Whitehaven Community Trust.
This session shares how the partnership operates as a single service. Attendees will gain practical insight into what it takes to design, deliver, and digitally enable neighbourhood mental health hubs. Speakers will also cover how a shared record supports safe information sharing, reduces duplication, and enables coordinated support at the front door.
Case Study - Neighbourhood Health needs orchestration, not more point solutions
Case Study - Anima
Anima is the integrated care platform powering over 1,000 NHS practices across 34 ICBs, serving 22% of England's population. Built by an applied AI engineering team that includes practising NHS clinicians, Anima orchestrates the full clinical operations lifecycle from triage and patient access through AI voice reception, clinical scribe (AVT), document processing and analytics within a single platform, replacing the fragmented point solutions that hinder neighbourhood delivery.
NHS Deep Dive - Designing for Equity: Human-Centred Interoperability in the Next Generation NHS
Session Overview:
While technical interoperability connects systems, human-centred interoperability connects people, practice, and purpose.
In this session, Dr Lia Ali explores how behavioural design and equity-driven innovation can reshape the way we build and implement connected systems.
She will share insights from her work across NHS England, SLaM FT, and Root & Branch Collective on designing safe, inclusive digital ecosystems that genuinely serve patients and staff.
Case Study
Case Study
Presentation - Strengthening the Nursing Workforce in Neighbourhood Teams: Building Sustainable Community Care
Join four Senior Nurse Leaders for a dynamic and thought-provoking conversation on the vital role of nursing in shaping neighbourhood care. Representing strategic workforce planning, education, clinical practice, and system leadership, this panel brings together diverse perspectives to showcase what nursing can truly offer in this evolving space.
Framed around key system priorities, including Population Health Management, Modern General Practice, and Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, this session will highlight why nurses must be at the forefront of neighbourhood transformation. It explores current workforce challenges across primary care nursing, including capacity, capability and sustainability, and how these impact service delivery.
Drawing on national policy direction and frontline experience, the presentation considers how workforce planning, education and role development can better support integrated neighbourhood teams. It highlights opportunities to strengthen recruitment, retention and career pathways, while maximising nursing skills to improve continuity of care and population health outcomes.
The session will provide insight into how a supported, skilled nursing workforce underpins resilient neighbourhood teams and is essential to delivering high‑quality, sustainable wider community care
Presentation - How are wider system changes influencing neighbourhood and it’s digital journey?
Session Overview:
One year on from the 10-year plan, the NHS is undergoing wholesale change, with neighbourhood development right on the front line. In this session, system advisor and commentator Liam Cahill will ask: what’s going on around neighbourhood development that could impact and influence the journey? Liam will offer a moment in time snapshot looking at the latest developments, asking some big questions, and sharing some insights.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Designing Neighbourhoods to Really Work
Session Overview:
Neighbourhood health won’t fail because of a lack of strategy.
It fails because we haven’t designed for how humans actually work.
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