Current Landscape & Challenges:
The NHS remains under unprecedented pressure, with hospitals experiencing record-breaking admissions, long waiting times, and growing staff burnout. Despite this, a significant portion of care—particularly for chronic conditions, rehabilitation, and mental health—could be more effectively delivered outside traditional hospital settings.
The current infrastructure, workforce distribution, and funding models, however, often work against this shift. The challenge is not just capacity but system inertia, legacy design, and inequality of access—particularly in deprived and coastal communities.
Timeliness of the Event:
With the launch of the NHS 10-Year Plan, 2025 marks the beginning of a strategic pivot toward community-led, digitally enabled, and preventative healthcare. The government's commitment to Neighbourhood Health Centres, enhanced out-of-hospital access, and restructured Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) makes now a critical moment to convene system leaders, clinicians, designers, and policymakers.
This event provides a platform to align thinking, share emerging models, and accelerate implementation during the plan’s crucial first phase.
Key Topics:
- The NHS 2035 vision: what a truly community-led service looks like.
- Building and scaling Neighbourhood Health Centres: design, funding, and workforce.
- Operationalising extended access: 12-hour, six-day multidisciplinary hubs.
- Equity in access: how to reconfigure ICSs to support underserved populations.
- Rethinking hospital flow: the impact of community alternatives on A&E and elective care.
- Funding shifts and estate planning: capitalising on the move away from hospital dependency.
Why Attend:
This event offers a rare and timely opportunity to engage directly with the strategic direction of the NHS as it embarks on its most significant transformation in decades. As the 10-Year Plan reorients care from hospitals to communities, attendees will gain early insight into what this shift means operationally, financially, and clinically.
Whether you're responsible for service delivery, estates, commissioning, or innovation, this forum will equip you with actionable strategies to align your organisation with the new care model. You'll hear from national and regional leaders already pioneering neighbourhood health centres and extended-access hubs, learn how ICSs are being restructured to address health inequalities, and explore the workforce and funding changes critical to success. Most importantly, this event provides a collaborative space to influence and be influenced by the change-makers driving the NHS forward—at a time when alignment and clarity have never been more crucial.
