NHTeams 2026: The NHS Neighbourhood Teams Conference
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NHTeams 2026: The NHS Neighbourhood Teams Conference
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All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
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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
Gurnak Singh
Dosanjh
GP and ICB Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
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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 - Service Redesign and Operating Models: Aligning Neighbourhood Services with the NHS 10-Year Plan
Session Overview:
This session will explore how neighbourhood teams can support the NHS 10-Year Plan by redesigning services around prevention, personalised care and improved access closer to home.
The presentation will examine the development of integrated neighbourhood operating models that bring together health, care and community partners to better respond to population needs, reduce inequalities and improve outcomes. It will highlight approaches to proactive care, supported self-management, multidisciplinary working and extended access models that enable more flexible, responsive and person-centred services.
Morning Skills Clinic - Digital Enablement of Neighbourhood Care
Session Overview:
This skills clinic explores how digital platforms can support neighbourhood teams to deliver more connected, proactive, and person-centred care. The session will focus on practical applications of technology, including virtual wards, remote monitoring, digital triage, shared care records, and tools that enable effective cross-team coordination.
Participants will explore how digital solutions can improve information sharing, support earlier intervention, streamline pathways, and strengthen collaboration across health, care, and community services.
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Morning Break
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Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Interview Session - Data, Insight and Population Health: Using Neighbourhood-Level Data to target Interventions and Measure Outcomes
Session Overview:
This interview session will explore how neighbourhood teams can use data, analytics and population health intelligence to better understand local needs, identify risk and deliver more proactive, targeted care.
The discussion will highlight how neighbourhood-level data and dashboards can support risk stratification, prioritise interventions, address health inequalities and measure outcomes. It will explore how teams can turn data into actionable insight, enabling collaboration across health and care partners and supporting more personalised, preventative approaches to improving population health.
Case Study
Case Study
Lunch and Networking
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Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Workforce and Productivity Technologies
Session Overview:
This session explores how workforce and productivity technologies can support neighbourhood teams to work more effectively through improved multidisciplinary collaboration, workforce optimisation, scheduling and skill-mix redesign.
The presentation will highlight practical tools and approaches that enable smarter deployment of staff, better delegation of tasks, and improved matching of skills to population needs. It will explore how digital solutions can provide greater visibility of capacity, demand and workforce capabilities, helping teams deliver more flexible, efficient and person-centred care.
Case Study
Case Study
Presentation - Safety, Governance and Interoperability: Ensuring Digital, Clinical and Operational Governance Across Community Settings
Session Overview:
As Neighbourhood teams deliver more integrated care closer to people’s homes, effective digital, clinical and operational governance is critical to ensuring safe, connected and high-quality services. This session will explore how community providers can establish robust governance frameworks that support interoperability across acute, community and social care systems.
The presentation will highlight key considerations around information governance, data quality, clinical safety, accountability and shared standards, demonstrating how joined-up digital systems can improve collaboration, reduce duplication and enable better outcomes for patients and communities.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Equity, Access and Experience: Designing Neighbourhood Services That Reduce Inequality
Session Overview:
This skills clinic will explore how neighbourhood teams can design and deliver services that are equitable, accessible and responsive to the diverse needs of local communities.
Participants will explore practical approaches to identifying and reducing barriers to access, using data and lived experience to understand inequalities, and creating consistent, person-centred experiences across different populations. The session will consider how co-production, partnership working and inclusive service design can help neighbourhood teams move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and improve outcomes for all communities.
Tea, Coffee & Networking
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End of Day
Every attendee makes a difference. We’ll donate one tree for every delegate attending the conference to our partners over at Play it Green and £1 to our Charity of the Year, Stockport Without Abuse.
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