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.
Conference Speakers
Gurnak Singh
Dosanjh
GP and ICB Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
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Ravi
Sahdev
GP and Clinical Director of Oadby and Wigston PCN
Oadby and Wigston PCN, Leicester
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Sarah
Phillips
Chief Medical Officer and Local Coach NNHIP
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Stephen
Creasey
Group Deputy Director or Digital Services (Delivery)
Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group
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Taimoor
Hassan
Group Deputy Director – Digital Partnerships and Planning
Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group
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Tobi
Amadasun
Clinical Pharmacist & Partner (Health Inequalities Lead)
Watton Medical Practice
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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!
Chair Opening Address
Take part in our conference prize draw by visiting all stands and scanning your lanyard at each for a chance to win £100 voucher. The draw will take place at the end of the final presentation.
Keynote Presentation - Service Redesign and Operating Models: Aligning Neighbourhood Services with the NHS 10-Year Plan
Speaker: Kate Lupton, Head of Quality Strategy, Nursing Directorate, NHS England
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.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
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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NHS Deep Dive - What we had to fix before our neighbourhood teams could work
Session Overview:
A neighbourhood team spans primary care, community, mental health and acute, these are organisations that usually sit on separate IT infrastructure with separate support arrangements. Operating models, however, often get designed as though that isn't true, and delivery runs straight into that problem.
Lincolnshire created a single IT provision across 81 GP practices, 14 PCNs, acute, community and mental health services, believed to be the first arrangement of its kind in England at whole-system scale. This session tells the practical story; why we did it, what it took, and what it has unlocked for neighbourhood working. This will be told by the people delivering it across all three organisations involved.
Key Discussion Areas:
- Why digital fragmentation is the barrier neighbourhood models hit, and what Lincolnshire did about it?
- What delivering a whole-system digital transition took, including the lessons we would apply differently.
- What it unlocked, for PCNs building new services, for mental health as a partner, and for planned care as well as admission avoidance.
Presentation - Marie Curie
Presentation - Marie Curie
Case Study
Case Study
Afternoon Networking
Got a great question? Ask it during the session for a chance to win a voucher for the best audience question.
NHS Deep Dive - Manchester NNHIP pilot
Speakers:
- Ian Razzell | Associate Director Primary Care Services, NNHIP National Coach
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Kathy Smith | Medical Lead, NNHIP National Improvement Coach, GP
Session Overview:
This presentation will showcase learning from the 12-month NNHIP pilot in Manchester. It will highlight how health, care, community and voluntary sector partners worked together to understand local needs, strengthen relationships and develop more joined-up, proactive and preventative support for residents.
The presentation will share key successes, challenges and lessons around partnership working, community engagement, leadership and using local insight to drive change, alongside reflections on how the learning can inform the future of integrated neighbourhood working across Manchester.
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.
Chair Closing Remarks
The conference chair will now announce the winner of our conference prize draw. Thank you to everyone who visited all stands and scanned their lanyard to enter.
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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