The programme
08:30
Registration & Networking
Registration - Open from 8:30 am - Closes at 11:00 am
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Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to an insightful and productive event together!
09:30
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Ex Diagnostics Leader within the NHS
Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
09:40
Morning Keynote Presentation - Pathology at Scale: Delivering Networked, Digital Diagnostics for the Next Phase of NHS Reform (Speaker TBC)
Session Overview:
This opening keynote sets the strategic context for PathVision 2026, examining how NHS pathology services must evolve as demand grows, networks mature, and digital capability accelerates. The session will explore how national diagnostics priorities, including network consolidation, digital pathology, AI adoption, and workforce sustainability, are reshaping expectations of pathology services at system level.
The keynote will focus on the shift from programme design to operational delivery, highlighting what success looks like for pathology networks over the next three to five years and the practical levers leaders must pull to maintain quality, resilience, and clinical confidence.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand the current national direction for pathology services and diagnostics reform.
- Clarify the expectations placed on pathology networks, providers, and systems.
- Identify the operational and leadership challenges shaping the next phase of delivery.
10:00
Morning Skill Clinic - From Vision to Reality: Embedding Digital Pathology, AI and Automation into Day-to-Day Laboratory Practice (Speakers TBC)
Session Overview:
This interactive morning skill clinic brings together pathology and diagnostics leaders to explore how digital pathology, AI, and automation are being embedded safely and effectively into routine laboratory workflows.
Rather than focusing on technology in isolation, the session will examine readiness, governance, workforce impact, and operational change. Delegates will exchange practical insight on what has worked, where adoption has stalled, and how services are aligning digital ambition with clinical assurance and service sustainability.
This session blends structured facilitation with peer knowledge exchange, enabling delegates to learn directly from each other’s experience.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand readiness factors for digital pathology and AI adoption.
- Explore governance and assurance models that support safe implementation.
- Learn how services are redesigning workflows and roles alongside automation.
10:30
Main Sponsor - Source LDPath
Main Sponsor - Source LDPath
About us:
Source LDPath, a part of the Source BioScience group, provides industry leading histopathology services with a focus on digital pathology and AI.
Our comprehensive clinical healthcare offering spans histopathology—integrating digital pathology and AI—through to molecular diagnostics, creating a seamless workflow for precision medicine. Using advanced slide scanning and high-resolution imaging, our digital pathology solutions transform traditional diagnostics with enhanced efficiency and accuracy.
We collaborate with an extensive network of over 280+ of Specialist Consultant Pathologists, all accredited by the Royal College of Pathologists and General Medical Council, while also adhering to the rigorous standards of the College of American Pathologists. By embracing digital pathology and AI, we enable real-time analysis and high-throughput capabilities, empowering pathologists to deliver rapid, high-quality diagnostic insights.
11:50
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Ex Diagnostics Leader within the NHS
Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
11:55
Case Study - ProfilerLive
Case Study - ProfilerLive
About us:
ProfilerLive is a cutting-edge digital training and competency management platform designed to streamline workforce training and compliance processes. ProfilerLive enables organisations to automate training, track competency progress in real time, and ensure regulatory compliance. With its intuitive interface, real-time reporting, and comprehensive analytics, ProfilerLive empowers managers to make data-driven decisions and optimise workforce planning.
Case Study - Diagnexia
About us:
Diagnexia stands at the forefront of digital pathology services in the UK, providing an innovative, on-demand network of expert subspecialty pathologists dedicated to supporting the NHS and healthcare providers across the UK. With a commitment to speed, compliance, and expertise, Diagnexia offers a swift 3-5 day turnaround for primary diagnostic reports and 7-10 days for secondary consults, ensuring timely and accurate diagnostic services. Recognised for its digital excellence, Diagnexia facilitates seamless, intuitive reporting and case management from anywhere, ensuring that the NHS, has access to top pathology minds, thereby enhancing patient outcomes, reducing backlogs, and ensuring balanced workloads across pathology departments.
12:35
Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - Leading Through Pressure: Workforce, Risk and Decision-Making in Modern Pathology Services (Speakers TBC)
Session Overview:
This candid fireside conversation explores the leadership realities facing pathology services today. With workforce shortages, increasing complexity, and rising expectations, pathology leaders are making difficult decisions daily balancing risk, quality, staff wellbeing, and performance.
The session will reflect on real leadership experiences from the front line, offering honest insight into what it takes to sustain teams, manage risk, and maintain service quality during periods of change and constraint.
Key Outcomes:
- Gain insight into leadership decision-making under sustained operational pressure.
- Learn how leaders are supporting workforce resilience and morale.
- Understand how risk is being managed in complex, networked services.
Case Study - Clinisys
Clinisys is a global provider of intelligent diagnostic informatics solutions and expertise designed to redefine the modern laboratory, across healthcare, life sciences, and public health. Millions of diagnostic results and data insights are generated every day using Clinisys’ LIMS and order communications solutions in over 3,000 laboratories across 34 countries.
For more than forty years, Clinisys has served laboratories operating in a range of industries and disciplines. We equip labs with the efficient workflows, accessible data, and innovative tools needed to offer improved decision making, rapid testing, and advanced diagnostic services.
By defining the optimum modern laboratory platform, we have enabled labs to scale rapidly, respond to their customers with agility, and improve their services and capabilities.
Clinisys’ mission is to enhance the effectiveness of diagnostic workflows in any laboratory or testing environment to keep citizens and communities healthier and safer.
14:00
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Ex Diagnostics Leader within the NHS
Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
14:25
NHS Deep Dive - Pathology Networks in Practice: Governance, Accountability and Operational Flow (Speakers TBC)
Session Overview:
This NHS deep dive examines how pathology networks are operating in practice, beyond organisational charts and programme plans. The session will explore governance structures, accountability models, and operational processes that enable networks to function effectively across multiple providers.
Delegates will hear how services are addressing variation, managing performance, and ensuring clarity of clinical and operational responsibility within networked delivery models.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand how effective pathology network governance is structured.
- Learn how accountability is maintained across multi-provider services.
- Explore approaches to managing performance and variation at scale.
15:05
NHS Deep Dive - Improving Turnaround Times and Capacity: Practical Approaches to Backlog Reduction in Pathology (Speakers TBC)
Session Overview:
This session focuses on the operational challenge of turnaround times, backlog management, and capacity optimisation. Drawing on NHS experience, the deep dive will explore how services have redesigned workflows, used digital tools, and applied workforce innovation to improve performance without compromising quality.
The emphasis will be on practical actions taken, lessons learned, and the trade-offs involved in real-world delivery.
Key Outcomes:
- Identify operational levers for improving turnaround times.
- Learn how services are balancing demand, workforce and quality.
- Take away practical approaches to backlog reduction.
15:25
Afternoon Skill Clinic - Building a Sustainable Pathology Service: Workforce, Investment and Long-Term Resilience (Speakers TBC)
Session Overview:
This panel discussion brings together senior voices from across pathology, diagnostics, and system leadership to explore what sustainability truly means for pathology services.
Discussion will cover workforce planning, investment priorities, digital enablement, and how pathology can remain resilient in the face of rising demand and constrained resources. Panelists will debate the balance between innovation, consolidation, and local service needs.
Key Outcomes:
- Explore different perspectives on long-term pathology sustainability.
- Understand workforce and investment challenges facing services.
- Gain insight into how systems are planning for resilience beyond short-term recovery.
15:25
Breakout Skill Clinic - Making the Case for Change: Building Business Cases for Pathology Transformation (Speakers TBC)
Session Overview:
This small-group breakout clinic is designed for delegates directly involved in planning or leading change within pathology services. The session will provide practical guidance on how to build compelling, evidence-based business cases for service redesign, digital investment, workforce development, or network change.
Participants will work through real examples and structured templates, focusing on aligning clinical benefit, operational impact, financial justification, and system priorities.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand the components of a strong pathology business case.
- Learn how to articulate clinical, operational and financial value.
- Take away a clear structure for developing locally relevant proposals.
15:55
Hot Buffet food and drinks
Hot Buffet food and drinks
