PatientPath 2026: Optimising NHS Pathways to Improve Patient Flow
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PatientPath 2026: Optimising NHS Pathways to Improve Patient Flow
A Strategic Summit on Optimising Patient Flow and System Coordination Across the NHS - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate.
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Current Landscape and Challenges
Patient flow is the central challenge and opportunity in modern NHS operations. From the “front door” of emergency departments to the “back door” of discharge and community care, every handover and pathway transition impacts both operational performance and patient experience.
The NHS remains under sustained pressure to improve flow across urgent and emergency care pathways. Rising demand, bed constraints, delayed discharges, workforce pressures, and variation in access to community services continue to challenge system performance.
National priorities around urgent and emergency care recovery and neighbourhood health services all point towards reducing avoidable admissions, accelerating safe discharge, and strengthening community-based alternatives to hospital care. Achieving this requires not only pathway redesign, but also stronger operational capability, system-wide collaboration, and the effective use of technology, data, and digital tools to support real-time decision-making.
Summit Focus
PatientPath focuses on improving patient flow across the whole system, helping delegates build practical skills in pathway redesign, demand management, discharge optimisation, and operational decision-making.
Through interactive Skill Clinics and Lessons Learned Sessions, participants will explore how to successfully implement SDEC, virtual wards, SAFER principles, and Discharge to Assess models in real-world settings.
The summit will also examine how technology can enable better flow through digital bed management, predictive analytics, patient tracking, interoperability, and AI-supported operational planning.
Focused on practical delivery rather than policy alone, PatientPath brings together frontline clinicians, operational leaders, community providers, and digital innovators to share proven approaches for reducing bottlenecks, improving coordination, and delivering better patient outcomes.
This year’s event is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave understanding:
- Admission avoidance: Implementing SDEC, virtual wards, and urgent community response services to reduce unnecessary admissions and support care closer to home.
- SAFER inpatient flow: Applying SAFER principles to improve flow, reduce delays, and enable timely discharge.
- Discharge and transfer: Embedding Discharge to Assess and multi-agency discharge models to reduce delays and improve system flow.
- Emergency department flow: Enhancing streaming, triage, and rapid decision-making through senior-led clinical models.
- Integrated care pathways: Developing joined-up pathways across acute, community, primary, and social care services.
- Capacity and flow management: Using data-driven approaches to manage capacity, escalation, and bed flow effectively.
- Digital innovation: Leveraging digital tools, shared records, real-time data, and virtual care to improve coordination and decision-making.
Why Attend
- Earn 8 CPD Points
- Build practical skills to improve patient flow across urgent and emergency care pathways.
- Gain actionable tools for discharge planning, admission avoidance, and capacity management.
- Learn directly from operational leaders delivering system-wide flow improvement.
- Understand how to implement integrated working across acute, community, and social care partners.
- Leave with usable frameworks, checklists, and improvement plans for immediate application.
Who Would Benefit
This summit is ideal for urgent and emergency care leaders, acute trust executives, operational managers, clinicians, flow coordinators, discharge teams, and community care leaders responsible for improving patient pathways and reducing delays. It will also benefit primary care professionals, social care leaders, and system integration teams seeking practical methods to improve cross-sector coordination and reduce avoidable hospital admissions. Suppliers and partners supporting urgent care, digital flow systems, diagnostics, and community care services will gain clear insight into the operational priorities shaping NHS transformation over the next decade.
Relevance for Sponsors
This summit provides a highly targeted platform for suppliers, technology providers, and partners supporting patient flow, operational performance, and pathway transformation across the NHS. Sponsors will be well positioned to demonstrate how their solutions enable:
- Digital patient flow, bed management, and capacity optimisation platforms
- Real-time operational command centres, patient tracking, and visibility tools
- Predictive analytics, demand forecasting, and AI-supported decision-making solutions
- Shared care records, interoperability, and integrated care coordination systems
- Virtual wards, remote monitoring, and hospital-at-home technologies
- Discharge planning, transfer of care, and Discharge to Assess support platforms
- Workforce management, e-rostering, staffing optimisation, and productivity solutions
- Clinical decision support, triage, streaming, and SDEC-enabling technologies
- Community care coordination, referral management, and neighbourhood health service platforms
- Automation tools that reduce administrative burden and streamline pathway management
- Population health analytics, risk stratification, and flow intelligence solutions
- Learning, simulation, and workforce development platforms that support operational improvement and pathway redesign
- Infrastructure, communications, and digital transformation services that enable integrated care delivery across organisations
Through speaking opportunities, exhibitions, demonstrations, and interactive sessions, partners will be able to align their solutions directly to NHS priorities around urgent and emergency care recovery, admission avoidance, discharge optimisation, and system-wide flow improvement. The event offers access to senior operational leaders, clinicians, discharge teams, community providers, digital transformation leads, and integrated care decision-makers responsible for implementing patient flow initiatives and pathway redesign programmes across acute, community, primary care, and social care settings.
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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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!
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Case Study - DNV Imatis
About DNV Imatis
DNV Imatis DNV Imatis takes friction out of healthcare operations.
Our solutions easily integrate and aggregate data from across your healthcare operations. We bring critical information together into a simple overview, in real-time, wherever you are, unlocking your capacity to care. We help clinical, logistical and administrative teams work together more efficiently, to make better decisions for a seamless patient journey.
DNV Imatis is part of the DNV Group
DNV is an independent assurance and risk management provider, operating in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise DNV advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry standards, and inspires and invents solutions. Driven by its purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, DNV helps its customers seize opportunities and tackle the risks arising from global transformations. DNV is a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful and forward-thinking companies.
Case Study - GAMA Healthcare
Case Study - GAMA Healthcare
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