A Skills-Focused Summit on NHS Workforce Strategy, Culture and Care Integration - All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Context and Policy Landscape:
The NHS enters the next phase of its long-term transformation with a clear directive: build a sustainable, skilled, and adaptable workforce capable of meeting rising demand and evolving models of care. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and the wider 10-Year Health Plan set ambitious expectations for productivity, capacity, and new operating models, all of which depend on a confident, well-supported workforce.
Against this backdrop, the NHS face persistent pressures around recruitment, retention, skills development, and cultural wellbeing. The challenge is not simply defining the workforce of the future, but equipping teams with practical methods, governance, and behaviours that convert strategy into measurable improvement. PeopleFirst 2026 provides a collaborative space for senior leaders to strengthen capability, share applied learning, and explore solutions that underpin a resilient and future-ready NHS workforce.
Summit Focus:
The PeopleFirst 2026 Summit brings together senior NHS leaders to examine applied workforce transformation, moving from strategic ambition to operational delivery. Delegates will gain access to practical frameworks, tested models, and peer-led insights that support safe, equitable, and sustainable workforce development.
Dedicated Skill Clinics will provide focused, hands-on sessions offering tools, checklists, and implementation templates to support local adoption.
Lessons Learned Sessions will deliver candid reflections from NHS leaders on real-world challenges, decision points, and lessons that shaped their approach.
This is not a showcase of what to achieve, but a skills exchange on how to achieve it, translating national ambition into measurable improvement.
This year’s event is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave understanding:
- How to align local workforce strategies with national direction and long-term planning.
- Ways to strengthen operational resilience and improve workforce productivity.
- Approaches to developing a confident, agile, and skills-ready workforce.
- Methods for embedding governance, safety, and consistent workforce standards.
- Techniques to deliver measurable service improvement through effective workforce models.
- How to drive equity, staff wellbeing, and improved patient experience through culture and capability.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions focused on actionable tools, checklists, and templates delegates can implement immediately.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing what went wrong, what changed, and what succeeded.
- Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges to explore common challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs and provider collaboratives.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: showcasing not only outcomes achieved, but how results were delivered through process and workforce innovation.
Why Attend:
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for governance, interoperability, and workforce transformation.
- Hear real experiences from peers and leaders driving NHS improvement.
- Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and action plans for local rollout.
- Join a community of NHS professionals committed to capability-building and sustainable delivery.
Who Would Benefit:
This summit is ideal for clinical, operational, and digital leaders driving NHS transformation, including ICB and ICS teams, Chief Nurses, AHP leads, CCIOs, CIOs, service managers, and transformation directors. It will also benefit community providers, GP leaders, workforce planners, and patient experience teams seeking practical guidance on scalable, interoperable models of care.
Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will gain insight into implementation priorities, workforce skill gaps, and the real-world enablers shaping the next decade of NHS transformation.
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