PrimaryCare+ 2026: The NHS Primary Care Transformation Conference

Primary care, Mental Health & Long-Term Care

08:30 am
02 Jul, 2026
etc.venues, Prospero House, 241 Borough High St, London SE1 1GA

PrimaryCare+ 2026: The NHS Primary Care Transformation Conference

Primary care, Mental Health & Long-Term Care

08:30 am
02 Jul, 2026
etc.venues, Prospero House, 241 Borough High St, London SE1 1GA

All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate

A Strategic Summit on Access Transformation, Workforce Sustainability & Neighbourhood Care Delivery: All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate.

Primary care continues to sit at the centre of NHS reform, yet rising demand, constrained workforce capacity and inconsistent access models are creating unsustainable pressure. The NHS 10-Year Plan prioritises prevention, neighbourhood care, digital enablement and modern workforce design, but the practical challenge remains: how do teams actually deliver this in real-world conditions?

Across England, Scotland and Wales, transformation is underway. Access redesign, MDT expansion, flexible workforce pathways and neighbourhood team models offer promise, but implementation varies widely. Too often the barriers are not ambition or ideas, but operational capability, digital fragmentation, funding uncertainty, and the resilience of the workforce expected to deliver change.

PrimaryCare+ 2026 moves beyond high-level strategy into applied capability-building. Delegates will learn how to redesign access pathways, build sustainable teams, introduce modern GP and nursing career models, and embed neighbourhood teams that genuinely shift workload and improve outcomes.

Summit Focus:

This event is built as a skills-focused learning forum: not a showcase of achievements, but a step-by-step exploration of how primary care teams can deliver meaningful, measurable change.

Morning and afternoon Skill Exchange Panels provide cross-disciplinary expertise on workforce, access, digital enablement and neighbourhood transformation. NHS Deep Dive sessions offer practical examples of implementation, challenges overcome, and replicable delivery frameworks. A Lessons Learned leadership session provides honest reflections on mistakes, false starts and recovery, giving delegates real-world insight into the complexities of transformation.

Why Attend:

  • Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
  • Practical frameworks for interoperability, governance, and workforce capability.
  • Real-world insights from NHS networks advancing genomics-pathology integration.
  • Templates for evaluating digital systems through measurable patient and service outcomes.
  • Connections with the DDC network, national bodies, and peers shaping the next generation of diagnostics delivery.

Delegates Will Leave Understanding:

  • How to redesign access using digital, operational and human factors.
  • How to stabilise primary care workload through sustainable workforce models.
  • How MDTs and neighbourhood teams can be structured, governed and supported.
  • How to build workforce capability, reduce burnout and modernise career pathways.
  • How to use population health approaches to shift demand and triage effectively.
  • What England, Wales and Scotland are doing differently, and what can be adopted locally.
  • How to build business cases, secure buy-in and measure outcomes credibly.

What’s New for 2026:

  • Skill Exchange Panels: multi-expert sessions focused on practical problem solving.
  • NHS Deep Dives: action-oriented, replicable transformation lessons.
  • Lessons Learned Leadership Session: candid accounts of failure, adjustment and delivery.
  • Cross-National Panel: comparing access and workforce transformation across UK nations.

Who Should Attend:

ICB and PCN leaders, GP partners, practice managers, neighbourhood team leads, digital and data leads, nursing workforce leaders, AHPs, transformation and operational managers, CIOs/CCIOs, workforce planners and partners supporting primary care delivery.

Who will Attend

  • Chief Executives
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  • Chief Medical Officers
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  • Chief Operating Officers
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  • Clinical Directors/Heads/Managers/Leads
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  • Commissioning Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Deputy Directors
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  • Directors of Delivery
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  • Directors of Nursing
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  • Directors of Performance and Improvement
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  • IT Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • GPs
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  • GP Commissioners
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  • Medical Directors
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  • Operations Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Public Health Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Practice Managers
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  • Procurement Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Service Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Social Services Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Strategic Planning Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Transformation Directors/Heads/Managers
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  • Urgent Care Directors/Heads/Managers

Sponsors & Partners

The programme

08:30

Registration & Networking

Registration & Networking

09:30

Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

Dr Gurnak Singh Dosanjh
GP
LLR ICB

An exploration of the current pressures shaping primary care transformation — workforce fragility, rising demand, widening inequalities and the essential shift from reactive delivery to proactive, population-driven models.

09:40

Keynote Presentation - Modern General Practice: The National Vision for Access, Workforce and Neighbourhood Transformation (Speaker Invited)

Speaker:

Paul Vaughan, RN, MSc, National Deputy Director – Community Nursing and Primary Care Nursing, NHS England (Invited)

Session Overview:

Setting out the national strategy for stabilising general practice, strengthening neighbourhood models, improving access and embedding modern general practice principles. The keynote bridges policy ambition with practical delivery, ensuring attendees understand the strategic direction ahead of the 2026–2036 period.

Delegate Outcomes:

  • Understand national priorities for access improvement and modern general practice.
  • Gain insight into the long-term direction of neighbourhood and MDT models.
  • Identify where system-level levers align with local operational challenges.
  • See how data, digital and workforce reforms intersect to support sustainability.

10:00

Morning Skill Exchange Panel - Redesigning Access & Stabilising Workforce Pressures: Practical Tools for Real-World Teams (Panellists Invited)

Panellists:

  • Stef Costa, Regional Primary Care Nursing Workforce Educator Lead, NHS England (Invited)
  • Dr Sheikh Mateen Ellahi, GP Partner & PCN Lead (Invited)
  • Jyoti Mehan, CEO, Health Care First Partnership (Provisionally Confirmed)
  • Dr Mina Gupta, Group Clinical Chair, Modality Partnership (Invited)

Session Overview:

A practical panel focused on operational redesign, MDT capability-building and workforce-driven approaches to managing demand more sustainably.

Delegate Outcomes:

  • A replicable framework for access redesign and workflow stabilisation.
  • Practical MDT deployment techniques to reduce pressure on GPs.
  • Approaches for embedding staff wellbeing into operational planning.
  • Tools for systematising workload, expectations and role clarity.

10:30

Main Sponsor

Main Sponsor

10:50

Morning Break & Networking

Morning Break & Networking

11:50

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Dr Gurnak Singh Dosanjh
GP
LLR ICB

Chair Morning Reflection

11:55

Case Study

Case Study

12:15

Case Study

Case Study

12:35

Leadership lessons from the front line - Leading an Emerging INT: What I’ve Learned Before Anything Is 'Finished' (Speaker Invited)

Speaker:

Dr Steve Ollerton, GP Partner & Clinical Director, The Mast PCN (Invited)

Session Overview:

A reflective leadership-focused conversation on the realities of establishing an Integrated Neighbourhood Team, including uncertainties, early missteps, and inter-organisational complexities.

Delegate Outcomes:

  • Awareness of the leadership challenges in early-stage transformation.
  • Insight into managing system friction before outcomes are visible.
  • A blueprint for early-phase governance and expectation setting.
  • Practical leadership readiness questions for local transformation teams.

12:55

Case Study

Case Study

13:15

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking

14:00

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

Dr Gurnak Singh Dosanjh
GP
LLR ICB

Chair Afternoon Address

14:05

Case Study

Case Study

14:25

NHS Deep Dive - Population Health Management: “Using PHM to Target Need and Reduce Avoidable Demand” (Speaker Invited)

Speaker:

Dr Priya Kumar, GP Partner, PHM & Health Inequalities Lead (Invited)

Session Overview:

A detailed examination of how segmentation tools and population health insights can be embedded into triage, QOF delivery and MDT planning.

Delegate Outcomes:

  • A working model for complexity-based triage.
  • Methods for converting PHM insight into operational change.
  • Templates for MDT case-finding and care coordination.
  • Approaches to embedding equity in population health workflows.

14:45

Case Study

Case Study

15:05

NHS Deep Dive - Neighbourhood Teams in Action: Building Neighbourhood Teams That Actually Work: Governance, Capability and Culture (Speaker Provisionally Confirmed)

Speaker:

Jyoti Mehan, CEO, Health Care First Partnership (Provisionally Confirmed)

Session Overview:

A capability-focused exploration of establishing neighbourhood teams, with emphasis on governance, cultural alignment, system facilitation and workforce collaboration.

Delegate Outcomes:

  • Practical governance models for multi-organisation team structures.
  • Cultural enablers for improving cross-team collaboration.
  • Workforce competency mapping approaches for NT operations.
  • A step-by-step template for NT design and implementation.

15:25

Afternoon Skill Exchange Panel (Cross-National) - Three Nations, Three Approaches: What England, Wales & Scotland Can Learn From Each Other (Panellists Invited)

Panellists:

  • Alan Lawrie, National Programme Advisor for Primary Care, NHS Wales (Invited)
  • Craig Murney, Programme Director, Primary & Community Care (Digital & Security), NHS National Services Scotland (Invited)
  • Dr Minal Bakhai, Director for Primary Care & Community Transformation, NHS England (Invited)

Session Overview:

A comparative session exploring how England, Wales and Scotland are addressing workforce, access, MDT models, digital transformation and system governance — offering practical learning that can be transferred across borders.

Delegate Outcomes:

  • Understand the national levers driving transformation in each nation.
  • Gain practical ideas for workforce, MDT and access redesign.
  • Identify transferable best practices for neighbourhood models.
  • Access a cross-national capability map for local application.

15:55

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

17:00

End of Day

End of Day

Convenzisvents

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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