RadVision 2026: The NHS Imaging Transformation Conference South
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RadVision 2026: The NHS Imaging Transformation Conference South
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
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Diagnostic imaging sits at the centre of modern healthcare delivery, supporting urgent care, cancer pathways, elective recovery and early detection. As demand continues to rise across CT, MRI, ultrasound and specialist imaging, NHS services are under increasing pressure to deliver faster, more efficient and more sustainable diagnostics.
RadVision 2026 takes place at a pivotal moment as NHS imaging moves from strategy into delivery. National programmes including imaging networks and Community Diagnostic Centres are reshaping how services operate, while advances in artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and digital platforms are creating new opportunities to redesign workflows and improve performance.
This conference is designed to focus on how transformation is being delivered in practice. Bringing together national leaders, clinicians, operational managers and digital specialists, RadVision provides a clear view of how policy, innovation and frontline delivery are coming together to reshape imaging services across the NHS.
What the Day Covers:
- AI, cloud and teleradiology implementation in real NHS settings.
- Designing hybrid reporting models across trusts, networks and partners.
- Delivering Community Diagnostic Centres at scale.
- Workforce transformation, advanced practice and new career pathways.
- Modality-specific pathway optimisation across imaging services.
- Using data and analytics to improve performance and oversight.
Timeliness of the Event:
Demand for diagnostic imaging continues to grow rapidly, with increasing backlogs and pressure across services. Imaging teams are being asked to support faster diagnosis, elective recovery and earlier detection across multiple pathways.
At the same time, imaging networks and CDC programmes are changing how services are structured, while digital innovation is transforming how imaging is delivered. Many organisations are now moving beyond planning into implementation, creating a need for practical insight into what works in real operational environments.
RadVision 2026 provides a timely opportunity for NHS teams to explore how these changes are being delivered on the ground and what this means for services today.
Key Challenges Facing NHS Imaging Services
- Rising diagnostic demand and growing imaging backlogs.
- Workforce shortages across radiology and radiography.
- Safe and effective adoption of AI within clinical workflows.
- Delivering consistent performance across imaging networks.
- Integrating Community Diagnostic Centres into existing pathways.
- Balancing service expansion with workforce wellbeing.
- Ensuring scalable, resilient digital infrastructure.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Delegates will gain practical insight into:
- How leading organisations are implementing AI to support triage and reporting.
- Approaches to reducing reporting delays and improving workflow efficiency.
- Real-world delivery of Community Diagnostic Centres and their integration into pathways.
- Designing sustainable workforce models including advanced practice roles.
- Strengthening collaboration across imaging networks to improve capacity.
- Using data and analytics to improve service oversight and performance.
Why Attend:
RadVision 2026 is built for those delivering change across imaging services.
- Gain 8 CPD points through a structured, full-day programme.
- Learn directly from NHS teams delivering transformation in practice.
- Take away practical approaches that can be applied immediately.
- Engage in skill-led sessions focused on real operational challenges.
- Build meaningful connections with peers across imaging networks.
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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Conference Speakers
Liz
Elfleet
Programme Manager for CDCs
Collaboration of Acute Providers, Humber & North Yorkshire
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Saraaz
Khalil
AHP & Nursing Midwifery Practice Educator & Research Rad
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The programme
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!
Keynote Presentation - Unlocking Imaging Capacity: How Professional Body Leadership Enables Workforce Transformation at Scale
Session Overview:
How professional leadership, guidance and skill mix enable and support safe, sustainable growth across imaging services.
Imaging services must increase capacity and support CDC expansion while maintaining safety, quality and public trust. This keynote explores how professional body leadership provides the system‑level frameworks that enable workforce transformation at scale. Drawing on the role of the Society and College of Radiographers, the session shows how national guidance supports multidisciplinary imaging teams to develop effective skill mix, reduce variation and unlock capacity. The focus is on enabling operational leaders, networks and CDCs to move faster with confidence, consistency and assurance.
Morning Skill Clinic - AI, Cloud and Teleradiology in Practice (TBC)
Session Overview:
Artificial intelligence, cloud-based imaging platforms and teleradiology are rapidly transforming how diagnostic imaging services operate. However, successful implementation requires robust governance, clinical engagement and operational redesign.
This skill clinic explores how NHS imaging services can safely adopt digital technologies while maintaining quality, safety and workforce sustainability.
Key Topics and Outcomes:
- Practical approaches to implementing AI-supported triage and reporting.
- Governance considerations for cloud-based imaging platforms.
- Understanding workforce implications when adopting digital imaging technologies.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Case Study - Everlight Radiology
Case Study - Everlight Radiology
About us:
Everlight Radiology is the world’s leading global teleradiology provider, delivering the highest quality teleradiology reporting though our global network of over 800 Consultant Radiologists. We’ve been serving healthcare providers, hospitals and patients across the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand with urgent, sub-specialist and routine radiology reporting for over 18 years.
Our mission is to enable timely and effective treatment for all, unlocking the best care for patients and their families by providing worldwide access to specialist radiologists. We set the global standard for teleradiology and are proud to be the partner of choice for radiologists and healthcare providers worldwide.
Our 24/7/365 model and globally dispersed workforce means we never ask our radiologists to work overnight. We’re the only teleradiology provider offering true around the clock radiology reporting, IT and Operations support, whatever the time of day or year.
Case Study - Bridgehead Software
Case Study - Bridgehead Software
Fed up of painful, expensive data migrations when replacing imaging systems? Are your clinicians frustrated they can’t easily access the images, reports and associated data they need when diagnosing and treating patients? Sick of productivity grinding to a halt when your PACS goes down? Finding it difficult to power your AI initiatives with a rich imaging dataset?
Re-imagine your Enterprise Imaging strategies and take back control of your imaging data with BridgeHead’s Clinical Data Repository, HealthStore® – a future-proof, fully interoperable, next-generation vendor neutral archive (VNA).
Leadership Fireside Session - Delivering Imaging Transformation at System Level: Aligning Trusts, Networks and Priorities
Speaker:
Cathy Hasselll, Managing Director, South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Acute Federation / South Yorkshire ICS (Invited)
Session Overview:
As NHS imaging services move from strategy into delivery, the challenge is no longer defining what good looks like, but making it work across complex systems, workforce constraints and rising demand.
This session will provide a system-level perspective on how imaging transformation is being led across ICS structures, exploring how trusts, networks and system priorities are being aligned in practice. It will focus on where collaboration is working well, where challenges remain, and what is required to deliver sustainable transformation at scale.
Key areas of discussion include system leadership, alignment of priorities, workforce and capacity pressures, and lessons learned from delivering transformation across complex healthcare environments.
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - Developing the Next Generation of the Radiography Workforce: Innovation, Advanced Practice and a Gen Z Perspective
Session Overview:
As imaging services across the NHS continue to face significant workforce pressures, developing new career pathways, modern training models and more inclusive learning environments will be essential to sustaining the radiography profession.
In this leadership insights session, Saraaz Khalil shares a perspective from the next generation of the imaging workforce, exploring how advanced practice pathways, digital education platforms and innovative professional development models can help strengthen workforce retention and long-term resilience across diagnostic imaging services.
Drawing on experience across clinical practice, workforce education and national professional networks, this session will highlight practical examples of how radiography teams can embrace innovation, strengthen training pathways and support a future-ready workforce capable of adapting to the evolving demands of NHS imaging services.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- How advanced practice pathways can strengthen retention, career progression and workforce sustainability within radiography services.
- The role of digital learning platforms and education innovation in addressing training gaps across diagnostic imaging.
- Practical strategies for building a resilient, adaptable and inclusive radiography workforce capable of supporting the future demands of NHS imaging services.
Presentation - Implementation of CDCs in Practice + Q&A
Session Overview:
Sharing experiences of CDCs in practice, lessons learnt and maximising assets.
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Case Study - Deploying AI Across an Imaging Network: From Pilot to Multi-Trust Delivery
Session Overview:
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond isolated pilots and into real-world deployment across NHS imaging networks. However, scaling AI across multiple trusts introduces new challenges around integration, governance, adoption and clinical workflow alignment.
This session provides a practical insight into deploying an AI platform across a large imaging network, with multiple trusts already live and further sites progressing toward implementation. It will explore what it takes to move from early-stage pilots into sustainable, multi-site delivery, and the operational realities that come with scaling digital innovation.
Key areas include deployment approach, workflow integration, adoption challenges, governance considerations and lessons learned from scaling AI across multiple organisations.
Afternoon Skill Clinic - From Strategy to Reality: Delivering Imaging Transformation Across Systems
Session Overview:
As NHS imaging services move from strategic planning into real-world delivery, the challenge is no longer defining what good looks like, but making it work across complex systems, workforce constraints and rising demand.
This panel brings together senior NHS leaders working across system, network, digital and operational roles to explore how imaging transformation is being delivered in practice. The discussion will focus on the tensions, trade-offs and lessons emerging from real-world delivery, providing an honest view of what is working, what is challenging and what needs to change.
Key areas include translating strategy into delivery, managing demand and performance, deploying digital solutions at scale, aligning workforce and service models, and understanding the real impact of network collaboration and CDCs.
Panellists:
- Alison Lamb, Service Manager Medical Imaging / Professional Lead Radiographer, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Invited)
- Bryce Travers, Digital Lead, Eastern Diagnostic Imaging Network (EDIN) (Confirmed)
- Dr Bobby Agrawal, Consultant Cardiac & Thoracic Radiologist, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Lead, Eastern Diagnostic Imaging Network (Invited)
- Ben Thorn, Head of Radiology, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Invited)
Breakout Skill Clinic - Optimising Imaging Pathways by Modality (TBC)
Session Overview:
Different imaging modalities face unique operational challenges. This breakout clinic enables delegates to explore pathway optimisation across CT, MRI, echo, breast and cardiac imaging services.
Key Topics and Outcomes:
- Modality-specific approaches to improving diagnostic pathways.
- Peer learning across specialist imaging services.
- Practical ideas to improve efficiency and patient access.
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