RadVision 2026: The NHS Imaging Transformation Conference North

Clinical Diagnostics & Medical Sciences

08:30 am
25 Feb, 2026
Hyatt Regency Manchester, 55 Booth St W, M15 6PQ

RadVision 2026: The NHS Imaging Transformation Conference North

Clinical Diagnostics & Medical Sciences

08:30 am
25 Feb, 2026
Hyatt Regency Manchester, 55 Booth St W, M15 6PQ

All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate

Radiology sits at the centre of NHS diagnostic reform, enabling early detection, targeted intervention, and improved patient outcomes across every specialty. Yet imaging services continue to face sustained pressure from rising demand, workforce shortages, reporting backlogs, and legacy digital infrastructure.

The NHS Diagnostics Strategy and Workforce Plan set a clear direction for faster, data-enabled and connected imaging services, underpinned by workforce capability and interoperable systems. RadVision 2026 brings together senior NHS imaging, radiology and diagnostics leaders to focus on how this ambition is being delivered in practice, bridging the gap between strategy, technology and day-to-day service operation.

Summit Focus:

RadVision 2026 is a skills-based, outcomes-driven forum designed to support imaging leaders who are now moving beyond implementation and into optimisation, integration and measurable improvement.

The programme combines national perspective, NHS-led skill clinics and leadership knowledge exchange to explore how imaging services can operationalise AI, cloud and teleradiology safely, strengthen workforce resilience, and improve diagnostic flow across networks.

Dedicated Skill Clinics provide hands-on guidance, frameworks and templates focused on AI deployment, cloud image management, workflow optimisation and workforce development.

Lessons Learned and Knowledge Exchange sessions share candid reflections from NHS leaders on digital maturity, interoperability and workforce transformation, focusing on what worked, what changed, and what leaders would approach differently.

This is not a showcase of ambition, but a structured skills exchange on delivery, translating strategy into measurable improvement.

Delegate Outcomes – Delegates will leave with a clear understanding of how to:

  • Integrate AI and digital innovation safely across imaging to enhance triage, reporting and clinical decision-making
  • Govern and operationalise cloud-based image management to enable cross-site collaboration and secure data access
  • Use teleradiology to expand capacity, support workforce flexibility and maintain reporting continuity
  • Apply diagnostic data and analytics to improve turnaround times, productivity and operational performance
  • Navigate advances across echo, breast, cardiac, X-ray, CT and MRI to modernise clinical pathways
  • Address workflow bottlenecks and backlog recovery through automation and advanced practice roles
  • Strengthen workforce development, retention and wellbeing across imaging services and networks

What’s New for 2026

RadVision 2026 reflects a clear evolution in format, with a stronger emphasis on applied learning and peer exchange:

  • Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics
  • Focused sessions providing practical frameworks and tools for AI adoption, cloud transition, teleradiology and imaging optimisation.
  • Lessons Learned & Leadership Knowledge Exchange
  • Honest NHS-led discussions examining workforce pressure, backlog recovery and leading services through sustained transformation.
  • Action-Driven Case Studies
  • NHS examples demonstrating how imaging teams have delivered measurable improvements in digital maturity, turnaround times and workforce capability.

Why Attend:

  • Earn 8 CPD Points through attendance
  • Build confidence in digital, workforce and operational transformation across imaging
  • Access ready-to-use frameworks supporting AI deployment, interoperability and clinical governance
  • Learn directly from NHS peers delivering imaging reform at scale
  • Take away practical tools, templates and delivery insight for immediate local application
  • Engage in extended networking with senior imaging, diagnostics and digital leaders

Who Would Benefit:

This summit is designed for NHS imaging and radiology professionals, including Service Leads, Network Directors, Radiographers, Clinical Scientists, Diagnostic Transformation Managers and ICB/ICS leaders.

It will also benefit operational directors, workforce planners, digital transformation leads and governance teams focused on diagnostic efficiency and integration.

Suppliers, technology partners and academic collaborators will gain insight into NHS delivery priorities, workforce capability requirements and the real-world enablers shaping sustainable imaging transformation.

Headline Sponsor

The programme

08:20

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!

09:20

Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

Huw Shurmer
AXREM Chair & Strategic and Government Relationship Manager FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
AXREM / FUJIFILM Healthcare UK

Chair Opening Address

Huw opens the summit by setting out the challenges and opportunities facing imaging services in 2026

09:30

Morning Keynote Presentation - Imaging Networks 2030: Delivering the NHS Diagnostics Strategy (Confirmed)

Sheila Black
Head of the Community Diagnostic Centre programme (National Team)
NHS England
James Dennis
National Deputy Director Imaging Transformation
NHS England

Session Overview:

A national-level keynote exploring how the forthcoming Imaging Strategy will reshape capacity, workforce, digital integration, and cross-network collaboration. James will outline the operational levers ICSs, Trusts and diagnostic networks must activate to meet the 2030 vision.

Key Takeaways:

  • What the new national Imaging Strategy means for local delivery.
  • How networks must evolve structurally and digitally.
  • Future workforce models aligned to national planning.
  • Data, cloud & interoperability as core transformation enablers.

09:50

Morning Skill Clinic - AI, Cloud & Teleradiology: Operational Capability for Imaging Services (Speakers Invited)

Jeffry Hogg
Clinical Assistant Professor (UoB), Clinical Innovation Officer in AI (UHB)
University of Birmingham & University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Speakers:

  • Dr Jeffry Hogg – Director of Education, CERSI-AI & Course Lead, MSc AI Implementation (Healthcare), University of Birmingham (Confirmed)

Session Overview:

A hands-on session equipping imaging teams with practical frameworks to safely govern and operationalise AI-enabled triage, cloud PACS/VNA migration, and modern teleradiology. Delegates will work through readiness assessments, workflow impacts, governance models and workforce implications.

Key Takeaways:

  • AI deployment governance: readiness, safety & workflow mapping.
  • Cloud image management: required capabilities & migration planning.
  • Teleradiology optimisation: capacity, reporting continuity & QA.
  • Templates for digital adoption & clinical governance.

10:30

Main Sponsor

Main Sponsor

10:50

Morning Break & Networking

Morning Break & Networking

Networking & exhibition with digital pathology suppliers and workforce support initiatives.

11:50

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Huw Shurmer
AXREM Chair & Strategic and Government Relationship Manager FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
AXREM / FUJIFILM Healthcare UK

Chair Opening Address

Huw opens the summit by setting out the challenges and opportunities facing imaging services in 2026.

11:55

Presentation - Community Diagnostic Hubs (Provisionally Confirmed)

This presentation explores the development and implementation of Community Diagnostic Hubs (CDHs), local centres providing diagnostics outside hospitals to improve access, reduce waiting times, and ease hospital pressures. It highlights key lessons learned, including the importance of accessible locations, careful workforce planning, integrated IT systems, clear referral pathways, and community engagement. Attendees will gain practical insights into the step-by-step setup of a CDH, common challenges encountered, and strategies for success. 

Christiane Zelenyanszki, Programme and Service Development Lead – Community Diagnostics, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (Provisonally Confirmed)

12:15

Case Study

Case Study

12:35

Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - The Sonographer Workforce: Challenges and Future Solutions (Confirmed)

Donna Holdcroft
Professional Officer
British Medical Ultrasound Society

Session Overview:

This interview-style session will explore the current state of the sonographer workforce, drawing on national insight and frontline experience to discuss key challenges in recruitment, retention and role development. The discussion will highlight practical approaches to workforce growth and sustainability, offering delegates clear insights to support local and national workforce planning.

12:55

Case Study

Case Study

13:15

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking

Networking, food & exhibition with digital pathology suppliers and workforce support initiatives.

14:15

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

Huw Shurmer
AXREM Chair & Strategic and Government Relationship Manager FUJIFILM Healthcare UK
AXREM / FUJIFILM Healthcare UK

Chair Opening Address

Huw opens the summit by setting out the challenges and opportunities facing imaging services in 2026.

14:20

Case Study

Case Study

14:40

Teleradiology in Practice: Supporting Clinicians and Patients at Scale, Delivered with AXREM (Speaker TBC)

Session Overview

Teleradiology is now a core component of NHS imaging delivery, supporting capacity, resilience and continuity of care. This session, delivered in partnership with AXREM, explores how teleradiology can be embedded safely and effectively within imaging services, with a focus on governance, workforce integration and patient outcomes rather than technology alone.

 

Drawing on NHS experience and sector insight, the session will highlight what good looks like when teleradiology is used to support local teams, manage pressure and maintain clinical quality at scale.

 

Key Delegate Outcomes

  • Delegates will leave with a clearer understanding of how to:
  • Embed teleradiology within imaging services without compromising clinical quality or accountability
  • Establish effective governance, quality assurance and escalation pathways
  • Use teleradiology to support workforce resilience and reporting continuity
  • Align teleradiology models with patient safety, service standards and national expectations

15:00

NHS Deep Dive - Workflow Reform & Backlog Recovery: Tools for Imaging Efficiency (Speaker TBC)

Session Overview:

An operational methodology session on reducing turnaround times, redesigning reporting flows and improving modality utilisation.

Key Takeaways:

  • Practical backlog-clearing frameworks.
  • Automation & advanced practice opportunities.
  • Workflow mapping for reporting efficiency.
  • Productivity metrics & performance dashboards.

15:20

Knowledge Exchange Panel - What’s Beyond the Networks? Reflections from Former Imaging Leaders (Speakers TBC)

Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Ex Diagnostics Leader within the NHS
Dr Alistair Craig
Director of Clinical Strategy and Development
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Penny Storr
EMRAD Network Director

Speakers:

  • Chris Sleight, Previous Imaging Network Leader, GM Diagnostics Network (Confirmed)
  • Penny Storr, Previous Imaging Network Leader, East Midlands Imaging Network (EMRAD) (Confirmed)
  • David White, Previous Imaging Network Leader, Liverpool University Hospitals, and Clinical Head of the Cheshire & Merseyside Imaging Network (Provisionally Confirmed)
  • Dr Alistair Craig, Director of Clinical Strategy and Development, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)

Session Overview:

This unique Knowledge Exchange Panel brings together recently retired senior diagnostics and pathology network leaders for an open, reflective discussion on what happens beyond the network journey, what they learned, what they would do differently, and what the next generation of leaders must prioritise.

Expect candid insights, practical advice, and system-wide reflections unavailable anywhere else.

15:20

Breakout Skill Clinic – Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI): A Practical Workshop on QSI Implementation-staff wellbeing focus

Glenda Shaw
Quality Improvement Partner
Royal College of Radiologists & College of Radiographers
QSI

Session Overview:

This interactive workshop, designed for up to 30 delegates, offers practical, real‑world guidance on implementing the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI). The session will explore the benefits of QSI in everyday practice, with a particular focus on the staff wellbeing standard. We’ll discuss the types of evidence and assurance that show how services are positively supporting their teams and share creative ideas for engaging staff with QSI. This will be a collaborative session, with plenty of opportunity to contribute, exchange ideas, and learn from others, as well as to network with colleagues facing similar challenges.

15:55

Food, Drinks & Networking

Food, Drinks & Networking

Networking, food, drinks & exhibition with digital pathology suppliers and workforce support initiatives.

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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