RadVision 2026: The NHS Imaging Transformation Conference North

Clinical Diagnostics & Medical Sciences

08:30 am
25 Feb, 2026
etc venues Manchester, 8th Floor, 11 Portland Street M1 3HU

RadVision 2026: The NHS Imaging Transformation Conference North

Clinical Diagnostics & Medical Sciences

08:30 am
25 Feb, 2026
etc venues Manchester, 8th Floor, 11 Portland Street M1 3HU

A Strategic Summit on Building Digital, Clinical, and Workforce Capability in Imaging - 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 rapid demand growth, workforce shortages, and legacy infrastructure continue to create pressure across imaging networks.

The NHS Diagnostics Strategy and Workforce Plan outline a bold direction, to deliver faster, data-driven, and connected diagnostic services supported by skilled professionals and interoperable systems. RadVision 2026brings together NHS imaging, radiology, and diagnostics leaders to translate this national ambition into applied capability, bridging the gap between innovation and day-to-day delivery.

Summit Focus:

The RadVision Summit is a skills-based, outcomes-driven forum designed to help imaging professionals strengthen workforce resilience, digital maturity, and diagnostic efficiency. Delegates will gain access to practical frameworks, peer-led insights, and tested delivery models that support sustainable improvement across imaging services.

Dedicated Skill Clinics will provide practical guidance, templates, and tools focused on AI deployment, cloud adoption, workflow optimisation, and workforce development.

Lessons Learned Sessions will share real-world reflections from NHS leaders on digital maturity, interoperability, and workforce transformation, focusing on what worked, what changed, and what was learned.

This is not a showcase of ambition, but a 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 predictive diagnostics.
  • Govern and operationalise cloud-based image management to enable cross-site collaboration and secure data access.
  • Use teleradiology to expand capacity, enable workforce flexibility, and ensure 24/7 reporting continuity.
  • Apply diagnostic data and analytics to improve operational performance and reporting efficiency.
  • Navigate advances in echo, breast, cardiac, X-ray, CT, and MRI imaging to modernise clinical pathways.
  • Address workflow bottlenecks and backlog recovery through automation and advanced practice roles.
  • Strengthen workforce development, retention, and wellbeing across diagnostic teams.

What’s New for 2026:

  • Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics – Focused sessions providing frameworks and tools for AI adoption, cloud transition, and imaging optimisation.
  • Lessons Learned Sessions – Honest reflections from NHS imaging leaders on digital integration, workforce planning, and delivery at scale.
  • Action-Driven Case Studies – In-depth analysis of NHS sites demonstrating measurable gains in digital infrastructure, turnaround times, and workforce capability.

Why Attend:

  • Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
  • Strengthen confidence in digital, workforce, and operational transformation across imaging.
  • Access ready-to-use frameworks supporting AI deployment, interoperability, and clinical governance.
  • Gain tested insights from NHS peers advancing diagnostic reform.
  • Take away practical toolkits and templates for immediate local application.
  • Join a national community dedicated to sustainable improvement and capability-building in imaging.

Who Would Benefit:

This summit is designed for radiology and imaging 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 priorities, skill requirements, and the enablers of sustainable imaging transformation.

Headline Sponsor

The programme

08:30

Registration & Networking

Registration - Open from 8:30 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!

09:30

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

09:40

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

Speaker: James Dennis, Deputy Director for Imaging Transformation, NHS England (Invited)

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.

10:00

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

Speakers:

  • CERSI-AI / University Hospitals Birmingham Digital Health Research & Policy Group (Invited)
  • Charlotte Radovanovic – Programme Manager (AI & Digital Health), UHB (Invited)
  • Prof. Alastair Denniston – Consultant Ophthalmologist & Director, CERSI-AI (UHB/Birmingham) (Invited)
  • Dr Jeffry Hogg – Director of Education, CERSI-AI & Course Lead, MSc AI Implementation (Healthcare), University of Birmingham (Invited)

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

Case Study

Case Study

12:15

Case Study

Case Study

12:35

Leadership Lessons from the Front Line - Workforce, Backlogs and Imaging Reform: Leadership Perspectives (Speakers TBC)

Speakers:

  • Imaging Network Workforce Lead – TBC
  • Trust Radiology Director – TBC

Session Overview:

A candid leadership dialogue examining real-world strategies for tackling reporting delays, workforce gaps and digital transformation. Leaders will discuss change management, maintaining standards under pressure, and preparing teams for AI-enabled imaging.

Key Takeaways:

  • Authentic lessons learned during backlog recovery.
  • Managing workforce morale and capability during change.
  • Digital integration without disrupting clinical delivery.
  • Leadership behaviours that drive sustainable improvement.

12:55

Case Study

Case Study

13:15

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking

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

14:00

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.

14:05

Case Study

Case Study

14:25

NHS Deep Dive - Community Diagnostic Centres and Imaging at Scale: Lessons from Practice (Speaker TBC)

Session Overview:

A detailed analysis of how CDCs and imaging networks are expanding access, distributing modalities into the community and accelerating diagnostic pathways.

Key Takeaways:

  • Scaling CDC imaging models safely.
  • Data & digital infrastructure requirements.
  • CDC–Acute coordination to reduce pathway delays.
  • Governance & interoperability frameworks.

14:45

Case Study

Case Study

15:05

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.

15:25

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

Speakers:

  • Chris Sleight, Previous Imaging Network Leader, GM Diagnostics Network (Confirmed)
  • Penny Storr, Previous Imaging Network Leader, East Midlands Imaging Network (EMRAD) (Provisionally 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.

15:25

Breakout Skill Clinic - Quality in Imaging (QSI): A Practical Workshop on QSI Implementation (Speaker Provisionally Confirmed)

Facilitator:

Glenda Shaw – Quality Improvement Partner, Royal College of Radiologists (QSI Programme) (Provisionally Confirmed)

Session Overview:

A hands-on workshop for up to 30 delegates offering practical guidance on applying QSI in real environments. Delegates will work through self-assessment tools, prioritisation methods and improvement actions that can be applied immediately in service.

Key Takeaways:

  • How to self-assess against QSI domains.
  • Prioritising quality risks in thinly-stretched services.
  • Practical improvement actions & templates.
  • Data & evidence needed for QSI progress.

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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