RiskReimagined 2026: The NHS Risk Management Conference

Registration - Open from 8:20 am - Closes at 11:00 am

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Session Overview:

This session examines the abolition and consolidation of quangos, the clarification of safety roles, and the strengthening of board accountability in light of the NHS 10-Year Health Plan and the Dash Review. We will explore how to embed transparency and build proactive governance systems that reduce harm and strengthen patient safety.

Morning Skill Clinic

This skills clinic explores how NHS teams can strengthen learning from incidents to improve safety, quality, and patient experience.

It focuses on creating a no-blame, psychologically safe culture where staff feel confident to report and speak up, alongside promoting openness with patients and families. Participants will learn how to turn insight into action, embedding continuous improvement into everyday practice rather than focusing on reporting alone.

The session highlights the importance of clear communication and staff engagement, ensuring learning is accessible, relevant, and applied in practice. It also introduces human factors, helping teams understand how workload, fatigue, and teamwork influence risk, and how safer systems can reduce avoidable harm and costs.

Case Study - Concentric.ai

Session Overview:

AI is rapidly becoming one of the biggest drivers of productivity and innovation in the enterprise and one of the fastest-growing sources of data security risk. As copilots, assistants, and public AI tools become integrated into daily work, sensitive data is flowing into systems that most security teams can’t fully see, understand, or control. The problem is that traditional data security controls were never built for this. In fact, many organizations were already struggling to operationalize data security before AI accelerated the challenge. The good news? AI isn’t just creating the problem it’s also enabling a smarter, more effective way to solve it.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• Why AI has become one of the fastest-growing and least visible sources of enterprise risk.
• How GenAI is creating new exposure points for sensitive data.
• Why legacy data security tools have failed to keep up and why AI is making those gaps harder to ignore.
• How context-aware, AI-driven data security can deliver more accurate visibility, stronger controls, and real-time enforcement.
• What organizations can do to enable AI innovation without expanding their risk surface Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how AI is reshaping data security and how they can use that same technology to gain control, minimize exposure, and support safer AI adoption across the business.

Case Study - Zoll

Session Overview:

Missed or incomplete daily defibrillator checks are a recognised challenge in busy hospital environments, carrying significant implications for patient safety. This presentation shares the findings of an impact assessment evaluating the ZOLL Defibrillator Dashboard, a real time ‘code readiness’ monitoring system implemented within a large UK hospital trust. Using a mixed method approach, the study analysed real world audit data, multiple organisational databases, and thematic insights from interviews with key stakeholders across medical engineering, nursing, and resuscitation services. The evaluation demonstrated that introduction of the Defibrillator Dashboard produced substantial efficiency gains, with an estimated 30 hours saved per defibrillator each year. Across a fleet of more than 500 devices, this represents over £300,000 in annual savings—equivalent to 7.5 WTE nursing posts. Critically, the system reduced the estimated probability of defibrillator readiness failure from 2% to <0.01%, while also improving the visibility of under reported equipment failures. These insights enabled targeted education and strengthened governance, demonstrating how readiness monitoring technology enhances safety, reliability, and operational effectiveness.

Session Overview:

Building an integrated approach using risk management every day to understand and quantify the risks appropriately, ensure there are controls in place and ways to mitigate adverse outcomes.

Case Study - RLDatix

Discover how NHS organisations can use connected data, leading and lagging indicators, and workforce insight to move from reactive risk management to proactive safety.

Session Overview:

Over the past two years, within the paediatric department at a busy London hospital, we have been working to strengthen our incident learning culture. This has included the introduction of clinical governance champions (resident doctors) alongside a lead nurse, both of which are now well established within the department.

We have also developed a clinical governance newsletter that shares learning from recent incidents and more detailed reviews relevant to our team. This has received excellent feedback as an engaging way to support clinicians in applying learning to practice. Most recently, we have created a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) outlining these roles and how incident reporting and review processes can be optimally utilised—an approach that could be highly applicable across other NHS departments and hospitals.

Session Overview:

This session provides a focused exploration of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) within the NHS, offering an overarching view of how risk is identified, understood, and managed across the organisation. We will examine the strategic importance of ERM in supporting safe, high-quality patient care, as well as its role in organisational resilience, decision-making, and long-term planning. Participants will gain insight into how system-wide risks are interconnected, how they influence operational and clinical outcomes, and how a unified approach strengthens overall governance and accountability.

Afternoon Skill Clinic

This skills clinic focuses on strengthening estate infrastructure by identifying and addressing weaknesses in estates, equipment, and organisational preparedness. Participants will develop practical skills to recognise estate-related risks, understand critical dependencies, and improve resilience planning to ensure continuity of safe care during disruption. Through targeted discussion and scenario-based learning, the clinic supports teams to strengthen preparedness, clarify roles and escalation, and enhance business continuity plans so services can adapt quickly and maintain patient care when estate challenges arise.