A Strategic conference on AI-Enabled Screening Pathways and Population Health

NHS Screening Programmes remain central to the shift from reactive treatment to preventative care outlined within the NHS Long Term Plan and Data Strategy. As demand rises and workforce pressures intensify, services must adopt digitally enabled models that improve access, accelerate diagnosis, and maintain clinical quality at scale.

Artificial intelligence and community-based screening approaches now present a significant opportunity to expand capacity, reduce manual workload, and address health inequalities. This conference provides a practical forum for NHS leaders to align innovation with workforce sustainability, governance, and real-world delivery across screening pathways.

Conference Focus:

The NHS Screening Conference is a premier event for sharing best practices and innovations, designed to help NHS professionals move from awareness to applied implementation. Delegates will gain hands-on frameworks, tested delivery models, and peer-derived insights on how to embed safe, equitable, and sustainable digital transformation across screening services.

Dedicated Skill Clinics will offer practical tools, checklists, and implementation templates to support AI-enabled workflows, community screening models, and scalable service redesign. Lessons Learned Sessions will provide candid reflections from NHS leaders on real-world deployment challenges, workforce adaptation, and governance considerations.

This is not a showcase of what to achieve, but a skills exchange on how to achieve it, translating national ambition into measurable improvement.

This year’s event is structured around clear outcomes: Delegates will leave understanding:

• AI-Enabled Screening Workflows: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Workforce Pressures. Exploring how AI can streamline processes and support clinical teams by reducing manual review workloads.
• Community-Based Screening and Population Health Management: Using local screening initiatives to improve access, target health inequalities, and manage population health more effectively.
• Faster, Smarter Diagnosis Through AI in Screening Pathways: Demonstrating how AI technologies can accelerate detection and clinical decision-making.
• Expanding Screening Capacity Through Digital Innovation: Leveraging AI and technology to increase throughput without compromising quality.
• Transforming Preventative Care: The Future of NHS Screening Services: Bringing together innovation, workforce sustainability, and improved patient outcomes.

NHS proactive care focuses on preventing illness and managing complex, long-term conditions (like frailty or multiple, chronic diseases) before they become acute. Delivered by community-based multidisciplinary teams, it uses personalized care plans, regular health assessments, and medication reviews to improve patient quality of life, independence, and reduce emergency hospital

A core component of this approach, especially in the context of reducing reliance on medication and acute hospital care, involves non-pharmaceutical, preventive, and,,social-based interventions delivered by multidisciplinary teams.

What’s New for 2026:

• Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions focused on actionable tools, checklists, and templates delegates can implement immediately.
• Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing what went wrong, what changed, and what succeeded.
• Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges to explore common challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs and provider collaboratives.
• Action-Driven Case Studies: showcasing not only outcomes achieved, but how results were delivered through process and workforce innovation.

Why Attend:

• 8 CPD Points Available.
• Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
• Access ready-to-use frameworks for governance, interoperability, and workforce transformation.
• Hear real experiences from peers and leaders driving NHS improvement.
• Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and action plans for local rollout.
• Join a community of NHS professionals committed to capability-building and sustainable delivery.

Who Would Benefit:

This conference is ideal for clinical, operational, and digital leaders driving NHS transformation, including ICB and ICS teams, screening programme managers, CCIOs, CIOs, public health leads, service managers, and transformation directors. It will also benefit community providers, diagnostics leads, workforce planners, and population health teams seeking practical guidance on scalable, digitally enabled screening models.

Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will gain insight into implementation priorities, workforce skill gaps, and the real-world enablers shaping the next decade of NHS preventative care and screening transformation.