HSJ Summit: Delivering the 10-Year Health Plan

9 - 10 October 2025 | Crowne Plaza Chester
 

Day One
08:30Registration & Refreshments
09:00 Chair’s Opening Remarks
09:10Keynote:
A word from the Centre - One year recovery, three year plans, 10 year vision 
09:50

Panel: 
Responding to the 10YP: What the vision means for services and providers in one-three years

  • Priorities for primary and community care transformation
  • What it means for secondary and tertiary services / provider models
  • Financial and key performance context – recovery in year one: Address financial resilience and system sustainability as 10 year plan takes shape
  • Segmentation – what does this mean for the provider landscape, and commissioning
10:30

Panel: 
Levers to realise the 10 year vision 

  • The new operating model – steps towards a devolved NHS
  • The emerging role of ICBs and regions
  • Defining and delivering strategic commissioning
  • Transparency, incentives, accountability
  • A slimmer centre – the new DHSC, NHSE and CQC: A streamlined centre that drives national and local health priorities
  • Provider autonomy and investment
  • Innovation and technology: Leverage AI-driven decision support, remote monitoring, and virtual wards to align immediate interventions with long-term strategy

 

11:10 Morning Refreshments & Networking 
11:40

Interactive Discussion Groups - 
Join these intimate and focused small-group discussions to share experiences with senior colleagues and get your pressing questions answered. Bringing together 8-10 participants, ensure you sign up early to secure your place at your preferred table

Capital investment and the future of healthcare financing Streamlining care pathways and enhancing operational productivity From definition to impact: Realising integrated care though neighbourhood working 
Data-driven commissioning: Moving from insights to action Navigating the changing regulatory landscape in response to the 10YP 

The role of data in ensuring accountability across healthcare systems 

 

12:40 Networking Lunch 
1:40

Panel: 
Neighbourhood health and care deep dive 

  • Clarification and definition: Provide a shared, clear definition to resolve confusion and ensure alignment
  • Integrated models: Integrate community trusts within accountable care structures, ensuring a holistic approach to neighbourhood health delivery
  • The role of adult social care and social care reform
  • Sustainable transformation: Explore scalable models of neighbourhood care (PCNs, GP federations, community trusts) that align with the 10-year vision while ensuring the transformation is legally and financially sustainable
  • Workforce considerations: Address how models will evolve to meet the needs of integrated, neighbourhood-based care

 

2:20

Panel: 
Reforming the GP model 

  • Future shape of GP and primary care services: Discuss how the role of GPs must evolve to deliver integrated care, especially in the context of community-based and tech-enabled models
  • Options for GP provider models: Explore potential new models for GP providers to meet the changing needs of the health system
  • Continuity and segmentation: Address how continuity of care can be maintained amid increasing segmentation of services
  • Improving access: Focus on strategies to improve patient access to GP services in an increasingly complex health system
  • Personalized Care: Integrate digital tools to empower GPs to provide more personalized, proactive care for patients

 

3:00

Panel: 
Future provider models and financial flows

  • Delivering integration: accountable care, local care organisations, provider collaboratives, and joined-up care delivery
  • New financial flows and incentives, short term and medium term: Address financial structures that will support integrated care models and incentivize collaboration
  • Competitive commissioning: Investigate the potential for competitive, payer-style commissioning that can clarify provider roles and encourage collaboration
  • System maturity: Foster collaboration among providers to ensure system maturity, preventing the re-emergence of organizational silos

 

3:40 Afternoon Refreshments & Networking 
4:10

Panel: 
Getting the basics right: Core tech for productivity 

  • Accelerating foundational tech – infrastructure, equipment, and adoption to enable digital progress that supports the 10 year plan
  • Tech-enabled care: Showcase digital tools, such as the NHS App and remote monitoring, that can enhance care delivery and reduce pressures on primary care
  • Digital inclusion: Ensure that digital infrastructure is inclusive, meeting the needs of both digitally engaged and digitally excluded populations
  • Operational efficiency: Leverage digital pathways to improve operational efficiency and streamline care delivery

 

4:50

Panel: 
Intelligent insight: Population health, analytics and connecting data, and upstream intervention

  • Unlocking data to drive better decisions, target need, and support integrated working
  • Targeting upstream interventions to reduce the need for reactive care
  • Data-driven decision making: Strengthen data capabilities and analytical rigor to ensure interventions are grounded in population health data
  • AI and predictive analytics: Leverage AI and predictive analytics to identify risks earlier and enable personalized, preventative care

 

5:30 Chair’s Closing Remarks 
5:40 Evening briefing 
7:00 Networking Drinks Reception & Dinner 
Day Two
08:00 Morning Briefing 
08:50 Chair’s Opening Remarks 
9:00

Panel: 
Outlining the necessary steps towards the shift to prevention 

  • Preventative care models, the role of Place, cross-sector leadership, and the strategic role of councils and regions: Examine how national prevention strategies will be tailored to local needs and supported by cross-sector collaboration
  • Strategic prevention focus: Define the role of secondary prevention in the 10-year plan and its importance for system efficiency
  • Targeted prevention services: Accelerate the adoption of underused preventive services, such as cervical screening and postnatal mental health checks

 

9:40

Panel: 
Joined-up systems: The single health record 

  • Making connected care a reality through interoperable systems and data-sharing
  • Discuss challenges and opportunities around ensuring seamless data-sharing across systems to enhance service delivery
  • Electronic patient records being opened up for AI tools supports more integrated, predictive care
  • Digital inclusion: Ensure that digital infrastructure addresses health inequalities and unlocks the full potential of integrated care

 

10:20

Panel: 
Empowering people through tech: The NHS App and self-management 

  • How digital tools are enabling citizens to own and manage their health and care: Discussing how the NHS App and remote monitoring can empower patients to take control of their health and reduce service pressures
  • SPR and digital pathways - how to leverage the NHS App for prevention/ self-management
  • Maintaining choice: Ensure that digital tools are inclusive, offering alternatives for those who are digitally excluded
  • Operational efficiency: Discuss how digital tools streamline service delivery, freeing up capacity in primary care

 

11:00 Morning Brunch & HSJ Awards Poster Presentations 
11:30

Panel: 
Workforce transformation and productivity foundations 

  • Revision of the long-term workforce plan: Aligning workforce strategies with the 10-year health plan and the evolving needs of the NHS
  • Addressing workforce shortages: Solutions for recruitment, retention, and increasing diversity within healthcare and social care teams
  • Develop retention strategies to tackle burnout and ensure a diverse and representative workforce
  • Promote leadership development and support structures to sustain a high-performing workforce
  • Evolving skills and resources needed to thrive in new models of care

 

12:10 

Panel:  
Tackling health inequalities head-on 

  • Strategies and system changes to better reach underserved populations and address avoidable disparities
  • Systemic inequalities: Address gender-based disparities in healthcare access, diagnosis, and treatment through community-centred interventions
  • Health inequality accountability: Ensure accountability for tackling health inequalities remains central in ICBs and across health systems
  • Community health models: Exploring scalable community-led models

 

12:50 Chair’s Closing Remarks