HPN Midlands 2026 Agenda

HPN Midlands 2026 Agenda

23 - 24 June 2026, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

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08:00
  1. Registration Desk
    45 mins
10:45
  1. Networking and business meetings
    Networking Area
    75 mins
    15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
12:30
  1. Gold sponsor presentation
    Main Room
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

  2. Gold sponsor presentation
    Breakout Room 1
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

  3. Supporting workforce optimisation and reduced bank spend: AI Automation Success from University Hospitals Leicester
    Breakout Room 2
    20 mins

    In this session shows how trusts are strengthening workforce oversight and delivering impact with Agentic Process Automation.

    Karen Ceesay, Deputy Chief People Officer at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, is presenting their flagship transformation programme and shares tangible benefits of AI-driven automation. The People Services transformation has the ambition to deliver £1M in annual temporary staffing savings and release up to 8k hours yearly. The Medical Workforce optimisation programme is targeting £4.7M in annual bank and agency savings while providing oversight of medical shift requests through integrated workflow systems.

12:55
  1. Networking lunch
    Downstairs
    40 mins
    An opportunity to connect with your peers and suppliers to talk over the learnings from the event. Lunch is served buffet style and a range of options are available to cater for different dietary requ ...
13:45
  1. Main Room
    50 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    Innovation can only make a difference when it reaches clinicians and patients quickly. This roundtable explores how the NHS and suppliers can simplify procurement, reduce delays, and create faster mor ...
14:40
  1. The ADHD crisis in the UK: A call to action
    Main Room
    20 mins

    ADHD360, part of the wider Keys Group, advocates a whole system approach to neurodevelopmental care. ADHD provision done well is preventative and its impact spans health, social care and the wider economy. There has been a great deal of noise around ADHD provision lately, with growing public, political and clinical scrutiny of ADHD and neurodevelopmental services. Here we outline what evidence-based, gold-standard ADHD care looks like in practice - and the benefits for patients. We discuss the opportunity for independent providers to work in partnership with the NHS, collaborating on the development of a national framework for ADHD care.

  2. Gold sponsor presentation
    Breakout Room 1
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

  3. Gold sponsor presentation
    Breakout Room 2
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

15:05
  1. Vyne: Digital prescribing and connected care from hospital to home
    Main Room
    20 mins

    Managing the hospital-to-home pathway relies on processes that are often manual, fragmented, and difficult to monitor. Vyne is a digital-first service built to address this – connecting acute and community teams, standardising medical device prescribing, and giving clinicians complete visibility of patients and devices. This session will explore how Vyne works in practice: how it achieves clinically safe digital discharge, how it integrates into existing workflows and systems, how it saves clinical time and prescription costs, and how it provides the data NHS organisations need to evidence compliance and outcomes. 

    BMC/Computacenter
  2. Gold sponsor presentation
    Breakout Room 1
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

  3. Gold sponsor presentation
    Breakout Room 2
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

15:30
  1. Networking and business meetings
    Networking Area
    75 mins
    15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
19:30
  1. Drinks reception and networking dinner
    Downstairs
    150 mins
    Networking sessions – throughout the event we host a networking lunch as well as a dinner and drinks reception to give you ample opportunity to connect with your peers and suppliers over the learnings ...
10:00
  1. Main Room
    30 mins
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    A focus on robust planning, capacity resourcing and clear goals to enable NHS organisations to deliver safe care, manage demand and sustain improvement despite tight finances and workforce struggles.
  2. Breakout Room 1
    30 mins
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Workforce, Skills & Culture
    A breakout session on moving digital and data literacy from strategy to practice, sharing what’s working, what’s not, and how clinical staff are embedding skills into everyday roles.
  3. Breakout Room 2
    30 mins
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Operations & Service Delivery
    Explore how the NHS can use data and analytics to streamline workflows, improve clinical and operational decision-making, and enhance productivity while supporting better patient outcomes.
  4. Breakout Room 3
    30 mins
    • Strategy & Leadership
    • Digital, Data & AI
    Examines how the NHS can accelerate innovation through agile governance, digital transformation and partnerships, while protecting patients.
10:35
  1. The note is not the finish line
    Main Room
    20 mins

    As AI scribes gain traction across the NHS, note generation is becoming standard. However, most solutions stop at documentation, leaving clinicians to complete the administrative work that follows, including letters, referrals, and coding. As a result, significant time is still spent on non-patient tasks, and operational inefficiencies persist. 
     
    This talk introduces a different perspective: the note is not the finish line; it is the starting point. Real transformation comes from completing the entire clinical workflow, not just capturing the consultation. 
     
    Using real NHS examples, the session explores how ambient voice technology can reduce administrative burden, accelerate care pathways, and improve patient outcomes

  2. Gold sponsor presentation
    Breakout Room 1
    20 mins

    Main room and breakout room presentations

    Interested in sponsoring?

11:00
  1. Networking and business meetings
    Networking Area
    60 mins
    15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
12:05
  1. Main Room
    30 mins
    • Digital, Data & AI
    • Outcomes & Impact
    High-quality, secure patient data is essential for delivering better care. This panel discussion will explore how healthcare organizations can maintain data safety and integrity while directly supporting improved patient outcomes. The speakers will share real-world strategies for overcoming common challenges, safeguarding sensitive information, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
13:25
  1. Networking lunch
    Downstairs
    45 mins

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Frequently Asked Questions

The agenda covers the most pressing challenges facing NHS and mental health leaders today, including digital transformation in practice, the NHS 10-Year Plan one year on, AI adoption and data strategy, collaboration across primary, secondary, community, and mental health services, left shift to neighbourhood and community care, clinical safety and innovation, workforce development, and the integration of mental health into wider system transformation. Sessions are shaped directly by delegate priorities.

HPN Midlands runs across two days at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham on 23–24 June 2026. The programme includes keynote presentations in the main room, panel discussions, breakout sessions, one-to-one meetings with solution providers, and a networking dinner on the first evening. The format is designed to balance structured learning with meaningful peer connection and supplier engagement.

Yes. Breakout sessions and roundtables are selectable, so you can build a programme that reflects your organisation's priorities. Your one-to-one meetings with solution providers are scheduled around the main agenda to ensure you don't miss the sessions most relevant to you.

Yes. All delegates receive a conference guide on arrival, and digital copies of presentation materials are made available after the event. This means you can focus on the conversation in the room, knowing you'll have everything you need to share insights and act on takeaways when you're back at your organisation.

We strongly recommend attending both days to get the full benefit of the programme – including the networking dinner, which is where many of the most valuable conversations happen. That said, if your schedule only allows for one day, please let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate you.