UK & Ireland

The publication of the NHS Quality Strategy 2026 has prompted an important conversation across healthcare. While many of the ambitions set out in the strategy will be familiar to NHS leaders, I believe the focus is now shifting from understanding the strategy itself to considering what it means in practice for provider organisations.

This was the focus of the first...

Knowing how many medics are on site at any given hour, whether consultants are delivering their contracted PAs, and whether resident doctors are on track with their shift balance are fundamental to safe staffing and workforce compliance. In this session from the Connected Health & Care Summit 2026, Joel Tempest-Routledge and Lucy Bell from the RLDatix Medics Adoption team...

The demos have been done. The features have been explained. This Q&A session from the Connected Health & Care Summit 2026 asks what RLD Intelligence is like in practice for the people actually using it. Kirsty Rake, an eRoster lead with 16 years of experience and an early adopter from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, is joined by Chelsea Davies,...

The 10-year plan is aspirational. The three big shifts sound fantastic. Everyone nods sagely and goes back to the day job. But nobody has answered the question of how. In this session from the Connected Health & Care Summit 2026, Kate Harper, a workforce strategist with 20 years of experience across academia, NHS Professionals and consulting, challenges the sector to stop...

Never events are rare, have no denominator, and tell you almost nothing about the quality of teamwork and systems in invasive procedure areas. In this session from the Connected Health & Care Summit 2026, Dr Annie Hunningher, Consultant Anaesthetist and Group Safety Lead at Barts Health, and lead author of NatSSIPs 2, shows how her team created NatSSIPs – mapped subcatego...