Conference themes

This year, NHS Health and Care Expo’s programme of over 180 sessions will be underpinned by eight core themes. These themes reflect the pressing issues for NHS colleagues and health policymakers, and represent the strategic priorities and enablers supporting the ambitions of the 10 Year Health Plan.

Finance and productivity

Championing a sustainably funded system with innovative funding streams while ensuring financial productivity.

Leadership and workforce

Empowering local health and care leaders to lead complex change at scale and responding to the immediate and long-term workforce issues facing NHS organisations.

NHS and society

Looking outward to the factors shaping health and the role that the NHS plays in wider society, including health and wealth, devolution, and wider public service reform.

NHS architecture and operating model

Shifting power to local leaders through a simplified, integrated and devolved healthcare model that can enable the 10 Year Health Plan’s vision.

Neighbourhood and local integration

Building healthier communities by delivering integrated health and wellbeing services closer to home.

Quality and improvement

Transforming services and patient experience through improved quality of care and innovative approaches to system challenges.

Population health and prevention

Shifting towards early intervention and prevention through proactive models of physical and mental care that reduce health inequalities and improve population health.

Technology and innovation

Harnessing the opportunities within digital, technology, data and life sciences to deliver high-quality, accessible patient care.