16th NHS Workforce Conference: Building Sustainable NHS Teams

Workforce and Care Integration

08:30 am
06 May, 2025
etc venues Manchester, 11 Portland Street M1 3HU

16th NHS Workforce Conference: Building Sustainable NHS Teams

Workforce and Care Integration

08:30 am
06 May, 2025
etc venues Manchester, 11 Portland Street M1 3HU

Current Landscape and Challenges:

The NHS workforce has experienced substantial growth in response to the evolving needs of the population, yet persistent vacancies totalling over 112,000 pose significant challenges.

As the NHS strives to implement its Long-Term Workforce Plan, addressing the staffing shortfall and improving patient care remain key challenges. Collaboration between NHS England, Health Education England, and NHS Digital has become pivotal in equipping the NHS to undertake this transformative plan, enhancing its ability to provide sustainable and effective healthcare.

Importance and Timeliness of the Event:

The Healthcare Workforce Conference North serves as a crucial platform for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and stakeholders to strategise and confront the challenges associated with the Long-Term Workforce Plan. By fostering collaboration, innovative thinking, and knowledge-sharing, the conference aims to fortify the NHS workforce, ensuring improved patient care and sustainable staffing solutions.

Key Content Streams:

  • Long-term Workforce Plan Action: A comprehensive review of the strategic direction and actionable steps at the local, regional, and national levels, emphasizing the imperative of training, retention, and reform within the workforce.
  • Workforce Sustainability: Exploring strategies to enhance workforce sustainability by fostering a conducive culture, enhancing retention, revamping training approaches, and maximising productivity.
  • Evolving Challenges and Opportunities: Analyzing how the NHS can proactively adapt to the evolving challenges and leverage emerging opportunities, ensuring its readiness to meet the future demands of healthcare.
  • Education and Training Expansion: Delving into action plans aimed at boosting the NHS workforce through expanded education and training initiatives, including scaling up medical school places, augmenting GP specialty training, enhancing nursing training programs, and increasing apprenticeships.

Why Attend:

The Healthcare Workforce Conference North offers a pivotal opportunity for participants to contribute to the advancement of the healthcare industry and the NHS.

This conference serves as a call to action for all stakeholders to collaborate in crafting a sustainable and robust workforce, ultimately leading to enhanced patient care and the achievement of long-term healthcare goals.

Register now to be a part of this transformative journey and contribute to building a better future for healthcare and the NHS workforce.

Who will Attend

  • Chairs
  • Chief Executives
  • Chief Nurses/Directors of Nursing
  • Clinical Commissioning Group Members
  • Clinical Directors/Leaders
  • Commercial Directors/Managers
  • Contracts Directors/Managers
  • Director/Heads of Workforce and HR
  • Director/Heads of Operations
  • Directors /Heads of Finance
  • Directors/Heads of Commissioning/Procurement
  • Directors/Heads of Efficiency and Productivity
  • Directors/Heads of Organisational Development
  • Directors/Heads of Patient Engagement
  • Directors/Heads of Policy
  • Directors/Heads of Service Transformation
  • Directors/Heads of Staff Engagement/Training/HR
  • Directors/Heads of Strategy and Transformation
  • Estates and Facilities Directors/Managers
  • Finance Directors
  • Head of Commissioning Support Units
  • Improvement Programme Managers/Directors
  • NHS Trust Directors and Senior Managers
  • Operations/Performance Directors
  • Pharmacy Directors and Heads of Medicines Management
  • Service Improvement Directors

Sponsors & Partners

The programme

08:30

Registration & Networking

Registration - Open from 8:30 am - Closes at 11:00 am

All delegates must complete their registration process before the 11:00 AM cut-off time. Please arrive in a timely manner to allow for registration and to avoid any inconvenience. Delegates who arrive after the registration deadline will be refused entry to the event.

We appreciate your cooperation in helping us maintain the event's schedule and ensuring that everyone can fully participate in the Conference. If you have any questions or require assistance, our event staff will be available to assist you with the registration process.

Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to an insightful and productive event together!

09:30

Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Chief Officer
Greater Manchester Diagnostics Network

Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

09:40

Keynote Presentation - Navina Evans, MBBS DCH MRCPsych CBE, Chief Workforce, Training and Education Officer, NHS England (Invited)

The Expansion of the NHS Workforce

This presentation will showcase how the NHS is expanding their workforce by supporting the NHS plan and implementing strategies to overcome any challenges the NHS Workforce faces and discuss the opportunities ahead. Looking into how the NHS are expanding their education and training for new and current staff across the NHS.

10:00

Navigating International Recruitment Panel Discussion

We will delve into a discussion with a great line-up of panellist to discuss and give their views on recruiting from overseas and how recruiting internationally will help support the strain on staffing in the NHS.

The NHSP International service is designed to support staffing by attracting talent worldwide, with training programmes and accommodation in place to have those professionals ready to care for patients. Looking into the nursing workforce as international recruitment will be vital in supporting staffing strain and looking at the work underway to continue supporting the NHS with actively recruiting from overseas whilst still ensuring recruitment is done ethnically.

Panellists:

  • Panellist 1: Jenny Lewis, Director of Human Resources and Occupational Development, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Invited)
  • Panellist 2: Duncan Burton, Chief Nursing Officer, NHS England (Invited)
  • Panellist 3: Professor Anton Emmanuel, Head of Workforce Race Equality Standard, WRES (Invited)

10:30

Main Sponsor

Main Sponsor

10:50

Morning Break

Morning Break

11:50

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Mr Chris Sleight MSc BSc FIBMS
Chief Officer
Greater Manchester Diagnostics Network

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

11:55

Case Study - NHS London Procurement

David Downey
Assistant Director of Procurement
– Workforce

Case Study - NHS London Procurement

12:15

Case Study - Your World Recruitment

Case Study - Your World Recruitment

12:35

Fireside Chat - Louise Hall, Regional Director of Workforce, Training and Education, NHS England SE (Invited)

A chat with our event chair about the sustainability of the NHS Workforce and how the NHS is using innovative approaches to train, retain and reform. A conversation to look into how this sets out a strategic direction for the NHS Workforce. As well as discussing the concrete and pragmatic action to be taken logically, regionally and nationally.

Louise is the Regional Director for the South East and SRO for the NHS England regional restructure. Commercially aware with strong HR leadership and project skills. Strategic perspective to align company vision together with a pragmatic approach to managing change and people. With great knowledge and expertise in the NHS workforce, come sit down with her and listen and discuss her viewpoints on the sustainability of the NHS workforce structure.

12:55

Case Study - The Guardian Service

Case Study - The Guardian Service

13:15

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking

14:00

Chair Afternoon Reflection (Confirmed)

Chair Afternoon Reflection (Confirmed)

14:05

Case Study

Case Study

14:25

Keynote Presentation - Developing a multi-professional enhanced, advanced and consultant level practice workforce model (Confirmed)

Ian Setchfield
Associate Director-Workforce Development and Education for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

The presentation discusses the factors to consider with which to ensure a robust governance process and strategic approach to the development of the multi-professional enhanced, advanced and consultant level practice workforce model.

14:45

Case Study

Case Study

15:05

Occupational Health in the Workforce Panel Discussion

Looking into the growth of NHS Occupational Health and Wellbeing (OHWB), the NHS strategic roadmap will grow and improve the occupational and wellbeing services, and NHS’s multi-professional workforce, and increase the impact it has in the coming years. Improving the well-being of the healthcare workforce will lead to improved patient care.

A look into the 4 key themes and how they outline the future the NHS want to create and act as long-term success measures for the strategy. The 4 key themes are:

  1. Growing in the strategic identity of OHWB
  2. Growing OHWB services across systems
  3. Growing our OHWB people (i.e. workforce)
  4. Growing OHWB impact and evidence-based practice
 

Panellists:

  • Panellist 1 - John Drew, Director of Staff Experience and Engagement, NHS England (Invited)
  • Panellist 2 - Dr Shriti Pattani, National Clinical Expert in Occupational Health and Wellbeing, NHS England (Invited)
  • Panellist 3 - Giles Wright, Associate Director of Workforce, Cambridge University Hospitals NHSFT (Invited)

15:35

Hot Buffet Food, Drinks and Networking

Hot Buffet Food, Drinks and Networking

17:00

End of Day

End of Day

Convenzisvents

Your Pass Includes....

  • Access to a leading conference speaker programme
  • Interactive Q&A sessions
  • Fireside interviews
  • Cross-sector best practice
  • Meet the supplier opportunities
  • Hot breakfast & Lunch included
  • Access to post event drinks reception and Street food

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