CareAnywhere 2027: The NHS Virtual Care Strategy Conference
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CareAnywhere 2027: The NHS Virtual Care Strategy Conference
All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate
Take part in our conference prize draw by visiting all stands and scanning your lanyard at each for a chance to win £100 voucher.
Sponsors & Partners
From Digitally Enabled Pathways to Hospital-Level Care Beyond Traditional Settings
Current Landscape and Challenges
The NHS is entering a new phase of digitally enabled care, moving beyond individual remote monitoring services towards fully integrated virtual hospital models.
Virtual hospitals bring together acute specialists, community services, primary care, remote diagnostics, digital platforms and multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated hospital-level care beyond traditional hospital settings.
These models have the potential to improve patient flow, reduce avoidable admissions, support earlier discharge and provide patients with more personalised care closer to home.
However, creating a sustainable virtual hospital requires more than technology alone. NHS organisations must redesign clinical pathways, establish clear governance arrangements, integrate data across multiple systems and develop workforce models capable of supporting care across physical and digital environments.
The challenge now is to move from isolated digital services to coordinated virtual hospital systems that are clinically safe, operationally sustainable and embedded within everyday NHS delivery.
Summit Focus
CareAnywhere 2026 brings together NHS leaders responsible for developing virtual hospitals, hospital-at-home services, remote clinical pathways and digitally enabled models of care.
The conference will focus on the practical delivery of virtual hospital services, exploring how NHS organisations can bring together clinical teams, digital infrastructure, community services and operational pathways into one coordinated model.
Delegates will hear directly from NHS teams implementing new approaches to remote care, early supported discharge, specialist monitoring and hospital-level treatment outside traditional clinical environments.
Through NHS case studies, skill clinics, deep-dive sessions and peer-led discussion, the programme will examine the frameworks required to design, govern, scale and evaluate virtual hospitals successfully.
Learning Outcomes and Key Takeaways
Delegates will gain practical insight into:
- Designing integrated virtual hospital pathways across acute, community, primary care and home settings.
- Moving from individual remote monitoring programmes to coordinated virtual hospital services.
- Establishing safe clinical governance, accountability and escalation frameworks.
- Integrating remote monitoring platforms with EPRs, shared care records and community systems.
- Developing multidisciplinary workforce models for hybrid and remote care delivery.
- Identifying appropriate patient cohorts for hospital-level care outside traditional settings.
- Measuring the impact of virtual hospitals on admissions, discharge, capacity, productivity and patient outcomes.
- Ensuring digitally enabled care remains inclusive, accessible and patient-centred.
- Building sustainable operating and funding models for long-term delivery.
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Why Attend?
- Earn 8 CPD points.
- Learn from NHS leaders developing and delivering virtual hospital services.
- Explore practical models for hospital-at-home care and remote clinical delivery.
- Understand how to connect acute, community and primary care pathways.
- Gain insight into governance, workforce, interoperability and clinical safety.
- Examine how virtual hospitals can improve patient flow and hospital capacity.
- Take away practical frameworks and service-design approaches for local implementation.
- Build relationships with NHS colleagues facing similar operational challenges.
- Help shape the next stage of digitally enabled NHS care.
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Key Challenges
The conference will address the practical challenges NHS organisations face when developing virtual hospitals, including:
- Creating joined-up clinical pathways across organisational boundaries.
- Integrating remote monitoring data into existing clinical systems.
- Establishing clear clinical ownership and accountability.
- Designing safe escalation and emergency-response processes.
- Coordinating multidisciplinary teams across hospital, community and home settings.
- Supporting higher-acuity and more complex patients remotely.
- Developing workforce confidence in hybrid care environments.
- Demonstrating measurable clinical and operational outcomes.
- Securing sustainable funding beyond short-term transformation programmes.
- Addressing digital exclusion and unequal access to technology-enabled care.
- Maintaining patient choice, experience and confidence.
- Ensuring cybersecurity, data protection and clinical safety.
Relevance for Sponsors and Partners
CareAnywhere 2026 provides a highly targeted platform for organisations supporting the development and delivery of virtual hospitals across the NHS.
The conference will bring together senior NHS leaders, clinicians, digital teams, transformation managers and operational decision-makers responsible for redesigning care pathways and investing in digitally enabled services.
Sponsors and partners will be able to demonstrate how their solutions support:
- Virtual hospital platforms and remote care infrastructure.
- Remote patient monitoring and connected diagnostic technologies.
- Digital care coordination, workflow and clinical escalation.
- EPR integration, interoperability and shared data exchange.
- Artificial intelligence, automation and clinical decision support.
- Population health management, risk stratification and patient identification.
- Real-time operational dashboards and outcomes measurement.
- Patient engagement, communication and self-management.
- Virtual multidisciplinary team working.
- Workforce planning, scheduling and hybrid service delivery.
- Cybersecurity, information governance and clinical safety.
- Service redesign, implementation, training and transformation support.
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Through speaking opportunities, exhibitions, case studies and structured networking, commercial partners can align their expertise directly with NHS priorities around hospital capacity, admission avoidance, earlier discharge, integrated care and digital transformation.
Your Pass Includes....
- This conference is CPD accredited. Attendees will be eligible to gain 8 CPD points upon completion of the event
- Access to a leading conference speaker programme
- Interactive Q&A sessions
- Leadership Lessons from the Front Line
- Cross-sector best practice
- Meet the supplier opportunities
- Hot breakfast & Lunch included
Tickets For NHS Senior Managers
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Conference Speakers
Gurnak Singh
Dosanjh
GP and ICB Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
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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!
Chair Opening Address
Take part in our conference prize draw by visiting all stands and scanning your lanyard at each for a chance to win £100 voucher. The draw will take place at the end of the final presentation.
Keynote Presentation - Building the NHS Virtual Hospital: Delivering Integrated Care Beyond Traditional Hospital Walls
Session Overview:
This opening keynote will explore how NHS organisations can move from individual remote services towards coordinated virtual hospital systems.
Key themes will include:
- The strategic role of virtual hospitals within NHS transformation.
- Connecting acute, community and primary care services.
- Delivering hospital-level care through digitally enabled pathways.
- Moving from short-term initiatives to sustainable operating models.
- Ensuring services remain clinically safe, inclusive and patient-centred.
Speaker:
Dr Niall Keenan OBE, Divisional Director for Medicine and Clinical Lead for Virtual Wards, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Chair, NHS England East of England Virtual Wards Clinical Advisory Group (Invited)
Morning Skills Clinic - Designing Safe and Scalable Virtual Hospital Pathways
Session Overview:
This practical session will provide NHS teams with tools for designing virtual hospital pathways across acute, community and home settings.
Participants will explore:
- Patient selection and clinical eligibility.
- Admission, transfer and discharge criteria.
- Escalation and emergency-response pathways.
- Multidisciplinary team structures.
- Clinical governance and accountability.
- Technology and data requirements.
Speakers:
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Dr Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Consultant Cardiologist and Heart Failure Lead, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT (Invited)
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Dr Bushra Alam, Acute Medicine Consultant and Clinical Lead for Virtual Wards, Greater Manchester (Invited)
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Morning Break & Networking
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Case Study - Mobile Medical Diagnostics
Case Study - Mobile Medical Diagnostics
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Interview Session - Avoiding Admission: How SDEC and Patient Flow Can Keep More Patients Out of Hospital
Session Overview:
A practical discussion exploring how Medical SDEC, patient flow and clinical decision-making can work together to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and support patients through more appropriate care pathways.
Drawing on operational and clinical perspectives, Faye Barnes and Dr Ayo Olatoye will explore how SDEC can support earlier assessment, faster decision-making and stronger admission avoidance, while considering the coordination required across acute, community and home-based services. The session will also look at some of the practical challenges involved in making these models work consistently at scale.
Delegate Outcomes:
- Understand how Medical SDEC can support admission avoidance and improve patient flow.
- Explore how operational and clinical teams can work together to identify alternatives to inpatient admission.
- Take away practical considerations for connecting SDEC with wider community, virtual and home-based care pathways.
Speakers:
- Faye Barnes - Directorate Services Manager, Patient Flow, AMU & Medical SDEC
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Provisionally Confirmed) - Dr Ayo Olatoye - Medical SDEC Lead - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Provisionally Confirmed)
Case Study
Case Study
Lunch & Networking
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Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Connecting Care Beyond Hospital: Building the Infrastructure for More Integrated Delivery
Speaker:
Francesca Trundle, Managing Director, Kent and Medway Pathology Network
Session Overview:
Delivering more care outside traditional hospital settings relies on more than individual virtual ward or remote monitoring services. This session will explore the wider infrastructure needed to connect services across organisational boundaries, including remote monitoring, joined-up data and better integration between health and care teams. It will consider how organisations can move from standalone initiatives towards more sustainable and connected models of care.
Delegate Outcomes:
- Understand the infrastructure required to support more integrated care beyond hospital.
- Explore how remote monitoring and joined-up data can improve coordination across services.
- Identify opportunities to move from isolated initiatives towards more scalable operating models.
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - One Virtual Hospital, Two Providers: Delivering Integrated Care Across Acute and Community Services
Speakers:
- Eleanor Isaac, Virtual Hospital Performance Delivery Lead - South West Hertfordshire, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Dr Eleanor Zinkin, Virtual Hospital Clinical Lead, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Session Overview:
South West Hertfordshire Virtual Hospital operates as an integrated model between West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, supporting pathways across respiratory, heart failure, general medicine, surgery and urology, and frailty hospital at home. This session will explore how the two providers work together across organisational boundaries, including governance, accountability, pathway development and the practical challenges of building a genuinely integrated virtual hospital model.
Delegate Outcomes:
- Understand how a virtual hospital can operate across acute and community provider boundaries.
- Explore practical approaches to shared governance, accountability and pathway development.
- Take away lessons from developing and scaling multiple pathways within one integrated virtual hospital model.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Joining Up Care Around the Patient: Neighbourhood Teams, UCR, Hospital at Home and Community Services
Session Overview:
As more care moves beyond traditional hospital settings, the challenge is no longer simply creating individual services but ensuring they work together around the needs of the patient.
This interactive session will explore how neighbourhood teams, Urgent Community Response, district nursing, Hospital at Home and virtual ward services can be better connected to create smoother pathways across acute, community and home-based care. Drawing on experience from an integrated NHS Trust, the discussion will consider the opportunities and challenges of shared responsibility, service handovers, local population need and the move towards more joined-up models of care.
Delegate Outcomes:
- Understand how neighbourhood, community and virtual care services can be better aligned around the patient journey
- Explore practical approaches to improving handovers, shared responsibility and coordination between different care settings
- Consider how population data and local need can inform the design and development of integrated care models
Speakers:
- Katie Andrew, Care Community Coach, Macclesfield Neighbourhood Team, District Nursing Out of Hours and Hospital at Home (VW’s and UCR), East Cheshire NHS Trust (Provisionally Confirmed)
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Mike Waters, Operational Lead, Virtual Ward, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT (Invited)
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Emma Matthews, Regional Community Development Lead, South West, NHS England (Invited)
Tea, Coffee & Networking
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End of Day
Every attendee makes a difference. We’ll donate one tree for every delegate attending the conference to our partners over at Play it Green and £1 to our Charity of the Year, Stockport Without Abuse.
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