Endoscopy360 2027: The NHS Endoscopy Conference
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Endoscopy360 2027: The NHS Endoscopy Conference
A Strategic Summit on NHS Endoscopy Services. 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
Current Landscape
Endoscopy services remain central to the NHS's ability to deliver timely diagnosis, reduce elective care backlogs, and improve cancer outcomes. As demand continues to increase through the expansion of screening programmes, growing referral volumes, and rising expectations around diagnostic performance, endoscopy teams face significant pressure to deliver more activity while maintaining quality, safety, and patient experience.
Aligned with the NHS 10-Year Plan, national cancer ambitions, Endoscopy360 2027 focuses on building the practical capabilities required to transform services at scale. The conference will explore how the NHS can redesign pathways, optimise capacity, strengthen workforce models, and utilise innovation to improve access to timely diagnostics while maintaining high-quality care.
This summit is designed for professionals responsible for translating national priorities into operational reality. Through practical learning, peer collaboration, and implementation-focused discussions, delegates will gain actionable approaches to improving productivity, reducing waiting times, enhancing patient outcomes, and building sustainable endoscopy services for the future.
Summit Focus
Endoscopy360 2027 has been designed as a learning-led event focused on developing the skills, frameworks, and practical knowledge required to deliver measurable service improvement. Rather than focusing solely on policy objectives and performance targets, the programme will explore how leading organisations are achieving results, the challenges they encountered, and the lessons they learned along the way.
Interactive Skill Clinics will provide hands-on learning around workforce planning, capacity modelling, pathway redesign, service optimisation, and quality improvement. Lessons Learned Sessions will offer candid reflections from senior NHS leaders and operational teams who will share where initiatives did not initially succeed, what changes were made, and how improvements were ultimately achieved.
The emphasis throughout the conference is on implementation, replication, and sustainable impact.
This year’s event is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave understanding:
- Diagnostic recovery & elective backlog reduction: Reducing waiting times through capacity planning, service optimisation, and pathway improvement.
- Pathway redesign & alternative diagnostics: Using innovative diagnostic and triage approaches to improve access and prioritisation.
- Workforce development & sustainability: Expanding clinical skills, training pathways, and workforce capacity to meet growing demand.
- Endoscopy networks & collaboration: Sharing resources and standardising care across systems to improve outcomes and reduce variation.
- Productivity, data & continuous improvement: Using data, forecasting, and improvement methodologies to maximise efficiency.
- Endoscope Decontamination, Reprocessing and Infection Prevention: Ensuring Patient Safety and Best Practice
- Community diagnostics & capacity expansion: Growing diagnostic services closer to home through Community Diagnostic Centres.
- Digital innovation & transformation: Harnessing technology and digital tools to improve service delivery and performance.
- Patient safety, sedation safety, experience & personalised care: Promoting safe clinical practice, including the safe use of sedation, while improving preparation, communication, and overall patient-centred care
Why Attend
- Earn 8 CPD Points
- Build confidence in delivering endoscopy transformation through practical, implementation-focused learning.
- Access proven frameworks, methodologies, and tools for capacity management, pathway redesign, and workforce development.
- Learn directly from peers who have successfully improved performance, reduced waiting lists, and expanded service capacity.
- Leave with actionable plans, templates, and improvement ideas that can be adapted and implemented within your organisation.
Who Would Benefit
This summit is ideal for Endoscopy Clinical Leads, Gastroenterologists, Clinical Endoscopists, Endoscopy Nurse Managers, Infection Control Leads, Decontamination Leads, Service Managers, Operations Directors, Diagnostic Leads, Cancer Programme Leads, Elective Recovery Teams, Community Diagnostic Centre leaders, Quality Improvement professionals, and workforce development teams. It will also benefit Integrated Care System leaders, commissioners, transformation teams, patient pathway managers, and those responsible for diagnostic recovery, cancer performance, and service redesign. Suppliers, technology partners, and solution providers will gain valuable insight into the operational priorities, workforce challenges, and transformation ambitions shaping the future of NHS endoscopy services and diagnostic care.
Relevance for Sponsors & Partners
This conference provides a highly targeted platform for suppliers, technology providers, and partners supporting the transformation of NHS endoscopy and diagnostic services. Sponsors will be well positioned to demonstrate how their solutions enable:
- Digital endoscopy, scheduling, and patient management platforms that improve operational efficiency and capacity utilisation.
- Data analytics, forecasting, and performance tools that support service planning and productivity improvement.
- Workforce management, training, and staffing solutions that help address workforce pressures and skills development.
- AI and automation technologies that streamline workflows, support diagnostics, and reduce administrative burden.
- Interoperability and data-sharing solutions that connect services across endoscopy, diagnostics, and wider care pathways.
- Patient engagement and communication platforms that improve preparation, attendance, and patient experience.
- Pathway redesign and referral management solutions that support elective recovery and faster access to diagnostics.
- Infrastructure, equipment, and capacity expansion technologies that enable service growth and increased activity.
- Safe sedation practices, monitoring systems, and clinical governance tools that enhance patient safety, standardise sedation delivery, and reduce procedure-related risk.
- Endoscope decontamination technologies, reprocessing equipment, infection prevention solutions, and quality assurance products that support patient safety, regulatory compliance, and best practice in endoscopy services.
Through speaking, exhibiting, and interactive sessions, partners will be able to align their solutions directly to NHS priorities around diagnostic recovery, elective backlog reduction, cancer performance, workforce sustainability, productivity improvement, and digital transformation, engaging with senior clinical, operational, and transformation leaders responsible for shaping the future of endoscopy services across the NHS.
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
We have an invite only option for NHS Senior Managers for our conference, to see if you qualify for a complimentary place please click the button below.
Conference Speakers
Mr Anil Vara, Bsc (Hons), Msc, MBA, CMgr,
FCMI
Head of Elective Care
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
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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 - Transforming NHS Endoscopy Services: Diagnostic Recovery, Elective Backlog Reduction and Innovative Pathway Redesign
Session Overview:
This presentation will explore practical strategies to accelerate NHS endoscopy diagnostic recovery, reduce elective backlogs and improve patient access. It will examine how effective capacity planning, service optimisation and pathway redesign can reduce waiting times, alongside innovative triage and alternative diagnostic approaches to improve prioritisation and make best use of available resources. Attendees will gain actionable insights into developing more efficient, responsive and sustainable endoscopy services while maintaining patient safety and quality of care.
Morning Skills Clinic - Digital Innovation & Transformation: Harnessing Technology and Digital Tools to Improve Service Delivery and Performance
Session Overview:
This interactive skills clinic will explore how digital innovation and technology can transform NHS endoscopy services by improving efficiency, capacity, performance and patient experience. Through practical examples and shared learning, participants will consider how digital tools can optimise service delivery, support data-driven decision-making and address implementation challenges. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to support digital transformation and drive sustainable improvements in endoscopy services.
Main Sponsor
Main Sponsor
Morning Break
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Chair Morning Reflection
Chair Morning Reflection
Case Study - Cyted Health
Case Study - Cyted Health
Cyted is a gastrointestinal health company that has created a non-endoscopic diagnostic platform to detect disease early and save lives. Our technologies are transforming access to digestive health for everyone, everywhere.
Our minimally invasive capsule sponge test, EndoSign®, enables the swift detection of Barrett's oesophagus, a pre-cancerous condition. This technology addresses a crucial unmet need for risk stratification in early cancer detection, helping reduce waiting times and allocate endoscopic resources more efficiently.
Case Study
Case Study
Leadership Interview Session - Endoscopy Networks & Collaboration: Working Together to Improve Outcomes
Session Overview:
This interview-style session will explore how NHS organisations can work together to share resources, standardise care pathways and improve access to high-quality endoscopy services. This session will examine opportunities and challenges in collaborative working, including workforce planning, capacity management, governance and the adoption of best practice.
The conversation will highlight practical approaches to building effective networks that deliver more consistent, efficient and equitable care across the NHS.
Case Study
Case Study
Lunch & Networking
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Chair Afternoon Address
Chair Afternoon Address
Case Study
Case Study
NHS Deep Dive - Expanding NHS Endoscopy Capacity Through Community Diagnostic Centres: Improving Access, Efficiency and Patient Experience
Session Overview:
This presentation will explore how Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) can expand NHS endoscopy capacity, improve access to timely diagnosis and bring services closer to patients. It will highlight opportunities and challenges in developing community-based diagnostic pathways, optimising resources and workforce capacity, and delivering safe, efficient and sustainable services to reduce waiting lists and improve patient experience.
Case Study
Case Study
Presentation - Enhancing Safety, Sedation and the Patient Experience: Delivering Personalised, Compassionate Endoscopy Care
Session Overview:
This presentation will explore strategies to enhance patient safety, promote safe sedation practice and improve the endoscopy patient experience. It will highlight the importance of effective assessment, monitoring, patient preparation and communication, alongside personalised, compassionate care. The session will encourage reflection on current practice and identify practical ways to strengthen safety, improve patient confidence and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across the endoscopy pathway.
Afternoon Skills Clinic - Building a Sustainable Endoscopy Workforce: Skills, Training and Capacity for the Future
Session Overview:
This Skills Clinic will explore innovative approaches to developing clinical skills, strengthening training pathways and expanding workforce capacity to meet the growing demand for NHS endoscopy services. Through practical learning and shared best practice, delegates will consider sustainable workforce strategies that enhance competency, support staff retention and ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care.
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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