Cancer remains one of the NHS’s most complex and urgent challenges demanding faster diagnosis, more equitable access to treatment, and a workforce confident in delivering precision care. The 10 Year Health Plan places early detection, innovation, and personalisation at the heart of future oncology services.
8 CPD Points Per DelegateÂ
The NHS Oncology Conference provides a strategic forum for leaders to address these challenges together, translating policy ambition into practical delivery. This event brings NHS teams, ICSs, and cancer alliances together to exchange tested models, frameworks, and collaborative solutions to strengthen early detection, scale genomics, and integrate personalised oncology care within community settings.
Summit Focus:
The NHS Oncology Conference is a premier event for sharing best practices and innovations, designed to help NHS professionals move from awareness to applied implementation. Delegates will gain hands-on frameworks, tested delivery models, and peer-derived insights on how to embed safe, equitable, and sustainable transformation within their services.
Dedicated Skill Clinics offer practical tools, checklists, and implementation templates to support cancer pathway redesign, genomic testing integration, and workforce capability development.
Lessons Learned Sessions provide candid reflections from NHS leaders on real-world challenges, highlighting where implementation plans required adjustment and what delivered measurable results.
This is not a showcase of what to achieve, but a skills exchange on how to achieve it, translating national ambition into measurable improvement.
This year’s event is structured around clear outcomes. Delegates will leave understanding:
- Enhance early detection through targeted screening, self-sampling, and expanded genetic testing.
- Accelerate innovation by adopting technologies like cancer vaccines, liquid biopsies, and whole genome sequencing.
- Advance personalised care using genomics and AI to guide tailored treatments.
- Expand community-based oncology, integrating diagnostics, rehab, and follow-up care into local health centres.
- Strengthen resilience through digital transformation, workforce capability, and robust governance.
- Improve access and equity across cancer pathways, including prostate cancer and haematology services.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions focused on actionable tools, checklists, and templates delegates can implement immediately within oncology services.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing what went wrong, what changed, and what succeeded in implementing cancer pathway transformation.
- Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges enabling collaboration between cancer alliances, ICBs, and provider teams to co-design practical solutions.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: focusing on the delivery process — how genomic testing, data integration, and workforce innovation created measurable outcomes.
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for early detection, genomic integration, and pathway transformation.
- Hear directly from NHS leaders and peers driving oncology service improvement.
- Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and implementation plans ready for local rollout.
- Join a national community of NHS professionals committed to capability-building and sustainable cancer care delivery.
Who Would Benefit:
This conference is ideal for clinical, operational, and strategic leaders involved in oncology transformation, including Cancer Alliance leads, oncology service managers, diagnostic and genomic programme directors, Chief Nurses, CCIOs, CIOs, AHP leads, and ICB or ICS transformation teams. It will also benefit commissioners, community health directors, and primary care leaders seeking practical guidance on scalable, interoperable models of cancer care.
Suppliers, research partners, and technology collaborators will gain insight into NHS oncology priorities, workforce capability needs, and the practical enablers shaping the next decade of personalised cancer care.
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