Outpatient Futures 2026: The NHS Outpatient Innovation Conference
Over the next decade, the NHS aims to transform outpatient care through a sustained shift from hospital-centred models to integrated, digitally enabled community services. Guided by the 10-year plan outpatient services will look to prioritise prevention, early intervention, and equitable access, all underpinned by technology, data, and collaboration across neighbourhood health centres.
8 CPD Points Per DelegateÂ
This long-term transformation brings a dual challenge: expanding access while embedding digital workflows, optimising referrals, and strengthening patient communication.
OutpatientFutures serves as the strategic forum for NHS leaders to shape and implement this vision, exploring practical mechanisms to reduce elective backlogs, build resilient community delivery models, and elevate the patient experience for the next decade and beyond.
Summit Focus:
The OutpatientFutures 2026: The Convenzis NHS Outpatient Innovation 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 will offer practical tools, templates, and checklists to support outpatient redesign, referral optimisation, and digital service integration. Lessons Learned Sessions will provide candid reflections from NHS leaders on the realities of implementing outpatient reforms, from data quality and backlog management to patient engagement.
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:
- Aligning outpatient transformation with the NHS Elective Recovery Plan and 10-Year Health Plan.
- Practical approaches to shifting care safely from hospital to community settings.
- Embedding digital tools, including AI, genomics, and wearable technology, to improve efficiency and outcomes.
- Optimising referral pathways and prioritising access for those who benefit most from specialist elective care.
- Improving communication, reducing DNAs, and enhancing patient choice and control.
- Delivering holistic, joined-up, and person-centred models of care.
What’s New for 2026:
- Morning & Afternoon Skill Clinics: immersive sessions focused on actionable tools, checklists, and templates delegates can implement immediately.
- Lessons Learned Sessions: real-world reflections from NHS leaders detailing what went wrong, what changed, and what succeeded.
- Peer Learning Circles: small-group exchanges to explore common challenges and co-design solutions across ICBs and provider collaboratives.
- Action-Driven Case Studies: showcasing not only outcomes achieved, but how results were delivered through process and workforce innovation.
Why Attend:
- Earn 8 CPD Points by attending.
- Build professional confidence through applied, hands-on learning.
- Access ready-to-use frameworks for outpatient redesign, digital integration, and elective recovery.
- Hear real experiences from peers leading transformation across the NHS and provider collaboratives.
- Leave with practical artefacts, toolkits, and action plans for local rollout.
- Join a community of NHS professionals committed to capability-building and sustainable delivery.
Who Would Benefit:
This summit is ideal for clinical, operational, and digital leaders driving outpatient and elective transformation, including ICB and ICS teams, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Nurses, AHP leads, CCIOs, CIOs, service managers, and transformation directors. It will also benefit community providers, GP leaders, and patient experience teams seeking practical guidance on integrated, digital-first care models.
Suppliers, digital partners, and academic collaborators will gain insight into implementation priorities, workforce skill gaps, and the real-world enablers shaping the next decade of NHS outpatient reform.
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