RiskReimagined 2026: The Convenzis NHS Risk Management Conference
Current Climate & Challenges
The NHS continues to face significant safety and quality challenges: over 13,500 avoidable deaths annually, with infections, maternity, and diagnostic delays revealing systemic weaknesses. Backlogs in hospital infrastructure—totalling £13 billion—and outdated digital systems introduce both clinical and cybersecurity risks. The sprawling patchwork of safety oversight NGO’s, fragmented data, and inconsistent risk governance cultures are undermining patient safety and inhibiting rapid incident response.
Timeliness of the Event
The NHS’s 10-Year Health Plan (3 July 2025) emphasises three strategic shifts—hospital → community, analogue → digital, sickness → prevention—while placing patient safety and risk reduction at its core. It commits to abolishing or merging six overly complex NGO’s, implementing an AI-led early warning system, rejuvenating the National Quality Board, and strengthening transparency and performance data. The ‘Dash Review’—a forthcoming independent patient-safety landscape assessment—is set to overhaul safety governance. This conference arrives at the precise moment when policy is becoming reality—and NHS organisations must build systems capable of preventing harm and managing risk proactively.
Key Subjects Covered
Governance transformation: Navigating the abolition of quangos, clarifying safety oversight roles, and ensuring effective board accountability.
AI & early warning systems: Implementing predictive tools that flag risks in real time, integrated with clinical workflows and patient safety frameworks.
Incident learning cultures: Embedding open reporting, transparent follow-up, and use of PSIRF, HSSIB, and ‘Martha’s Rule’ interventions.
Infrastructure & cyber hygiene: Addressing capital deficits in facilities and cybersecurity risks through patch management, resilience strategies, and emergency preparedness.
Data integration & patient records: Reducing risk by consolidating paper and digital records into a unified “patient passport”, governed for safety and privacy.
Workforce risk capability: Developing risk-awareness training, multidisciplinary governance committees, and building safety leadership capacity under the People and Quality frameworks.
Why Attend
This event is essential for NHS trust leaders, board members, clinical governance leads, quality and safety managers, and ICS executives. Attendees will gain clarity on navigating safety oversight reforms, learn to implement AI-led predictive tools, acquire practical frameworks for governance and risk management, discover case studies of risk mitigation, and network with patient safety experts. Delegates will leave with ready-to-use governance maturity matrices, AI deployment guides, safety culture audit checklists, and resilience action plans.
The Programme
08:30 – Registration & Networking
09:30 – Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)
09:40 – Keynote Presentation: Governance Transformation in the NHS
10:00 – Panel Discussion: Building Incident Learning Cultures in the NHS
10:30 – Main Sponsor
10:50 – Morning Break
11:50 – Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)
11:55 – Case Study
12:15 – Case Study
12:35 – Interview Session: Data Integration & Patient Records – Reducing Risk with a Unified Patient Passport
12:55 – Case Study
13:15 – Lunch and Networking
14:00 – Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)
14:05 – Case Study
14:25 – Presentation: AI & Early Warning Systems – Predictive Tools for Real-Time Risk Flagging in Clinical Practice
14:45 – Case Study
15:05 – Panel Discussion: Infrastructure & Cyber Hygiene – Strengthening Resilience in an Era of Capital Deficits and Digital Risk
15:35 – Hot Buffet food and drinks
17:00 – End of Day
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
Post event drinks reception and Street food
Tickets
Charity, Not for Profit and University (In-Person): £203.99 excl VAT
Private Sector (In-Person): £500.00 excl VAT
Free NHS Ticket: £0.00 (limited places)
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