Annual conference and exhibition

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for attending last week's annual conference and exhibition. With over 2000 delegates, 154 exhibition stands, 11 sponsors and a highly comprehensive conference programme, this was the busiest event yet (we sold out before the event opened last week) and your support ensured a highly successful and exciting event.

Conference film

Watch our short film of the Annual conference and exhibition 2008.

Photographs and illustrations

You can now view a selection of photographs taken at the Annual conference and exhibition 2008, as well as conference illustrations which draw on some of the issues raised at the event.

Listen again

Latest audio files from the conference programme are now available in our listen again section, which include:

• Setting the scene with Bryan Stoten, Chair, NHS Confederation
• 60 years of the NHS: a look back and lessons for the future chaired by Nigel Edwards, Policy Director, NHS Confederation
• Keynote address with Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health
• Keynote address with David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS in England
• NHS Values with Clare Chapman, Director General of Workforce for NHS and Social Care, Department of Health
• How will World Class Commissioning change the NHS? with Mark Britnell, Director General for Commissioning & System Management at the Department of Health
• The supertanker that thinks like a speedboat with Matt Kingdon, Chair and co-founder ?What If!
• Framing the future with Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley

Speaker presentations

If you were registered as a delegate at the event you can now download speaker presentations from the event. Presentations are copyright of the NHS confederation and are for you use only. If the presentation you want is not there it means we were not granted permission to publish it.

Dates for the annual conference and exhibition 2009

Next year's event takes place in Liverpool from 10 - 12 June 2009. Keep an eye on the website for our work throughout the year and ways to get involved.