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Integrated Care Systems Conference 2025

In person conference in London for health and care leaders interested in system working
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Time
26 November 2025 08:00 - 17:30 GMT
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Event location
155 Bishopgate, London
Sponsor
Newton NICE Browne Jacobson

Speakers

  • Glen Burley
    Glen Burley
    Financial reset and accountability director in the NHS England executive team
  • Chris Ham
    Professor Sir Chris Ham
    Professor Sir Chris Ham
  • Headshot of Duncan Gooch
    Dr Duncan Gooch
    GP and PCN Clinical Director Erewash Health Partnership
  • Dr Amit Sharma
    Dr Amit Sharma
    GP partner and Chief Executive, Berkshire West Primary Care Alliance
  • Sarah Walter
    Sarah Walter
    Interim Deputy Chief Executive, NHS Confederation and Director, ICS Network NHS Confederation
  • Kathy Mclean
    Dr Kathy McLean
    Chair Derby and Derbyshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board, Chair, NHS Confederation ICS Network
  • Matthew Taylor - Chief Executive
    Matthew Taylor
    Chief Executive NHS Confederation
  • Danielle Oum
    Danielle Oum
    Chair, Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull cluster of ICBs
  • Dr Claire Fuller
    Dr Claire Fuller
    Dr Claire Fuller MRCGP – National Medical Director, NHS England
Integrated Care System Conference 2025

Our NHS Confederation Integrated Care Systems Conference 2025, is taking place in London on 26 November.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘from vision to reality: shaping tomorrow today’ with an objective of providing an opportunity for ICBs and partner organisations to discuss practical ways to make the 10 Year Health Plan a reality, focusing on the 'how to’ and next steps.   

The event - at 155 Bishopsgate, London - is intended for all senior system leaders, including ICB CEOs, ICB Chairs, ICP Chairs, executive teams in ICBs, non-exec directors, and also senior leaders in local authority organisations and VCSE partners working within ICSs, as well as those interested in ICSs.

This year's event is in partnership with: 

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Please do register for your place for this in person event which provides a unique opportunity for senior leaders working in systems, or interested in system-working, to network, share challenges and ideas, and hear from inspiring speakers. 

The outline agenda is published below and we will continue to announce key speakers as they are confirmed. Please note the exact times and session titles may be subject to change.  

If you are from a commercial organisation and would like more details on partnership and exhibitor opportunities, please contact, Shaz Azam, Senior Business Development Manager: shaz.azam@nhsconfed.org.

  • Session Title: Strategic commissioning - Delivering impact through evidence

    As Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) evolve their strategic commissioning role, this session explores how data and evidence can be harnessed to make smarter, system-wide decisions. This panel will focus on practical applications of data—from population health analytics to costing and value-based commissioning—to guide decisions that are both impactful and financially sustainable.

    Speakers: 

    • Chair, Rosalind Way, IQVIA

    • Dr Dharmesh Patel, Chief Executive Officer, Primary Eyecare Services Limited

    • Paul Henderson, Director of Consulting, IQVIA​

  • Delegates can arrive and register during this time, and there is a great opportunity to explore our commercial exhibition and talk with our exhibitors, before the first panel session begins. You can also meet our ICS Network team at our stand and ask any questions you might have about the day. 

  • Dr Kathy McLean, Chair of our ICS Network, will open the conference with her welcome speech. 

  • Session Title: Delivering the 10-Year Health Plan – how ICBs can make it a reality

    ​The 10-Year Health Plan sets an ambitious vision for transforming the NHS, with ICBs playing a critical role as strategic commissioners with a number of new responsibilities. This session will explore what needs to happen next to achieve the ambitions in the plan and the priorities for ICB leaders. What do ICB leaders need to do next to deliver the plan and drive health improvement and reduce inequalities?

    Speakers: 

    • ​Chair - Dr Kathy McLean, Chair of our ICS Network
    • Dr Claire Fuller, National Medical Director, NHS England

    Other speakers yet to be confirmed.

  • Keynote speaker: 

    Glen Burley, Financial Reset and accountability director, NHS England executive team. 

  • Please enjoy the refreshments during this coffee break and take some time to network with colleagues and visit our commercial exhibition , or chat with our team members, before heading to the breakout session of your choice. 

  • Session 1: Making strategic commissioning a reality – the key ingredients

    What are the key ingredients for successful strategic commissioning and what can we learn from those further down the line? 

    Speakers: 

    • Chair: Patrick Vernon OBE
    • Professor Sir Chris Ham ​

    • Richard Watson, deputy chief executive and director of strategy and transformation at NHS Suffolk and North East Essex​

    • David Meates, an experienced governance leader and former chief executive, recognised for guiding some of New Zealand’s most complex organisations through transformation, large-scale capital programmes, and unprecedented crises.​​

    Session 2: Delivering a neighbourhood health service: are we moving from rhetoric to reality

    The government’s 10-Year Health Plan has put the establishment of a neighbourhood health service front and centre of its reform agenda. All eyes now have turned to its implementation. This panel session will aim to draw on learnings from best practice across the country – showcasing how providers, systems and wider partners including the community sector have begun to create the conditions to embed a new way of working. Panellists will share their own personal experiences and case studies to facilitate peer-to-peer challenge and learnings.​

    Speakers: 

    • Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, NHS Confederation
    • Claire Kennedy, joint chief executive, PPL and vice chair of New Local.
    • Dr Duncan Gooch, GP and chair of our Primary Care Network 

    Session 3: Strengthening public involvement through a time of system change

    System leaders understand how critical a strong, constructive relationship with the public is to the success of transformation; but how is this relationship changing through neighbourhood health, strategic commissioning and shifts in digital engagement mechanisms? Join us for a forward look at pending opportunities and risks in public involvement. 

    Speakers: TBC

    Session 4: IHOs and the integration puzzle: A new solution or a familiar challenge?

    As the NHS looks for more effective and affordable ways to deliver integrated, patient-centred care, the government’s latest proposal - Integrated Health Organisations (IHOs) - marks a renewed effort to realise the promise of capitated contracts. By aligning financial incentives across sectors, IHOs aim to help support the left shift, improve population health outcomes and enhance allocative efficiency. But beyond this, very little is known about how they will operate. During this session, senior NHS leaders and legal experts will explore IHOs’ contractual form, governance models and the behavioural changes that will be needed to make them work. They will consider the implications for providers, ICBs and patients, and ask whether IHOs can deliver the promise of accountable care.​

    Speakers: 

    • Chair: Frances O’Callaghan, chief executive, North Central London and North West London ICB 

    • Aaron Cummings, chief executive, University Hospitals of Morecombe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (incoming chief executive of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB)

    • Amit Sharma, director and GP at Berkshire West Primary Care Alliance ​

    • Gerard Henratty, head of health and life sciences; partner Browne Jacobson ​

  • Session 1: Understanding local government reform 

    This panel will focus on local government reorganisation and bring together representatives from areas that have undergone and are undergoing LGR. In this session we want to draw out the challenges and opportunities created for partnership working, as well as implications for the NHS as it seeks to deliver the 10-Year Health Plan.​

    The importance of local authorities as partners will continue to grow with this agenda. We believe it is therefore vital to hear from those who have experienced LGR, seen the challenges and opportunities it creates for local authorities themselves and for partnership working with the NHS.​

    Speakers: 

    • Anna Earnshaw, Chief Executive of West Northamptonshire Council 

    ​Session 2: In partnership with NICE: Supporting greater medicine uptake

    NICE’s purpose is to help practitioners and commissioners get the best care to people fast, while ensuring value for the taxpayer. It has earned a respected place in the health and care evidence ecosystem. However, medicines guidance uptake data shows that there is a gap between what NICE recommends and its uptake and use by NHS decision-makers.​
    In this session we will explore what more can be done to improve medicines uptake and adoption. We’ll discuss how NICE’s ambitions as set out in the 10 Year Health Plan will help drive smarter spending across the NHS and explore what this means for medicine spend. 
    The session will also discuss the practical things that might help us improve uptake and adoption of NICE guidance by working collaboratively with system leaders and will provide an opportunity for system leaders to share insights on local approaches to improving medicines uptake and adoption.

    ​Speakers: 

    • Chair: Louise Edwards, programme director, implementation and insight, NICE
    • Johanna Hulme, head of medicines optimisation and pharmacy professional lead, NICE
    • Dr John Patterson, GP clinical advisor, NICE
    • John Spoors, programme director - commercial, managed access and medicines policy, NICE
    • Anurita Rohilla, chief pharmacist, Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB

    Session 3: In partnership with Browne Jacobson: Will form follow function - A new beginning for ICBs?  

    Due to the cost reductions they must deliver, ICBs have been implementing structural changes, including establishing clustering arrangements, preparing for mergers and reviewing how they are delivering their functions. This session will explore what we can learn from their experiences so far and look ahead at what they must consider in terms of governance and risk as they set themselves up as strategic commissioners. The panel will also consider board development and clinical leadership in these new structures.​

    ​Speakers: 

    • Chair - Robin Porter, Chair, Central East ICB
    • Gerard Hanratty, Browne Jacobson
    • Dr Sayanthan Ganesaratnam, GP principal and PCN clinical director for East Merton PCN
    • Karen Barker, transition director and executive director of corporate services and ICB development, Central East ICB

    Session 4: In partnership with Newton - Moving to delivery of INTs at scale – how are systems overcoming obstacles? 

    At the heart of the 10-Year Health Plan is the development of a Neighbourhood Health Service, designed to improve health and care outcomes for individuals by shifting care from hospitals to integrated, community-based services over the next decade. Amidst reorganisation and reform, integrated care systems around the country are continuing, together with system partners, to explore and progress routes towards neighbourhood health delivery models, including integrated neighbourhood teams (INTS). In this session, we’ll hear from a panel of individuals on their experiences to date of moving forwards with delivery of INTs, with a particular focus on overcoming the common pitfalls that can get in the way. For example, moving forwards following earlier false starts, identifying and engaging the right parties to design and deliver new services, and building services that are tailored to local contexts but can deliver measurable improvements to the health of the population at pace and at scale. 

    Speakers: 

    • Chair: Dame Gill Morgan, former Chair of Gloucestershire ICB​
    • Lynn Stimson, Deputy Director North East Essex Alliance and NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
    • Matthew Sweeting, Executive Medical Director, Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board.

    • Ric Whalley, Partner, Newton

  • Enjoy the refreshments and take time to catch up with colleagues, our team members and have a look round our commercial exhibition. 

  • Session title: Making English Devolution work - the case for health in all policies 

    The coming year marks a critical time in system working across England. With an ambitious 10 year vision for the NHS to be delivered, a broad new role for ICBs emerging, and health, wellbeing and public service reform officially recognised as a competence of the growing number of Mayors, it is vital our local leaders have the collective understanding, ambition and mechanisms to work together to support their shared populations. 

    This session will provide an opportunity to hear from both Mayors and ICB leaders as they navigate the various strategies and structural reforms. We will discuss the nature and importance of their relationships, their priorities for the future and how they plan to work closely to shape services and improve both population health and prosperity. With English Devolution rapidly changing long-standing governance models, and more Mayoral Strategic Authorities being established next May, there is an urgent need to write the future of health and care together.

    Speakers: 

    • Matthew Taylor, chief executive, NHS Confederation
    • Danielle Oum, chair of the new Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB Cluster
    • Cathy Elliott, ​​chief executive of Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

  • TBC

  • Summary of the day and closing remarks from Sarah Walter, Interim Deputy Chief Executive, and Director of our ICS Network.  

  • Join our team for a drink to mark the end of our annual conference and for a final opportunity to network and share thoughts and views with other ICS colleagues as we draw our 2025 conference to a close. 

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