Integrated Care Systems Conference 2025

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

Room: Main stage 

​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 

Other speakers yet to be confirmed.

To be confirmed 

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

Room: TBC

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

Speakers: 

•  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

Room: TBC

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: TBC​

Session 3: Patient voice: keeping people in focus through system change

Room: TBC

Session 1: Understanding local government reform 

Room: TBC

Speakers: TBC 

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 

Room: TBC

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.​​

TBC

Summary of the day and closing remarks.  

Details to follow.