NICON webinar: Budget briefing and system discussion
On Wednesday 26 November 2025, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out the long-anticipated UK budget. While it will be some time before the full implications for the Department of Health (DoH) in Northern Ireland are clear, this webinar will discuss the potential implications of the new budget.
With an expected overspend of £200 million across the HSC this year, and significant savings plans already in place, we will look at the key tenants of the budget and explore the pressures and impacts on our system in the context of focusing on delivery of the Health and Social Care Reset Plan.
After some brief presentations, there will be ample time to discuss emerging plans and ideas to address financial pressures, as well as to consider the opportunities that may arise when we move to the long-awaited three-year budgeting cycle.
This session will be led by Brigitte Worth, Finance Director, Strategic Policy and Performance Group (SPPG), and Eimear McCauley, Executive Director of Finance, Contracts and Capital Development, Western HSC Trust (WHSCT).
We will hear from Roisin Coulter, Chief Executive, South Eastern HSC Trust, and a range of other HSC leaders on the implications of this unprecedented financial environment and consider together how we can all work in the context of the Reset Plan to deliver crucial strategic shifts from treatment to prevention, hospital to community, and analogue to digital.
This webinar is the first event in NICON’s new ‘Reset’ discussion series, which will run throughout 2025/26. The series will gather together HSC leaders, partners, and expert speakers to consider the key elements of the Reset Plan for health and social care in NI.
