Key themes for 2026

  1.  Transforming safety culture: Moving beyond reporting and blame to meaningful learning, and translating this insight into safer care, embedding PSIRF and identifying priorities from the new Quality Strategy
  2. Listening and empowering patients: Optimising Embedding patient voice and supporting co-production of services across healthcare, and fostering transparency and accountability   
  3. Digital, data and AI: How emerging technologies can support earlier detection of risk and optimise processes to allow more time for staff to provide direct high-quality patient care 
  4. Supporting patient safety in the left shift: Encouraging value-based care in the community, and smoother cross-system working to ensure services meet patient needs and transitions of care made safely  
  5. Safety under pressure: Exploring how to protect patients when demand outstrips capacity, and providing better support and pathways for vulnerable patient groups, safeguarding patients from falling through the cracks 
     

Our audience always bring tangible solutions back to their organisations, with 86% of attendees across the last three years saying that their objectives were met.