A new event concept.

Participate. Challenge. Discuss.

HTNLive Leeds

12 November 2025, Crowne Plaza Leeds 

HTNLive is a new approach to an event, we aim to pose challenge questions, facilitate discussion and participation, and share in-focus deep dives into digital projects at NHS organisations.

The event will focus on transformation now and in the future, tackling key challenges and providing deep dives into digital and data.

If you would like to discuss the opportunity to sponsor, please email marketing@htn.co.uk

AGENDA

  • Focused roundtable discussions
  • Thought provoking panel discussions
  • Speed presentations into digital programmes
  • Challenge questions to facilitate sharing 
  • Networking 

WHY ATTEND?

  • Connect, collaborate and discuss with peers
  • Find answers or approaches to your challenges
  • Gain peer to peer knowledge and learnings
  • Hear and contribute  insightful in-depth discussions
  • Be involved in focused deep dives
  • Hear practical case studies 
 

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AGENDA OUTLINE

8:30-9:00

Registration, refreshments and networking

9:00-9:10

Opening address

9:10-9:35

Keynote panel discussion on digital, national priorities and the NHS 10-year plan 

  • Chair – Victoria Otley-Groom, executive director of digital and information at BOB ICB, and CDTIO at Surrey Heartlands
  • Kathryn Kaboutian, Director of Digital & Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer, Bristol NHS Hospital Group
  • Mayur Vibhuti, CCIO and GP clinical lead for digital, Kent and Medway ICB

9:35-9:50

Challenge question: How can digital support high quality cost effective healthcare?

  • Dan Rennie-Hale, director of clinical outcomes and effectiveness, University Hospitals Sussex

9:50-10:00

Reaching digital maturity by overcoming technical debt and modernising IT

  • Olly Smart, Solution Director, Rackspace Technology

10:00-10:10

Virtual wards and remote monitoring, sharing a case study at Leeds Teaching Hospitals 

  • Inhealthcare / Leeds Teaching Hospitals 

10:10-10-:40

Deep dive roundtable workshops

Delegates can attend a domain specific workshop, led by a subject matter expert. Workshops include:

  • EPRs and EPR optimisation
  • AI in healthcare
  • Digital inclusion
  • Virtual wards 
  • Digital primary care
  • Cyber security
  • Neighbourhood health
  • The path to NHS innovation: building the foundations for sustainable modernisation
  • The paper-digital prescription: A hybrid cure for patient record challenges

10:40-11:00

Break, refreshments and networking 

11:00-11:25

Deep dive roundtable workshops

Delegates can attend a domain specific workshop, led by a subject matter expert. Workshops include:

  • EPRs and EPR optimisation
  • AI in healthcare
  • Digital inclusion
  • Virtual wards 
  • Digital primary care
  • Cyber security
  • Neighbourhood health
  • The path to NHS innovation: building the foundations for sustainable modernisation
  • The paper-digital prescription: A hybrid cure for patient record challenges

11:25-11:35

Data, strategy and population health across Frimley ICB

  • Patrick Denston, PCN Digital Change Manager, Frimley ICB

11:35-11:45

Neighbourhood Health – It takes a village 

  • Maria Timson, Airelogic 

11:45-12:15

Keynote panel discussion – EPRs, approaches to optimising and adding value to EPRs, and the future of EPRs

  • Jason Bradley, chief digital and data officer, Countess of Chester Hospital
  • Keltie Jamieson, CHIO, Bermuda Hospitals Board
  • Tom Stocker, EHR and digital transformation consultant 

12:15-12:50

Lunch, break and networking 

12:50-1:00

Data strategy case study 

  • Mark Crannage, associate director of business information and digital systems, Cambridgeshire Community Services

1:00-1:10

Digital primary care 

  • Mateen Ellahi, GP and member of NHSE primary care advisory group, South Stockton PCN, Elm Tree Surgery

1:10-1:40

Deep dive roundtable workshops

Delegates can attend a domain specific workshop, led by a subject matter expert. Workshops include:

  • EPRs and EPR optimisation
  • AI in healthcare
  • Digital inclusion
  • Virtual wards 
  • Digital primary care
  • Cyber security
  • Neighbourhood health
  • The path to NHS innovation: building the foundations for sustainable modernisation
  • The paper-digital prescription: A hybrid cure for patient record challenges

1:40-1:50

Preparing organisations for AI in support of the 10 year plan

  • David Newey, digital health expert and executive CDIO

1:50-2:00

The What Good Looks Like work at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and how this feeds into their digital research and data strategy

  • Sarah Hanbridge CCIO. Leeds Teaching Hospitals
  • Gwen Saalmink senior research nurse, Leeds Teaching Hospitals 

2:00-2:15

Break, refreshments and networking 

2:15-2:30

Keynote panel discussion – a practical framework for tackling digital inequalities to accelerate digital health transformation

  • Saleem Haider, people participation digital lead, East London NHS FT
  • Amanda Jackson, associate CCIO, digital transformation team, Leeds Community Healthcare

2:30-2:40

To support the NHS elective recovery, should every patient on a waiting list have a digital, paperless record by 2028?

  • Restore Information Management

2:40-3:05

Keynote panel discussion – digital leadership now and in the future

  • Sarah Hanbridge, CCIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals 
  • Victoria Otley-Groom, executive director of digital and information at BOB ICB, and CDTIO at Surrey Heartlands
  • Neill Crump, digital strategy director at Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

3:05-3:30

Close and networking 

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