KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Karin Smyth MP Minister of State for Health MP for Bristol South
Peter Holbrook CBE Chief Executive SEUK
Sam Seddon Director Ormsdale Associates
Daniel Elkeles Chief Executive NHS Providers
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Panellist: Dr Mo Al-Ubaydli Chief Executive Patients Know Best
Gareth Bartlett Chief Executive & Founder Blinx
Panellist: Dr Andrew Catto Chief Executive IC24
Panellist: Dr Zahid Chauhan OBE Chief Executive BARDOC
Panel Chair: Dr Dawood Anwar Chief Executive SPCT
Dr Simon Bowers Chief Medical Officer Blinx
Panellist: Dr Hassan Chaudhury Digital Propositions Lead Medica
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Davina Collins
Associate Clinical Director Cumbria Health Ltd
Panellist: James Freed Deputy Director Health Education England
Panel Chair: Tessa Harvey Chief Executive LCW UCC
Nicole Kayode VP Product - Health & Care OneAdvanced
Panellist: Mairead McCormack Chief Executive Kent Community Health NHS Trust
Panel Chair: Simon Morioka
Joint Chief Executive PPL (Private Public Ltd)
Panel Chair: Dr Caroline O’Keeffe Chief Executive designate NHUC
Adnan Riaz
Product Director - Integrated Urgent Care CLEO Systems
Panellist: Dr Anne Whitehouse Medical Director Badger
Panellist: Matt Edgar Director of Digital Urgent & Emergency Care NHSE
Panellist: Dr Keith Grimes Founder and Chief Executive Curistica
Panel Chair: Dave Horsfield Chief Executive Primary Care 24
Deb Lowndes Programme Director BrisDoc Healthcare
Lee McGlynn Co-Chief Executive FCMS (NW)
Panellist: Dr Agatha Nortley-Meshe National Primary Care Medical Directorate Lead for UEC NHS England - London
Panellist: Rachel Power Chief Executive Patients’ Association
Sarah Taylor-Howe Associate Commercial Director Cumbria Health Ltd
Matt Widdows Chief Operating Officer East Berkshire Primary Care (EBPC)
BREAKOUT SPEAKERS
Session Facilitator:
Dr Dawood Anwar Chief Executive SPCT
Andrew Brown Chief Executive C-STEM
Timothy Davison Dep. CEO & Director of Operations, Strategy and Transformation
Mastercall Healthcare
Zahra Leggatt Director of People & Organisational Development DHU Healthcare
Darren Parker Senior Account Executive C-STEM
Session Facilitator:
Rich Taunt Founder Kaleidoscope Health
Lee Bryant Health Sector Consultant
Babble Cloud
Session Facilitator: Emma Challans-Rasool Director, NHS Horizons Founder, Proud2bOps
Sam Hollingworth Analytics Engineer
Mastercall Healthcare
Richie McGregor Head of Digital & Performance Cumbria Health
Gemma Smith Head of Business Development Hallam Medical
Simon Wilkinson Healthcare Specialist Zoom/Wavenet
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AGENDA DAY 1
11:00 Registration and Exhibition
12:00 Lunch (Delegates and Sponsors)
13:00 Welcome - Conor Burke, Chief Executive, UHUK
13 13 :10 :40 Keynote: Playing to Win - What Can UHUK Members Learn From Manchester United?
- Sam Seddon, Director, Ormsdale Associates
13 14 :50 :20 Breakout Sessions
1. Delivering Workforce Innovation Through Partnership With DHU - Gemma Smith, Head of Business Development, Hallam Medical and Zahra Leggatt, Director of People & Organisational Development, DHU Healthcare
2. Transforming Access to Care Through a Digital Front Door - Simon Wilkinson, Healthcare Specialist, Zoom/Wavenet
3. The Cumbria Health Story: Smarter Workflows and Intelligent Automation in Primary and Urgent Care
- Richie McGregor, Head of Digital & Performance Cumbria Health with DocuWare
14 14 :30 :50 Breakout Sessions
1. How to Transform Your Patient Experience Without Restructuring Your Practice
- Lee Bryant, Healthcare Consultant, Babble and Andrew Brown, Chief Executive C-STEM
2. Risk Managed, Compliance Secured, Staff Supported: CloudSMART Healthcare in Action
- Darren Parker, Senior Account Executive, C-STEM and Deb Lowndes, Programme and Service Director, BrisDoc Healthcare
3. Mastercall User Experience Technology (UXT) – Analytics and Scaled Efficiencies
- Tim Davison, Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Operations, & Sam Hollingworth, Analytics Engineer, Mastercall Healthcare
15:00 Afternoon Tea and Exhibition 15 16 :50 :35 Members Breakout Sessions
1. Strategy Masterclass - Growing Your Organisation: Identifying Opportunities and Delivering Change - Facilitated by Rich Taunt, Founder, Kaleidoscope Health
2. Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes in Urgent Primary Care
- Facilitated by Dr Dawood Anwar, Chief Executive, SPCT & Medical Director, UHUK
3. Neighbourhood Health Development – Working Together For Impact - Facilitated by Emma Challans-Rasool, NHS Horizons
16:40 Panel Session: How You Drive Impact And Outcomes Through Neighbourhood Health
Chaired by Simon Morioka, Joint Chief Executive, PPL
- Mairead McCormack, Chief Executive, Kent Community Health NHS Trust
- Dr Andrew Catto, Chief Executive, IC24
17:25 Close and Informal Networking in the Bar
19:00 Buffet Dinner
AGENDA DAY 2
08:45 Start and Welcome - Nigel Gazzard, Chair, UHUK
09:00 Karin Smyth MP, Minister of State for Health, MP For Bristol South (via Teams)
09:20 Keynote: Social Enterprise in the New NHS Model: Outsider, Disruptor or Future Blueprint?
- Peter Holbrook CBE, Chief Executive, SEUK
09:50 How can Urgent Care Providers Make a Meaningful Contribution to Neighborhoods?
- Dr Simon Bowers, Chief Medical Officer and Gareth Bartlett, Chief Executive and Founder, Blinx
10:20 Morning Coffee and Exhibition
11:00 Panel Discussion: Building and Delivering the Urgent Care System Patients Deserve
Chaired by Dr Caroline O’Keeffe, Chief Executive (Designate), NHUC
- Matt Edgar, NHSE IUC Digital Lead
- James Freed, NHSE Digital Academy Lead
11:30 Panel DIscussion: Who Really Owns the New NHS Plan Patient Record? Patients, Clinicians or the System?
Chaired by Dr Dawood Anwar, Chief Executive, SPCT & Medical Director, UHUK
- Mo Al-Ubaydli, Chief Executive, Patients Know Best
- Rachel Power, Patients’ Association
- Dr Anne Whitehouse, Medical Director, Badger
12:10 Changing an Engine Mid-Flight
- Adnan Riaz, Product Director – IUC, CLEO Systems
- Lee McGlynn, Co-Chief Exectutive, FCMS (NW)
- Deb Lowndes, Programme and Service Director, BrisDoc Healthcare
12:30 Lunch
13:00 Exhibition
13:40 Business Growth and Neighbourhood Health in Action: A Cumbria Perspective
- Sarah Taylor-Howe, Associate Commercial Director, Cumbria Health Ltd
- Davina Collins, Associate Clinical Director, Cumbria Health Ltd
14:00 Panel Discussion: Bots, Apps and Algorithms: How Will AI Redefine Urgent Care?
Chaired by Tessa Harvey, Chief Executive, LCW UCC
- Hassan Chaudhury, Digital Propositions Lead, Medica
- Keith Grimes, Digital Health and Innovation Consultant, Curistica
14:30 Using Data to Drive Improvement And Productivity
- Matt Widdows, Chief Operating Officer, EBPC
AGENDA DAY 2
14:50 Why Ten Years, Not Two? How We Could Accelerate the 10-year Plan
- Nicole Kayode, VP Product – Health and Care, OneAdvanced
15:10 Tea and exhibition
15:50 Panel Discussion: The Inequality Challenge: How Will Neighbourhood Health Deliver More Equitable Services?
Chaired by Dave Horsfield, Chief Executive, Primary Care 24
- Dr Agatha Nortley-Meshe, Regional Medical Director for Primary Care & National Primary Care Medical Directorate Lead for UEC, NHSE London Region
- Dr Zahid Chauhan OBE, Chief Executive, BARDOC
16:20 Closing Keynote: The NHS plan – Ambition vs Reality
– Daniel Elkeles, Chief Executive, NHS Providers
16:50 Raffle Draw
17:00 Close - Conor Burke, Chief Executive, UHUK
18:45 Pre-Dinner Drinks
19:15 Seats for Dinner & UHUK Awards 2025
Award Sponsors:
Digital Impact (Technological Innovation) Sponsored by Primary Care 24
• Clinical Safety Leadership (Clinical Quality and Safety) Sponsored by CLEO
• Innovation in Action (General Innovation) Sponsored by OneAdvanced
• People First (Workforce) Sponsored by Hallam Medical
• Excellence in Operational Safety (Operational Quality and Safety) Sponsored by C-STEM
Stronger Together (Partnership) Sponsored by Credentially
• Equity in Healthcare (Health Inequalities) Sponsored by Hempsons
• Making a Difference (Social Impact) Sponsored by Babble
• Outstanding Engagement & Involvement (Patient Engagement) Sponsored by AppLocum
Headline VIP Sponsor
Primary Care 24 in partnership with Blinx Healthcare
Together with their partner, Blinx Healthcare, Primary Care 24 is redefining Out of Hours and Urgent Care with PACO – a fully cloud-based, end-to-end Global Health Record (GHR) that goes far beyond a traditional clinical system.
From the first NHS 111 call to consultation, prescribing, and seamless record integration, PACO supports safe, responsive care every step of the way. More than that, it provides the digital backbone for truly integrated working across urgent care teams, primary care, community services, and wider healthcare organisations.
With built-in telephony, intelligent case allocation, mobile consultations, and multidisciplinary collaboration tools, PACO enables joined-up care across agencies, making it easier to deliver coordinated services, exactly when and where patients need them most.
www.blinxhealthcare.com/paco24/
Premium Sponsors
Standard Sponsors & Affiliate Partners
Hempsons
ABOUT US
UHUK is a partnership of urgent and integrated health NHS service providers supporting more than two thirds of the patient population in the UK and Ireland.
Our members provide Out of Hours services and clinical assessments, urgent primary care, NHS 111 and community services.
By building our collective capability and working together, UHUK support the provision of exceptional integrated and urgent primary care and the very best possible health outcomes to more people through social enterprise.
But more than that, UHUK actively shapes NHS policy and leads the local implementation of best practice as a centre for innovation for integrated and urgent primary care.
Executive Directors
Management Team
Non-Executive Directors
Sharon Clfton Communications Advisor
Tonia Culpin Partnerships Director
Sarah Fletcher Business Coordinator
Hazel Harrison Business Manager
Conor Burke Chief Executive
Stephen Bateman NED CEO DHU
Matt Adam NED
Michaela Buck NED CEO Mastercall
Dr Dawood Anwar Medical Director CEO SPCT
Nigel Gazzard Chair
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