Q at NHS ConfedExpo 2025

Wednesday 11 June, 12.00–13.00, Charter 1 

With record waiting lists, staff shortages and outdated facilities, health organisations face the challenge of balancing essential reactive work with ambitions for long-term transformation of our health care systems. We need strategic tools that are flexible, enabling us to mobilise our organisations to support short-term priorities and systemic long-term change. 

This networking session will focus on quality management systems as one such approach to high-quality care for a whole organisation. It is open to anyone interested in leading or developing approaches to high-quality care, including beyond clinical quality and safety. 

Participants will hear how quality management systems can build on what you are already doing to improve the delivery of care, the wellbeing of staff and the experience of patients and service users. Share with peers from across the health care system, including with organisations who have already started. You’ll leave with new insight, tools and your first steps to take in a holistic approach to managing high-quality care. 

Speakers 

• Karon Cormack, Director of Quality – NHS Lanarkshire 
• Matthew Hill, Head of Insight, Evaluation and Research – Q, The Health Foundation 
• Jimmy Parvin, Deputy Director of Strategy and Improvement – Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust 
• Jennifer Winslade, Executive Director of Nursing, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Wednesday 11 June, 13.30–14.15, Charter 3 

This session is aimed at supporting leaders to strategically convene across boundaries and partnerships in their improvement and transformation work, to take practical action. 

Experienced and pioneering leaders across health and care will share their learning and insights on design, mobilisation and implementation for large-scale change. Participants will also have an opportunity to reflect on their own strategies and implementation for improvement, innovation and transformation work at scale. 

Case studies include One Gloucestershire ICB, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, North East North Cumbria ICB, Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, the Q Community and the NHS Confederation. 

Speakers 

• Victoria Binks, Assistant Director, Improvement – NHS Confederation 
• Ilse Bosch, Deputy Director of Policy, NHS Confederation 
• Lucy Cartwright, Improvement Community Programme Manager, One Gloucestershire ICB 
• Jo Cogswell, Executive Director Strategy and Transformation, NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB 
• Anindita Ghosh, Head of Design and Collaboration, The Health Foundation 
• Kathryn Grayling, Deputy Director of People, Culture, Learning and Improvement, North East and North Cumbria ICB 
• Kathryn Hall, Associate Director – Improvement Community, NHS Gloucestershire ICB 
• Dr Clare Morrison, Director of Engagement and Change, Healthcare Improvement Scotland 
• Penny Pereira, Managing Director of Q, The Health Foundation 

Thursday 12 June, 10.00–11.00, Charter 4 

Learning and collaborating with peers is critical to achieving improvements. This session will equip leaders with an understanding of the different modes of peer collaboration that can be used to suit your needs, the impact that can be achieved from each model and the enablers of success. 

There will be the opportunity to tap into the experience of effective networks and the learning from peers in the room. Whether thinking about an existing network you are part of or how you use peer learning in your local system, this session will provide practical learning about how to get the most from peer collaboration. 

Speakers 

• Victoria Binks, Assistant Director – Improvement, NHS Confederation 
• Anindita Ghosh, Head of Design and Collaboration,  The Health Foundation 
• Zarah Mowhabuth, Partnerships and Improvement Manager,  NHS Confederation 
• Penny Pereira, Managing Director of Q,  The Health Foundation 
• Dr Amar Shah, National Clinical Director for Improvement,  NHS England 

Thursday 12 June, 12.00–13.00, Charter 2 

We can only achieve performance goals if staff are actively involved and feel they have agency to act. Yet with morale eroded in recent years we’re often a long way from this. 

Learn strategies to engage staff well to improve performance and productivity. This will be informed by the practical evidence base of organisations that are leading thinking and practice in effective ways to work with people in the health sector to improve care. We build on this together through productive and engaging exercises that you can take back to your organisation. 

This session is supported by the Q Community. Q is led by the Health Foundation. 

Speakers 

• Prof Bob Klaber, Consultant paediatrician & Director of strategy, research & innovation, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 
• Penny Pereira, Managing Director of Q,  The Health Foundation 

Thursday 12 June, 13.30–14.30, Exchange 8–10 

The ten-year health plan has profound implications for how we work within and between organisations and with communities. Success will depend on fresh and effective approaches to change in every organisation and system. 

Join this session to make sense of the local impact of the three shifts, hearing from architects of the plan and experts in system improvement about what’s needed as attention moves to implementation. 

The panel will address key delivery challenges, including sustaining engagement with staff and populations, resourcing and pacing transformation, and fostering effective collaboration. Participants will get practical prompts and resources to help you develop and implement your strategy. 

Speakers 

• Dr Paul Corrigan, Senior Advisor, Department of Health and Social Care 
• Anindita Ghosh, Head of Design and Collaboration,  The Health Foundation 
• Penny Pereira, Managing Director of Q,  The Health Foundation 
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation