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KEY THEMES FOR 2026
Join senior leaders shaping and delivering care closer to home, with a focus on how systems are operationalising neighbourhood models, reducing demand on acute services, and improving patient outcomes in practice.
Key focus areas include:
- Redesigning urgent and community care pathways
Embedding urgent community response, 111 integration and admission avoidance models to safely deliver more care at home - Building integrated neighbourhood teams that deliver
Aligning primary care, community services, mental health, social care and VCSE around shared outcomes and population need - Managing long-term conditions and delivering prevention at scale
Using population health management and proactive care models to reduce demand and improve outcomes - Shifting activity out of hospital and into the community
Transforming outpatient models, expanding community diagnostics and delivering care closer to home - Enabling delivery through workforce, funding and system alignment
Addressing capacity constraints, financial frameworks and operational barriers to scaling neighbourhood care