NICE Conference 2025 Agenda

8am to 9am

Registration and refreshments

9am to 9:15am

Welcome from the NICE chief executive Dr Sam Roberts

Chair:

  • Richard Vize, journalist and public policy analyst and NICE Conference 2025 chair.

Speaker:

 

Location: Deansgate suite.

9:15am to 10am

Smoothing the pathway to adoption

How does NICE work with partners to balance speedy access to innovation, while also considering significant pressures across the health and care system and the need to reduce health inequalities? How do we smooth the pathway to bring new technologies and solutions to the NHS that meet unmet clinical needs?

Chair:

Speakers:

  • Steve Bates OBE, chief executive officer, BioIndustry Association
  • Louise Knowles, deputy director, innovation accelerator and regulatory science, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
  • Luella Trickett, executive director, medical devices, value and access, Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI)
  • Fiona Bride, director of medicines value and access, NHS England
  • Helen Lovell, deputy director, medicine regulation and prescribing, Department of Health and Social Care.

 

Location: Deansgate suite.

10am to 10:45am

Integrated care for better outcomes 

With services facing unprecedented demand, as well as significant workforce pressures, integration is key to improving health and care outcomes. Explore how this is happening in practice. What are the challenges, risks and opportunities? How is NICE adapting its approach to produce integrated guidance that helps practitioners and commissioners deliver the best care to people and communities.

Chair:

Speakers:

  • Ben Collins, programme director for health and care integration in Hounslow, North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB)
  • Dr Andy Knox, general practitioner (GP) partner, Ash Trees Surgery and associate medical director, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB)
  • Prof Manisha Kumar, chief medical officer, NHS Greater Manchester.

 

Location: Deansgate suite.

10:45am to 11:15am

Refreshments and networking

11:15am to 12:15pm

Driving creative solutions in health technology assessment (HTA)

The number, range and complexity of medicines and health technologies has never been greater. The unprecedented innovation offers major benefits to patients and can also be disruptive to established practices and methods for HTA. Hear how the Health Technology Assessment Innovation Laboratory (HTA Lab) enables NICE to develop creative solutions to complex problems in HTA and how it offers a ‘safe space’ for creating solutions in collaboration with system partners and stakeholders.

Chair:

  • Jeanette Kusel, programme director – methods, research and health economics, NICE.

Speakers:

 

Location: Deansgate suites 2-3.

The role of population health in tackling inequality 

We know that health inequalities arise because of the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age. Does population health have the answers to addressing people’s evolving health and care needs? Making a shift to prevention, what does this really mean?

Chair:

Speakers:

  • Dr Dianne Addei, senior public health advisor National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, NHS England
  • Prof Kevin Fenton, CBE PhD PrFPH FRCP FFSRH (Hon), president of the Faculty of Public Health
  • Dr Louise Edwards, programme director, implementation and insight, NICE.

Location: Deansgate suite 1.

People power: how to listen, learn and engage those with lived experience

How do we effectively engage those most impacted by our decisions? How can we give a voice to the people we need to hear? How do we break down the barriers to public involvement? 

Chair:

Speakers:

  • James Halls, founder and lead director, Open Source Healing Initiative (OSHI)
  • Emma McNally, chief executive officer, Tourettes Action
  • Mark Rasburn, senior public involvement adviser, NICE
  • Lesley Goodburn, head of public involvement and engagement, NICE.

 

Location: Meeting rooms 2-4.

12:15pm to 1:20pm

Lunch and networking in Cloud 23 or Podium restaurant

or

Sponsored fringe panel session with lunch

From data to decisions: the role of real-world evidence in NICE’s medical technology assessment.

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Please note: The full lunch menu will be provided to delegates attending this session, served in the meeting room.

This session is open to all delegates, but the room capacity is limited. Pre-registration is recommended.

1:20pm to 2:20pm

Methods and processes that keep pace with change 

How is NICE ensuring its methods and processes are transparent, reflect societal preferences and accommodate innovation?  How is NICE adapting to the introduction of schemes such as the international recognition procedure?

Chair:

Speakers:

  • Victoria Jordan, director, value and access policy, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
  • Lorna Dunning, associate director – technology appraisals and highly specialised technologies, NICE
  • Chris Sampson, senior principal economist, Office of Health Economics
  • Dr Koonal Shah, associate director – science policy and research, NICE.

 

Location: Deansgate suites 2-3.

Robotics on the rise

Medical robots have been used within healthcare settings for decades. However, thanks to huge advances in technology their capability looks very different today. With an NHS under increased pressure, we ask, are robots part of the solution? How can we harness their power to support treatments, workflow and patient experience?

Chair:

  • Richard Vize, journalist and public policy analyst and NICE Conference 2025 chair.

Speakers:

  • John McGrath, consultant urological surgeon, North Bristol NHS Trust, and chair of the NHSE Steering Committee for Robotically Assisted Surgery (RAS)
  • Dr Anastasia Chalkidou, programme director, guidance delivery – healthtech, NICE
  • Philip Varghese FRCS MS MEd surgical education, consultant colorectal surgeon minimally invasive and robotic colorectal surgery, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

Location: Deansgate suite 1.

Prioritising guidance topics that matter most

What topics are NICE focussing on over the next year and why? How is it ensuring what it delivers is timely, useful, relevant and impactful? A deep dive into how effectively NICE prioritises guidance topics to meet the greatest needs of the health and care system. 

Chair:

Speakers:

  • Dr Kay Nolan, head of prioritisation and surveillance, NICE
  • Bernadette Warren, patient and NICE committee member
  • Aimee Robson, deputy director primary and community care, improvement and development, NHS England.

 

Location: Meeting rooms 2-4.

2:30pm to 3:30pm

A focus on genomics and precision medicine

Genomics and precision medicine has the potential to transform public health. It offers the opportunity to deliver more targeted and cost-effective treatments that can significantly improve patient outcomes. This discussion will explore the advances we have made, and what needs to happen next to realise the potential of this cutting-edge technology.

Chair:

  • Richard Vize, journalist and public policy analyst and NICE Conference 2025 chair.

Speakers:

  • Prof Clare Turnbull, PhD FFPH FRCP FRCPath MPH-Epidemiology, professor of cancer genetics, Institute of Cancer Research London and NHS consultant in clinical cancer genetics (Honorary), Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dr Sarah Byron, programme director – healthtech strategy and development, NICE
  • Kirsty Hoyle, chief executive officer, Metabolic Support UK.

 

Location: Deansgate suites 2-3.

Closing the loop: NICE's role in building a learning healthcare system

Most people agree the concept of a continually learning healthcare system is desirable, but the concept hasn’t really taken off yet. What is NICE’s role in bringing about this step change? How can it lead the way in learning from data and implementation?

Chair:

Speakers:

  • Prof Reecha Sofat, Breckenridge chair in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, University of Liverpool
  • Hilary Fanning, senior responsible officer, data for research and development programme, NHS England
  • Shaun Rowark, associate director – data access and analysis, NICE.

 

Location: Deansgate suite 1.

Improving uptake and adoption

Health and care decisions are made at different levels across the system. Discover how NICE is working with commissioners, practitioners and providers on to improve the uptake and adoption of guidance. Hear how the approach is being used to support the role out of a new generation drugs with the potential to treat large numbers of people. Explore how NICE is contributing to a learning health system, using data and intelligence to understand uptake, barriers and the enablers that drive continuous improvement.

Chair:

Speakers:

  • John Spoors, programme director – commercial, managed access and medicines policy, NICE
  • Marie Burnham, trust chair, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dr John Patterson, GP and clinical adviser, NICE
  • Dr John Byrne, executive medical director, NHS South West London.

 

Location: Meeting rooms 2-4.

3:30pm to 3:50pm

Afternoon break, refreshments and networking 

3:50pm to 4:40pm

Artificial intelligence (AI): the future of healthcare? 

The technological advance continues. As we discover more about AI – the opportunities as well as the challenges start to become clear. We explore its use in clinical settings and in the generation of real-world data. How can AI support the NHS and help get the best care to patients fast. Will it help or hinder our efforts to reduce heath inequalities? What could the future of an AI-reliant service delivery look like?

Chair:

  • Richard Vize, journalist and public policy analyst and NICE Conference 2025 chair.

Speakers:

  • Dr Xiaoxuan Liu, associate professor in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health, University of Birmingham
  • Dr Anastasia Chalkidou, programme director, guidance delivery – healthtech, NICE
  • Dr Pall Jonsson, programme director, data and real-world evidence, NICE
  • Dr Stephen Bush, chief clinical information officer and consultant in emergency medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and regional clinical advisor, NHS England.

Location: Deansgate suite.

4:40pm to 4:50pm

Final closing remarks and reflections on the day 

Speaker:

 

Location: Deansgate suite.

4:50pm to 6pm

Close of conference followed by a networking reception

 

Location: Exhibition area.

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