Explore the Key Themes Shaping Digital Health in 2025

The sessions at HETT are designed to support you with the real-world challenges of digital transformation. With so much change across the system, it’s a chance to hear what’s working, learn from peers, and take back ideas that could make a difference in your organisation. 

This year’s programme focuses on the critical pressures and priorities facing health and care teams, from workforce and infrastructure to data, safety, and system redesign. Expect honest conversations, shared lessons, and practical examples you can build on. 

Overview of Key Agenda Themes

Workforce & Leadership: Successful digital transformation depends on the people, processes, and business strategies behind it. This theme highlights the leadership and workforce development required to drive meaningful change.  

Automation & Productivity: Empowering the healthcare workforce with automation, upskilling initiatives, and digital productivity tools to enhance service delivery.  

AI & Emerging Technology: Discover how AI, automation, and next-gen technologies are revolutionising healthcare, improving patient outcomes, and increasing system efficiency. Covered across all theatres, with a dedicated AI Spotlight showcasing breakthrough innovations. 

Patient Safety: As digital solutions reshape healthcare, ensuring patient safety remains paramount. Sessions will explore how technology reduces errors, enhances care quality, and strengthens patient outcomes.  

Integrated Care & Connected Data: A data-driven NHS is key to delivering joined-up, person-centred care. This theme examines interoperability, system integration, and cross-sector collaboration to improve patient outcomes.  

Patient Engagement & User-Centred Design: A deep dive into how digital transformation enhances patient experience, with a focus on prevention, personalisation, and accessibility.  

Tackling Health Inequalities & Population Health Management: Leveraging data analytics, AI, and digital tools to address health disparities and enhance population health. This theme will explore risk stratification, remote monitoring, and social determinants of health. 

Cyber Security: With the growing reliance on digital health, cybersecurity is critical. Sessions will focus on data protection, risk management, and safeguarding patient information.  

Efficient Systems & Infrastructure: Optimising health IT, interoperability, and digital infrastructure to enhance scalability, efficiency, and system resilience. Key discussions will include cloud computing, EHR interoperability, and digital twins.  

Remote Monitoring & Personalised Care: Focusing on patient-facing digital tools, prevention strategies, and remote monitoring technologies to enhance self-management and early intervention.  

Primary Care: Examining how telehealth, AI triage, and remote monitoring are transforming patient access, efficiency, and engagement in primary care.  

Social Care: Exploring how digital integration between health and social care enhances care coordination, patient outcomes, and workforce efficiency.  

Mental Health: Sessions will showcase emerging technologies, such as AI-powered therapy, digital mental health tools, and VR are improving access and early intervention.  

Digital Estates: Future-proofing healthcare facilities to support advanced digital infrastructure, IoT adoption, and remote care capabilities. Exploring eco-friendly digital technologies, green supply chains, and strategies to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint. 

Women’s Health: A dedicated focus on women’s health for 2025; addressing personalised care, AI-driven diagnostics, and reproductive health solutions.  

Net-Zero & Sustainability: Exploring eco-friendly digital technologies, green supply chains, and strategies to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint.  

Pharmacy & Personalised Medicine: Explore how digital innovation is transforming pharmacy services and enabling personalised, precision medicine. From e-prescribing and medicines optimisation to pharmacogenomics and real-time patient data, this theme highlights how technology supports safer, more tailored treatments.  

Private Healthcare: The digital transformation of private healthcare offers lessons in agility, innovation, and patient experience. This theme explores how private providers are using digital platforms, virtual care, and advanced diagnostics to meet rising patient expectations. Who should attend: Private healthcare executives, digital directors, and service designers. 

Elective Backlog & Patient Flow: Addressing the elective care backlog and improving patient flow are critical NHS priorities. Sessions will focus on digital scheduling tools, pathway redesign, virtual wards, and real-time capacity management to support operational recovery and efficiency. Where to explore: Integrated Care Forum 

Plan Your Day 

Attending sessions aligned to your area of work is an opportunity to learn directly from your peers to hear what’s worked, what hasn’t and how challenges are being overcome. It’s also a chance to take those insights back to your team and drive real change in your organisation. 

Plan your visit and prioritise the sessions that will help you tackle the pressures you’re facing today and prepare for the opportunities ahead. 

Join us at our upcoming event, HETT Show on 7-8th October at ExCeL London to be part of the conversation. Register your interest below.