How HETT 2025 Will Cover Themes in the 10 Year Plan

Published 4th July 2025, The 10-Year Plan for Health could mark a defining moment for the future of the NHS and care services across the UK. Rooted in integrated care, digital innovation, and prevention-focused long-term population health improvement, it offers a renewed mandate for collaboration between government, health leaders, and the digital health sector.  

Parts of the plan have reaffirmed what many leaders across the system already know: digital transformation is no longer a future goal, we need it as the foundation for delivering better, more equitable care today. 

HETT is a shared space where strategy meets practice and community. From board-level decision-makers to frontline champions, delegates come together to exchange experience, explore practical solutions, and build the partnerships needed to deliver impact at scale. With contributions shaped by those leading change across NHS England, ICSs, trusts, and the wider digital ecosystem, the event reflects both the scale of the challenge and the strength of our collective response. 

As we eagerly await and anticipate the delivery chapter, here’s how we’ll be covering key aspects of the 3 main shifts of 10 Year Plan at HETT 2025:  

From Acute to Community Through Neighbourhood Health and Care Closer to Home:  

Panel: Achieving a Neighbourhood Blended Care Model: The Reality of Shifting Acute to Community 

The announcement and ambition for Neighbourhood Health Centres and a Neighbourhood Health Service is one of the biggest vehicles for change and delivery within the plan. Citing examples of some of the areas already delivering care in this integrated, community model, it is the ambition to replicate and scale the model so everyone can be treated closer to, or at home.  

Our panel will take a look at the reality of this shift, how funding, procurement reform, changes to commissioning structure and the role of General Practice as a key enabler.  

Panel: Are We Getting Integrated Care Service Design Right? Transparency and Accountability for the Delivery of Integrated Care 

The plan promises to deliver radical transparency for patients as part of the return to the core values of the NHS and the improvements in patient outcomes. Integrated care, better collaboration between services and the easier movements of patients and their data through the system is a central feature how the systems will move forward. We’ll be reflecting on how this might be delivered in collaboration with patients and how to truly design services around need and not shoehorning need into rigid, siloed services.  

Panel: Preventing Illness and Promoting Long-Term Health - The Role of Social Care in Bringing Care Closer to Home 

The plan outlines how social care with convene with other teams across the health and care system, in Neighbourhood Care Centres to provide a more cohesive and accessible service to patients with complex needs. Supported by the increased functionality of the NHS App with new services such as My Care and My Carer, individuals will be empowered to manage their care plans, connect to services beyond the NHS, and ensure unpaid carers can communicate effectively with care teams and be heard. 

The plan also puts virtual wards, wearables, and remote monitoring at the heart of delivering care closer to home, reinforcing the role of social care in enabling people to live independently and well for longer. 

That’s why we’re hosting this session at HETT 2025, we’ll explore social care’s integral role in supporting the prevention agenda, how it will align more closely with other parts of the system and use digital tools to ensure care is truly person-centred and proactive.  

Analogue to Digital Through AI, Innovation & Scaling Technology for Efficiency:  

Confronting Barriers to Impactful Innovation  

The 10YP promises a reduction in red tape and bureaucracy to accelerate the adoption and spread of innovations. From great promises about the adoption of AI, reaffirming the role of HINs, the creation of Innovation Zones that include changes to how commissioning and payment models could work for industry partnerships. The plan also introduced the ‘Innovator Passport’ enabling a product or service to be robustly evaluated in one part of the NHS and removing the need for evaluation every time it’s used in a new organisation.  

Our panel will discuss how all of these pieces may come together, alongside the people and organisations who will be a core part of driving innovation across health and care.  

Innovation vs. Implementation: Is Digital Technology Easing Workforce Pressures? 

The 10YP is ambitious in the pursuit of an AI and automation enabled health service and workforce. With plans to expand and deliver more training on digital tools and technologies, how will this enable the 2% per year increase on productivity promised in the plan? A plan to roll out single-sign-on solutions across the NHS is listed as a system efficiency enabler, how will simplifying digital access and design improve the speed at which innovations can create impact? 

This panel will delve into existing examples of success and how we can build on and rapidly expand technology and ways of working that genuinely improve working experience and patient outcomes.  

Unlocking the Power of a Single Patient Record: Driving Safer, Smarter, More Connected Care 

The ambition of creating a Single Patient Record pre-dates the 10YP, but the plan demonstrated how central this plan will be the core delivery of patient care going forward. From the benefits to patients who will have more access and control over their data, to the services and clinicians empowered with the right access to the right information when patients are in consultation or treatment. To the wider, big data impact to better understand and deliver population health management.  

Rethinking NHS Digital Estates Strategy - Leveraging Data & Technology to Drive Efficiencies, Sustainability, and Improve Patient Care 

The 10 Year Plan sets out a future where hospitals focus on advanced, targeted care and shift many services into the community. Innovations like robotics at Guy’s and St Thomas’, personalised medicine trials in Leeds, and precision treatments in Sheffield are improving outcomes and reducing hospital stays. Inspired by global examples such as South Korea’s AI-powered hospitals, the plan promotes adopting automation, AI-assisted diagnostics, remote monitoring, and predictive models to enhance care and efficiency. 

This vision aligns with the HETT 2025 panel on Rethinking NHS Digital Estates Strategy, which will explore how digital transformation can boost operational efficiency, support Net Zero goals, and prepare estates for community-based care. Key to this is learning from international leaders, like Lena Nymo Helli, CEO of Norway Health Tech, who will share insights on how smart hospitals in Norway use technology to optimise estates and improve patient care. Their experience highlights the value of global collaboration and learning in shaping the NHS’s digital estate strategy for the future. 

Digital Disruption: Real-World AI in Primary Care  

AI is prominent within the 10YP as a solution to the admin-heavy and productivity challenges in healthcare. One of the immediate priorities in the next two years is to roll out AI scribes and digital total triage and other productivity tools across all settings We will be showcasing real-world applications of AI in primary care, including ambient documentation, triage tools, and workflow automation from our lineup of experts.  

Moving from Treatment to Prevention Through Life Sciences and Personal Empowerment:  

Linking the UK Research and Life Sciences Data Ecosystem – Closing The Loop On Benefits To Patients 

The plan details many areas in which the rich life sciences and health delivery sectors will become more closely aligned to deliver more innovative and world-leading discoveries and improvements to patients. We’ll discuss how the new Health Data Research Service, alongside Global Institutes for each of the 5 ‘big bets’ could change the way care is delivered. The UK will champion genomics both from birth and increasingly among the adult population to deliver prevention and personalised care at a new scale.  

Changing Mindsets, Changing Outcomes – Creating a Culture of Prevention to Support the Health and Care System 

The NHS 10-Year Plan signals a major shift: moving care out of hospitals and into communities, with prevention at its core. Neighbourhood Health Centres will bring NHS, local authority, and voluntary services together — offering everything from chronic disease support to fracture liaison clinics. With the rise of genomics and personalised data, prevention is evolving, enabling early identification and intervention for those at risk of common diseases through innovations like universal newborn genomic testing and population-level polygenic risk scoring. 

That’s why we’re bringing this conversation to HETT 2025, this session will explore how to operationalise the prevention-first mindset across the system and in public understanding, using community services, digital tools, personalised data, and third sector partnerships to build a more equitable, proactive health and care future for all. 

Beyond the Tick-Box - Confronting the Challenges of Adopting Meaningful Patient and Public Involvement  

It’s clear that the NHS 10-Year Plan puts patient and public empowerment at the heart of its vision for a more responsive, inclusive health and care system. From expanding the capabilities of the NHS App - with new app features like My Choices and My Consult giving people more control over how and where they receive care, to committing to inclusive design by involving patient groups in the development of new technologies, it is clear, the future of healthcare must be co-created with the people it serves.  

As these ambitions take shape, there is a pressing need to explore how meaningful patient and public involvement (PPI) can be embedded throughout the system, ensuring that empowerment is not only promised but genuinely delivered, which is exactly why we are hosting this session at HETT 2025. 

Be part of the conversation. Register to attend HETT 2025.  

A lot is being asked of the workforce to deliver on the policies outlined, strong leadership and collaboration will be integral to the success of making real change. HETT will provide a forum to digest and opportunity to gain the insights, networks, and confidence to move from planning to implementation. 

To see our full line up of expert speakers and a look at everything we are covering please look at the agenda.  

This is your chance to engage directly with peers tackling the same challenges, learn from real-world examples of digital transformation at scale, and connect with experts shaping the future of health and care delivery.  

We will also host discussions on topics notably absent from the plan such as robust cyber security, digital patient safety and more that will critically enable the reality of change.  

Join us to accelerate your local strategy, influence national direction, shaping a digitally empowered NHS, one that’s ready for the next decade and beyond.