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Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, England’s patient safety commissioner (Credit: Photographs by Photographer London)

Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, England’s patient safety commissioner, will speak on day two of Digital Health Rewired 2025 with a keynote address on digitally enabled care in the community.

She will speak on the Patient Engagement and Outcomes Stage at the event, which is taking place at the NEC in Birmingham on 18-19 March 2025

The stage will cover hot topics in digital health such as the NHS App, personalised care, remote monitoring, inclusive service design, virtual wards, patient portals and more.

Synertec, Wolters Kluwer and KPMG are all sponsoring sessions on the Patient Engagement and Outcomes Stage.

Hughes will be joined in her session in the morning of day two of the conference by Jonathan Gregory, national clinical advisor at Macmillan Cancer Support.

The pair will explore how to lead and adapt for digitally enabled care in the community and address digital inclusion across the system.

Before her national role as independent patient champion Hughes was the national guardian for the NHS and medical director at NHS England. She is also a practicing GP.

Other sessions on the stage include a keynote from Rachel Power, chief executive at Patients Association, who will discuss how digital can make putting the patient first a reality.

Also, Amelia Yates, senior change manager – digital planned care at NHS South East, Caroline Knott, clinical safety officer and digital transformation lead at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, and James Rose, director of strategic and industry partnerships at Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley, will present best practice case studies on community patient engagement initiatives.

On day two, Dr Anwar Alhaq, genomics programme director and CogStack co-lead at King’s College Hospital, and Prof Reecha Sofat, chair at  the Professional Record Standards Body, Breckenridge chair of clinical pharmacology at University of Liverpool and associate director at the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre (HDR UK), will lead a session titled ‘Unlocking Precision Medicine: Embracing a new world of personalised care’.

Rewired is the UK’s leading digital health conference, bringing together names from the health sector and digital innovation to share insights, experiences and opportunities.

The theme for 2025 is ‘accelerating the shift from analogue to digital health’ and the event will be packed with insights and inspiration for anyone wanting to learn from the UK’s best digital health speakers and NHS case studies.

The event is free for those in the NHS and public sector. Private sector tickets from: £495 +VAT.

Register now and book your accommodation early to secure the best rates.

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