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Annual leadership and workforce summit 2025: moving from surviving to thriving
Register your interest for 2026 below
Looking back on 2025
The King’s Fund’s Annual leadership and workforce summit 2025 brought together leaders from across the health and care system to explore the changes needed to shift cultures of work from a system of surviving to thriving. We were delighted to welcome a host of influential speakers, including Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive, NHS England, and Dr Navina Evans, Chief Workforce, Training and Education Officer, NHS England.
Conference sessions explored the importance of developing cultures where staff can flourish, underpinned by leadership that is compassionate, inclusive and collaborative, as being crucial both to the mental and physical wellbeing of staff and to the health and care system’s ability to deliver high-quality care. Discussions provided an opportunity to look at what it means to properly transform our workplace to support those who choose to work in health and care, so that staff are not just surviving their day jobs but are truly able to thrive and grow.
The event explored what is needed to ensure people and leaders are better enabled, encouraged in their professional development, and consistently supported to deliver and support the three fundamental shifts in the NHS outlined by the Prime Minister in his speech at The King’s Fund: a move from analogue to digital, from hospitals to communities, and from sickness to prevention.
You can now register your interest for the 2026 event below.
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2025 speakers included
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Amanda Pritchard
Chief Executive, NHS England -
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Dr Navina Evans
Chief Workforce, Training and Education Officer NHS England -
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Professor Kevin Fong
Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals, and professor of public engagement and innovation, University College London -
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Chris Dzikiti
Interim Chief Inspector of Healthcare, Care Quality Commission -
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Nicci Briggs
Deputy Chief Finance Officer, Chief Finance Officer Group, NHS England -
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Oonagh Smyth
Chief Executive Officer, Skills for Care -
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Karen Bonner
Regional Chief Nurse for London, NHS England -
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Iain Hennessey
Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon and Clinical Director of Innovation, Alder Hey Children's Hospital
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2025 programme
Wednesday 19 March 2025 Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Day one
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