Made in the North: The Improvement & Digital Innovation Conference is a senior NHS leadership event hosted by Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Meet Health Events. The conference will bring together NHS leaders from across the North West to explore improvement, transformation and digital innovation across healthcare systems.

The programme features keynote speakers, leadership discussions and networking sessions focused on operational resilience, frontline-led improvement, community-centred transformation and digital innovation to enhance patient and staff experience.

Lancaster University
July 9th, 2026

Themes include:

• The fall of top-down thinking; how improvement becomes the operating model, with frontline teams empowered to improve every day

• Navigating the uncertainty paradox and exploring how improvement can help organisations respond to continued operational and cultural uncertainty

• Delivering improvement through neighbourhood working and moving beyond organisational boundaries to enable local teams, partners and communities to co-create services that are more responsive, preventative and connected.

• Rewriting the rules to release time to care; examining how digital innovation and partnership working can radically transform the experience of colleagues and patients