Event
AI in the NHS: From 10 Year Vision to Delivering Tangible Results
Date & Time
Friday, March 6, 2026
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Location:
AI is no longer a future concept in healthcare. Across the NHS, it’s already being used to improve operational flow, free up staff time, and remove friction from services — often without fanfare.
This event is the next iteration in SCC’s AI in Healthcare series.
Where our previous events focused on what AI could do, this one moves the conversation forward — into what’s already happening in practice, and what NHS leaders can realistically learn from it.
What this event is about
This is a show, don’t tell session. Instead of asking “what could AI do?”, we focus on:
- What’s already live
- What’s delivering value
- What’s scalable
- What didn’t work – and why
Many Trusts have now set out what they want to achieve with AI. But what comes after the strategy document?
You’ll hear directly from NHS leaders who are already delivering AI initiatives aligned to the NHS 10-Year Plan — sharing honest lessons from the frontline of implementation.
Why now?
The NHS 10-Year Plan set out three major shifts:
- Analogue → Digital
- Hospital → Community
- Sickness → Prevention
Technology, and AI in particular, is a critical enabler of those shifts. But strategy alone won’t deliver productivity, efficiency, safety, flow, and patient choice.
This event focuses on how AI is already helping NHS organisations:
- Improve operational flow
- Support clinical innovation and digital medicine
- Reduce administrative burden
Speakers:
Dr Charlotte Refsum | Director of Health Policy | TBI
“Why the delivery of the NHS 10-Year Plan matters”
A clear view on why execution is now the defining challenge.
Dr Charlotte Refsum is a trained physician and expert in health policy. Her work focuses on harnessing the power of AI and other technology to drive prevention, create sustainable health systems and achieve health for all.
Working alongside Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir John Bell, her thought leadership contributes significantly to policy discussions of social-care policy, biotechnology and health care in the AI era.
Over the course of her career, Charlotte has worked in 25 countries to support the transformation of health systems globally.
Peter Thomas | Director of Digital Medicine and CCIO | Moorfields Hospital
“Delivering clinical innovation and digital medicine using AI”
A practical look at how AI is being applied to support real clinical innovation today.
Peter Thomas is the Chief Clinical Information Officer and Director of Digital Medicine at Moorfields Eye Hospitals. His primary interest is in digital transformation of clinical care, and creation of a hospital environment that can embed and sustain technologically enabled and automated services. To achieve this, he has recently founded the UK’s first Department of Digital Medicine. In 2022 he was named as “CCIO of the year” in the annual Digital Health Awards. By clinical training he is a paediatric ophthalmologist.
He is national clinical lead for transformation in the National Eyecare Recovery and Transformation Programme and sits on the NHSE Remote Monitoring Board. Prior to medicine Peter undertook his PhD in computational neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and spent time working in research and development at IBM.
Pip Hodgson | Digital Pioneer, Health Tech Strategist, Clinical Safety Officer
Pip is an experienced digital leader with a track record of delivering large-scale programmes across public and private sectors. As Product Director for the NHS Covid Pass, Pip successfully led one of the UK’s most high-profile digital initiatives. She combines strategic vision with user-centred design to create products that drive adoption and sustainable behaviour change. With extensive experience at C-suite and ministerial level, Pip is a confident communicator and an inspiring leader.
Gui Tran | Consultant Rheumatologist; Outpatient Network Lead at West Yorkshire, Humber and N. Yorkshire; Innovation Lead at Harrogate Hospital.
Gui is a Consultant Rheumatologist and Innovation Lead at Harrogate Hospital, and the Outpatient Network Lead for West Yorkshire, Humber and North Yorkshire.
He specialises in operationalising and scaling innovations, including AI, into clinical healthcare systems to improve outcomes and experience for patients and staff.