Why attend

The 2024 Nursing Times Workforce Summit will attract over 250 attendees from across NHS, acute, community, mental health and independent healthcare providers. Delegates join us at the summit to build their network, share challenges with their peers and to be empowered to support their workforce through highly interactive sessions.

In addition, there is an Online companion, which took place on 15 November 2023, you can register to view content on-demand.

Key reasons to attend the 2024 event include:


Senior leaders

Hear from some of the country’s most senior nursing and midwifery leaders so you can better understand and plan how to address workforce challenges in your organisation.

Award-winning work

Learn more from our award winners and be inspired to implement similar initiatives.

More discussion and debate

Benefit from thought-provoking discussion panels with advice and guidance that can better support your workforce planning and management

Your choice of content

The physical event will feature streams that you can choose from focused on recruitment and retention and workforce development. The perfect reason to bring a team with you to benefit from all the content on offer.

Your choice of event

We’ve embraced virtual and we want to offer the best of both. So now you can choose between the physical which will include the virtual companion event or a virtual only option that will include highlights from the physical and exclusive new content.

Key features

The Nursing Times Workforce Summit is exclusively tailored to address the needs of nursing managers and workforce leaders, providing a unique platform for dialogue, collaboration and transformative impact in the nursing profession.

Embrace this opportunity to gain valuable insights from seasoned experts, collaborate with industry peers and find solutions to the workforce challenges that matter most to your organisation.

Engage in dynamic interactive workshops specifically designed to facilitate knowledge exchange and idea generation. Collaborate with experts and peers to explore various workforce priorities, such as:


Interactive round tables/ideas exchange workshops

Each session will feature

  • An introduction panel to the topics
  • Workshop
  • Feedback panel

This is a great opportunity to offer insight into your own initiatives and challenges, while learning from expert facilitators.


Keynote session panel

  • Enhancing public perception of the nursing profession
  • Ensuring safe staffing: A crucial step towards quality care


Book Launch

Meet the Authors

(Meet the authors at lunch time in the exhibition area.)

Professor Gemma Stacey, deputy chief executive officer, Florence Nightingale Foundation

Professor Natasha Phillips, founder of Future Nurse, School of Health & Society, University of Salford, Manchester

Dawn Dowding, Professor in Clinical Decision Making, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester

 

Book Title: Digital Technology and Data for Nursing Practice

This book will enable nurses and midwives to maximise the opportunities that digital transformation presents for the progression of practice. It will also support readers to navigate the challenges associated with engaging with large scale, system wide change which will impact on every nurse and midwife, across all sectors, setting and specialities.


Programme panel discussion

Unpacking the NHS long term workforce plan.

Key topics

Education and preceptorship: Optimise your organisations education and preceptorship programmes to nurture the next generation of nursing professionals

Recruitment (Domestic and International) Discover successful recruitment strategies to attract and retain diverse nursing talent, both domestically and internationally

Retention – Wellbeing, CPD and EDI: Develop comprehensive retention plans that prioritise staff wellbeing, continuous professional development and embrace equality, diversity and inclusion

Featured speakers 2023

Prof Jane Ball

Professor of Nursing Workforce and Policy Speakers

School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton

Juliette Cosgrove

Chief Nurse and Director of Clinical Governance Virtual Event Speakers

NHS Professionals

Nonny Nze

Director Speakers

IELTS Medical LTD

Dr. Natasha Philips

Chief Nursing Information Officer

NHSE

Lisa Plotkin

Head of Policy and Influence Speakers

Florence Nightingale Foundation

Patricia Ezechie

Career, Resilience and Wellbeing Expert Speakers

Patricia Ezechie Coaching and Consultancy

Dr Ruth Oshikanlu

QN Chief Executive Officer Speakers

Goal Mind Limited

Emily Browne

Head of Education and Training

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity

Stuart Tuckwood

National Officer for Nursing

UNISON

Prof. Gemma Stacey

Deputy Chief Executive Officer - Director of FNF policy unit

Florence Nightingale Foundation

Jess Sainsbury

Head of Nursing and Midwifery Engagement Virtual Event Speakers

Florence Nightingale Foundation

Professor Dawn Dowding

Professor in Clinical Decision Making Speakers

School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester

Sreekanthan Gobalakrishna

Chairman & Managing Director

Ebek Language Laboratories

Reasons to attend

Speakers

Hear from some of the country’s most senior nursing and midwifery leaders so you can better understand and plan how to address workforce challenges in your organisation

Award-winning work

learn more from our award winners and be inspired to implement similar initiatives.

More discussion and debate 

benefit from thought-provoking discussion panels with advice and guidance that can better support your workforce planning and management

Your choice of content 

the physical event will feature streams that you can choose from focused on recruitment and retention and workforce development. The perfect reason to bring a team with you to benefit from all the content on offer

Your choice of event

we’ve embraced virtual and we want to offer the best of both. So now you can choose between the physical which will include the virtual companion event or a virtual only option that will include highlights from the physical and exclusive new content.

Who attends?

Need some assistance?

Entry / Booking enquiries
Colin Ennis
+44 (0)20 3953 2627

Sponsorship enquiries
Giorgia Raso
+44 (0)20 3953 2118

Event enquiries
Melissa Lawrence
+44 (0)203 953 2905