24 November 2026 | Hilton London Metropole
WEBINARS
Critical Conversations – The Nursing Leaders Webinar Series
In the lead-up to
Nursing Leaders 2026
this November, our free webinar series creates space for deeper discussion on the leadership challenges shaping health and social care today. Across three focused sessions, senior nurse leaders will explore digital decision-making, system redesign beyond hospital walls, and the realities of leading under pressure and scrutiny. Each webinar tackles the judgement, influence and resilience required of modern nurse leaders, offering practical insight that connects directly to the themes of the November event. These sessions are designed to strengthen leadership capability ahead of Nursing Leaders 2026, where the conversation continues in person with senior decision-makers from across NHS, local authority and independent social care sectors.
WEBINAR PROGRAMME
From Analogue to Digital: The Nurse Leader’s Role in Setting Digital Priorities
Wed 29 April 2026, 12:30pm
How nurse leaders shape and influence digital decisions across the acute, community and social care systems.
Beyond the Hospital Walls: Nurse Leaders Driving the Shift to Community Care
Wed 15 July 2026, 12:30pm
How nurse leaders influence system redesign across boundaries, building coalitions, shifting resource and challenging hospital-centric norms.
Holding the Line: Nurse Leadership in Times of Pressure, Crisis and Scrutiny
Wed 23 September 2026, 12:30pm
How nurse leaders sustain personal and team resilience under pressure. Concrete actions to strengthen assurance, rebuild trust and maintain safe, compassionate care.
From Analogue to Digital: The Nurse Leader’s Role in Setting Digital Priorities
29 April 2026, 12:30pm
How nurse leaders shape and influence digital decisions across the acute, community and social care systems.
Digital transformation in healthcare does not begin with technology, begins with leadership judgement. As operational, clinical and workforce pressures grow, many challenges are increasingly framed as digital opportunities. The critical task for nurse leaders is to determine where digital approaches will add genuine value, and where other forms of change may be more appropriate.
This webinar explores how nurses move from being users of digital systems to decision-makers who shape digital priorities at organisational and system level. Before implementation begins, leaders must assess clinical need, workflow impact, risk, organisational readiness and workforce capacity.
Key discussion points include:
- How to evaluate digital proposals against clinical need and service reality
- Balancing innovation with safety, capacity and organisational readiness
- Building the confidence and skills required to lead digital decision-making
Who should attend: Nurse leaders, digital health partners and system leaders who are involved in evaluating, prioritising and governing digital change, and who want to strengthen the role of nursing leadership in shaping those decisions.
Speakers include:
Clair Lunt, DHSc, RN, Chief Nursing Information Officer, Senior Director Nursing Informatics, Digital and Technology Partners Department, Mount Sinai Health System, New York
Caroline Hewitson, Senior Digital Clinical Implementer (Nurse) - Digital Services,
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Beyond the Hospital Walls: Nurse Leaders Driving the Shift to Community Care
15 July 2026, 12:30pm
As care moves closer to home, the shift is not just operational — it is political, financial and relational. Moving activity out of hospital settings requires influence across boards, commissioners, local authorities and community partners. It requires nurse leaders to navigate power, negotiate trade-offs and secure alignment beyond their own organisations.
This webinar focuses on how nurse leaders influence system redesign across boundaries. The discussion will explore how leaders build coalitions, shift resource, challenge hospital-centric norms and sustain momentum when structural and cultural barriers resist change.
Key discussion points include:
- Influencing resource allocation and strategic priorities across systems
- Navigating partnership with local authorities, ICBs and voluntary sectors
- Challenging entrenched hospital-centric models
Who should attend:
Nurse leaders across acute and community settings, system and place leaders, policy influencers and partners supporting place-based care.
Holding the Line: Nurse Leadership in Times of Pressure, Crisis and Scrutiny
23 September 2026, 12:30
Senior nurse leaders are often at the forefront when organisations face serious quality failures, regulatory action or public inquiry. These moments test judgement, credibility and resilience in ways that routine operational pressure does not.
Drawing on concluded cases, speakers will share practical lessons from leading through scrutiny, including the leadership behaviours that made a difference, how they sustained personal and team resilience under pressure, and the concrete actions that helped strengthen assurance, rebuild trust and maintain safe, compassionate care.
Key discussion points include:
- The leadership behaviours that sustain trust and credibility during external scrutiny
- Maintaining personal resilience and supporting teams under sustained pressure
- Practical actions to strengthen governance, restore confidence and improve patient safety
Who should attend:
Senior and emerging nurse leaders, heads of nursing, matrons and system leaders accountable for quality, safety and governance, including those responsible for preventing failures and leading organisations through regulatory scrutiny or public inquiry