Driving real change across health and social care

Nursing Leaders 2026 is more than an event; it’s a turning point for the profession. In one day, you’ll connect with senior nurse leaders, policy-makers and innovators shaping the future of health and social care across NHS, local authority and independent settings.

This is the event where action, insight and influence converge, and where the next chapter of nursing leadership begins.

Attend Nursing Leaders 2026 to:

Gain insight into how you can help lead major system shifts

Gain insight into how you can help lead the major shifts transforming health and care, including the move from hospital to community, from sickness to prevention, and from analogue to digital.

Strengthen your leadership influence across the system

See how nurse leaders are shaping strategy and service transformation across acute, community and social care, and how you can increase your own influence.

Champion person-centred care in a changing system

Explore how you can ensure services remain person-centred as new care models, technologies and workforce pressures reshape how care is delivered.

Stay ahead of digital, AI and emerging technologies

Understand how AI, virtual wards, telemedicine, data and digital tools are transforming patient care and clinical decision-making.

Take away ideas you can apply in your organisation

Learn from real examples of service transformation and leave with practical ideas you can apply to improve care and workforce experience.

Build partnerships that help you deliver change

Connect with leaders across the NHS, social care, policy and industry to share ideas, tackle challenges and collaborate on solutions.

This event brings together the most forward-thinking leaders across nursing, and I’m excited to be part of a forum that challenges us, inspires us, and helps shape the future of our profession

Colin Quick Chief Quality Officer and Honorary Senior Lecturer University of Greater Manchester

It been a great day, we covered a lot of breadth. What we have done really well is talk on the policy all the way to the practice with exciting case studies, helping to keep it grounded in practice.

Natasha Philips Founder Future Nurse

It enables us to get incredibly close to frontline users and understand their challenges

Justine Abson Head of Marketing Radar Healthcare

This is a great opportunity to connect to nursing leadership. It is a key stakeholder group for us.

Aditya Koirala Customer Success Manager Tendable

The conversations we have had have been fantastic, people are interested in a whole range of opportunities for us.

John Shaw Market and Business Development Director TRIVIAM Digital Care

It has been key to be here, we need to get the nurses on board. We have done many demonstrations and had a lot of interest. It has also been fun and the nurses have been excited and enthusiastic.

Mats Lindegren AS Director, Sales and Support EMEA Sonitor Technologies

Who attends

Venue and Event Timings

Nursing Leaders conference and exhibition will commence from 9am and conclude at 5pm.

In the evening we will have the Nursing Times Workforce Awards , where we will celebrate the industry's achievements. It will commence from 7pm with carriages and event close at 1am.

The address of the venue is:

Hilton London Metropole
225 Edgware Road
London
W2 1JU

Hilton London Metropole is located in the heart of London near the West End, just a 10-minute walk from Oxford Street and 15 minutes from Heathrow Airport. The venue is outside London’s Congestion Charge zone and has a secure car park with 183 spaces.

By Car:

The Hilton London Metropole is located to the North on the corner of Edgware Road and Harrow Road. The hotel is approximately half a mile north of Marble Arch, Oxford Street and Hyde Park and next to the A40(M), with easy access to M40, M1 and M25. The Heathrow Express terminates at Paddington Station, which is just 2 minutes by taxi from the hotel.

By Underground:

The nearest underground station is Edgware Road (Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Bakerloo lines), directly opposite the hotel.