Shared Care Record Summit to be hosted at Rewired 2026

Digital Health Rewired 2026 will host the Shared Care Record Summit, bringing together NHS leaders, integrated care system (ICS) representatives, suppliers and innovators to discuss the next phase of joined-up care.

The free half-day summit will run from 1pm to 4pm on the Patient Engagement Stage on 25 March at the Birmingham NEC, at a time when the NHS is accelerating efforts to improve interoperability and build on shared care records (SCRs) to support delivery of a single patient record.

The third edition of the Shared Care Record Summit has been curated in partnership with Interweave and the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record team. It is aimed at those working to connect care settings and improve access to patient information across health and care.

The programme will feature national policy perspectives alongside practical, frontline learning. Sessions will include how SCRs are essential for new neighbourhood health services, what success looks like and how it is measured, and an update on the Summit Hackathon, which is focused on progressing the UK International Patient Record.

Lee Rickles, chief information officer, director and senior information risk owner at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Interweave, said that hosting the Summit at Rewired would help extend its national impact.

“Previous Shared Care Record Summits have helped set the agenda for shared care records nationally.

“Bringing this year’s Summit to Digital Health Rewired amplifies its reach and puts shared care firmly at the heart of the UK’s biggest digital health conversation,” Rickles said.

Karl Grundy, managing director of Digital Health, added that SCRs underpin the NHS’s wider ambitions for reform.

“SCRs are foundational to the NHS’s shift towards community-based care, digitisation and prevention.

“The Shared Care Record Summit has a fantastic energy with a focus on practical next steps. It’s great that Rewired attendees can access this platform for national leaders and local systems to share learning and progress,” Grundy said.

Digital Health Rewired 2026 takes place on 24-25 March, with the first four stages of the conference programme now confirmed, covering Digital Transformation, Integrated Care, AI, and Data and Digital.

More than 40 sessions and 80 speakers have been announced, including senior NHS leaders Professor Andy Hardy, chief executive at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Siobhan Harrington, chief executive of University Hospitals Dorset, and Dr Minal Bakhai, director for primary care, community transformation and improvement at NHS England.

National digital leaders Helen Balsdon, national chief nursing information officer, and Alec Price-Forbes, national chief clinical information officer at NHS England, will also speak at the event.

Rewired26 is free to attend for NHS, public sector, charities, research and education organisations, with commercial tickets available. Register here.