16 – 18 March 2026
London
techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD
The event is shown as fully booked while the NHS team reviews attendance. If you'd like to attend, please join the waiting list to register your interest. Confirmations will be sent from Tuesday 3 March. To be added to the waitlist:
The Single Patient Record (SPR) represents an exciting opportunity to transform NHS care delivery. As a key enabler of the NHS 10 Year Plan, the SPR will fundamentally improve patient and clinical experience, while enhancing the efficiency, quality, and safety of care across England.
This programme requires genuine collaboration across the whole health ecosystem, building end-to-end services on top of a flexible digital infrastructure. As part of this approach, NHS England wishes to shape the SPR openly with suppliers.
NHS England instigated its programme of market engagement with high level supplier briefings, outlining the vision for the SPR, progress to date, and our emerging approach to commercial strategy (please access the session recording here)
In the next phase of engagement, the SPR team will be running a series of in person roundtables that reflect the principles of early, open, and constructive dialogue with the market. These sessions will help test and refine our thinking across several key themes, enabling suppliers to input into major programme artefacts including the commercial strategy, technical options appraisal, and the approach to Service Transformation Areas (STAs).
The SPR team wants sessions to be open discussions and are planning the day to include break-out sessions around key topics.
Registration and participation
The SPR team is hosting two in-person roundtable days at techUK's offices on 16 and 18 March. Each day will comprise two sessions: the morning session will focus on transforming services from STA design to delivery, while the afternoon will address laying the foundations to design the technical end state. Attendees may register for one or both sessions within a day.
Due to anticipated high interest, places are limited to one representative per company per session; though suppliers may send different representatives to the morning and afternoon. As the discussions require specialist capability and relevant experience, we ask that suppliers register interest only if they meet at least one of the criteria below.
Event description: day’s schedule
Roundtable 1 - Transforming services: from STA design to delivery (11:00 – 13:00)
This session will explore how the SPR will drive genuine service transformation via STAs - from service design through to supplier selection and delivery. STAs are groupings of potential future use cases by either a clinical pathway, care setting, support function or other services where we believe the SPR will enable transformation and deliver benefits. Suppliers will be invited to challenge assumptions, share insights, and inform a practical way forward. Topics will include: lessons learnt from national-level digital transformation, aligning to adjacent national programmes, engagement with national and regional teams, delivery considerations, service commissioning.
Roundtable 1 selection criteria, please register if you:
Experience in national digital transformation, ideally in the NHS or analogous environments
Experience in staff and patient engagement
Roundtable 2 - Laying the foundations: designing the technical end state (14:00 – 16:00)
Delivering a robust technical end state will require collaboration, iteration, and shared understanding. This session will present the core technical considerations underpinning the SPR infrastructure and services, creating space for discussion to help shape a scalable and sustainable foundation. Topics will include: data storage models, event-driven architecture, data harmonisation, integration strategy, cybersecurity, service commissioning.
Roundtable 2 selection criteria:
National-scale data platform providers with experience of running operational data stores and event-driven architecture
Integration specialists with experience in FHIR, messaging and event processing
Experience in cyber-risk, identity and secure data flows across distributed systems at a national scale
Source-system vendors who provide core clinical and operational systems to the NHS - including systems which hold primary clinical data and are expected to integrate with future SPR services
To meet the expected demand of suppliers we are hosting two round tables per theme each day. When registering to a round table theme you will be invited to choose either a morning or afternoon time.
All registrations are automatically directed to the waiting list to ensure tickets are allocated fairly.
You will receive the registration confirmation starting from the 3 March. Please hold the time in your calendar while we review registrations and attendance.
Robert Walker
Head of Health & Social Care, techUK
Robert Walker
Head of Health & Social Care, techUK
Robert joined techUK in October 2022, where he is now Programme Manager for Health and Social Care.
Robert previously worked at the Pension Protection Fund, within the policy and public affairs team. Prior to this, he worked at the Scottish Parliament, advising politicians and industry stakeholders on a wide range of issues, including rural crime and health policies.
Robert has a degree in Politics and International Relations (MA Hons) from the University of Aberdeen, with a particular focus on strategic studies and energy security. Outside of work he enjoys activities such as running, rugby, boxing and cooking!
Rachel joined techUK in December 2024, as a Programme Manager in the Health and Social Care team.
Prior to this, Rachel worked at a specialist health and social care public affairs agency, working with a range of organisations and trade bodies across the medical technology, pharmaceutical, digital health and social care sectors. As well as this, Rachel was part of the Secretariat for a number of health and care related All-Party Parliamentary Groups.
Rachel has a Masters in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Leeds, as well as a first-class honours in Politics BA from Newcastle University.
Lewis Stewart
Programme Manager ‑ Health and Social Care, techUK
Lewis Stewart
Programme Manager ‑ Health and Social Care, techUK
Lewis brings a multidisciplinary background spanning health policy, stakeholder engagement, digital innovation, and elite sport. A former Commonwealth Games champion, he draws on the resilience, adaptability, and team-driven mindset gained through years of high-performance competition.
Before joining techUK, Lewis supported a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, where he led on constituency engagement and produced evidence-based research to inform debates, committee work, and policy advocacy. He has also helped shape youth wellbeing policy through the Youth Sport Trust, collaborating with government, education, and grassroots networks to drive impact.
Lewis has played key roles in health tech and mobility startups, helping to bring innovative solutions to market and improve user experience in complex systems. With a degree in Biochemistry and Pharmacology, he combines analytical thinking with a passion for evidence-led, people-centred change.
Junior Programme Manager, Health and Care Team, techUK
Viola Pastorino
Junior Programme Manager, Health and Care Team, techUK
Viola Pastorino is a policy, governance, and strategic communication specialist.
She joined techUK as the Junior Programme Manager in the Health and Care Team in April 2024.
She has obtained a Bachelor of Sciences in Governance, Economics, and Development from Leiden University, and a Master's programme in Strategic Communications at King's College London. Her academic background, leading up to a dissertation on AI policy influence and hands-on campaign development, is complemented by practical experience in international PR and grassroots project management.
She is skilled in qualitative and quantitative analysis and comfortable communicating findings to varying stakeholders. Above all, she is deeply passionate about the intersection of technology and government, especially how technology and global discourse shape one another, the processes that lead to belief polarisation and radicalisation of communities, and crafting strategic narratives that steer public discourse.
Outside of work she loves reading, live music light operation, and diving.
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