About the Birmingham Conference

Primary Healthcare Conference

Real practice. Fresh thinking.

Designed for today’s primary care professionals, Best Practice Birmingham delivers high-quality, accredited CPD education across key clinical and operational topics.

Through expert-led sessions and real-world case studies, discover practical strategies to improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency, and stay ahead of the latest clinical and operational developments.

As primary care continues to evolve, staying informed has never been more important. Best Practice Birmingham offers a platform to explore new models of care, digital transformation, and system-wide collaboration - helping you navigate change and deliver better services for your patients.
 
  • 120+ conference sessions
  • 8 dedicated content theatres
  • Up to 12 CPD points available
  • Session recordings available after the show for attendees
  • Additional focus on respiratory health at the co-located Respiratory Professional Care conference

 

 

Programme insight

Key themes and topics

Clinical confidence

  • Women’s health: what changes in practice
  • Cardiometabolic risk and prescribing safety
  • ADHD and neurodiversity under demand
  • Multimorbidity and polypharmacy
  • Diabetes, obesity and metabolic health

Access and demand

  • Fixing access when capacity is fixed
  • Managing same-day demand safely
  • Redesigning pathways instead of adding appointments
  • Primary-secondary care interface challenges
  • Mental health pathway reform

Neighbourhoods and workforce

  • Retention, recruitment and workforce sustainability
  • Building effective multidisciplinary teams in primary care
  • Neighbourhood delivery in action
  • Real-world case studies

Governance and risk

  • CQC: what matters now?
  • Managing diagnostic uncertainty
  • Inspection and compliance confidence
  • Population risk management
  • Safe adoption of digital tools and AI
Theatre synopses

Conference theatres

Neighbourhood Delivery

Neighbourhood Delivery

Practical lessons from neighbourhood care, workforce redesign and integrated primary care delivery.

Clinical 1

Clinical 1

Interactive case-based learning focused on complex patients, clinical uncertainty and safer decision-making.

Clinical 2

Clinical 2

Updates on women's health, cardiometabolic risk, asthma/COPD and ADHD; plus updates from NICE, referral clarity, and practical prescribing.

Clinical Skills

Clinical Skills

Practical, case-based learning focused on recognising risk, managing uncertainty and making confident clinical decisions.

Workshop: Live

Workshop: Live

Roll up your sleeves and explore practical frameworks, live discussion and actionable solutions for everyday primary care challenges.

PMA Theatre

PMA Theatre

Covering operational aspects such as workforce, compliance, finance and operational resilience.

Business Services Hub

Business Services Hub

Sessions focused on optimisation tools, efficiency platforms and solutions for common practice issues.

Smart Practice

Smart Practice

All things digital transformation, including safe implementation, AI workflows, measuring operational impact, and reducing risk.

Respiratory Health

Respiratory Health

Co-located with Best Practice Birmingham, providing two additional conference theatres - read more
Moments from our Events

Conference highlights

Your questions answered

Frequently asked questions

01

The Best Practice Birmingham conference programme is designed for the entire primary care team, including:

- GP partners, salaried GPs, and locum GPs
- Practice nurses and advanced nurse practitioners
- Practice pharmacists and clinical pharmacists
- Practice, finance, and operations managers/directors
- Clinical directors and PCN leaders
- ARRS roles and allied health professionals
- Healthcare professionals working across Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), and NHS organisations

The programme combines clinical education, operational insights, leadership development, and policy updates to support professionals across all areas of primary care.

Visit our how to attend Best Practice Birmingham page for more information.

02

Delegates can earn up to 12 accredited CPD points across the two-day conference by attending educational sessions.

The number of CPD points you receive will depend on the sessions you attend and your recorded participation throughout the event.

03

The entire Best Practice Birmingham & Respiratory Professional Care conference programme is CPD accredited, and delegates attending sessions can earn CPD certification.

Where sessions are supported by industry partners, this will be clearly identified within the programme. Delegates should ensure their badge is scanned when entering conference theatres to ensure CPD attendance is recorded correctly.

04

No. Conference sessions are available to delegates on a first-come, first-served basis and do not require advance booking.

You can explore the programme before the event and create your own personalised agenda using the official event app.

05

All UK-registered healthcare professional delegates (identifiable by having ‘HCP’ on your badge) have access to all sessions in all conference and workshop theatres.

Non-healthcare professional delegates (identifiable by having ‘Non-HCP’ on your badge) have access to all non-pharmaceutical sponsored sessions across all conference and workshop theatres.

Sessions sponsored by pharmaceutical companies will be clearly marked on the online programme and at the entrance to theatres, and anyone with a ‘Non-HCP’ delegate badge will not be allowed into pharma-sponsored sessions.

With a wide range of clinical, operational, leadership, and policy-focused content available, you can tailor your conference experience to suit your role and learning objectives.

06

The conference programme covers a broad range of issues affecting primary care today, including:

- Clinical confidence and evidence-based practice
- Cardiometabolic health and prescribing safety
- Diabetes, obesity and metabolic health
- Multimorbidity and polypharmacy
- ADHD and neurodiversity
- Access and demand management
- Workforce sustainability and recruitment
- Neighbourhood healthcare delivery
- Governance, compliance and risk management
- Digital transformation and artificial intelligence
- Respiratory health through the co-located Respiratory Health conference

The programme is designed to deliver practical, implementation-focused learning that can be applied directly within primary care settings.

Keep an eye on the website to see when the programme for the upcoming edition of Best Practice Birmingham is launched, as well as programme updates in the lead up to the event.

07

Where speakers have granted permission, presentation materials will be made available to all delegates who attended, a few weeks after the event.

As availability varies by speaker and session, delegates should not assume that all presentations will be shared. All post-event resources will be communicated directly to confirmed attendees.

08

Yes. Best Practice Birmingham & Respiratory Professional Care has an official event app designed to help you make the most of your visit. Using the app, you can:

- Browse the full conference programme
- Bookmark sessions
- Plan your personalised agenda
- Explore exhibitors and products
- Connect with speakers, exhibitors, and fellow attendees
- Arrange meetings before and during the event
- Receive reminders about sessions and appointments

Registered delegates will receive access details by email before the event – check out our event app page for more information.

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