Public Services Delivery Scotland / Scottish Government Healthcare Science Annual Event 2026 'Leadership Through Change and Innovation'

Overview

This event is a collaboration between Public Services Delivery Scotland and Scottish Government, providing an eclectic mix of themed sessions hosted online on MS Teams on Tuesday 1 September. We hope this online format presents increased flexibility and accessibility, particularly for our colleagues in remote and rural locations. Regardless of identity or specialism, it is an opportunity to hear about topics of interest to our HCS community and to contribute to it.

Our event is completely free and offers an opportunity to showcase work undertaken in service through our poster competition.

Please see programme tab below for session descriptions.

Poster Competition
This poster competition is open to all levels of practice.

Please prepare a poster on a change or innovation that has been implemented within your service area that has made a positive impact to patient outcomes.

The change or innovation should align to one or more of the following 5 headings within the Service Renewal Framework, and this should be demonstrated within your poster:

• Prevention: Harnessing advanced diagnostics, genomics, and predictive technologies, healthcare scientists will enable earlier identification of risk, shifting the focus from illness to prevention and from treatment to lifelong health.
• People: By generating the data and insights that power personalised medicine, healthcare scientists will help ensure every individual receives care tailored to their specific needs, circumstances, and aspirations.
• Community: Through innovations such as remote monitoring, wearable technologies, and point-of-care diagnostics, scientific services will increasingly move beyond hospitals, strengthening care in communities and closer to people’s homes.
• Population: Healthcare scientists’ expertise in analytics, modelling, and service evaluation will support the design of services that respond to the needs of local populations, advancing equity and ensuring resources deliver the greatest impact.
• Digital: Positioned at the forefront of digital transformation, the scientific profession will accelerate the safe adoption of AI, automation, and new technologies, modernising services and ensuring Scotland meets the evolving expectations of its citizens.

We recommend using Microsoft PowerPoint or Canva to design posters, they should be saved in PDF format and submitted to hcs@nes.scot.nhs.uk by Friday 17 July 2026. This is to enable them to be judged by our panel in advance of the event.

Posters will be displayed in an online gallery, and our top three will be chosen to give 10-minute presentations during our last session on 1 September 2026. We plan to use all submitted posters during our Healthcare Science Week campaign in March 2027.