Patient Partnership Week: Making digital innovation work for everyone

Join the Patients Association for a powerful and practical session exploring how digital transformation in healthcare can, and must, work for everyone. With growing momentum behind tech-enabled care, it’s time to ask the big questions: Who is technology designed for? Who gets left behind? And how can we make sure innovation actually delivers for patients?

Chaired by Rachel Power, Chief Executive, this expert panel brings together:

• Ruhel Ahmed, patient advocate
• Tara Donnelly, Founder of Digital Care and a leading voice in digital health strategy,
• Rebecca Brown, Chief Digital Information Officer, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust,

This session unpacks how inclusive design, accessible technology, and genuine patient involvement can bridge the gaps that cause missed medications, duplicated appointments, and the overwhelming burden of navigating care alone.

You'll hear powerful patient stories, alongside evidence for how well-designed digital tools can reduce inequalities, improve outcomes, and transform care co-ordination.  We’ll also dig into the 'how' of making inclusion real: reaching underserved voices, designing with accessibility in mind, offering non-digital alternatives, and embedding patient partnership from start to finish.

If you work in healthcare, policy, tech development, patient advocacy, or if you're simply passionate about building a better, fairer NHS, then this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

About Patient Partnership Week 2025

Patient Partnership Week 2025 is all about the importance of listening to patients and acting on what they say. From rebuilding trust in regulation to breaking down barriers to care and making digital innovation work for everyone, the week brings together leaders, campaigners and people with lived experience to explore how true partnership can drive lasting change. Whether you're shaping policy or navigating care yourself, this is your invitation to be part of a healthcare conversation that puts patients first.

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