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Uniting cancer leaders, innovators, and frontline teams to deliver earlier diagnosis, personalised treatment, and system-wide transformation 

Now in its 8th year, the HSJ Cancer Forum is the premier annual gathering for senior NHS cancer leaders, system partners, and innovators. 

It’s where the sector comes together to collaborate on boosting system capacity, improving patient outcomes, and delivering high-quality, equitable cancer services nationwide.

This year’s forum takes place against the backdrop of the new NHS 10-Year Health Plan, the forthcoming Cancer Strategy, and an evolving workforce plan. Discussions will focus on turning national ambitions into real-world impact across prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and personalised care.

The 2025 programme will explore how cancer pathways can be redesigned in line with the NHS’s three major shifts: 

  • Hospital to community – delivering more care closer to home
  • Analogue to digital – using technology and data to personalise care and improve efficiency
  • Treatment to prevention – embedding proactive, risk-based interventions across the system

These core themes will be grounded in sessions on workforce, innovation, policy, and commissioning to provide a complete whole-system perspective. 

New for 2026 – The Cancer Forum will run alongside:

  • Modernising Diagnostics Forum – unlocking earlier diagnosis and operational efficiency
  • New Genomics Track – harnessing genomics to personalise prevention and treatment

This co-location will create crossover audiences, broaden networking opportunities, and bring fresh voices and expertise into the cancer conversation - accelerating the scale and spread of best practice.

 Secure your place today and be part of shaping the future of cancer care. 

 

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Why attend

  • Exclusive peer networking – all attendees after invitation-only
  • 1 full day of high-level content, debate and discussions
  • Exposure to innovation, best practice case studies, thought leadership, and diverse perspectives
  • Effective collaboration through interactive discussion groups
  • No obligatory one-on-one business meetings
  • Your attendance is fully funded by HSJ, with no cost to NHS delegates  

 

2025 Highlights

Key Themes

With a commitment to action and practical implementation, helping to share successes and learnings across the country, the HSJ Cancer Forum is a crucial event in your calendar to discuss with national leaders, front-line clinicians and patients themselves: 

  • Building capacity both locally and across the system. How can this be achieved in practice? 
  • Streamlining pathways to drive performance, outcomes and the patient experience
  • Optimising the effectiveness of MDT working 
  • Innovation Showcase will feature ground-breaking innovations that promise to transform diagnosis, care, treatment and operational efficiency
  • Exciting new content around cancer commissioning and palliative care

  • A commitment to action and practical implementation, helping to share successes and learnings across the country – hearing from patients, national leaders and front-line clinicians.

     

What our delegates say

What our delegates say

" Covered the whole spectrum of cancer service provision from pre-diagnosis to living with cancer and beyond.... "
Programme Director - Cancer Strategy
Mid & South Essex Foundation Trust
" Excellent day, time well spent. "
Diagnostics Programme Director
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
" It was all so good! Excellent presentations, an inspiring day, great for networking and really nice food, I felt appreciated! "
Deputy Director, Nursing
Mid & South Essex Foundation Trust
" A really informative and interactive day. "
Patient Portal Manager
Kent & Medway Cancer Alliance
" A great showcase of what is happening across the country. "
AHSN
North East & North Cumbria
" Really informative, great presenters and all very well organised. "
Commissioning Manager
Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB

To find out more

Partnership opportunities:  Sponsorship Sales team
Delegate enquiries: Delegate Sales team