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Why Attend?
National guidance explained, evidence from other Boards, and the disciplines you rarely get in a room with — all in one day, in Glasgow, on Tuesday 18 May 2027.
Six reasons this day is worth your time
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National guidance in practice, explained by the people responsible for it
Scottish Health Technical Notes and Memoranda, the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual, decontamination standards, sustainable design and construction guidance — all of it changes. You’ll hear what it means in practice, direct from NHS Scotland Assure specialists and national leads.
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Evidence from Boards that have already done it
Case studies presented by the Boards that delivered them, with the detail that matters: what it cost in effort, what went wrong on the way, and what they would do differently. Practice moves faster when someone else has already tested it.
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The disciplines you don’t normally sit with
Estates and infection prevention. Engineers and clinicians. Capital planning and facilities services. The problems in the healthcare environment sit precisely at those joins, and this is one of very few days in the year where all of those professionals are in the same building.
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Lessons from incidents, not just successes
Water safety, ventilation, decontamination and contamination incidents are investigated in one Board and are relevant to all of them. The programme makes room for sharing sessions, so that a lesson learned once is not learned again the hard way.
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A supply market you can assess properly
An exhibition built entirely around the healthcare environment — not a generalist floor covering every NHS category. Every organisation on it works in your field, which makes comparing approaches, specifications and capability a genuinely useful afternoon rather than a corridor of leaflets.
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Professional development, and the network behind it
Structured content across four breakout streams, and a day’s worth of conversations with peers doing the same job in other Boards. Most of the value of a national conference arrives after it, in who you can now pick up the phone to.
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Built for everyone whose work touches the healthcare environment
The event is designed for professionals across NHS Boards, Health and Social Care Partnerships, national bodies and primary care, including:
- Health Board executives and non-executive directors
- Architects, designers and surveyors
- Building services engineers and electrical engineers
- Ventilation, water and medical gas specialists
- Fire safety, resilience, and health and safety professionals
- Infection Prevention and Control specialists, decontamination leads and microbiologists
- Estates and facilities management teams, including catering and nutrition, domestic services, portering and laundry
- Capital planning and project managers
- Estate and asset management specialists, and digital estate and building data leads
- Energy and sustainability professionals
- Clinicians and healthcare professionals with responsibility for the healthcare environment
- Primary care premises leads, GP practice managers and Health and Social Care Partnership leads
- Research and academia
- Scottish Government and national partner organisations
- Specialist subject matter experts from across NHS Scotland
If your decisions affect how safe, clean, efficient or fit for purpose an NHS Scotland building is, the day is written for you.
The day itself
- Date
- Tuesday 18 May 2027 A single-day conference and exhibition.
- Times
- 09:00 – 17:00 Conference and exhibition open throughout the day.
- Venue
- DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central Walking distance from Glasgow’s main rail and subway network.
Be there on 18 May 2027
Delegate registration opens later this year. Register your interest now and we’ll contact you the moment it does, with programme updates in the meantime.
Register your interest