Core20PLUS5 Conference

2025
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Core20PLUS5 Conference

Core20PLUS5 is a national NHS England approach to inform action to reduce healthcare inequalities at both national and system level. The approach defines a target population – the ‘Core20PLUS’ – and identifies ‘5’ focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement.

The approach, which initially focussed on healthcare inequalities experienced by adults, has now been adapted to apply to children and young people.

Core20 represents the most deprived 20% of the national population as identified by the national Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).

PLUS population groups include ethnic minority communities; inclusion health groups; people with a learning disability and autistic people; coastal communities with pockets of deprivation hidden amongst relative affluence; people with multi-morbidities; and protected characteristic groups.

The final part sets out five clinical areas of focus. The five areas of focus are part of wider actions for Integrated Care Board and Integrated Care Partnerships to achieve system change and improve care.

5 – Adults

Maternity

Severe mental illness (SMI)

Chronic respiratory disease

Early cancer diagnosis

Hypertension

5 – Children and Young People

Asthma

Diabetes

Epilepsy

Oral health

Mental health

The Core20PLUS5 Conference will allow professionals from across NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sectors to discuss the overall quality and safety of our services with a shared aim to reduce inequalities in line with the Core20PLUS5 approach.

Policy in every sector of government can potentially affect health and inequities in health – Health Industry Leaders collaborative approach aims to harness learning and share information with other policy areas so that they to promote overall health and health equity.

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Event Speakers.

Amy Jackson
Amy Jackson
Head of Health Equity Strategy - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

Event Schedule.

08.00 – 09.30 – Breakfast, registration and networking

09.30 – 09.40 – Chair’s welcome address

Louise Ansari, Chief Executive, Healthwatch England (Invited)

09.40 – 09.55 – The core20PLUS5 and data for improvement

Dr Dianne Addei, Public Health Advisor for Health Inequalities, NHS England (Confirmed)

09.55 – 10.10 – Improving the nation’s health

Corinne Harvey, Deputy Director, Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (Invited)

10.10 – 10:25 – Headline Sponsor

10:25 – 10.40 – Q&A Panel Debate

10.40 – 11.20 – Refreshments and Networking

11:20 – 11.35 – Challenges and opportunities for health security

Amy Jackson, Head of Health Equity Strategy, UK Health Security Agency (Confirmed)

11.35 – 11.50 – Better care and outcomes for people with respiratory diseases

Henry Gregg – Director of External Affairs, Asthma + Lung UK (Invited)

11.50 – 12.05 – Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme

Dr Mary Ann Ferreux, Chief Medical Officer, Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (Confirmed)

12:05 – 12.20 – Q&A panel Debate

12.20 – 12.30 – Movement Break

12.30 – 12.50 – Case Study 1 – Cardiac Health Monitoring

12.50 – 13.10 – Case Study 2 – Early cancer diagnosis

13.10 – 13.30 – Case Study 3 – Chronic respiratory disease

13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch in the Network Surgery

14.30 – 14.50 – Case Study 4 – Severe mental illness (SMI)

14.50 – 15.10 – Case Study 5 – Diabetes Prevention and Management

15.10 – 15:30 Movement Break & Refreshments

15.30 – 15.45 – Ensuring that children in the UK receive the best possible standards of care

Professor Steve Turner, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) (Confirmed)

15.45 – 15.55 – Improving access to mental health services

Lucy Schonegevel, Director of Policy, Mental Health UK (Invited)

15.55 – 16.10 – Cardiovascular disease: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Bryan Williams, Chief Scientific & Medical Officer, British Heart Foundation (Invited)

16:10 – 16.25 – Q&A Panel Debate

16:25 – 16.30 – Conference Close

 

**These times and invited speakers are subject to change without notice**

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