NHS Property 2025

NHS Property 2025

Optimising NHS estates: strategies and stories to help you do more with your places and spaces

Wednesday 5th November 2025

One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

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We are pleased to announce that the NHS Property conference is back for it’s 15th year again at the beautiful One Great George Street venue in Westminster (The Institution of Civil Engineers).

The focus for this year will be Optimising NHS estates: strategies and stories to help you do more with your places and spaces

Circa 200 NHS property professionals will meet on the 5th November for a day of learning, discussions and networking featuring speakers from event partners NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships along with the wider public sector and expert service providers from the private sector.

Delegate places are free of charge for all property professionals employed within the UK public sector*. Places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis and must be booked in advance.

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Conference Agenda

Wednesday 5th November 2025, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

08.30 – 09.30 Registration, refreshments & networking

09.30 – 10.30    Plenary panel discussion – Optimising your estate to unlock value and support the Ten Year Health Plan

  • Conference Chair: Dr Rachel Hampson
  • Simon Taylor, NHS Property Services
  • Jeanette Leach, Community Health Partnerships
  • Kayley Riley, Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB

10.30 – 11.00    Refreshment & Networking Break

11.00 – 11.30    Session details TBC

11.30 – 12.00    A New Commercial Model for Easily Accessible Healthcare in Shopping Centres

  • Andrew Reavley, Lunson Mitchenall
  • Ian Sabini, GBP Consult

12.00 – 12.30    Making buildings fit for the future of healthcare

  • Simon Frumkin, Freshwave CEO

12.30 – 13.20    Lunch, Refreshments & Networking

13.20 – 13.50    Reimagining NHS Estates: The Cost of Inaction vs. the Value of Location Intelligence

  • Duncan Booth, Esri
  • Nicholas Campbell-Voegt, BIS Consult

13.50 – 14.10    Maximise the value of your estate through investment and development management

  • Adrian Powell, NHS Property Services

14.10 – 14.30    How utilisation monitoring can help you minimise costs and optimise your estate

  • Chris King, NHS Open Space

14.30 – 14.55    Refreshment & Networking Break

14.55 – 15.25    Session details TBC

  • Dan Cook, Community Health Partnerships
  • Julia Norsworthy, Community Health Partnerships

15.25 – 15.45    Strategic Estates: Transforming underutilised space

  • Karina Dare, NHS Property Services

15.45 – 15.50    Chairs’ closing remarks

16.00 – 17.00    Drink’s reception in Kendal’s Bar on the lower ground floor

Agenda may be subject to change and will be updated regularly

Plenary Speakers

NHS Property 2025 – Wednesday 5th November 2025, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

Conference Chair: Dr Rachel Hampson (FRICS)

Assets & Facilities Management Expert

Rachel has built a career in Asset and FM advisory for twenty years, both public and private sector and across all asset types but with a passion for healthcare above all else. Rachel works with other Asset and Facilities Management professionals to share cross industry best practice and experience to help benefit others in terms of their service delivery model and the associated financial balance. Rachel’s passion has always been the best use and management of data and ensuring a single version of the truth is accessible, safe, consistent and accurate. Rachel specialises in asset and facilities cost and performance analysis and modelling, options appraisals, procurement and strategy development, all underpinned by the use of auditable and robust data sets. Rachel considers data is essential and a currency that we must spend wisely because it also has a carbon footprint.

Simon Taylor

Director Estates Policy, Strategy & Capital Projects

NHS Property Services

Simon Taylor is Portfolio Optimisation Director at NHS Property Services, with a core objective to work with ICSs, commissioners and other local stakeholders to develop solutions that encourage more effective delivery of NHS services. This can be done through property consolidation, improved utilisation, enabling disposals, re-purposing the estate to support new models of care and, where relevant, the “right-sizing” of new developments.

Before joining NHSPS in 2018, Simon supported the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the two property companies with the strategic estate planning programmes, supported Sir Robert Naylor in undertaking his estates review and also to lead the combined DHSC sponsored Strategic Estate Planning team.

Simon has over 30 years’ experience working in the real estate sector, including over 10 years as Head of Property Strategy for Telereal Trillium where he provided estate transformation and delivery services to public and private sector clients.

Jeanette Leach

Regional Director for North West

Community Health Partnerships

Jeanette has over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership positions working across both Commissioner and Provider organisations in the NHS at local, regional and national level.

Jeanette’s career started in 2001 and has held positions at Heywood Middleton and Rochdale CCG, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, NHS England national team and more recently Greater Manchester Combined Authority and NHS Greater Manchester.

A significant part of Jeanette’s time has been spent in Greater Manchester and the North West leading health and social care integration and transformation within the NHS. Jeanette has led large scale transformation and improvement programmes and boasts a wealth of experience working with various NHS teams.

Kayley Riley

Primary Care Strategic Estates Lead

Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB

Kayley brings over 18 years of experience in asset management and strategic estates advisory, with a career that began in Local Government where she qualified as a General Practice Chartered Surveyor. She has since held key roles across the NHS system, including within a Hospital Trust, NHS Property Services, and now at Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB).

Kayley is a passionate advocate for collaborative working, with a proven track record of forging strong partnerships across organisations to deliver estate solutions that support integrated care. Her deep technical understanding of estates, combined with her strategic insight, has been instrumental in shaping and delivering successful projects.

Kayley is known for her ability to build trusted relationships, navigate complex challenges, and champion innovation in estate planning to improve outcomes for patients and communities.

Session speakers and panel members

Duncan Booth

Head of Health & Social Care

Esri UK

Duncan Booth helps NHS organisations unlock the full potential of their estates by using location intelligence to solve real-world challenges. As Head of Health & Social Care at Esri UK, he works closely with Trusts to improve patient experience, tackle estates and facilities pressures, and support long-term strategic planning.

With a background spanning Defence, Government and Healthcare, Duncan brings nearly two decades of experience in turning complex data into clear, actionable insights. At Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, he supported the creation of a digital approach to managing RAAC risks, enabling the Trust to track and prioritise estates issues in real time, improve safety, and reduce reliance on manual reporting. At Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, he is helping to develop a digital twin of their estate, bringing spatial intelligence and estates systems into one ecosystem – driving smarter use of space, more efficient planning, and a safer environment for staff and patients.

Duncan is passionate about helping NHS leaders bridge the gap between data and decision-making. By making estates data more connected and accessible, he enables organisations to reduce costs, improve safety, and deliver better services for staff and patients alike.

Nicholas Campbell-Voegt

CEO

BIS Consult

Nick is the founder and CEO of BIS Consult, and a trusted partner to estates and facilities leaders across healthcare, higher education and local government. Over the past decade he has delivered major digital transformation programmes across construction and asset management. Today he is leading the creation of BIS Lens, a geospatial intelligence platform that helps organisations make better decisions about their space, assets and carbon impact.

Dan Cook

Strategic Business Development Programme Director

CHP

Daniel is the Strategic Business Development (SBD) Programmes Director at Community Health Partnerships (CHP). Daniel’s primary focus is on leading strategic business development and securing new capital investment across CHP’s primary and community estate to enable neighbourhood models of care.
With over 20 years of experience in project and programme delivery within national infrastructure and property, Daniel’s expertise lies in leading multidisciplinary teams, optimising complex delivery strategies, and driving business growth through increased efficiency. Prior to his current role, he successfully led the Productivity Acceleration in Community Estates (PACE) Programme, a national initiative designed to enhance the utilisation of the LIFT estate, as well as CHP’s national Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) programme, which delivered 10 operational facilities across England.
Daniel is dedicated to ensuring that CHP’s property portfolio is effectively leveraged to support and enhance healthcare delivery for local communities.

Karina Dare

Primary Care Estates Strategic Lead

NHS Property Services

Karina has 20+ years of experience in estates management and development including strategy for office, general practice and community hospital schemes. At NHS Property Services, her work has focused on optimisation of the NHS estate.

She has a national role within the NHSPS Estates Strategy team with a particular focus on primary care. Karina has a BA (hons) in history, a PGC in innovation and improving performance, and a CMI certificate in strategic management and leadership.

Simon Frumkin

CEO

Freshwave

Simon has over 20 years’ experience in finance and operational leadership roles within the Mobile Network Operators. Most recently, he was managing director of EE’s Emergency Services Network Division, delivering a new critical communications network to 300,000 frontline first responders. He leads Freshwave and works closely with our Public Sector team to ensure the highest standards are met within our service to NHS Trusts, Central Government departments and local authorities alike.

Chris King

Head of NHS Open Space

NHS Property Services

Before joining NHS Property Services, Chris built a career at Knight Frank and CBRE, advising on capital markets, investment, development, and asset management across London’s most dynamic markets. Drawing on this commercial expertise, he has led the creation and delivery of innovative estate solutions within the NHS, with a focus on digital transformation, space optimisation, and improving patient experience.

Today, Chris is recognised as a thought leader in PropTech, real estate and healthcare, driving forward new ways of working within the NHS estate — blending technology and commercial insight with public sector purpose to ensure space is better understood, better managed, and better utilised.

Julia Norsworthy

Strategic Estates Productivity Lead

Community Health Partnerships

Starting her career in Residential and then moving to Commercial Estate Management and surveying, Julia joined the NHS in 2020 with Lincolnshire Partnership Trust as Head of Estates & Facilities across both the Partnership Trust and Community Trust in Lincolnshire, supporting both trusts and the Lincolnshire ICB in strategic planning and implementation across Mental Health, Community and Primary Care sectors.

With the Lincolnshire demographic and high areas of rural population, Neighbourhood Planning and Care within the community was paramount to all discussions and strategic planning enabling patients to benefit from community services, & outreach programmes both for adults and children.

Julia joined CHP in November 2024, as Strategic Productivity Lead for the Northwest, working with ICBs across Greater Manchester, Lancashire & South Cumbria and Cheshire & Merseyside in supporting them with their strategic planning, with a focus on bringing more care into the community through a Neighbourhood Health Service.

Adrian Powell

Director of Investment and Development Management

NHS Property Services

Adrian is Development and Planning Director at NHS Property Services. His team works to deliver quality healthcare environments and realise latent potential from the NHSPS Estate in the course of implementing a co-ordinated strategy of improvement and renewal of the portfolio providing clinical services. Adrian has built a reputation over 30 years in real estate development, asset management and investment, and brings a wealth of experience to the NHS.

Andrew Reavley

Director

Lunson Mitchenall

Andrew has advised on a wide range of shopping centre and retail led mixed-use developments across the UK for a range of clients from the public and private sector including Hammerson, Aberdeen, Landsec, Muse, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and Get Living.

Ian Sabini

Deputy Managing Director

gbPartnerships Consult

Ian has over 20 years of experience in estates and healthcare construction across both public and private sectors. He has been instrumental in supporting Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) with strategic estates planning and programme delivery, helping to optimise the use of Section 106 (s106), Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding, and system capital to enhance healthcare infrastructure.

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Event Timetable

NHS Property 2025 – Wednesday 5th November 2025, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

08:30 – 09:30 Registration, refreshments and networking

09:30 – 10:30 Plenary and Q&A

10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments and networking

11:00 – 12.30 – Conference sessions

12:30 – 13:20 Lunch and networking

13:20 – 14:30 – Conference sessions

14:30 – 14:55 Refreshments and networking

14:55 – 15:50 – Presentations and Chair’s closing remarks

16:00 Drinks Reception, kindly sponsored by Freshwave –  be held in Kendal’s Bar on the lower ground floor

17:00 Conference Close

Please note agenda will be updated regularly, speakers, subject matter and timings may be subject to change

Venue, Travel & Hotels – One Great George Street

NHS Property 2025 – Wednesday 5th November 2025, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA

Venue Information

Set in a magnificent Grade II listed, four-domed, Edwardian building the conference centre is very close to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and St James’s Park.

One Great George Street

Venue Tel: 020 7665 2323

E-mail: info@onegreatgeorgestreet.com

Website: http://www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com/

How to Reach Us

By London Underground
Both Westminster (Exit 6) on the District, Circle and Jubilee lines, and St James’s Park on the District and Circle lines, are just 5 minutes walk away. For more information, visit the Transport for London website.

Walking Directions from Westminster Tube (exit 6)
When you arrive at the top of the stairs you will be on Whitehall. Turn around (as if you were to walk back down the stairs) you are now facing Parliament Square. Walk around to the right onto Great George Street until you come to two sets of traffic lights. Cross over both and continue walking straight down Great George Street for about 1 minute. One Great George Street is the last building on the corner of Great George Street and Storey’s Gate. The building is also the home of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Disabled Parking
The nearest Blue Badge disabled parking bay is located on Matthew Parker Street (drive down Storey’s Gate to the west of the venue and take the second right). Alternatively, a little further away, there are bays on Old Queen Street and Queen Anne’s Gate. These Blue Badge bays offer free parking for up to 4 hours between 08.30 and 18.30 Mon-Fri and unlimited parking at any other time. Please see Westminster Council‘s website for further information.

By River
A River Bus Service runs every 20 minutes during peak time from Embankment to Woolwich Arsenal; the nearest pier to us is the London Eye.

By Car
The nearest car parks provided by Q-Park are located in Abingdon Street and on the south side of Trafalgar Square. Limited meter parking is also available in and around adjacent streets.

By Bicycle
The nearest TFL bike hire docking station is 0.4miles away on Abby Orchard Street. Click on the Cycle for Hire website and type in our post code SW1P 3AA. If your bike folds our cloak room can hold approximately 5 bikes at one time.

By Rail
London’s mainline stations at Waterloo, Victoria and Charing Cross are minutes away by foot or by Underground. For further information visit the National Rail website.

By Bus
Numerous bus routes pass within a 1-2 minute walk of One Great George Street. Bus routes stopping near Parliament Square include: 3, 11, 12, 24, 53, 87, 88, 148, 159, 211 and 453. For further information visit the Transport for London website.

GPS co-ordinates
Main entrance – 51 30.0822 N and 0 07.7500 W and Princes Mews – 51 30.0420 N and 0 07.7185 W

Congestion Charge
One Great George Street lies within the charging area. For more information, including charges, visit the Transport for London website.

Hotels

There are many hotels near the venue to suit a range of budgets:
http://www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com/about-us/corporate-hotels/

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Contact Us

Delegate Enquiries (Including Bookings)

Georgia Richardson – Conference Manager
– 0161 482 7853
– grichardson@publicsectorconnect.org

Exhibition & Sponsorship Enquiries

Sharon Quinn – Head of Business Development
– 0161 482 7859
– squinn@publicsectorconnect.org

Conference Logistics & Presentation & Print Enquiries

Georgia Richardson – Conference Manager
– 0161 482 7853
– grichardson@publicsectorconnect.org

Accounts

– 0161 482 7853
– accounts@publicsectorconnect.org

Address

Public Sector Connect Ltd
Lockside Mill
St Martins Road
Marple
Stockport
SK6 7BZ

(please note this is the organisers business address – NOT the venue for the event)