Each year the Network delivers a programme of highly informative and engaging events. Our events include:
In Person Conferences
These sessions highlight key findings from the data collection year, with guest speakers sharing good practice and time set aside for your questions about toolkits and reports. Held between September and December, each event runs for around two hours and offers valuable insights and practical takeaways.
Project Drop-in Sessions
Got questions about your project? These informal sessions are your chance to ask anything - no need to book. They usually run throughout the data collection and validation period, so you can get the support you need when it matters most.
Benchmarking Findings Events
These sessions highlight key findings from the data collection year, with guest speakers sharing good practice and time set aside for your questions about toolkits and reports. Held between September and December, each event runs for around two hours and offers valuable insights and practical takeaways.
Project Launch Events
Have Questions? We’re Here to Help
These sessions are open to all users who have questions about the project specification or submission process. Drop in for quick answers, guidance, and support—no appointment needed.
Lunch & Learn Sessions
Exclusive to our members - Join us for a quick Lunch and Learn session where you'll gain insights on a specific project from our Network Support Team. Bring your lunch and your curiosity—this is a great opportunity to learn something new and connect with peers, all within your lunch break.
Events List
International Benchmarking Findings Webinar - Session 1
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
14:30
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16:00
Eight countries. One dataset. What international benchmarking tells us about the future of mental health care.
The NHS Benchmarking Network, in collaboration with the Global Leadership Exchange, has begun building one of the most comprehensive international mental health benchmarking datasets available. In this webinar we share the headline findings from our 2026 report — covering community models, inpatient capacity, workforce, investment and patient outcomes across eight countries — and set out our vision for how this community of practice can grow and strengthen over the coming years.
Whether you are an existing participant or exploring involvement for the first time, we would welcome you to join the conversation.
International Benchmarking Findings Webinar - Session 2
Thursday, 13 August 2026
08:00
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09:30
Eight countries. One dataset. What international benchmarking tells us about the future of mental health care.
The NHS Benchmarking Network, in collaboration with the Global Leadership Exchange, has begun building one of the most comprehensive international mental health benchmarking datasets available. In this webinar we share the headline findings from our 2026 report — covering community models, inpatient capacity, workforce, investment and patient outcomes across eight countries — and set out our vision for how this community of practice can grow and strengthen over the coming years.
Whether you are an existing participant or exploring involvement for the first time, we would welcome you to join the conversation.
Beyond the dashboard: The role of data, benchmarking and AI in delivery of the NHS 10-Year Health Plan
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
12:30
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13:30
Acute trusts are facing growing pressure to improve productivity, reduce unwarranted variation and deliver better outcomes while working within increasingly constrained resources. At the heart of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan is a clear ambition to make better use of data and technology - not as an end in itself, but as a means of delivering more proactive, efficient and evidence-based care.
As healthcare becomes increasingly data-rich, trusts have an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond reporting performance to actively identifying opportunities for improvement. By combining benchmarking, peer comparison, shared learning and AI-enabled analytics, organisations can gain a deeper understanding of variation, uncover insights that traditional reporting may miss, and target improvement efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
Join the NHS Benchmarking Network for a thought-provoking webinar exploring the evolving role of data in healthcare improvement. Through real-world case studies, we'll examine how trusts are using benchmarking to drive service transformation and how emerging AI-enabled approaches are helping organisations unlock new opportunities to improve clinical pathways, operational performance and patient outcomes.
The session will showcase the NHS Benchmarking Network's new AI-enabled CTPA pathway audit opportunity - an example of how artificial intelligence can complement benchmarking by analysing clinical pathway data in greater depth to identify hidden variation, uncover opportunities for improvement and provide actionable insights to support better patient care.
Whether you're leading transformation, performance, operations, digital or clinical services, this webinar will explore how data, benchmarking, AI audits and shared learning can work together to support delivery of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan - and why these capabilities will be increasingly central to the future of healthcare improvement.