Digital Innovations in NHS Talking Therapies: Thinking Differently

Digital Innovations in NHS Talking Therapies: Thinking Differently
Free to attend
Online Forum, 4 CPD hours
Thu 16 Oct 2025 08:30-12:50

Achieving increased productivity whilst boosting quality: digital solutions and tools explored

Join engaging and passionate speakers as they share helpful insights and proven strategies for driving digital innovation. Discover how their approaches are transforming care and improving clinical outcomes.

This is your opportunity to connect, network and share experiences with like-minded professionals across Step 2 and Step 3. Gain practical takeaways, fresh perspectives and renewed inspiration to implement digitally-driven change within your own services.

With thanks to the conference sponsors:

Successfully incorporate digital tools and implement innovative solutions

In just one morning, you’ll step away from your day-to-day role to focus on:

  • NHS Digital innovations: exploring new tools to enhance access, usability and treatment outcomes
  • Boosting efficiency: evaluating cost-effective apps and smart digital adoption
  • Breaking barriers: strategies to improve access to and engagement with digital therapies
  • AI in action: harnessing technology to boost outcomes and deliver productivity savings
  • The future of digital: next steps, emerging technology and staying ahead of technology trends

Education and networking designed to inspire

Benefit from invaluable guidance and leave equipped with practical ideas from services who are already achieving digital innovation. Those in attendance will have the opportunity to:

  • Meet colleagues from across the country to benchmark digital tools 
  • Hear directly from the national team on how they plan for the future of digital interventions
  • Learn how digital innovation is researched, tested and trialled 
  • Feedback directly to industry providers to ensure they are providing exactly what you need
  • Converse with the experts on how digital tools translate into meaningful practice
  • Raise concerns and ask your questions to industry providers 
  • Investigate, as a professional collective, the challenges and successes of digital therapies

Meet your sponsors

SBK Healthcare would like to thank SilverCloud by Amwell and Limbic for sponsoring this unique forum.

Opportunities to sponsor

Talking Therapies National Networking Forums enable providers of Talking Therapy technology and treatments to support healthcare professionals. If you would like to sponsor this forum please email Vanessa Pearce or call 01732 897788 to find out about all the engagement and branding opportunities available in the full sponsorship package.



8:30
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:00
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
National update and developments
9:30
Key digital innovations: NHS England update
  • Using national platforms to improve accessibility and usability
  • Harnessing digital technology in local pathways
  • Innovative approaches to enhancing the clinical model
Rachel Heggart, Senior Project Manager, NHS England
Thinking differently to improve efficiency
9:55
Case study: Leveraging digital tools to improve service delivery and efficiency
  • Designing cost-effective, practical apps to optimise your Talking Therapies service
  • Maximising existing digital resources to drive innovation
  • Implementing change management to support effective adoption of digital developments
Davy De Geeter, Clinical Lead for Digital Therapies, Alliance Psychological Services
10:20
Questions and answers with your speakers
Industry partner digital developments
10:30
SilverCloud showcase
10:40
Limbic showcase
10:50
Questions and answer with your sponsors
11:00
Meet the sponsors
11:10
Screen break
Enabling wider access to digital interventions
11:20
Overcoming barriers to digital therapies in Talking Therapies services
  • Identifying the evidence: what does the research reveal about key barriers to digital therapies?
  • Strategies to apply at step 2 and step 3: recommendations for improving access and engagement
  • Real-world implementation: practical considerations to enhance digital delivery and patient outcomes
11:45
Questions and answers with your speaker
11:50
Interactive discussion: Embracing digital innovation and new ways of thinking in your team
  • How are your team approaching digital interventions with fresh thinking? What changes have you made and what impact has it had on service delivery?
  • How are AI technologies (including large language tools) being integrated into your service? What benefit and challenges have you faced?
  • How are you working to overcome limited funding of digital solutions?
12:05
Feedback from interactive discussion: Embracing digital innovation and new ways of thinking in your team
Achieving a digital service
12:15
Digitalisation of a Talking Therapies service: fully utilising digital tools
  • Understanding how digitalisation can enhance client access and clinical outcomes
  • Utilising the full spectrum of digital offerings: including webinars, YouTube, articles, AI and podcasts
  • How to innovate to driven forward a flexible and impactful Talking Therapies service
Ruth Schumacher, Deputy Clinical Lead – Digital, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
12:40
Questions and answers with your speaker
12:50
Chair’s closing remarks and close of morning

Invitation to present

This day is being produced by Hope Frost. If you are interested in speaking, please contact Hope at hope.frost@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or by calling her on 01732 897788.

Your confirmed speakers to date:

Davy De Geeter

Clinical Lead for Digital Therapies
Alliance Psychological Services
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Ruth Schumacher

Deputy Clinical Lead – Digital
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Rachel Heggart

Senior Project Manager
NHS England

FREE to attend for NHS, Public Sector and Charity Attendees

Please only book a place if you are able to attend on the day as this forum will not be recorded. If you book a place and your circumstances change, meaning you are unable to attend please inform us in writing to bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk at least 48 hours prior to the course taking place.

Failure to attend without prior written correspondence will result in a £100 charge.

Commercial companies are invited to sponsor this day please email Vanessa Pearce for further details.

What happens once you have booked your place?

Once you have registered your place on zoom, you should recieve an automatic response from zoom to let you know your registration has been logged and is awaiting approval - this may go into your junk folder please double check.

The bookings team here at SBK Healthcare will approve your registration and send you a formal email confirmation within 5 working days.

If you do not recieve an email from SBK Healthcare please email us at bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or call 01732 897788.

Within one week of the online conference taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the conference.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.


How this online forum will work

If you are unsure of zoom or how to access the conference on the day, practice sessions are available. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you, sure you are all set for the day. If you would like to request one of these practice sessions please email the bookings team.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. In groups of between 6-10 people, you will be admitted into the main conference room to be greeted by a member of SBK staff. In the same group you will be taken into a breakout room and asked to turn on your video and microphone. A member of the SBK team will get your group started with some orientation tasks and ‘ice breaker’ topics, before leaving you to network.


When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.


Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.


Terms and conditions

Modify registration
To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk.
 
Cancellations and substitutions
This online forum is free to attend to all NHS and Public Sector attendees. Please note that you can cancel your place up to 48 hours prior to the conference taking place, failure to attend without prior written cancellation will result in £100 charge. You can email the bookings team to cancel or amend an existing booking. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.
 
Conference changes
It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.
 
Certificate of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every attendee, as a record of continuing professional training and development.
 
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A morning dedicated to learning and networking

This online forum has been designed for professionals working at Step 2 and Step 3 across NHS Talking Therapies services. Book your place to join fellow: 

  • Digital Leads
  • High-Intensity Therapists
  • Service Leads and Managers
  • Clinical Supervisors and Team Leads
  • PWPs 
  • Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists

Past attendee feedback

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‘It was great to hear case studies to show how when technology is applied well it can benefit our patients’
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
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‘It was very good, informative and worthwhile. Good to hear case studies and to hear how digital tools are being further integrated into mental health services’
- NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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‘This was very valuable and helped understand I’m not alone challenges that I am facing, it helped me know more about what is possible!’
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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‘One of the best online conferences I have attended. Well done!’
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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‘Thanks for allowing me to attend your event, it was incredibly helpful and informative’
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Healthy Minds
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‘Excellent and very well organised!’
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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‘Every event I have attended from SBK Healthcare has been run extremely well. The team are very professional and sort out any issues quickly and smoothly’
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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‘Really well organised and interesting content. The case studies particularly’
- Westminster NHS Talking Therapies
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‘Great exposure to new topics and learning opportunity’
- NHS Sheffield Talking Therapies

Adding their unique perspectives, we were pleased to welcome our industry partners




SilverCloud by Amwell a leading provider of evidence-based digital mental and behavioural healthcare solutions. Supporting 80% of NHS Talking Therapies Services, with up to 70% clinical recovery rates.




Limbic is the first UKCA-marked clinical assessment support tool for IAPT. Across 21 services, Limbic consistently frees up staff time, reduces costs, and improves patient experience and accessibility. Find out more from our founder, Dr Ross Harper on ross@limbic.ai.

Why sponsor a Talking Therapies National Networking Forum

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing talking therapies forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully  immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:

Vanessa Pearce
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk