From AI to inclusion, HETT 2025 brought together innovators, NHS leaders, and industry partners to explore how technology and people are shaping the future of healthcare.
This year’s HETT returned to ExCeL London with renewed purpose.
Coming a few weeks after the release of the NHS 10-Year Plan, the event focused on turning ambition into action, and highlighted how the public and private sectors can work together to deliver digital transformation at scale.
“This conference has been uniquely timed,” said Dr Avi Mehra, Associate Partner and Clinical Safety Officer at IBM, and Co-Chair of HETT 2025.
“A lot of the conversations have focused on how we turn that ambition and vision into reality and what it takes to deliver it on the ground.”
Mehra’s message was clear: while technology enables progress, transformation depends on people.
“The challenge really comes around people, trust, culture, and leadership,” he said.
“Technology will be the enabler, but the focus has to be on people.”
Partnership in practice
Collaboration was the word on everyone’s lips. Dr Michael Watts, NHS clinician and CEO of Blüm Health Ltd, reflected:
“What the show has really demonstrated is that we’re keen to collaborate with public–private sector partnerships.
There’s a big emphasis on operational efficiency, on moving secondary care into the community, and a big focus on
