Shared Care Record Summit joins Digital Health Rewired

Digital Health Rewired will host a Shared Care Record Summit in March, with Interweave and the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record team taking the half-day programme to the conference's Patient Engagement Stage at the Birmingham NEC.

The organisers said the summit will follow the third Shared Care Record Summit held in October 2025. They positioned the Rewired session as a continuation of a series that brings together professionals from across the UK and overseas who work on shared care records.

Sector focus

Shared care records remain a central theme in NHS digital and data discussions, particularly as Integrated Care Systems work on data sharing across settings. The organisers linked the summit to the NHS's 10 Year Plan and said the plan has increased attention on connected data and shared care records in relation to a Single Patient Record.

The summit will sit inside the wider Digital Health Rewired programme, which runs across two days in March. Rewired has confirmed conference stages covering Digital Transformation, Integrated Care, AI, and Data and Digital.

The organisers described the summit as aimed at staff working on connecting care and improving access to patient information. They said the agenda will include national policy perspectives and frontline learning. They also said the programme will cover neighbourhood services and measurement of success.

Interweave footprint

Interweave is the brand name for a shared care record product used across six Integrated Care Systems. The organisations said these systems cover a population of almost 9.5 million people, which they described as 15.3% of England's population using NHS England ICB allocations for 2022/23.

The notes compared this footprint with OneLondon, which the organisers described as the largest single shared care record deployment. They put OneLondon's covered population at 10.759 million, or 17.2%.

Interweave sits within Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, which provides the in-house team behind the product. The organisers said the software code is open source and published on GitHub and NHS IP. They also said Interweave works with an open-source systems partner.

The six Integrated Care Systems that use the product own and manage it through the Interweave Management Board, according to the organisers. They said the board takes responsibility for operations and development and holds accountability to relevant NHS Integrated Care Boards. They also said each Integrated Care System has its own local delivery team.

Event positioning

Lee Rickles, CIO, Director and Deputy SIRO at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Interweave, said the move to Rewired would widen the audience for the summit.

"Previous Shared Care Record Summits have helped set the agenda for shared care records nationally. Bringing this year's Summit to Digital Health Rewired amplifies its reach and puts shared care firmly at the heart of the UK's biggest digital health conversation," said Lee Rickles, CIO, Director and Deputy SIRO, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and Interweave.

Karl Grundy, Managing Director at Digital Health, described shared care records as part of a broader reform agenda in the NHS.

"SCRs are foundational to the NHS's shift towards community-based care, digitisation and prevention. The Shared Care Record Summit has a fantastic energy with a focus on practical next steps. It's great that Rewired attendees can access this platform for national leaders and local systems to share learning and progress," said Grundy.

Rewired programme

Digital Health Rewired said it has confirmed more than 40 sessions and 80 speakers across the event. The organisers named senior NHS figures including Professor Andy Hardy of University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Siobhan Harrington of University Hospitals Dorset, and Dr Minal Bakhai from NHS England.

The organisers also said national digital leaders Helen Balsdon, National Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHS England, and Alec Price-Forbes, National Chief Clinical Information Officer at NHS England, will speak at the conference.

The summit will take place on the Wednesday of the event and will run as a half-day programme, according to the organisers.