EstatesVision 2026: The Health Estates Conference

EstatesVision 2026 is a one day strategic conference bringing together NHS estates, facilities and infrastructure leaders to explore practical approaches to modernising healthcare estates, improving sustainability and enabling digital resilient care environments.

Date: 24th February 2026

Location: etc.venues, Prospero House, 241 Borough High St, London SE1 1GA

Time: 08:30 - 17:00

Event Overview

EstatesVision 2026: The Health Estates Conference brings together NHS estates, facilities, digital and sustainability leaders to explore how the healthcare estate can be modernised to support safe, efficient and digitally enabled care.

With a significant proportion of NHS buildings predating modern digital and clinical requirements, this conference focuses on practical, deliverable approaches to estate transformation. Aligned with the Fit for the Future: 10-Year Health Plan, the event moves beyond strategy to provide actionable insight that can be applied locally.

As part of this conversation, Switchshop will be highlighting OccuFi, an occupancy and utilisation intelligence platform that uses your existing Wi-Fi to help NHS organisations better understand how their estates are actually being used, supporting smarter and more efficient decision-making.

How Switchshop and OccuFi Support Smarter Estates

Understanding how space is used across a healthcare estate is critical to improving safety, efficiency and patient experience. OccuFi is a flexible occupancy intelligence tool suitable for estates, facilities, commercial, IT and executive teams, providing actionable insight without adding complexity.

OccuFi uses your organisation’s existing wireless network, meaning there is no requirement to deploy, manage or maintain additional sensors or hardware. Teams can define flexible zones across a campus or within individual buildings and analyse live and historical data aligned to real operational needs.

For example, security teams can create zones linked to patrol routes to support lone worker safety, while cleaning teams can align zones to cleaning routes to understand whether more or less resource is required based on real-time occupancy.

Core OccuFi capabilities include zone-level device and people estimates, percentage occupancy, movement flows between zones, dwell-time analysis and real-world wireless client performance.

What to Expect at EstatesVision

This one day strategic summit is designed to support NHS professionals responsible for estate modernisation and capital planning. Through a mix of expert-led sessions and peer discussion, delegates will explore how to:

Modernise ageing healthcare buildings within budget constraints.
Embed sustainability and decarbonisation into estate planning.
Integrate digital infrastructure to enable smarter, more resilient care environments.
Improve estate utilisation to support patient-centred models of care.
Address safety, governance, infection control and compliance requirements.

The programme emphasises how transformation is delivered, not just what good looks like.

What’s New for 2026

Skill Clinics offering practical tools, checklists and templates for estate assessment, decarbonisation and digital integration.
Lessons Learned Sessions sharing real-world experiences from NHS leaders delivering estate transformation.
Peer Learning Circles enabling collaborative problem-solving across estates teams and ICBs.
Action-focused case studies demonstrating how outcomes were achieved, from planning through to delivery.

Who Should Attend

This event is ideal for NHS estates and facilities professionals, capital and sustainability leads, digital infrastructure teams and finance colleagues supporting modernisation programmes. Operational and clinical leaders with an interest in how the built environment supports safe and effective care will also benefit.

Event Details:

📍 Venue: etc.venues, Prospero House, 241 Borough High St, London SE1 1GA
🗓️ Date: 24^th February 2026
⏰ Time: 08:30 – 17:00

About Switchshop

Switchshop is a trusted IT solutions provider to the NHS and wider public sector. We work closely with organisations across the UK to design, deploy and support secure, high-performance networks that safeguard users, devices and data.

We have high-level partnerships with top-tier vendors including HPE Aruba Networking, that empower healthcare providers to achieve resilient, compliant and future-ready IT environments.