4th National Patient and Public Partnership Conference 2026
From Islands of Partnership to System-Wide Practice and Policy
Across health and social care, there are many strong examples of partnership working. Often, these happen in small pockets — a local project, a pilot, or a motivated team.
This conference is about how those ‘Islands’ of good partnership can spread across services and organisations, become part of everyday practice, and influence how decisions are made at system and policy level.
We are looking for real-world stories that show how partnerships start, how they grow and face challenges, and how they become built into structures, processes, and policy.
Partnership is a way of working where people are involved as equals — not token voices.
In health and social care, partnership means working with people, not doing things to or for them; using lived experience to shape services, sharing power and responsibility, and making decisions together in an open and inclusive way.
To submit your abstract, please follow the steps below:
1. Click the abstract submission link HERE.
2. Log in to your Oxford Abstracts account or create a new account if you do not already have one.
3. Complete all required sections of the submission form.
4. Review your submission carefully before submitting.
5. Click the green “Submit” button at the bottom right of the page to finalise your submission.
6. You will receive a confirmation email once your abstract has been successfully submitted.
Deadline for submissions is Friday 12th June at 2pm