
Labour Party Conference 2025 events
The Northern Health Science Alliance's events at this year's Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
Mon 29th — Tue 30th September
Monday 29 September
Private roundtable: Utilising the prevention agenda and civic-driven data to fuel the NHS of the future
Time: 09:30am – 11:00am
Location: Maray Restaurant , Albert Docks, Dockside, Unit 4, Britannia Pavilion, Liverpool L3 4AD. This event is being held outside the secure zone.
Speakers:
- Ashley Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) (invited)
- Professor Louise Kenny Executive Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool
- Hannah Davies, CEO of the NHSA
- Dr Ben Martyn, Executive Lead for Investment and International Partnerships at the NHSA.
- Representatives from ABPI, Tony Blair Institute, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool Civic Health Innovation Labs, Cheshire and Merseyside ICS, Newmarket Strategy, Durham University, University of Manchester, Lancaster University.
This roundtable will bring together senior stakeholders from across health, academia, and local government to explore how a preventative, place-based, and data-enabled approach can strengthen population health outcomes, tackle inequalities, and support the future sustainability of the NHS.
If you would like more information about this event please contact charlotte.thompson@thenhsa.co.uk
Private roundtable: Delivering the 10 Year Plan in Health Inequalities: productivity, mental and physical health across the life course.
Time: 12:30pm – 13:45pm
Location: Suites 3, 4 & 5, Leonardo Hotel, 31 Keel Wharf, Liverpool L3 4FN. This event is being held inside the secure zone.
Speakers:
- Alison McGovern, Minister of State for Employment at the Department for Work and Pensions (invited)
- Mary Kelly Foy, MP for City of Durham
- Dr Luke Munford, Academic Co-director of Health Equity North and Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, The University of Manchester
- Northern Health Science Alliance’s Ageing North group and Health Equity North.
- Representatives from the University of Liverpool, The Work Foundation, Centre for Ageing Better, Durham University, Northern powerhouse Partnership, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, IPPR North, Yorkshire Cancer Research and Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The roundtable will consider how joined-up strategies can deliver better health and employment outcomes across the life course, especially through preventative approaches, early interventions, and regional innovation. The event will focus on our Health for Wealth report which shows that productivity is lower in the North, largely due to poorer health outcomes, and ‘Ageing in the North’ report which found that targeted investment has the potential to reduce or recover as much as £10.9 billion in lost productivity costs, £315 million in NHS costs from falls and hip fractures, and £588 million in NHS costs from treating conditions resulting from poor housing.
If you would like more information about this event please contact charlotte.thompson@thenhsa.co.uk
Wireless event: Building a Better Future for Northern Women: Health, Opportunity, Equality
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Time: 2.00pm – 2.45pm
Location: ACC Riverside Balcony. This event is being held inside the secure zone.
Speakers:
- Kirith Entwistle MP for Bolton North East
- Professor Louise Kenny Executive Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool
- Hannah Davies, Executive Director of Health Equity North
- Professor Dame Lesley Regan, Women’s Health Ambassador for England (invited).
This event focuses on our Woman of the North report which found that women living in the North have lower healthy life expectancy, fewer qualifications, worse mental health, and are more likely to suffer domestic violence or to end up in the criminal justice system than their counterparts in the rest of England. The economic cost of these inequalities is also explored in the report which estimates women in the North lose out on a staggering £132m every week, compared to what they would get paid if wages were the same as women in the rest of the country.
Please note this is a wireless event with limited capacity. We advise those wishing to attend arrive early to secure a seat.
Tuesday 30 September
Wireless event: Addressing child health and social inequalities through poverty reduction nationally and locally
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Time: 10am – 10.45pm
Location: ACC Riverside Balcony. This event is being held inside the secure zone.
Speakers:
- Chair: Kate Proctor, UK News Lead, Save The Children UK
- Professor David Taylor-Robinson, Academic Co-Director of Health Equity North, and Professor of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool
- Professor Kate Pickett, Academic Co-Director of Health Equity North and Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
- Health Equity North directors and lived experience young people.
Held with the University of York’s York Policy Engine, Health Equity North and Child of the North., In this event we will explore how national policy and local strategies can work hand-in-hand to reduce child poverty and close the health and opportunity gap experienced by children across the UK, particularly those in the North of England.
Please note this is a wireless event with limited capacity. We advise those wishing to attend arrive early to secure a seat.