The NAEP Conference takes place on Friday 5th March 2027 at The Studio, 19 Whitehall Road, Leeds.

The conference is entitled Sustaining Practice Education in a Changing Health and Social Care Contexts.
 

Keynote speaker: Juliet Borwell

Juliet Borwell RN, DipHE, BSc (Hons), MA is a registered adult nurse and Senior Clinical Education Specialist with NHS England.
 
Her career spans more than three decades across healthcare, education, and workforce development.
 
Juliet’s expertise in practice learning has developed through a career connecting clinical practice and education with the wider challenges of workforce and system transformation.
 
She is known for leading complex regional and national initiatives that enhance educational quality, expand learning opportunities and support sustainable workforce development across health and care professions.
 

‘What if capacity isn’t the problem?’ Rethinking how practice learning can grow

Responding to demand for practice learning is not simply about creating additional placements.

Drawing on experience and learning across services and professions, Juliet’s keynote session will explore how collaboration, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge established assumptions can unlock learning opportunities and create the conditions for practice learning to grow sustainably.

Participants will be prompted to critically reflect on issues of capacity in their own contexts to prompt action of safe effective and sustainable practice learning.

Wider conference themes

As health and social care systems continue to face increasing demand, workforce pressures, and evolving models of care, the role of educators in practice has never been more vital, or more complex.

Ensuring sufficient placement capacity, supporting a diversifying learner population, and integrating digital innovation are all placing new expectations on educators working across practice and academic settings.

Book your conference tickets

You can book your spot using the Eventbrite web page.

This national conference places a renewed emphasis on the experience and wellbeing of educators in practice, recognising that sustainable, high-quality learning environments depend on a supported and empowered educator workforce.

While learners remain central to our mission, this year’s focus acknowledges that educator capacity, and the critical enablers and support within health and social care.

Abstract submissions are currently closed

Abstract submissions closed on Monday 9th November 2026.

Feedback and outcomes will be circulated by Monday 7th December.


Conference aims and themes

The 2027 conference theme is sustaining and strengthening education in practice through:

  1. Ensuring safe learning environments while maintaining capacity
    This includes driving sustainable placement models in stretched systems, and exploring how to expand placement capacity while maintaining safe, high-quality learning environments and reducing pressure on educators and services.

  2. Empowering and supporting the educator workforce
    From role strain to recognition, wellbeing, and leadership. Focusing on the wellbeing, professional identity, and empowerment of educators, and how systems can better support and value their role.

  3. Inclusivity in practice learning
    Responding to learner diversity and widening participation, and examining how practice education can adapt to ensure inclusive, equitable, and flexible learning experiences for a changing learner population – while ensuring quality of care for all patients.

  4. Using digital technologies
    Enhancing learning without increasing workload, and exploring how digital tools, simulation, and emerging technologies can support learning and improve access.


What to do next

 

Contact and queries

If any questions or queries arise, you can email NAEP using naepconference@outlook.com.