Paediatrics and Child Health Technology Conference
2-3 December 2026 | Sheffield, UK
Welcome to the Conference
“The Child Health Technology (CHT) conference has been the UK’s leading forum for showcasing cutting-edge innovation in paediatric care, bringing together clinicians, researchers, industry partners, and patients to explore how emerging technologies can transform outcomes for children and young people.
“Each year has pushed the boundaries further, from early digital prototypes to real-world deployments of AI, remote monitoring, digital therapeutics, and immersive technologies, creating a uniquely collaborative space where ideas move rapidly from concept to clinical impact.
“CHT embodies the sector’s growing maturity and the increasing expectation that technology should be co-designed with families, evidence-driven, and meaningfully embedded in everyday paediatric practice.
“In parallel, the RCPCH Digital Paediatrics conference has become a cornerstone event for paediatricians navigating the fast-evolving digital landscape, offering practical insights into data, interoperability, safety, governance, and the realities of implementing digital tools across diverse clinical settings. Its focus on standards, equity, and clinical leadership has shaped national conversations about what good looks like in digital child health.
“Bringing these two communities together for a joint two-day event in December 2026 creates an unprecedented opportunity: a single platform where visionary innovation meets clinical rigour, where emerging technologies are tested against real-world needs, and where the future of digital paediatrics can be shaped collectively by those who deliver care and those who experience it.”
PROFESSOR PAUL DIMITRI
Director, NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health
Vice President for Science and Research, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Founder, Child Health Technology Conference
“The RCPCH’s Digital Paediatrics programme, including the successful Digital Paediatrics Conference 2025, was designed in response to our Members. Our 2024 membership survey was one channel through which we clearly heard how our members needed more support in what continues to be a rapidly changing sector.
“Many of our 25,000 members are keen to actively use technology to transform child health and embrace the shift from analogue to digital. Equally, many are also cautious about these new opportunities; which are best suited to their needs and the needs of their patients?
“In 2026 we’re bringing together the world-leading expertise of the NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health & the RCPCH, and their stakeholders, to provide a first of its kind, sector-wide perspective on the child health technology landscape of tomorrow.
“The Paediatrics and Child Health Technology Conference 2026 will bring clarity, energy, and best practice guidance to all interested stakeholders and, in so doing, accelerate the adoption of new, efficacious, cost-effective, and safe innovations across the child health landscape. This will significantly benefit children and young people and the healthcare professionals who support them in the short, medium, and long terms.”
PROFESSOR STEVE TURNER
President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Welcome to the Conference
“The Child Health Technology (CHT) conference has been the UK’s leading forum for showcasing cutting-edge innovation in paediatric care, bringing together clinicians, researchers, industry partners, and patients to explore how emerging technologies can transform outcomes for children and young people.
“Each year has pushed the boundaries further, from early digital prototypes to real-world deployments of AI, remote monitoring, digital therapeutics, and immersive technologies, creating a uniquely collaborative space where ideas move rapidly from concept to clinical impact.
“CHT embodies the sector’s growing maturity and the increasing expectation that technology should be co-designed with families, evidence-driven, and meaningfully embedded in everyday paediatric practice.
“In parallel, the RCPCH Digital Paediatrics conference has become a cornerstone event for paediatricians navigating the fast-evolving digital landscape, offering practical insights into data, interoperability, safety, governance, and the realities of implementing digital tools across diverse clinical settings. Its focus on standards, equity, and clinical leadership has shaped national conversations about what good looks like in digital child health.
“Bringing these two communities together for a joint two-day event in December 2026 creates an unprecedented opportunity: a single platform where visionary innovation meets clinical rigour, where emerging technologies are tested against real-world needs, and where the future of digital paediatrics can be shaped collectively by those who deliver care and those who experience it.”
PROFESSOR PAUL DIMITRI
Director, NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health
Vice President for Science and Research, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Founder, Child Health Technology Conference
“The RCPCH’s Digital Paediatrics programme, including the successful Digital Paediatrics Conference 2025, was designed in response to our Members. Our 2024 membership survey was one channel through which we clearly heard how our members needed more support in what continues to be a rapidly changing sector.
“Many of our 25,000 members are keen to actively use technology to transform child health and embrace the shift from analogue to digital. Equally, many are also cautious about these new opportunities; which are best suited to their needs and the needs of their patients?
“In 2026 we’re bringing together the world-leading expertise of the NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health & the RCPCH, and their stakeholders, to provide a first of its kind, sector-wide perspective on the child health technology landscape of tomorrow.
“The Paediatrics and Child Health Technology Conference 2026 will bring clarity, energy, and best practice guidance to all interested stakeholders and, in so doing, accelerate the adoption of new, efficacious, cost-effective, and safe innovations across the child health landscape. This will significantly benefit children and young people and the healthcare professionals who support them in the short, medium, and long terms.”
PROFESSOR STEVE TURNER
President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health