Digital Health and Care Scotland 2027

Scotland’s leading Digital Health and Care conference returns to Edinburgh on the 10th of February 2027 for its 18th consecutive year.

The conference will bring together Scotland’s top political voices, health leaders, and senior representatives from across healthcare, social care, housing, technology, and more to explore how we move from fragmented systems and promising pilots to integrated services that genuinely improve people’s lives.

The focus is firmly on turning innovation into impact: what makes technology fundable, adoptable and scalable, how public services and industry can work better together, and what leaders need to do to move from pilot to mainstream.

There will be plenty of opportunities to network and make connections in our exhibition hall throughout the day.

Engage with the people shaping the future of health, care and housing in Scotland and be part of a conversation about what it will actually take to make innovation work at scale.

Our prestigious awards ceremony will also take place the evening of the conference, where we will be celebrating the achievements of this year’s health and social care heroes. Click the link on the right to find out more.

Be sure to register your place and/or enquire about commercial opportunities at Scotland’s original Digital Health and Care conference.

We are pleased to be developing the agenda with input from our advisory group:

Jonathan Cameron, Deputy Director for Digital Health and Care at the Scottish Government
Professor George Crooks OBE, Chief Executive of the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre
Alyson Scurfield OBE, Chief Executive of TSA
Donald Macaskill, Chief Executive of Scottish Care

Lookback to Digital Health and Care Scotland 2026

You can find all the photos from our last conference and  awards  on our Flickr.

Holyrood Connect

Holyrood Connect publishes leading Public Sector ICT news in Scotland and hosts renowned public sector tech events and conferences. You can view all of Holyrood Connect’s upcoming events here.

Rikke Iversholt

Digital Social Care Advisor - Digital Front Door

NHS Education for Scotland

Professor Chris Carlin

Respiratory Physician & Clinical Lead

West of Scotland Innovation Hub

Christine McLaughlin CBE

Chief Executive | Director-General Health and Social Care

NHS Scotland | Scottish Government

Prof. Lesley Anderson

Chair in Health Data Science

University of Aberdeen

Professor Lesley Anderson joined the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science in March 2020. She trained at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) graduating with a PhD in cancer epidemiology in 2004. Prior to joining the University of Aberdeen Professor Anderson completed two highly respected fellowships: an Academic Fellowship (funded by the UK Medical Research Council) and a Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Maryland, United States of America. Professor Anderson then joined the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR) in 2017 as Deputy Director overseeing the production of Official Statistics for Northern Ireland and developing the NICR Research Advisory Group. Professor Lesley Anderson has over 20 years experience in research utilising healthcare data from the United Kingdom, Ireland, USA and Europe. She has established international partnerships within the USA, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia to facilitate research in the fields of health data science and public health with a focus on cancer research. Professor Lesley Anderson was Academic Lead for the Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Digital Diagnostics (iCAIRD) for Grampian. She is leading artificial intelligence evaluations at the University of Aberdeen and working to improve health care through Health Data Science research.