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Healthcare has always been about more than technical knowledge alone.
It is about judgement, character, service, leadership - and what you choose to do with the opportunity you have been given.
Lanterns of Hope is a national summit for medical students, dental students and early-career clinicians who want to think beyond exams, placements, portfolios and the next application.
For one day in Manchester, students and young professionals from across the country will come together to explore a bigger question:
What could your career actually become?
For many students and early-career clinicians, life becomes a cycle of deadlines, revision, placements, rotations, applications and trying to keep up.
You are constantly moving, but rarely get the space to ask where you are actually going.
You might have energy, ideas and a genuine desire to make a difference - but no clear sense yet of where to channel it.
That is what this day is for.
🌍 The bigger picture
Healthcare is changing quickly. AI, technology, widening inequalities, changing communities and growing pressure on health systems will shape the world our generation inherits.
We will need excellent clinicians - but also thoughtful leaders, builders, educators, innovators and people willing to serve where they are needed most.
Lanterns of Hope is about bringing those people into one room.
Across the day, expect keynote talks, panels, workshops, exhibitors and meaningful opportunities to meet students, clinicians, leaders and organisations from across the country.
We will also be joined by major national and global organisations across healthcare, education, professional development and industry, with further partnership announcements coming soon.
✨ This is not another day about making your CV longer.
It is a day designed to make you think more seriously about who you are becoming, what you care about and where your talent could take you.
🎤 Chaired by Dr Masood Ahmed
The summit will be chaired by Dr Masood Ahmed, Chair of Medology and a highly experienced senior NHS leader, educator and mentor whose work spans healthcare leadership, innovation, medical education and the development of future clinicians.
Having worked across senior healthcare leadership, academia and mentoring the next generation, Dr Masood brings a perspective that reaches far beyond the conventional career ladder.
He will lead the conversations across the day and be joined by an exciting line-up of speakers from healthcare and beyond.
Full speaker and partner announcements coming soon.
What to expect
🎙️ Keynotes from leading voices across healthcare and leadership
💬 Panels on the future of medicine, dentistry and healthcare
🧠 Interactive workshops designed to challenge how you think and develop how you lead
🤝 Networking with students, clinicians, mentors and organisations from across the country
🏛️ Exhibitors from healthcare, education, professional development and innovation
🍽️ Lunch included
Who is it for?
🩺 Medical students at any stage of university
🦷 Dental students
👨⚕️ Early-career doctors and dentists
🌱 Students and clinicians who want more direction, perspective and purpose in where their career is heading
Event details
📅 Saturday 21 November 2026
📍 University of Manchester [exact venue details will be given closer to the time]
⏰ 9:30AM–6PM
Tickets
🎟️ Early Bird: £12.99
Limited early bird tickets are available now, with prices increasing as further speakers and partners are announced.
If you have ever felt that there must be more to a healthcare career than simply moving from one milestone to the next, this day is for you.
Come with ambition. Leave with a bigger idea of what you could do with it.