Thu 6 Nov 2025 09:00-15:50
Online Course, 5 CPD Hours

Upskill, automate and evolve your clinical coding service to maximise accuracy, expand capacity and meet your automation deadline

With rising pressure and rapidly evolving expectations the role of clinical coders is transforming to meet automation and AI demands from across the NHS. Here is your opportunity to gain actionable insights to empower your Coding workforce and drive forward efficiency and digital innovation. Learn how to identify automation opportunities, implement RPA solutions, upskill your coders with SQL and Power BI and improve coding quality and throughput. 

Secure your spot and ensure you achieve successful RPA implementation first time

Take advantage of the SBK Summer Sale - Book before 31st August to get 1/3 off the full NHS and Public Sector price! (Applies to new, full price bookings only)

Automation Masterclass for Clinical Coders
Online 5 CPD hours Summer sale - £166 + VAT

5 hours Continuing Professional Development: Transform your coding service

This essential online training is designed to help you and your coding team future proof their service by:

  • Exploring how automation and upskilling coders can improve accuracy and increase capacity  
  • Understanding how clinical coding drives financial recovery, informs decision-making and supports long-term NHS goals
  • Challenging outdated workflows and empowering coders to lead in digital transformation
  • Building a data-enabled, automation-ready coding service that delivers sustainable, efficient and high-quality care

Developed for your convenience: Join this NHS online workshop remotely

Take away useful techniques and new skills to use in your day-to-day work routine:

  • Evidenced based learning from leading NHS Senior Information Analyst, Matthew Garner from Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Interactive sessions: questions and concerns addressed with expert insight
  • Clear action planning: leave the workshop with a practical strategy to advance your automation journey and unlock service-wide improvements

This course is available for in-house training

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

9:00
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:30
Introduction, instructions and course leader’s opening remarks
Matthew Garner, Senior Information Analyst, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Upskilling your clinical coders
9:40
Upskilling your workforce to increase RPA success
  • Identifying the ideal candidate to spearhead your RPA
  • Navigating the core packages your service need: specific training, SQL skills, power BI and report building
  • Developing roles to further support your coding team
10:20
Questions and answers with Matthew Garner
Future-proofing coding
10:30
Interactive discussion: Exploring your service’s automation journey
  • Where are you currently in your automation journey? And what are you aiming for?
  • How do you see yourself moving into a data or automation role if given the right tools and support?
11:00
Screen break
Empowering coders with SQL and BI
11:10
Building technical capability into your workforce
  • Identifying the core tools: SQL packages, Power BI, NHS report-building systems
  • How to manage and mentor guidance from BI/ data teams
  • Evolving your approach to extracting
11:50
Questions and answers with Matthew Garner
12:00
Interactive discussion: Exploring your electronic systems to ensure best RPA outcomes
  • What electronic systems do you use? What access do you have to them?
  • What data do you have access to? What do you code in?
12:30
Networking lunch
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) development
1:00
Leveraging RPA for coding automation to increase efficiency
  • Identifying automation candidates
  • How to get your codes into the encoder or data warehouse
  • Utilising coders to design logic
1:40
Questions and answers with Matthew Garner
1:50
Interactive discussion: Exploring your current RPA protocols to increase efficiency
  • How do you evaluate whether an RPA idea is worth developing?
  • Share how do you validate an RPA process? What risks must be covered in governance checklists?
2:20
Screen break
Driving forward RPA
2:30
RPA implementation, governance and roll-out
  • Safeguards: data governance, validation protocols, audit logs
  • How to pitch ROI, efficiency, time saving, improved coding accuracy
3:10
Final questions and answers with Matthew Garner
3:20
Interactive discussion: Reflection and action planning
  • What key insights or strategies from today will you take back to your service?
  • What are your next steps to advance your automation journey?
3:50
Close of day

Bringing a wealth of expertise and knowledge

Matthew brings real-world insight into how to upskill coders, optimise data access and embed automation across services. Matthew's sessions have been described as “clear and helpful,” “excellent and informative,” and “particularly useful” when explaining new technologies like AI and RPA.

You'll benefit from Matthew’s hands-on knowledge, practical examples and commitment to helping NHS teams’ future-proof their services through collaboration, automation and smarter data use.


Job Title:
Senior Information Analyst
Organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Biography

Matthew Garner has over 15 years of experience within the NHS, having contributed to a variety of departments, including Medical Records, Patient Access, Endoscopy Scheduling, Clinical Coding, and Business Intelligence and Performance. In his current role as a Senior Information Analyst at Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Trust, Matthew leverages his strong foundation as a nationally qualified clinical coder to deliver data-driven insights and solutions. Matthew is also an RPA Developer and Solution Designer, leading innovative automation projects, with a primary focus on creating and implementing automated clinical coding solutions that enhance efficiency and accuracy. His expertise and dedication to modernizing NHS processes continue to generate groundbreaking approaches that bring substantial benefits.

Pricing Structure

  • Summer Sale: £166+VAT for one NHS or Public Sector place when booked before 31st August 2025
  • £249+VAT for one NHS or Public Sector place for one NHS or Public Sector place when booked after 31st August 2025

This course is available for in-house training 

Available as a bespoke course to teams of 30+ people. Please do contact us if you would like this training delivered exclusively to your team, with the content developed to drill into the specific needs of your service. Please email Sarah Kemm or call 01732 897788 for further details.

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day. Please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

You can reserve a no-obligation place whilst you apply for funding

If your funding has not yet been secured or you would like to hold your place with no obligation whilst waiting for your study leave to be approved, you can reserve your place with us. Please email the reservations team at SBK Healthcare with your details:

  • Booking contact: name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Event(s) to reserve for: title and date
  • Delegate details (for each delegate): name, job title, department, email and telephone number
  • Organisation details: name and address

Alternatively you can make a confirmed booking by emailing the above information to the bookings team 

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

This online meeting is ideal for those teams striving for automation deadlines. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Heads and Deputy Heads of Clinical Coding
  • Clinical Coding Managers, Service Managers and Team Leads
  • Senior Clinical Coding Analysts and Clinical Coding Trainers
  • Clinical Coding Auditors
  • Digital Transformation Leads

If you have a team that is 30 people or more, you can have a bespoke course delivered online to your team alone. Please contact Sarah Kemm or telephone 01732 897788.

Past attendee feedback

Since 2014 SBK Healthcare has run highly successful clinical coding training events, but don’t take our word for it – check out some of the great feedback from over the years: 

‘This event was incredibly valuable. I gained and shares insights to potential innovations to support our profession and found reassurance that my counterparts are in the same situation and facing the same challenges’

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

‘Great to network and interesting to hear what other Trusts are doing in terms of automated coding/AI‘

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

‘Very knowledgeable individuals and useful input from all the clinical staff, ideal platform to help connect with other coding colleagues’

Clinical Coding National Networking Forum, September 2021

‘Easy to join with great support from SBK’

Clinical Coding National Networking Forum, September 2021

‘Very useful day. Gained a great deal from all’

Enabling the Digital Future of Clinical Coding, 2022

‘I really enjoyed Matthew Garner’s presentation and think he delivered it in a really clear and helpful manner’

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

‘The explanation of AI by Matthew was particularly useful‘

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

‘Matthew’s presentation was excellent and very informative’

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

‘Loved sharing from Matthew Garner’

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

‘Matthew Garner – interesting and informative’

National Clinical Coding Roadmap, April 2025

View further comments on SBK Healthcare events on Trust Pilot.

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing NHS delivery forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact: 

Sarah Kemm 

Contact: 01732 897788 

Email: sarah.kemm@sbk-healthcare.co.uk