Dr Paul Rice joined Bradford and Airedale NHS Foundation Trusts from his role as Regional Director of Digital Transformation for NHS England and NHS Improvement in the North East and Yorkshire. He leads on the delivery of digital programmes across both organisations and at Place within our Act as One Programme. This work includes driving forward Airedale’s ambition as a Digital Aspirant to secure an enterprise wide Electronic Patient Record, updating and improving the Infrastructure, Networks and Cyber resilience of both organisations, and leading major digital system upgrades including Laboratory Imaging Systems.

He is committed to programmes of inclusive digital transformation and passionate about diversifying the skills base and creating professional career opportunities for current and future digital and data workforces. He is also a firm believer in information technology being a means to an end not an end in itself.

Stuart has over 30 years’ experience managing and delivering transformation programmes across the NHS. Joining the NHS in 1992 as a database specialist, he progressed through the stages of Programme Management leading the then QIPP and Digital Transformation agenda for Primary Care organisations across the Black Country. He is currently the EPR Programme Director at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, deploying Sunrise EPR to underpin clinical transformation across the Trust. Ensuring digital technology improves patient outcomes is a passion.

Louise Williams is the Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer for Sussex Community Foundation Trust (SCFT). SCFT is a large Community Trust in the South-East of England which has received Digital Aspirant funding over the past few years to support an innovative, digital transformation programme supporting their workforce in delivering care in patient’s homes. Louise has twenty years’ experience working across various NHS digital system and EPR implementations and is a graduate of cohort three of the NHS Digital Academy.

Jo Hillier is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for Sussex Partnership. Sussex Partnership is a large mental health and learning disabilities Trust in the South-East of England. Jo is an Occupational Therapist and Psychological Therapist with twenty-five years of clinical experience in physical and mental health in the UK and New Zealand.

Jo is committed to ensuring that the benefits and opportunities of digital technologies are a reality within the delivery of mental health and are leveraged to have an important role in improving the mental health of the population and the delivery of health and care services.

Jo is passionate about inclusive digital leadership and actively encourages clinicians and operational colleagues from all disciplines to be a part of digital transformation. Jo is a graduate of cohort four of the NHS Digital Academy.