Saffron is NHS Providers deputy chief executive. She has extensive experience in policy development, influencing and communications and has worked in the healthcare sector since 2007. Before moving into healthcare, Saffron was head of public affairs at the Local Government Association, the voice of local councils in England. Her early career focused on influencing EU legislation and policy development, and she started working life in adult and community education.

Tom Loosemore wrote the UK’s first Government Digital Strategy, and served as the GDS’s deputy director for five years. He led the early development of GOV.UK. Outside government, Tom has also worked as the Director of Digital Strategy at the Co-Operative Group, as digital strategy lead at OFCOM, and was responsible for shaping the BBC’s Internet strategy between 2001 and 2007. He is a non-executive Director of the UK Hydrographic Office, and co-author of Digital Transformation at scale: why the strategy is delivery.

Alex's first NHS role was at North Hampshire Hospital in 2005 and during her time there she covered areas as diverse as project management, governance, productivity and operational management of the Emergency Division. She went on to become Chief Operating Officer at Winchester Hospital. From 2012 to 2017 Alex was Chief Operating Officer for Solent NHS Trust which provides community and mental health services in Southampton, Portsmouth and parts of Hampshire. She became Chief Executive of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2017, running the hospitals in Andover, Basingstoke and Winchester. She is also convener of the North and Mid Hampshire Partnership bringing together providers of health and social care to improve the health and wellbeing of the population. Between 2018 and 2021, Hampshire Hospitals was part of the national Global Digital Exemplar Programme and is now actively planning for a new hospital as part of the national New Hospitals Programme.

Liz has significant NHS experience, with around 20 years’ operating at deputy director / board-level, in roles spanning commissioning and community / mental health provider organisations. Operating at Board level since 2014, Liz supported her Trust to develop plans that met the challenging financial requirements of a Monitor Foundation Trust application. This included then transformative plans to establish admin hubs and a mental health first response service, using related technology. Since joining TEWV last year, Liz has overseen work to agree a shared strategy, or Digital and Data Journey to Change, to support and empower colleagues, service users and partners and work with Board colleagues to build Digital awareness.

Since qualifying as an Occupational Therapist in 1986, Liz has focused her NHS career on empowering people and communities, building on their strengths while recognising their challenges. She is passionate about working with people, communities and colleagues to transform services to ensure sustainable health and care services. Liz has experienced first-hand the positive impact that working together in partnership with others has for local populations and she is a strong advocate for fully integrated care which puts people, and what matters to them, at the heart of services. She is deeply committed to creating a thriving organisational culture through meaningful conversations, encouraging and empowering teams to innovate and improve. Liz has been part of the Torbay and South Devon family for the last seven years, having previously worked in mental health, learning disabilities and social care services in Lincolnshire, Hampshire, Cheshire, Somerset and Devon. Prior to her appointment as Chief Executive at Torbay and South Devon Liz held a number of senior executive positions including Director of Workforce and Organisational Development, Director of Operations and Deputy Chief Executive.

James Reed is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS FT. He was first appointed as CCIO in 2013 and during this time has overseen a range of digital projects including BSMHFT’s role in the Global Digital Exemplar Programme. He is also clinical lead for the West Midlands Shared Care Record programme. James has been involved in the CCIO network since its inception and has been on the advisory panel for the last 6 years and was elected chair in 2019 and re-elected in 2021.

Andy has over 20 years experience in IT and has worked across key information technology and digital domains during his career. Andy joined University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in 2002 from a financial services organisation and was appointed Chief Technology Officer in 2017. He became Chief Information Officer in March 2019 with responsibility for taking forward the organisation's eHospital programme of work to deliver world-class IT in support of the trust's objectives. Andy has particular interests in user experience, interoperability and how digital can act as an enabler for improved patient safety, efficiency and service transformation. He has previously held senior posts focusing on data and analytics which remain areas of interest in realising the benefits of digital transformation in healthcare.

Dr George Findlay was appointed Chief Executive of Medway NHS Foundation Trust in May 2021. He was previously Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, where his contributions led to the Trust becoming the first non-specialist acute Trust in the country to be rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission. Digital innovation is very much part of the Patient First approach George has pioneered in Sussex and elsewhere. A specialist intensive care consultant, George is an experienced clinical leader and a Fellow of the Health Foundation’s GenerationQ leadership develop and quality improvement programme.

Kanthan Theivendran is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and is the upper limb and Research lead within the department. Kanthan also holds an academic position of Honorary Professor at the School of Engineering at Aston University. His interests include Clinical trials, Biomedical Engineering, patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and Health IT. He is a member of the openOutcomes committee. A digital PROMs platform under the custodian of the Apperta Foundation CIC.

Graham is an orthopaedic consultant at Frimley Park Hospital. He has always had an interest in technology and health informatics and was appointed CCIO in 2016. Frimley Health Foundation Trust is midway through an exciting programme which will see wholesale transformation of clinical IT systems from two legacy Trusts into a single Electronic Patient Record provided by Epic.


Dr Simon Wallace - CCIO, Nuance
Speaker biography

Dr Simon Wallace is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) of Nuance’s Healthcare division in the UK and Ireland. Simon has worked as a GP, hospital and public health doctor in Brighton and London. His interest in digital health began in the 90s when he spent a year at the King's Fund investigating the impact of the internet on shared decision making between patients and their healthcare professional. For the past 20 years, he has worked for a range of organisations including Bupa, Dr Foster, Cerner Corporation and GSK across a range of technologies which include AI-powered speech recognition, electronic patient records, telemedicine, mobile health and lifestyle devices.

Paul is a GP with nearly 20 years NHS experience and is the current Chair of the RCGP Health Informatics Group. Studying at Cambridge before completing his GP training at Imperial College, he has worked in a variety of GP roles including traditional partnerships, commercial organisations, and social enterprises. Paul has long been a champion of Clinical Informatics, trialling PalmPilot’s in hospital wards in the 1990’s and most recently reviewing Artificial Intelligence bids for NHS X. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and a member of the British Computer Society. Joining NHS Gloucestershire CCG as Chief Clinical Information Officer in 2015, Paul brings this local experience with him to the new ICB.

Dr Minal Bakhai is the Clinical Director for General Practice Transformation and Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement. She is a practicing GP, working at an inner-city London practice for almost 10 years. Minal has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across policy, national programme strategy, research and implementation. Additionally, she is an expert advisor at NICE appraising the effectiveness and safety of digital tools used in primary care to reduce preventable ill health and empower patients. She is passionate about harnessing the power of technology to support the delivery of a vibrant, high quality, sustainable general practice and developing a shared learning system to ensure the use of digital tools meet the challenges of our population.

Dr Koczan has been a GP in Chingford North East London for nearly 30 years. He is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a member of their Health Informatics Group. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics He has a long interest in Medical informatics and is the Clinical Safety Officer for NHS England (London Region). He has a national role as a senior clinical advisor for Primary Care Development and Shared Records with NHS Transformation Directorate. His particular interest is around both the application of technology to support care and bringing data together from different care settings to support patient care and quality improvement. He is supporting the patient access to their GP record programme as clinical lead for NHS Transformation Directorate.

I’m a practicing clinician (a GP in Yorkshire) and a self-employed developer specialising in Ruby/Rails. I have a role for the RCGP as Deputy Chair of the Health Informatics Group and I currently run the technical side of the Digital Health Discourse platform on which the Networks are based.

My personal mission is to maximise my impact in helping people live happy and healthy lives. As a GP Partner, I have been privileged to have a direct impact on this with my patients, and through my colleagues and the doctors I train. My love of technology and desire to ensure it always adds value for the people we serve has led me to my advisory role as Clinical Lead for Digital for the Sussex Integrated Care System. I founded and chair a successful GP federation where we are now working through the embryonic stages of an e-hub.

As a CIO Catherine has lead health system Integration Programmes and the development of Shared Care records. Catherine currently specialises in Data & Analytics Strategies to support Population Health Management, System Planning and Research working across Health & care Systems and with academic partners. As a lead on the Health Data Research Strand at The Elizabeth Blackwell Institute & a member of the Better Care Executive Group (University of Bristol) she supports the development of innovative partnerships in local health & care systems. Catherine is also a founding member of the National Digital Health CIO Network, and an alumni of the National CIO Advisory Panel. As a member of the Digital Alliance Partnership Board, she advises on National Policy & Data Strategy on behalf of the National CIO Network.

Has been involved in increasing digital maturity single handed for last 4 years and has managed to develop a strong team of 10 clinical informaticians from single trust with 3 of them being enrolled on the NHS digital health leadership course.

Ruth joined Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Deputy CIO in 2011, having been a Board-level ICT Director south of the Thames. She is passionate about digital professionals being part of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and maximising the value of data to help deliver quality patient care and research. Ruth has been the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA) London branch lead since December 2020 and invests time in developing the next generation of analytics leaders.

Rony has extensive Analytical and Business Intelligence experience, worked with various private and public sector organisations, and over 12 years’ experience within the NHS, he is a Honorary Member of the University of Exeter Medical School.
Rony has been named as the Top 100 Most Influential Data Leader in 2021 (DataIQ), representing the analyst community in this prestigious list.
Rony is the Chief Officer of the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA), he was elected in August 2020, he has been involved with AphA for a number of years and a member of AphA Board since 2015.
As the Head of Analytics for NHS England and NHS Improvement, Rony is leading the Data and Analytics team. In previous roles, Rony has worked as the Assistant Director of Information for the Devon STP, led Informatics teams in Acute, Community and Mental Health Trusts to deliver Business Intelligence, Clinical Systems and Application Development services.
Rony has been responsible for delivering innovative analytics solutions, his work includes focusing on co-design, application of advanced methods to deliver insight and intelligence. He has also been at the forefront of the move to data visualisation to provide compelling stories.
Rony have successfully led various transformation and quality improvement programmes working with executives, clinicians and multi-disciplinary staff group at all levels to improve the quality of care and the experience of patients and colleagues.

Shauna is currently the Chief Information Officer & Executive Board member at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG). She has over 15 yrs. experience working in the Canadian Healthcare system. She relocated to the UK in late 2015 to join Frimley Health as their CIO and then went on to be a Partner in Digital Transformation Consulting at South Central & West CSU. The role she held before coming to the UK was Director of Technology & Infrastructure Renewal at a District Health Authority in Canada. In this role she provided leadership for IT infrastructure, facility planning & all construction, commercial leasing, capital planning and clinical engineering across 8 hospitals and 26 community health care centres. Shauna is passionate about the positive impact effective digital transformation can have in the health and care system. As a leader she is grounded in the belief that healthy relationships with people are key to success, in combination with a positive attitude to lead and coach teams to achieve and exceed results and targeted deliverables. This in combination with attention to continuous learning she believes are critical components of being a successful Leader.

A Senior Geospatial manager with a professional background in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping over the last 18 years, across both the public and private sector. Manages the largest Geospatial Service across any of the NHS CCG, NHSE regions or CSUs within England and is instrumental in its continued growth as the power of geospatial analytics is realised across the NHS. Significant focus on finding new and innovative methods to develop spatial solutions on NHS programmes and challenges: from Covid 19 support, ICS Service reconfiguration programmes, Primary Care Networks, through to NHS Net Zero solutions. Board member of the Association of Geographic Information (AGI), the leading UK Geospatial Professional Organisation.

A strategic leader with considerable experience of leading change at the system and institutional level and at the NHS, academic/NHS and industry/NHS interfaces with a strong commitment to innovation and knowledge transfer. A track record in informatics and health data science research coupled with a track record of achievement and trust acknowledged at the highest level of NHS, government and by peers in the public, higher education and private sectors. What has been clear throughout my career and never more than now is the power that information has to help support patients & professionals to improve care. We are at a pivotal moment in history to be able to witness and influence this digital transformation in health & care. It is therefore more important than ever that we act collectively with the public to drive through the changes needed.

Paula is a Registered Nurse with 25+ years clinical experience and moved into this strategic role in 2016. She leads a team of clinicians and analysts who support systems to improve care pathways and services through data driven clinical insights. She is the clinical lead for the Greater Manchester (GM) Care Record and works with system colleagues to enhance and increase the use of the GM Care Record for direct care for front line health and care staff. Paula is passionate about the role that technology has in improving care for patients and making it easier for staff to deliver.

I'm an experienced technology leader with a proven track record of leading strategy, design and development of large transformational services and products. I have worked in various roles, including software engineer, technology consultant, architect, product manager, and CTO. As a result, I have a breadth of technology, business and people skills with a proven track record of leading large, diverse and distributed teams through major transformational programs within highly competitive, technically challenging and fast-paced environments. In my current position as Chief Technology Officer for Better, I am accountable for technology innovation, strategy and leadership for Better's suite of platforms, tools and applications.

Professor Graham Evans is the Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO) for North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, Graham is currently the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Integrated Care System (ICS). Graham has held a number of national and regional leadership roles in the NHS relating to health informatics. Graham commenced his NHS career with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in June 2004 as the director of Information Management and Technology (IM&T). Graham’s former NHS roles include; Chief Information Officer and director of informatics for the North East Strategic Health Authority, Director of corporate services and corporate chief information officer for NHS England.

Kate Walker is the Digital Programme Director for Suffolk & North East Essex ICS, the East Accord Lead and the Co-author of the Digital Ethics Charter www.ethicscharter.co.uk @TheValueofIMT Kate, a former CIO, has worked in the NHS in the East of England for 20 years supporting frontline digitisation and transformation. Having spent the last 4 years within the SNEE STP (now ICS) central team, she developed the SNEE Digital Roadmap; the SNEE ICS Digital Strategy and delivery programme, and formed the East Accord, a collaborative network of digital leaders operating across, beyond and within six ICSs.

Consultant Psychiatrist, CCIO, founding director of The Great North Care Record, former director of Connected Health Cities (NorthEast), former NHS Trust Medical Director, former National Clinical Lead for IT during NPfIT, Medical Director of Sleepstation, founding director of Public Money Public Code CIC and principal consultant at Ethical Healthcare Consulting.

I-Lin leads the data and digital applications team at NECS overseeing a Data Services for Commissioners Regional Office (DSCRO) and a team of 100 data and technical architects, engineers, digital developers and primary care specialists. Her team provides data management services and digital solutions to a diverse range of customers in the North East and North Cumbria and beyond. I-Lin joined the NHS in 2013 having previously worked in the commercial sector leading a service within the defence and security industry. She led on several transformational programmes and has developed strong and effective stakeholder relationships and at senior and executive level.

Mark is Portfolio Manager for the regional programme to develop a Trusted Research and Evaluation (TREE) on behalf of the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Integrated Care System. Previously Mark was Operations Director for Connected Health Cities in the NENC and Programme Manager for the Great North Care Record (GNCR). He was involved in setting up and developing the GNCR programme, transforming it into one of the largest share care records in the country. Mark has worked in various programme management roles in the NHS since 2003, having previously worked in industry and a health informatics research centre.

Gary Leeming is the Director of the Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative and Senior Data Manager for ISARIC4C, based at the University of Liverpool. Formerly he was the Chief Technology Officer at the Connected Health Cities programme, developing technology and infrastructure for learning health systems and Trustworthy Research Environments, as well as investigating distributed ledger technologies for management of health data. Previously he was the Director of Informatics at the Manchester Academic Health Science Network working on digital innovation and health information exchanges, and has also worked on use of real world data in clinical trials on the Salford Lung Study and other projects.

Darryl Davies is a healthcare analytics expert and team builder. He has overseen the development of the Graphnet CareCentric Population Health Analytics solution from concept right through to the ground-breaking toolset in use today. A solution which is used in over 10 Integrated Care Systems, providing significant benefits for patient and citizen care. What drives him is helping the NHS and Social Care by enabling easy use of data and analytics to contribute to improving the health of the nation. Less bean counting, more direct care decision support analytics, more intervention evaluation, more research into action and more sharing on what works in public.

Dr Susheel Varma is HDR UK’s Chief Technology Officer (interim) and Director of Engineering to provide technology leadership and delivery of all technology infrastructure projects in HDR UK including the Health Data Innovation Gateway (Gateway) and the development of a network of federated Trusted Research Environments (TRE). Currently seconded as the National Digital Research Technical Lead to DARE UK to develop the strategic and technical blueprints for an open, secure federated and interoperable ecosystem of TREs across UKRI investments. He also provides alignment to HDR UK’s international strategy across HDR UK’s portfolio of research hubs, (meta)data alliance, training and infrastructure projects.

Haris Shuaib is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of the Clinical Scientific Computing section at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where his team are developing people, platforms, and policy for digital health. He is also the AI Transformation Lead at the London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare where he oversees the development of AI prototypes across over 20 patient pathways in partnership with academia, industry and NHS Trusts. He is also the inventor and technical lead of the AI Deployment Engine, a platform which seeks to make integration of AI software into clinical pathways safe and efficient. Finally, he also holds a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, where he is leading a national multi-centre trial to see whether AI can improve the treatment of glioblastoma.

Amadeus is a Data/Technology Lead in the NHS AI Lab Skunkworks team, working on accelerating the safe adoption of AI in the health and care system through practical knowledge and capability building. Prior to joining the Lab, Amadeus was Global Head of Product and CTO at Decoded, a leading technology education company. Amadeus combines his experience in industry with a PhD in nanomedicine from the University of Oxford. In the Skunkworks team Amadeus has worked on the development of AI proof of concepts including predicting length of stay, bed allocation and CT registration and lesion detection.

Sebastien Ourselin, FREng, is Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, Director of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering and London Institute for Healthcare Engineering and Deputy Director of the London Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare. With over 20 years of experience within academia he has successfully translated and commercialised healthcare technologies. He is a co-founding member of two academic spin-out companies, BrainMiner Ltd (which utilises machine learning algorithms for brain image analysis) and Hypervision Surgical Ltd (which aims to deliver artificial intelligence -enabled hyperspectral imaging in the operating room).

Dr Gooding obtained his DPhil in Medical Imaging from University of Oxford in 2004. After postdoctoral experience both in university and NHS settings, he joined Mirada Medical in 2009, motivated by a desire to see technical innovation translated into clinical practice. Dr Gooding now leads the research team at Mirada, where in addition to the commercial and translational research he continues to collaborate both clinically and academically. Dr Gooding lead the team developing the world’s first AI-based contouring software for radiotherapy that was cleared for clinical use, DLCExpert.

As a CIO for one of the large university teaching hospitals I have promoted the concept of open platforms and interoperability for over 20 years. Aside from being DH AP Chair, 2010-2021, I have acted in an advisory capacity to KLAS and a number of suppliers to the NHS and INTEROPen As chair of the CIO network I feel we have had good engagement from the national teams in NHSD/X and have had opportunity to voice an opinion which I believe has occasionally influenced a product, policy or direction. A member of the BCS and accredited CHCIO status.

Phil is an independent digital health advisor working with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust as Interim Head of Product Engineering, where Phil leads modernisation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform, including the migration to open platforms and the associated data strategy. Phil has a background in interoperability and modernisation programmes and has worked with several NHS Trusts on improvement initiatives. Phil works with digital leaders to shape their strategy and work programmes, including providing the extra headspace and capacity to deliver improvements. Phil is passionate about data-centric platform architecture and its use within healthcare and the NHS.

Dr. Saroj Patel is the Chief Digital & Innovation Officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. As a seasoned professional with two decades as a CIO, Saroj has a reputation for being an innovative leader with transformational expertise, financial acumen and an exceptional eye for detail. She has led the development of Open Medical Care Record (MCR) system, co-designed and co-developed by clinician from the RNOH and our development partner Interneuron CIC. The mission is to create an open source MCR using modern technology stack that strictly adopts open standards for data, for interoperability and for business. Everything developed is freely shared with whoever needs it. She is also the chair of the Aspire charity whose mission is to help people with spinal cord injuries to lead independent lives, a role she is exceptionally proud to hold. An accomplished communicator, team-builder and developer of talent with the natural ability to inspire workforces, Saroj has steered strategic debates and influenced top-level decision-making and, by fostering strong relations between CEOs, executives and non-executive directors, she has built consensus, increased stakeholder engagement and empowered others to drive healthcare improvements. She is passionate to nurture and develop the next generation of Digital Leaders and CIOs through her coaching practice. Saroj holds an MSC in Computer Science, an MBA and a PhD in Digital Strategic Management and is a Chartered Director (IOD).

Gary McAllister is the Chief Technology Officer for the London Region and is responsible for the OneLondon programme – an award winning Shared Care Record programme. Gary has spent over 20 years working in the healthcare industry, previously the Chief Technology Officer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Gary has an interest in technology, health policy and system level transformation and is a graduate of the Digital Leadership Academy. You can also purchase Gary’s book, An Introduction to Digital Healthcare in the NHS on Amazon (shorturl.at/dqK23).

Mark is the IT Development Manager at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, and has worked within the NHS over 20 years gaining hands-on technical experience, covering infrastructure and software development. In that time, Mark has gained extensive experience and knowledge of procuring, designing, writing and implementing hundreds of clinical and business systems, ranging from small department systems to county wide PACs systems and EPRs. He has undertaken wide ranging development work both locally and nationally on open data platforms, interoperability, open source and is passionate about improving patient care through use of technology.

Dr Paul Deffley is a practising NHS clinician and Chief Medical Officer for Alcidion. Alcidion helps healthcare organisations transform their clinical care by harnessing the power of digital tools. Our modular suite leverages clinical decision support, artificial intelligence, and real-time visualisation to provide smart health informatics for patient flow and a range of other scenarios. Paul has 16 years’ experience of working in digital health programmes, both as a provider and CCIO for commissioning organisations. He has successfully led national and local implementation of digital technology in a range of health settings. His particular areas of interest are the human factors that are required to make sure than new technology is well adopted and the principles of user centred design, to ensure the tools being deployed work for those using them.

Tom Scott leads Alcidion’s UK commercial function and is responsible for sales, account management, marketing and partnerships. Tom has worked in digital health for the last decade, across a variety of functions including delivery, product and commercial roles. Tom’s particular area of interest is in delivering innovative modern, modular EPR capabilities to the UK Market

Jo is the Chief Nurse at NHS Digital, where she works alongside teams who design, develop and operate the national IT and data services that support clinicians at work, help patients get the best care, and use data to improve health and care. Jo’s role is to provide expert nursing leadership within NHSD and work collaboratively with other clinical professionals to provide wider clinical informatics and clinical safety expertise to all programmes and services in NHS Digital. Jo also works in partnership with the National CNIO based in NHSX and is also part of #TeamCNO. Collectively this group of nursing leaders are supporting the delivery of programmes to develop a digitally enabled nursing and midwifery workforce across all regions and across organisations and sectors. Jo has a varied clinical background, having worked in Neurosciences, as a Pain Nurse Specialist and as a Clinical Educator before moving into roles in the technology area, and Clinical Informatics. She has previously held roles as CNIO at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and as Clinical Informatics Director at Nuffield Health. Jo has had responsibility as Clinical Safety Officer and Caldicott Guardian previously. She is a past Chair of the Digital Health CNIO network, and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.

Sarah is a Registered Adult Nurse & Practice Lecturer/Practitioner predominantly working within Acute Medicine with 26 years of clinical and leadership experience. Her current role is a Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) Nursing & AHP The Christies NHS Foundation Trust in 2019. Sarah attained one of the first Florence Nightingale Digital Scholarships in 2020, during the pandemic Sarah set up the Northwest Regional CNIO/Mid-wife and AHP network. Sarah is the CNIO Chair of the Digital Health Network Sarah’s and CHIME UK advisory member her passion is digital transformation to improve patient care.

I am the current Chair of the Digital Shared Decision-Making Council where I have organised external speakers, presented recent work and shared learning. I have been an advocate for my Trust, promoting the work they are doing in the Digital Documentation Group on EHRs, for which we were shortlisted for a Nursing Times Award. Alongside this, I co-founded the Early Oncology Professional Forum in April 2021 - using the platform to inspire digital innovation in Early Oncology Professionals. More recently, I have started my MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, whilst continuing to work digitally, expanding my leadership and clinical skills.

Hello my name is Claire. I believe that those who deliver care are best placed to make improvements and drive innovation in that care. I am passionate about the possibilities for technology to enhance practice and to support innovation in the development of patient led and person centred services now and into the future. Underpinning this I strongly believe that the voice of nursing and midwifery needs to be louder in the informatics “space”, capacity requires building and we need to share more widely. I am the Assistant Director of Digital Health & Nursing within the Digital Health and Care Team in Northern Ireland. This role supports and promotes the sustainable regional development of digital health and data. I am currently leading the design and development of the new Digital Health and Care Strategy for NI, which will be created to digitally empower citizens by digitally enabling professionals and digitally equipping the system. Having qualified from University of Ulster, I have held a variety of clinical, research and project management positions during which time I completed a MSc in Health Informatics with the University of Central Lancashire. I have also lectured within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queens University Belfast. I have been an active member of the Digital Network CNIO Group for a number of years; the RCN ehealth Forum and recently took on the Chair of the FCI Special Interest group.

Antonia is a District Nurse, currently working as Digital Transformation Clinical Lead at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. She has recently implemented an innovative visit allocation system for community nursing Sussex-wide. She chairs a national user network for the EPR in use at her Trust. She has recently been awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Scholarship, through which she plans to produce a blueprint for visit allocation automation. She is a Queens Nurse, committed to the delivery of outstanding patient care in the community.

Fran is employed by Digital Health and Care Wales advising on the standardisation and digitalisation of nursing documentation across Wales supporting the delivery of a “Once for Wales” electronic health record collaborating with government and national nursing leaders. Leading to NHS Wales winning the Nursing Times award for Technology and Data in Nursing, 2020 and Winners of BCS Leading Health Care project 2021 Fran holds a MSc in Health Informatics alongside her Registered Nurse qualification, chairs the British Computer Society specialist nursing committee, in addition to representing Wales on the Five Nations Digital Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Group

Katya is Head of the Digital Pioneer Fellowship programme for NHS staff delivering digital transformation, as well as the Programme Manager for the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator. She leads on strategy and planning for DigitalHealth.London, utilising her significant healthcare sector and operational experience. Katya’s support to NHS staff, companies and the wider system includes specialist guidance on evidence generation, evaluation and health economics. She has a PhD in Chemical Pathology, starting her career in medical research, and leading on health economic and epidemiological research within the Department of Public Health at Cambridge University and the Julius Centre at Utrecht University.

Simon is the founder of Nautilus Consulting specialising in supporting customers maximise the value they gain from digital health solutions. He has over 25 years in IT, working as a trusted advisor at Board level from strategy to delivery. Simon established Nautilus to help Trusts deal with the aftermath of the National Programme for IT and learn the lessons when setting up their own contracting arrangements. He has specialised in commercial strategy, procurement, and supplier management to ensure Trusts develop and maintain effective key supplier relationships. More recently he has led integrated care records projects from business case to roll-out.

Featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue UK 10 Rising Female Stars 2018, Women of the Future UK Awards Finalist 2019 and TEDx Speaker. Named one of the “UK’s most influential people in digital and tech” in the 2021 BIMA 100 List. Host of Royal Society of Medicine's Digital Health Podcast, which has over 10,000 listens in 95+ countries. 68% of listeners are under the age of 35 years old, engaging the next generation of healthcare leaders. Currently Head of Market Development at Leva Clinic, where we launched the UK's first online chronic pain clinic. My role includes translating market need alongside a range of business development areas such as strategic partnerships.

Andy Wilcox, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Imprivata is an experienced professional with over 17 years of experience managing and developing healthcare technology products and services for international healthcare markets. Based in the UK, Andy has held a range of Product Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development positions in industry leading healthcare technology companies in the UK, driving customer growth and adoption in markets across EMEA and APAC. Andy has worked at Imprivata for five years and has been instrumental in the development of Imprivata’s Digital Identity Framework.

Helena is Head of Software Development at Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, leading a team specialising in the design and implementation of Power Platform solutions. With a career spanning application development, data integration and systems management across the Primary Care, Acute and Mental Health sectors, Helena has a keen interest in driving process improvements and identifying opportunities to add value through effective digital transformation.