Day, Chris

Chris Day, currently serves as Clinical Lead within Cyber Operations at NHS England. He has worked in the role since August 2022 when it was highlighted that clinical input was an essential requirement within Cyber Operations. He straddles between Cyber and Digital Clinical Informatics to ensure that each area is considered within the opposite function.  

Having worked as a Physiotherapist across a range of Trusts for more than a decade, a huge amount of knowledge was gained about how digital ways of working can be done successfully, but also when things go wrong. A significant amount of project management and change management activity has been undertaken within both clinical and digital roles.  

Although still practicing as a Physiotherapist, Chris initially became involved in Clinical Informatics when taking up a role as a Clinical Change Manager in 2018, within Digital Services of an Acute Trust. This then progressed to the role of Lead Allied Health Professional for Digital Transformation, which included clinically leading the implementation of an Electronic Health Record.  

Within Cyber Operations Chris works on everything from strategy development and ongoing business development to incident management when cyber-attacks emerge within the NHS.  

Chris has keen interests in change management within health and social care. How we protect individuals through improvement of support functions that enable: and optimising services to maximise our ability to provide gold standard outputs.