Thomas, Sarah

Sarah is an experienced digital healthcare leader who is passionate about the power of data and technology to transform outcomes for patients and the working lives of staff across the NHS. She has been Digital Director on the New Hospital Programme since 2020, spearheading the digital ambition to develop, deliver and optimise Intelligent Hospitals.

She has 15 years’ private sector experience specialising in healthcare technology. She has been accountable for senior client partnerships with Trusts, resulting in first of type deployments across the UK. She created and led international executive alignment between UK hospitals and US healthcare systems, shaping digitisation and transformation programmes focused on reducing unwarranted variation in care. She has also managed strategy and deployment of industry leading digital delivery models into large acute providers, resulting in the opening of digitally advanced hospitals in the UK.