Jan Hoogewerf
Head of Health and Care, BCS
Jan is Head of Health and Care at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. She joined BCS from the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, where she was instrumental in the set up and early development of the organisation. Prior to that she managed the Health Informatics Unit at the Royal College of Physicians and has worked in digital health and social care roles for most of her career, both at a local and a national level across all health and care settings, including acting as an advisor to the Department of Health on the Common Assessment Framework Demonstrator health and social care integration programme. BCS drives professional standards in informatics and supports the development of digital skills at all career stages, with the aim of achieving an effective and ethical digital workforce. BCS is a founder member of the Federation for Informatics Professionals (FEDIP). Jan’s priorities in her BCS role are to create opportunities to develop the skills and experience needed by those working in health and social care informatics and to support professionalisation through promoting professional standards and registration.