Professor Daniel Ray
CTO, BWC NHS FT,
Daniel Ray has worked in health technology and informatics for over 25 years. He is CTO of Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS FT where he has been since January 2020. He has worked closely with his team and clinical staff to drive forward the development, use and uptake of technology. He is also a NED/Trustee on the board of an allergy charity NARF and historically in his previous role was Exec Director of Data at NHS Digital; responsible for developing the organisation’s data capability. Daniel in his national role was responsible for all technical data and product delivery. Prior to this he was Director of Informatics at a large teaching hospital in England for 10 years, where he transformed the health informatics service, set up a quality outcomes research unit, and developed a patient portal among other work programmes. He was the first chairman of the national CIO network. He also set up commercial analytics businesses in England, Australia, the US and Italy. He has worked in commissioning in the NHS, the private sector and a number of other acute hospitals. He is also honorary Professor of health informatics at UCL’s Institute of Health Informatics, where he gets involved in leading edge research and teaching.