Digital Health Networks Advisory Panels
Digital Health Networks is an independent professional community of over 6,000 NHS IT leaders, dedicated to collaboration and sharing best practices for the effective use of digital technologies and data across the NHS. At the core of our community are three foundation Networks: CCIO Network, CIO Network, and the CNIO Network.
Each Network has a directly elected advisory panel of 12 members, who elect a chair and vice chairs amongst the group, to represent the community nationally.
The panels serve as the driving force behind our CCIO, CIO and CNIO communities, providing leadership, setting priorities, and shaping the direction of their respective Networks. Together, they will build on the progress made by previous panel members and continue to champion the effective use of digital technologies and data across the NHS.
We are delighted to announce the newly elected members of the CCIO, CIO, and CNIO Advisory Panels and encourage you to connect with them, share your ideas, and collaborate to drive forward the digital health agenda.
We would like to extend our appreciation to all candidates who participated in the election process.
CNIO ADVISORY PANEL CHAIR
Bio:
Simon spent 20 years working in Adult Intensive Care, has worked with the Blood Transfusion Service, developing bedside electronic transfusion systems, and since 2017, he has been Chief Nurse Informatics Officer at Oxford, leading the development of the digital record system and reinforcing the presence of Nursing as a voice in organisational digital decision making. Since 2021 Simon has served on the Digital Health CNIO Advisory Panel, he has contributed to the panel through publications, webinars and presenting at events, he has contributed to the Nursing Guidance for WGLL and has provided mentorship to other CNIOs across the country.
Manifesto:
The pace of digital adoption across the NHS is rapidly growing, but with many striving for the same goals through various methods diverse application platforms and different clinical support structures. I would like to see greater dialogue between clinical specialities and healthcare institutions to improve collaboration and to help us learn from local innovation and operational challenges. However, it is clear that there is no simple pathway to enable this, but I firmly believe that:
• There should be standardisation of how Nursing job roles are profiled in Digital services, so there is equity between healthcare providers.
• Nursing is a leading voice in the meaningful adoption of intelligent digital working, but this should champion interdisciplinary working to ensure that digital enables collaboration and effective clinical services.
• Improved standardisation of clinical nursing workflows will allow greater understanding of the way care may be expected to be delivered across the country.
• In line with this, there should be effective assessment of how digital is adopted, so enhancements facilitate and guide care, but also that they enable Nursing and not direct it.
• Healthcare organisations should recognise that the provision of education and training for digital literacy should be the available to all staff, so we enable a digitally literate workforce who are able to adapt to and support the evolution of digital healthcare tools.
• Digital should empower patients by providing greater access to health records and should not disempower those with who have less access to digital healthcare or who are less digitally literate.
CNIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
First and foremost I am a Nurse, with a passion for improving healthcare with technology. I am currently the CNIO at The Royal Marsden Hospital, leading Nursing, AHPs and Patients through our ambitious digital transformation program, which has recently included the implementation of a Trust wide Electronic Patient Record.
I have a clinical background in Intensive Care Nursing, Practice Education and Palliative Care. During my time as an Intensive Care Practice Educator, I served as the Nurse Lead for a local EPR implementation, and this was where my passion for health informatics was born. In addition, I have co-edited the most recent edition of the Royal Marsden Manual, a Nationally and Internationally valued Nursing Textbook.
I have completed an MSc in Digital Health Leadership with the NHS Digital Academy and Imperial College London. My research explored the evolution of the CNIO role and this is a field I am keen to influence.
Manifestio:
My priorities as a digital leader are advocating for patients and staff, clinical safety, user centered design, stakeholder engagement (especially patient involvement) and digital inclusion (for both patients and staff). As a returning member of the advisory panel, I would strive to ensure these priority areas are called out and on the agenda for CNIO practice going forwards. Advocating for patients has been a privilege throughout my nursing career and something I take very seriously in my current role where my voice has a much wider reach and influence. I would use my position on the advisory panel to further expand this reach. I want to see patient involvement in design and engagement as a standard and want to move to a world where healthcare is enhanced by technology, but no one is left behind.
As a member of the advisory panel I will first and foremost listen, listen to patients and to staff, to ensure I am articulating real issues, I will then seek to help address these at a central level, to ensure a collaborative and cohesive approach. Our strategy going forwards must be centered around collaborative working, sharing lessons learned and using progress from others – so much time is wasted on ‘re-inventing the wheel’, the Digital Health Network is an ideal platform to drive such working forward. The value of the CNIO panel in this field has been proven over the past two years’ achievements, including collaboration with teams beyond the UK.
I will continue to raise the profile of the CNIO/nursing informatics role and support Trusts to attain permeant CNIO teams. I would like to see the panel set an objective of promoting the professionalization of the CNIO role and other related roles in this ever growing field of Nursing.
CNIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
Stacey is an accomplished healthcare professional and CNIO at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. With a rich background in digital transformation, she has played integral roles in driving innovation and modernisation. Stacey was honoured a Florence Nightingale Foundation 2022 Digital Scholar. She has demonstrated exemplary leadership and spearheaded positive change within healthcare, through numerous digital transformation projects. In December 2022, Stacey received an invitation to join the CNIO Advisory Panel, motivated by passion for entrepreneurship and innovation, Stacey is committed to actively participating in the Panel’s initiatives, striving to promote the vital connection between digital health, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Manifesto:
My dedication to digital health stems from a profound realisation of its potential to amplify the positive impact of good healthcare practices through technology. As a nurse at the bedside, my influence was limited to the 10-30 patients I could directly care for during each shift. However, transitioning into the digital realm allowed me to support thousands of patients and clinicians, and when clinical informaticians join the conversation at regional and national levels, that impact multiplies exponentially.
I hold a unique position as a CNIO in an NHS acute Trust while also being a nurse entrepreneur. Nurse entrepreneurs are a rarity, and I aspire to leverage the Digital Health CNIO Advisory Panel as a platform to empower more clinically qualified professionals to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours.
To facilitate the NHS’s evolution, we must foster innovation, and one effective approach is to guide nurses, midwives, and other clinically qualified professionals toward entrepreneurship. Those closest to the challenges invariably discover the best solutions, and as the largest healthcare profession, nurses are intimately connected to the patients they serve.
Motivated by a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation, I am wholeheartedly committed to actively engaging in the initiatives of the Digital Health CNIO Advisory Panel. I strongly support their mission to share knowledge, foster collaboration among peers, and disseminate best practices. By contributing my expertise and insights, I aim to make a meaningful and lasting impact, further reinforcing the crucial interplay between digital health, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Bio:
Hello, my name is Lucy Boot. I have been a NMC Registered Midwife for fourteen years and a Digital Midwife for the past eight years, leading and implementing digital change within University Hospital of North Midlands (UHNM) and alongside my Local Maternity Neonatal System (LMNS). As the lead Digital Midwife I have successfully implemented a variety of quality improvements that are directly linked to the digital work stream of the National Maternity Transformation Plan.
Manifesto:
The role of the Digital Midwife is multifaceted but primarily is focused on enhancing quality and safety for healthcare workers, women, pregnant people and families by developing and delivering responsive digital solutions to paper based or hybrid processes and systems. I have experienced how powerful regional and national networking is. I am a founding member of the Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group (DMERG). Membership of this network and education platform has played a fundamental part in my journey so far. I am also a member of the Regional Midwife Expert Reference Group, MSDS Task and Finish Group and attend regular Maternity Voices Partnership Meetings. I am a member of a new Trust initiative known as the Digital Advocates Network (DAN). This encourages Networking from all specialities between clinical and non clinical disciplines to share knowledge and ideas. I was nominated and won the bursary to attend the Digital Summer School in 2022. I then proceeded to present a snapshot of my career at Rewired 2023. I have been inspired by how passionate the digital nursing voice is and it is my aim to represent midwives and maternity services to pave a similar path, by joining the panel I will achieve this goal. The skills I have gained in digital maternity are transferrable Trust/Nationwide. Digital health is expanding at pace, we all face similar challenges therefore we need to work together as a team, working collaboratively to improve the care we provide.
Bio:
Hello – I’m the CNIO at Sussex Community Foundation Trust and have been working in community services since I qualified as a nurse in 2011. For the last three years I have held leadership roles in our digital team, culminating in my recent appointment as CNIO which I can’t wait to get stuck in to! Currently undertaking NHS Digital Academy. Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital scholar 2021, and a mentor for subsequent cohorts. NHS Digital and Data Award for Dedication to Profession 2022. Host of DigiTell, a Leadership Log podcast. Bookworm. Samaritan. Festival goer. Optimist!
Manifesto:
As a passionate supporter of healthcare delivery in the community, I am interested in ensuring that the needs of community trusts and the patients they serve are represented in national conversations about digital. If we improve the care patients receive at home, they are less likely to need hospital admissions. This is better for the system, as well as for patients. I believe digital solutions have a big part to play in keeping patients safely at home, whether this be through improved access to information, better diagnostic ability in the home, remote monitoring of patients, or innovative uses of digital systems such as scheduling tools. We need to support our workforce to deliver these crucial improvements. I hope, by being on the panel, I can help shine a light on the needs of community services.
Over the last three years I have been successful in creating a national network for our EPR which now has nearly 400 members, launching a digital innovation lab in my trust which supports clinicians to lead digital change, developing a digital clinical innovators course in house, hosting a digital health podcast, and most recently planning and delivering a digital innovation conference for 400 of our staff – I like to create a buzz around important work, to share good work and share the struggles, and I know I can be successful at that. My inclusion on the panel would allow me to use these skills on an even bigger scale.
Bio:
Emily Burch is the Associate Director of Physical Health for Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. A Topol Digital Fellow, Phillips Ives Review Panellist and Florence Nightingale Digital Leadership Scholar. She has a BSc in Adult Nursing, a qualification as a Specialist Interest in Substance Misuse Nurse Practitioner and is a Certified Digital Health Leader.
Emily is the first nurse from Mental health awarded a Topol Fellowship and worked nationally to lead the development of a digital capability framework for the Mental Health workforce.
As a current FNF Scholar, she is continuing work to reduce health inequality through digital.
Manifesto:
I am driven, passionate, committed and positively engaged in supporting the delivery of digital transformation within healthcare, with a particular focus on parity of esteem. As a member of the CNIO advisory panel, my priorities would be to strengthen and develop digital leadership across mental health, learning disabilities and community services to support the right culture and environment to promote innovation and meaningful change. I will do this through working with the well-established panels and networks across digital health to broaden the mental health and learning disability digital nurse voice, promoting the importance and value of digital nurse leadership and the impact this has on improving patient care.
As a member of the panel, I would use my role to ensure as a system we have representation across all sectors to support shared learning, and a collaborative approach with service users, carers, staff and system leaders when developing our strategic priorities. I will continue to strive as a digital nurse leader to use my influence, to not only advocate for those impacted by health inequalities but ensure we create the room for those more vulnerable to use their own voice to communicate their need for change.
Bio:
I have been a CNIO for approximately 18 months. Before I became a CNIO I worked for 22 years as an Emergency Department Nurse through all different grades eventually leading the department as the Matron. During my time as an Emergency department nurse I was involved in designing and implementing the trust EPR across two large acute trusts. This opened my eyes to the world of digital transformation and I have embraced it ever since.
Manifesto:
Bio:
I have been a qualified midwife for 10 years and 5 years in digital at LTHT. I have successfully led on several l projects across maternity services, Including an end-to-end electronic patient record, secure online notes portal. Being a member of the Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group and an elected member of the Digital Health CNIO advisory council, I have seen first-hand the value of networking. I am honoured to also be a Florence Nightingale Digital Alumni. When undertaking digital transformation, it is my responsibility as Chief Midwifery Information Officer to make sure the clinical voice is heard.
Manifesto:
I have recently been appointed as LTHT’s first Deputy Chief Midwifery Information Officer; a leadership role created to drive digital transformation. As well as a first in the Trust, this role is also the first in England, responding to the need to develop an industry leading approach to keep maternity at the forefront of digital transformation.
I have successfully led on several large projects across acute and community maternity services, including an end-to-end electronic patient record, secure online notes portal, self-referral to maternity services. I am working on benchmarking the trust against the WGLL success measures to identify our key priorities to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the digital transformational agenda.
Since being in my role I have experienced how powerful regional and national networking is. I am a member of the Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group and chair of the LMNS digital midwives’ subgroup. Last year I was elected as the first midwife on the Digital Health CNIO advisory panel, being part of the panel has allowed me to network with many clinical digital leaders and be the subject matter expert for digital maternity. My work has been recognised nationally and I have been featured in several magazine articles and podcasts. In addition to this I am honoured to be a Florence Nightingale Digital Alumni. To further enhance professional development, I am currently undergoing a PGCERT in digital maternity leadership.
Bio:
Euan qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2007. He worked in clinical roles before his journey with clinical informatics began in 2012, working in Scotland and Northern Ireland before starting his current UK-wide role at the CSP. His role at the CSP is to improve informatics knowledge and skills in the physiotherapy profession and to drive informatics inclusion in policy and strategy. He is an international leader in physiotherapy informatics and is currently co-vice chair of the CNIO Advisory Panel, co-lead for AHPs and a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and the Clinical Lead for Physiotherapy at ORCHA.
Manifesto:
I’ve had the privilege to work in various roles in digital in the last 11 years. I’ve learned loads and met some incredible people. My main driver is networking – linking talented and enthusiastic people together to drive our professions and organisations forward using technology. Those that already know me speak of my enthusiasm as well as my knowledge and experience in digital. And I look forward to meeting even more inspirational digital nurse, midwife and AHP leaders who share my passion for digital.
I will bring my knowledge and network of physiotherapy, AHP and wider digital leaders to the group to ensure that we can all share the learning from a diverse group of contributors. I strive to:
• further improve the existing digital leaders
• invest in the aspirant leaders
• positively disrupt the status quo in digital
• challenge our professional leaders to improve inclusion of digital
I have done this in previous roles at local, regional, national, and international forums and I’m energised by learning and improving as an individual and as part of various networks. Voting for me would be a step towards giving all professions and UK nations representation in the Advisory Panel and in Digital Health events. I promise to do all in my power to build on the incredible work of previous panels, increase the visibility of those leading from our professions, and amplifying our voice so we can learn from others while also showcasing the collective expertise of our network.
Bio:
For me, digital innovation can only develop as far as our understanding of our client or community.
I believe passionately in cultivating a culture of learning and development to enable people to flourish and succeed in the digital space. Community conversations are essential; we must take people on the journey, involving them from the outset and providing a platform to spark their imagination.
As a fast adopter of digital, my leadership style is to empower. I strongly advocate an inquisitive, patient focused approach, where blame is never a feature, and our values provide the basis of what we do.
Manifesto:
As a practicing clinician, I am excited by the potential to strategically impact care delivery, patient experience & colleague’s working practices on a system wide level, through the creation and adoption of digital infrastructure. Like anything, it’s ‘how we get there together’ which makes the biggest difference.
The potential for learning from international CNIOs and facilitating equal learning for healthcare professionals is key to our digital future. I believe in the strength of individuality and advocating for those who don’t always feel heard or confident to express their views. I will strive to positively influence collaborative ways of learning, in this role and beyond.
At Solent, I manage digital enablement and innovation for colleagues and vulnerable service users, and in my role as CNIO and Co-Chair of the CNIO South-East Regional Network, I see at first hand the importance of digital in assuring patient safety, with previous roles and real-life experiences informing my views.
As a panel member, I will bring with me a wealth of experience and opportunities to create change, including through my connections with Integrated Care Boards, local Trusts, national pilot schemes, and as a member of programme board for shared care records.
Embracing digital to enhance working practice is inevitable. We are just beginning to witness the potential with technology but so much more is possible. I believe my passion for raising the profile of community and mental health, and my coaching leadership style is ideal in this situation, enabling but bearing the responsibility when needed.
Bio:
Ali is an Allied Health Professions Information Officer at Great Ormond Street Children’ s Hospital working across a wide range of digital transformation programmes and leading on the digital implementation plan for AHPs. Prior to this Ali worked as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist leading the community health and adaptions service at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. It is here that Ali’s interest in values-based leadership alongside reflections on personal experiences as a patient and clinician began to shape her thinking and career path within digital health.
Manifesto:
My clinical and leadership journey as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist working across health, education, and social care brings with it a wealth of experience of collaborating across systems of care to improve outcomes for diverse patient populations. This foundation along with my experience as a patient has been integral in shaping my digital leadership journey and current role as an Allied Health Information Officer working across AHP, Psychology and Play services.
I bring passion, motivation, and enthusiasm for raising the voice and opportunity for others locally, regionally, and nationally. My digital health strategic awareness has been integral in developing GOSH’s AHP digital implementation plan to complement local and national AHP strategies, whilst cofounding the international AHP Epic Network has developed system wide collaboration and efficiencies for those involved in an Epic journey.
Being part of the Digital Academy, a contributor to the FCI Professional Accreditation working group and recent experience as both a chair and panellist of AHP & Pharmacy Rewired events, has afforded me the opportunity to share a collaborative network of AHP peers and demonstrated my passion for growing and using my leadership skills to help connect across professions, organisations, and systems of care.
If you vote for me to represent on the CNIO panel, I believe I am ideally placed to continue to advocate and support the growing community of digital AHPs whilst striving to encourage reciprocal multidisciplinary connections and learning with and across the wider CNIO, CIO, CCIO digital health networks and professions represented.
Bio:
Since becoming the first CNIO at Alder Hey Children’s hospital I have been working with teams across the organisation to deliver digital solutions to improve safety and provide outstanding care. I am proud to have been active part of the Trusts HIMSS stage 7 and ISD level 3 accreditation. As the chair for the national Meditech Clinical User Network and active in several other regional and national groups, I am passionate about sharing expertise and collaborating with others in the rapidly evolving world of digital healthcare.
Manifesto:
My goal as a member of the CNIO Network Advisory Panel is to ensure the digital solutions enhance clinical practice and benefits shared. I would ensure more focus is given to reaching out areas, such as DGH or Community settings, that may not have similar clinical digital infrastructure as large acute hospitals. Having established the Clinical Digital Team within my organisation, I passionate about establishing the route from newly qualified nurse/AHP to CNIO or CCIO.
The impact of the Digital Health network AP has made over the last 2 years, cannot be understated and it is my aim to continue to progress education and influence national policy. I would seek further integration with research to provide evidence based data, particularly with the wider deployment of AI and ML tools into everyday practice.
As a dedicated children’s nurse developing a PICU EPR for nearly 10 years, I found Interoperability is a common issue. The Advisory Panel has the ability to influence vendors to ensure all, not just the small number who can afford to, can provide clinicians and patients with all the data relating to their care.
I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of the North West regional network and seen the benefits of having a wide range of expertise available for collaboration and development. The ability to network, share and learn across specialties are fundamental to the digital landscape. As part of the Advisory Panel I would reach more people through social media, events and visits.
CCIO ADVISORY PANEL CHAIR
Bio:
Dermot O’Riordan was recently appointed as joint Chief Medical Information Officer in ESNFT (Ipswich and Colchester) to help with the procurement and then implementation of a new EPR. Previously, Dermot was CCIO in West Suffolk NHSFT from 2014-2023 where he played a major role in successfully procuring and implementing a new EPR, culminating in being awarded GDE status.
Dermot still practices as a consultant surgeon in West Suffolk. He was previously medical director and interim CEO
Dermot is an existing active member of the DH CCIO Advisory Panel & previously elected member of council of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.
Manifesto:
I believe in the power of the Digital Health Advisory panels as a two-way conduit to raise grass roots concerns and feelings to decision makers at the centre but also to disseminate information & stimulate discussion.
I am proud to have previously been elected to the DH CCIO Advisory Panel and have been a consistent attendee at meetings and regular contributor to its activities. If re-elected, I would undertake to continue to do so
I frequently comment upon threads and start new ones (including many that have sparked intense debate) in the DH Discourse platform and regard this as an invaluable. I try to bring my knowledge of the digital health landscape, and the wider NHS, to these conversations.
I am a passionate believer in the power of digitisation to transform healthcare. I am proud of what we achieved in West Suffolk as a relatively small DGH. Having done this, I have chosen to repeat the experience of procuring and implementing a new EPR for a second time, in our neighbouring ICS Trust. This might be a slightly mad undertaking, but it is one that I believe in and feel that my real-world experiences can help in delivering a second successful project. I would continue to bring this on-the-ground involvement to the advisory panel
I am well-connected with those at the centre but not afraid to speak up when needed to those in authority (and to vendors). I would be honoured to be re-elected.
CCIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
I led the recent EPR go live for the trust successfully completing the migration of, 1.4 million records, 820 thousand appointments onto their new EPR, resulting in 44 standardised digitised pathways to reduce unwarranted variation in management across our hospitals. Patient safety improved with fewer adverse drug events because of the closed loop clinical decision support in EPMA, and Bedside Medical Device Integrations have created early warning clinical alarms for deteriorating patients.
Manifesto:
Digital systems are one of the many tools we have to improve the delivery of healthcare for our patients. It will only deliver what we need if we understand that to succeed we need to transform how our people work and stop thinking of EPR deployments and developments as as IT projects. It is about the people. Keeping the end user in the front of our mind to create an easier way to do and get what they need and get the job done will engage health workers and support clinical decision making at the sharp end.
CCIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
Dr. Bishoy Dimitri is currently serving as the Director of Clinical Informatics (CCIO) at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by digital health in the modern healthcare landscape. With a background as an A&E Clinician, Bishoy brings a unique perspective to the intersection of technology and patient care.
In addition, Bishoy also serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Lister, a digital health start-up. In this capacity, Bishoy leverages their expertise to drive the development and implementation of innovative solutions that transform healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Manifesto:
As a Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) advisory panel member, my foremost commitment will be to prioritise clinical safety in all digital health initiatives. Unfortunately, clinical safety is often seen as a retrospective ‘check-box’ and not an integral part to the digital transformation process. I firmly believe that any technology implemented in healthcare should enhance patient safety and contribute to better outcomes. I will advocate for rigorous safety assessments, robust governance frameworks, and continuous monitoring to identify and mitigate potential risks.
To achieve meaningful progress, collaboration and engagement are vital. I will actively engage with stakeholders, including clinicians, policymakers, industry leaders, and patient representatives, to gather diverse perspectives and promote inclusive decision-making. By fostering partnerships and fostering a culture of collaboration, we can work together to shape the future of digital health.
I am committed to serving as a passionate advocate for clinical safety within the Digital Health Network. With my experience in clinical informatics, governance, communication, and innovation, I believe I can make a substantial contribution to advancing digital health while ensuring patient safety remains paramount. Together, let us build a future where technology enhances healthcare delivery and improves patient outcomes.
CCIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, CCIO and deputy CMO at UHCW Coventry, with experience at Clinical and Medical Director level in the NHS and private sector. Completing the PG Diploma in Digital Health Leadership with Imperial College and have been awarded a Doctorate in Business Administration with Warwick Business School on the subject of innovation and leadership in healthcare. I have a special interest in preventive and lifestyle medicine, I am a trained health coach, co-founder of the ONCIO integrative oncology app and co-chair of the British Society for Integrative Oncology.
Manifesto:
I am passionate about digital health leadership and building strong clinical informatics teams to embed digital technology in modern healthcare.
I believe that to sustain our healthcare systems, we need more clinicians in leadership positions who can collaborate with the NHS, academia and industry to drive scalable innovations which will add value to the society.
As a CCIO network advisory panel member, I aspire to build a diverse digital workforce network, reach out to clinicians from under-represented areas and ethnic minorities, promote education in the form of monthly webinars and (bi)annual meetings to celebrate achievements and share learnings from our practices, promote the CCIO role across the UK and build a supportive network of mentors. I would also like to promote collaborations between organisations and integrated care systems, for the purpose of data driven research leading to publications and policy changes. If I am voted, I would strive to raise the profile of digital health, link national and international leaders and leverage the network to exchange knowledge, experience, research proposals, innovation ideas and funding for their execution. My values are those of integrity, innovation, bravery and I love working with people and supporting people to reach their full potential. I am a certified coach and mentor and through this role, i would love to support colleagues in their personal and professional development.
Bio:
I work as a doctor and digital health specialist in multiple settings: frontline in the NHS, nationally (NHSx, now NHS Transformation Directorate of NHS England as a Healthcare and Design Adviser) and have held senior roles in industry. My core expertise is in designing, developing and delivering biopsychosocial/holistic integrated care models using design-led approaches. I am undertaking an MSc in Healthcare & Design at the Royal College of Arts and Imperial, am a member of the Shuri Network, the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges Digital Health Committee, RCPsych Informatics Committee and Dig Sig and am a fellow of the FCI.
Manifesto:
This is a key moment for the DHN to leverage its extensive expertise and provide cross-sector digital leadership. I am asking for your support in this election as someone with a proven track record of delivering on this mission.
Outlined below: what I delivered during my term and where we need to go next.
1. Connection: Optimisation of DHN community diversity
I optimised DHN engagement with my design, academia, policy, clinical practice and industry networks via the CCIO Twitter takeover, Summer School and Rewired conference including chairing the integrated care stage.
Plan: Use all channels for relationship building to increase network diversity including a particular focus on those transforming care but without a title or confidence as digital practioners. We need to ensure all changemakers feel welcome.
2. Creation: Design thinking is key to digital healthcare
I introduced user centred design content to Rewired and wrote the UCD chapter for the CCIO Handbook.
Plan: Develop more content for the DHN utilising my experience building design capability in central teams.
3. Care: Speaking all the languages for maximum impact on care
I embedded ethics and safety by design in industry (mental health act digitisation), at the centre (national policy work – mental health, long term conditions, shared care records) and frontline NHS (digital end to end systems).
Plan: The DHN must be the crucible for this kind of responsible innovation. I will use my experience to drive this forward for example, through cross-sector insight communication, thought leadership, advocacy and direct support.
Bio:
Over the course of my 20-year career in psychiatry at the Sound London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, I have always been intrigued by digital health and passionate about how it can transform healthcare. In April 2021, I was appointed interim CCIO after four years working as a deputy CCIO to drive transformation and shape best practice in mental health settings. Additionally, I was a pioneer fellowship alumna from Digital.Health London and part of Cohort 4 in the NHS Digital Leadership Programme which helped me develop my skills in digital transformation management.
Manifesto:
Throughout my career, I’ve always admired the value of data and digital systems. Working in mental health, I have seen first-hand how transformational innovative digital solutions can be, not only for organisational and clinical teams but for patients too.
As CCIO of the largest mental health trust in the UK, I have led several digital projects to improve outcomes for clinicians and patients. For example, our most recent project is the development and ongoing implementation of a mental health ePMA system. SLaM is the first mental health trust to develop and deploy the solution and is leading the way when it comes to ensuring ePMA best practice in mental health, developing a system-wide approach, and making best use of data.
As trusts face ever-increasing pressures to meet digital targets and deal with external economic challenges, leadership, collaboration, and shared learning can help implement major digital changes successfully. In being part of the Digital Health CCIO Network Advisory Panel I would bring value through my own experiences as CCIO and inspire others to think big when it comes to digital transformation.
I would also use my knowledge and expertise to inspire others, particularly women, into senior digital roles, help scale up the digital workforce and encourage confidence in users of emerging technology. While sharing my experiences as a clinician, I’d champion my belief that it is vital solutions are clinician-led right through from design to implementation.
Bio:
NHS whole working life, cardiology day job, R&D director local and national UKRD group, first CRIO at Royal Free passionate about research and all therapeutic innovations – drugs, devices (pacing and stents), diagnostics (biomarkers and wearables) and digital (AI predictive algorithms and data insights and clinical pathways). Have 1st ever Cerner heart failure pathway to nudge diagnoses (3-8x increased) and guidance prescribing (now top 10% adherence) and reduced mortality in hospital with 41,000 patient journeys data. Published >120 papers and used to observation to interventional research studies. recently on predicting arrhythmias and heart failure and now CVD from retinal imaging.
Manifesto:
Who You are:
Am a passionate medical digital geek and a Jain and someone who thinks outside the box and apparently communicates well to patients, public and professionals.
Hope to Achieve:
Enabling medicine to move from reactive to predictive and preventative using Data Insights, growing medical data literacy and easing digital Technostress on healthcare staff (Us)
Why vote for me:
I enable and facilitate better futures in cardiology, in research, in the NHS and hopefully in the CCIO network. Particularly want to support the ease with which we can facilitate great digital interventions to improve health care and allow people to become empowered to self help their health.
Am a Jain with integrity and years of experience in Change management, adoption of innovations and economic evaluations of changes. If we want to integrate Research / Data Insights / Newer Technologies / Clinical Trials / Health Economics into CCIO working – please lend me your vote and I hope to serve us well. Thank you.
Bio:
I have been a Consultant Surgeon for 27 years and involved in Health IT for 15 – much as CCIO, lately at Board level. I graduated from the Digital Academy and am a Founding Fellow of the FCI. I have championed Clinical safety of IT as a key part of Project initiation, planning and implementation. I am married with 3 children (Social Worker, Engineer, Doctor), have 2 cocker spaniels, enjoy cycling, rambling and travelling. I have had to use NHS services reasonably extensively as a patient and have insight as both provider and patient.
Manifesto:
My main interest is how to develop the next generation of clinicians to take on the crucial roles of CCIO linking technology and clinical practice – and in particular seeing the real clinical safety risks if done hastily or incorrectly. I am a passionate advocate for multi-disciplinary CCIO teams and work closely with Pharmacists, midwives, nurses, physiotherapists. I am convinced that professionalisation is an important part of arming CCIOs with the knowledge and skills to “sit at the table” and help to shape future care delivery.
Bio:
Mr Rhidian Hurle MB.BCh, MRCS, PgDip Med Ed, MSc Digital Health, MD, FRCS (Urol), FFCI
Appointed Chief Clinical Information Officer for Wales in 2015 and currently the Executive Medical Director of Digital Health Care Wales. I continue a day a week part time NHS clinical practice as Consultant Surgeon working in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Heath Board specialising in urological oncology. As a user of digital health care systems I have a keen interest in the user interface design and I am committed to the use of technology to drive through improvements in the quality, efficiency and better care outcomes.
Manifesto:
As the first nation CCIO appointed in the UK (2015) I have been providing advice to the senior NHS leaders and civil servants Wales for many years. I have been involved in 4 UK nations discussions from Skipton House, St Andrews House and Stormont. I have spoken at CCIO summer school about the importance of clinical leadership from CCIOs, CNIOs and our AHP community. We are the organisational memory of the NHS and we need to be acknowledged and supported to lead, advise and guide the policy on NHS digital transformation to support the workforce in the face of unheralded service demand. As a National Caldicott Guardian I understand we need to ensure that the patient electronic health record is content rich and available along the patient pathway regardless of health provider or environment. I would hope to help the CCIO network establish its role further in these areas, working in partnership to deliver positive change
Bio:
I am currently an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist and also jointly hold the roles of; Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer with Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) duties, along side an AHP professional Lead role at Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation trust.
I have had the privilege to lead the digital work stream to integrate four community Musculoskeletal (MSK) services to become, one, integrated MSK service. When not immersed in the worlds of digital, clinical practice and professional leadership I will be cycling, in the garden, clowning about with my kids or somewhere in-between.
Manifesto:
I genuinely believe digital holds the leading role in meeting the current and future healthcare needs of our service users. However, I do see the daily challenges and frustrations from both a service user and clinician perspective, which can come with digital and digital transformation. It is these experiences and lessons that we must learn from if we are to progress our ability to transform through digital and surpass even our own expectations.
If elected, I would advocate the digital journey in its entirety, not simply from a project management perspective. Benefits realisation remains a challenge due to the system wide pressures in which we currently operate, and yet, in its simplest terms these are lessons learnt that should be shared far and wide and hold the key to our successes.
I am a strong advocate of collaborative working; we need to harness the power of our collective thoughts and experiences in order enable the voice of change, to meet the needs of our service users to transform care. My current positions afford me a unique opportunity to work across many domains and it is that cross boundary culture that I look to instil beyond my current remit.
Change is an accepted challenge, yet we all understand the impact change can have, no matter how small or large. If elected I would relish the opportunity to build upon the achievements of the Digital Health Networks, to continue to be a positive voice against the backdrop of our current healthcare challenges.
Bio:
I am an enthusiastic individual, who is passionate about digital transformation and innovation, united digital clinical leadership, patient safety and raising the profile of digital pharmacy. My passion stems from my first role as an EPMA Pharmacist in 2014 and I am currently the Group Chief Clinical Information Officer at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. I have completed the Digital Health.London Pioneer Fellowship Programme and Cohort 4 of the NHS Digital Health Leadership Academy. I am proud to currently be co Vice Chair of the CCIO Digital Health Network, a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, Shuri Network & UKCPA.
Manifesto:
I would be a great addition to the CCIO Network Advisory Panel as I am an enthusiastic pharmacist who has an aspiration to promote clinical digital transformation to aid the delivery of excellent quality care for our patients. I am currently the Group CCIO for University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and have worked in the digital field for over eight years. I am also the co vice chair of the current CCIO Network Advisory Panel and have thoroughly enjoyed the past two years. Highlights include organising the first ever Digital Pharmacy and AHP single session at Rewired in 2022, followed by the first dedicated day for AHPs and Pharmacy at Rewired this year, with good friends and AHP colleagues Euan and Melissa. I also have had the honour to co-write a chapter of the CCIO Handbook with Sarah Thompson whilst being on the panel and look forward to its publication soon.
Standing again would be a great privilege to represent the digital community as I truly believe there is still lots more I can do for you.
I recognise there is currently significant variation nationally for digital in pharmacy and would love to work with others to bridge the gap and drive united clinical leadership together whilst listening and learning from the experiences of others.
My personal interests include running, writing poetry, puzzles and codewords.
I hope you strongly consider voting for me to remain on the panel, to be a voice for all to drive clinical digital leadership.
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Dr Devesh Sinha is a CCIO for Acute NHS Trust. He is a Stroke Consultant and North East London ICS Stroke Network Lead. He has strategised, operationalised, and transformed stroke services at BHRUT, leading a D-rated service to A-rated. This service won the BMJ award for 2019 for rapid transformation. He is an innovator of the HOT-TIA application, which has been awarded Hospital Hero, EHI award, HSJ award and NHS Innovation Challenge prize. He was the principal investigator of the Artificial intelligence trial of brain scans in its early stages and brought in active use in clinical practice later.
Manifesto:
As a first digital clinical leader of a large Trust, I started with no clinical informatics in place. I have created the concept of 21 clinical informatics leads from every hospital area and primary care. I developed the structure of clinical informatics, influenced investment with challenges, and recruited 10 nurses, AHP, clinical scientists, and 11 doctors on a permanent sessional basis, with the structure shadowing hospital flow. I have harnessed the diversity in clinical informatics structure at Trust in area-wide representation like ED, critical care, primary care and all professions representation like nursing or AHP, all colour and ability. I am developing them as future Clinical informatics leaders of the UK as my day job as CCIO.
I have successfully delivered large and small-scale digital transformation projects with the user in mind with the accolades and shared in REWIRED and other events. I am proud to be invited to the Parliament reception next month to use primary care data for stroke prevention as a new digital population health model.
As evidence of my commitment, I completed Digital Health Leadership Cohort 4 and am a Faculty of Clinical Informatics Fellow.
I have evidenced the influence and the change at the Trust level and ICS level in clinical leadership or Digital leadership, and now I want to influence change to clinical Informatics lead as the core structure of the NHS and bring practising EPR digital interaction experience and leadership for a much better digital offer of clinical interactional for modern patient care.
CIO ADVISORY PANEL CHAIR
Bio:
Executive and Board member at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and currently CIO for the West Yorkshire ICB. I have previously held national NHS IT roles and senior IT roles in the private sector.
Manifesto:
The CIO AP needs to have a clear purpose and reason to exist. I think in the past the ambition has been too broad given the amount of time members can dedicate to it, therefore I’m proposing that the CIO AP should focus on two areas:
1. Provide a mentoring scheme, similar to that developed for the CNIO AP, to support members of the network on their journey to being a CIO
2. Provide positive engagement with national colleagues on policy ideas and implementation approach.
CIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
I have 20 years NHS experience in local and national roles and have been CIO for the North West Ambulance Service for 4 years, providing strategic leadership across all digital functions and leading the team to rapidly transform the digital landscape for the Ambulance Service. I am passionate about transforming health and care for all people by harnessing technology and data, using a methodologically driven approach to improve the way we deliver services. I have a background in improvement with a unique approach to positioning our digital teams as enablers of improvement and innovation in collaboration with patients and staff.
Manifesto:
I am a collaborator with a passion for improvement and digital transformation. Digital is one of the key enablers to overcoming the challenges our NHS faces and I believe we can go further, faster by working together. I want to be on the CIO advisory board so I can help the CIO community work together on 3 things:
– Collaboration: Being a CIO can be a lonely place and I’d want to understand how we maximise the opportunity the network brings. How do we continue to support one another, learn and tackle some of our biggest challenges together?
– Spread of innovation: We’re notoriously slow at adoption of innovation in the NHS, with understandable reason at times. I have expertise in evaluation and understanding the contextual factors that affect implementation and would love to explore with the community how we make it easier to effectively steal ideas from one another and spread new innovations
-National Influence and Distributed Leadership: The weekly CIO calls are welcome but I want to see more distributed leadership – we are the experts and are living the reality of trying to enable digital transformation. I want to see this community positioned to influence and lead the national agenda.
As your CIO advisory panel member, if I am chosen, I would be there to listen to you and advocate on your behalf so that together we can push the boundaries and unlock the potential of digital, data and technology to radically improve our NHS.
CIO ADVISORY PANEL VICE-CHAIR
Bio:
I am the CIO at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. With over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector, I’m responsible for the trust’s digital strategy, information governance, and strategic partnerships. I have spoken widely on the challenges/opportunities of digitally enabled transformation and am passionate about creating professional career opportunities for the current and future DDaT workforce. My previous experience was in the private sector, where i led a number of Digital and Data programmes for companies such as Vodafone, IBM and Accenture.
Manifesto:
I would be delighted to have the opportunity to not only contribute to such an important agenda, but to also collaborate and learn from my peers as a member of the CIO Advisory Panel.
We have a huge task ahead of us and as a member of the advisory panel I would advocate the importance of digital transformation in healthcare delivery, promote the use of data-driven insights to drive decision-making, enhance privacy and security measures to protect sensitive patient data, and advance interoperability to better integrate and connect various systems and technologies. By advocating for these goals, I know we will not only continue to deliver but we will also continue to demonstrate how technology and data can be leveraged to improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and provide equitable and accessible care to all, but in a way that doesn’t stifle innovation, enforce systems and processes or undermine some of the fantastic achievements we have been making over many many years.
I have over 20 years experience in the NHS and I’m passionate, driven, and committed to making a positive impact in healthcare. When we trust each other and work together outside of our organizational boundaries it becomes much easier to make that positive impact we all strive for!
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Amy Freeman is the CDIO at University Hospitals of North Midlands. Working in the field of IT support and digital since 1998, she joined the NHS in 2002. She has held senior IT leadership roles at NHS Connecting for Health (now NHS England) and the NHS Commissioning Board (now NHS England). 11 years ago Amy moved to work for NHS provider organisations to be closer to frontline care (Community and Acute). This has included the delivery of a range of clinical systems most notably an electronic patient record system for 6500 staff, patient portal and a virtual clinic solution.
Manifesto:
As a member of the Digital Health CIO Advisory Panel (AP), my primary objective would be to promote the power of technology to improve the delivery of healthcare and empower patients to take control of their health. I believe that healthcare organisations need to embrace digital to achieve efficiencies, increase accessibility to services, and improve patient outcomes.
I am passionate about digital health and have spent my career advocating for the use of technology to transform healthcare. I have a deep understanding of the challenges facing healthcare organisations, having worked in NHS roles both nationally and in provider Trusts.
My vision for digital health is where technology is used to reduce silos between healthcare organisations, enabling better communication and collaboration. I believe that technology can play a key role in driving patient engagement, enabling patients to take an active role in managing their own health, and improving patient outcomes.
If elected to the AP, I would bring my expertise, experience, and passion for digital to the table. I would ensure that the panel delivers on its mandate to provide strategic guidance and advice to CIOs on digital health transformation. I would work to ensure that the panel is representative of the diverse needs of the healthcare sector and that its recommendations are grounded in the realities of healthcare delivery.
I believe that my passion makes me the ideal candidate for the Advisory Panel. I am committed to using my knowledge and skills to drive digital health transformation in the NHS.
Bio:
For three decades I have pursued the use of digital tools and technologies to support driving transformational change of healthcare services. Starting my career developing and building clinical/efficiency focused platforms, data warehouses and integration services (before they became popular). With the opportunity to have worked across multiple trusts and held strategic positions at a national and regional level. I have complemented this career with a Masters in Major Programme Management at Oxford University and being FBCS CITP and FedIP Leading Practitioner certified. I am currently the Chief Digital and Information Officer of Mid and South Essex ICB.
Manifesto:
I believe there is a need to continue to drive the digital agenda at all levels. there is a growing trend in the realisation that digital and data are critical enablers to providing better more efficient platforms for how we can deliver care. I would aim to be an advocate for digital nationally and look to ensure digital is at the heart of transformation and quality improvement initiatives, extending our professional skills and capabilities into the wider management structures of health and care. To develop and create a community of practice approach to support imbedding digital and data into the core of wider system transformation change principles.
Bio:
Having worked in the health care sector for over 30 years, has gained a wealth of experience in digital transformation, with significant experience in acute sector transformation, as well as more recent experience across a whole ICB region including primary and social care. Implementing digital solutions to transform regional working. Dawn has recently commenced a role in a Community NHS Trust provider and is looking forward to utilised her skills in this area.
Skilled in Stakeholder management, Benefits Realisation, Programme Delivery, Procurement, Supplier Negotiations and Healthcare Management. Exceptional leadership skills, including mentoring future leaders to thrive. Educated with a Masters in Health informatics from the University of Leeds, along with MSP and PRINCE2 Practitioner. BCS Professional member. Featured in Computing Magazine’s IT Leaders Top 100 and Top 50 Tech Women Celebration lists in 2023.
Manifesto:
I believe digital can transform the way people live their lives and receive care. We have a real opportunity to ensure more people can live longer and healthier lives. Throughout the Covid pandemic, we have seen how people have embraced new technologies and we need to continue to learn from these experiences and grow. We must ensure we are co-designing these new solutions with citizens/staff and being inclusive about the groups we involve in this process. We must remember there are no “”hard to reach”” groups, there are just lots of “”seldom heard groups”” and it’s our job to ensure we hear from these groups.
Whilst I honestly believe we can massively improve the way we deliver health and care services, we must never assume we will fully digitise our services. There will always be people who do not/cannot interact with our services digitally and we must ensure there are non-digital options for accessing services, that do not widen the gaps in health inequalities.
I believe my role working across an ICS gives me a wider understanding of all sector requirements and challenges. I would like to use these insights to share with others in the hope that collaborating will provide greater value. I feel being part of the CIO Advisory Panel will provide the opportunity to champion the role for digital and those who are currently digitally excluded, to support the development of a health and care service where equality of access for all is at the forefront.
Bio:
James Hawkins is an experienced digital, technology, and business leader with a wealth of experience in successfully leading and overseeing prominent digital initiatives, programmes, and services across both the public and private sectors. Currently serving as the Chief Digital and Information Officer at York and Scarborough NHS Teaching Foundation Trust, James is working with his colleagues to drive innovation through the adoption of digital healthcare solutions to improve outcomes for patients and the public of Humber and North Yorkshire.
Prior to his current role, James held various executive positions at NHS Digital, where he made substantial contributions to the development and implementation of national NHS IT systems, services, and products.
Manifesto:
I have spent the last 20 years in digital health as part of the leadership team of NHS Digital and its various predecessor bodies. In September 2022 I became the Chief Digital and Information Officer at York and Scarborough NHS Foundation Trust.
Collaboration, knowledge sharing, and best practice exchange lie at the core of networks, and I have consistently championed these values, through actively participating in events, webinars, and regional meetings, enabling staff from all backgrounds to connect and learn from each other through the network. Using my extensive knowledge of the NHS digital portfolio, twinned with my front-line experience I would use the CIO Advisory platform to advocate for the following:
• Building on the progress made on digital leadership at Trust board level, advocate for the same at ICB and NHS England.
• Building on the work on ‘who does what’, advocate for even greater clarity to reduce the duplication and waste of similar services continuing to be invested in at National, Regional, ICS and Trust level.
• Building on some of the great national services, continue to advocate and support the investment in national services where it makes economic and practical sense to do so.
• Continue to advocate in turning up the dial on the percentage of NHS Funding spent on digital at trust level – and make progress on the recommendations outlined in the Wanless review in 2002.
If elected I commit to champion the network and everything that we are trying to achieve for the patients and public, we serve.
Bio:
Near 30 years’ experience in the Healthcare sector, in multiple organisations across South and West Yorkshire. Currently Director of Health Informatics (probably the last one in the UK) at Rotherham FT, Provider CIO lead for South Yorkshire ICS, Chair of Northern and Yorkshire Director of Informatics Forum, the UK longest running Health CIO forum. I am MBCS and Fed-IP Advance Practitioner, with a Computer Engineering Degree from Manchester University, and MBA from Huddersfield University.
Manifesto:
I have nearly 30 years of experience in the healthcare sector, in multiple organizations across South and West Yorkshire. I am currently the Director of Health Informatics at Rotherham FT, Provider CIO lead for South Yorkshire ICS, and Chair of Northern and Yorkshire Director of Informatics Forum, the UK longest running Health CIO forum. I am MBCS and Fed-IP Advance Practitioner, with a Computer Engineering Degree from Manchester University, and MBA from Huddersfield University.
In my current role, I am responsible for leading the development and implementation of the health informatics strategy for Rotherham FT, and broader South Yorkshire ICS. I have a proven track record of success in the NHS, built 3 brand new hospitals, UK largest eDMS in 2010, the turnaround of a maligned EPR, and advance shared care records. I am most proud of my advocacy and committment for collaboration, professionalisation, innovation and the development of future leaders, whilst staying true to core NHS values of openness and accountability.
I am confident that I have the skills and experience necessary to continue to be an effective member of the UK NHS CIO Advisory Panel, I am not a celebrity CIO in it for kudos and profile raising but for using our collective approach to tackle the challenges and opportunities facing the NHS.
I would be honored to serve on the UK NHS CIO Advisory Panel yet again. I believe that I have the skills, experience, and commitment to make a significant contribution to the panel’s work.
Bio:
Jonathan Sammut is the Chief of Digital and Innovation / DCIO at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, with nearly two decades experience in leadership, digital and data services across both Private and Public sector organisations. A member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a recent cohort 4 graduate of the NHS digital academy attaining a Postgraduate Diploma from Imperial College London in digital health leadership.
Jonathan is a proud digital leader having worked across various organisations, he maintains a passion for challenging the status quo referring to himself as a digital pirate, aiming to disrupt modern-day leadership.
Manifesto:
Why do I do what I do?
I do what I do because I believe patients and colleagues deserve better and digital is a huge way to drive that!
I believe that digital healthcare can be improved by adopting the principles of the pirate methodology. At its core, the pirate methodology involves breaking down traditional hierarchies and empowering individuals to take ownership of their own roles and responsibilities. By applying these principles to digital healthcare, we can create a more agile and innovative system that is better equipped to meet the evolving needs of patients and healthcare providers.
I believe in promoting an open and collaborative approach to healthcare, one that encourages the sharing of ideas, challenging the status-quo and the co-creation of solutions. By working together, we can leverage the power of technology to improve patient outcomes.
In the role of CIO Network AP Member, I’d maintain 3 key aims:
1. Promoting a culture of learning and experimentation, where failure is embraced as a necessary step towards progress.
2. Empowering patients to take an active role in their own healthcare, giving them access to their health data and encouraging them to participate in the co-creation of healthcare solutions.
3. Supporting healthcare providers to adopt new technologies and working practices, while promoting a more flexible and adaptable approach to healthcare delivery.
By adopting these principles and actions, we can create a digital healthcare system that is more patient-centred, innovative and efficient, and that ultimately delivers better health outcomes for all.
Bio:
Currently the CDTO at Kent and Medway ICB, Martin has a 20 + year career in leading technology and digital functions, following an early career in Finance Management in Serco. He has led global teams from start-ups to multinationals delivering complex user-centric transformations. He has specific sector experience in Healthcare, Social Housing, Genomics, Pharma and Cyber. Martin is a diversity champion, especially Neuro-diversity, having himself had a late-stage autism diagnosis. Martin also proudly holds both British and Jamaican citizenship. Professionally Martin is a member of the UK CHCIO exam panel and a Fellow of the BCS and Institute of Directors.
Manifesto:
I believe technology can revolutionize healthcare to reduce inequalities and improve patient outcomes. My manifesto focuses on using leveraging my experience in six key areas that I think are essential to achieving these goals:
- Transformation: support the CIO community to have a stronger emphasis on delivering enduring people, process and technology transformational change and help transition from pure technology leadership
- Talent: champion development of current and next generation of technology and digital leaders to create an inclusive, diverse pipeline of talent
- Interoperability: act as a strong advocate of interoperability and standards to drive seamless end-to-end services.
- Patient-Centred Care: Given my recent experience with Genomics, work to promote the use of patient-centred technology solutions that empower patients to take an active role in their care.
- Cybersecurity: promote cybersecurity best practices and advocate for adopting robust security measures across the industry, using my experience working as a cybersecurity vendor, practitioner and Certified Information Security Manager.
- Innovation: Having start-ups experience, I have a unique perspective of what’s needed to help leverage and scale novel innovations
In conclusion, by leveraging six core areas of my expertise, I believe I have a unique combination of skills and experience to help support the CIO Network Advisory Panel and broader digital health transformation agenda.
Bio:
Nick is the CIO at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust and a Director of Health Call, providing digital solutions to the NHS in collaboration with seven NHS Foundation Trusts. He has over 30 years’ experience in Digital and Data in the NHS, working across all sectors. He is a graduate of the Digital Academy and is in the process of completing his MSc at Imperial in 2023. Nick chairs the North East and North Cumbria CIO Network; and is the Digital lead of the North East and North Cumbria Provider Collaborative.
Manifesto:
I have worked for the NHS in Digital and Data roles for over 30 years and have seen huge changes to how the NHS operates and evolves. Whether that was from GP Fundholding to ICBs now; from implementing systems in GP surgeries, Community, Mental Health, Acute and Specialist services and on to Regional services. Furthermore, as a Director for Health Call, providing innovative solutions at scale, across the NHS.
This evolution is often helped by digital but too frequently the technology, the ability to use it and the associated data often lets the clinicians, and ultimately the patients down. As a member of the Advisory Panel, I would find ways to improve and learn, focussing on usability, and sharing data, built around open standards. Passionate advocating a Digital First agenda, starting with the principle that services must use the technology unless there is a real reason why not.
The greatest privilege of the CIO role is supporting people to develop and grow – giving them the opportunities to be the best they can be. This focus on growth is linked to the professionalisation of our service, recognising the future skills gap and actively supporting new inclusive models to close the gaps.
Working as an Advisory Panel member will enable me to collaborate with my peers, to ensure that technology not just supports clinical services but allows them to innovate and better meet the needs of the patient; making the NHS a better place to be cared for and to work.
Bio:
I have been CDIO at Bradford and Airedale and Bradford District and Craven for nearly 2 1/2 years within a 25 year career in the NHS. Previously I have held senior roles nationally, regionally and locally in health policy, digital strategy and delivery, commissioning, transformation and service delivery. I am a graduate of the NHS management training scheme and cohort 1 of the NHS Digital Academy. I am consistently curious, about people and their capacity to do great things, about teams and their resilience and excellence, about technology as an enabler for better health and care outcomes.
Manifesto:
I am standing to be re-elected to the advisory panel conscious that I wanted to do more in my first stint than I have practically been able to deliver. More engagement with my peers to listen, learn, support and encourage. More input with national colleagues to better ensure that their ambition is better informed by the day to day realities of making technology enabled change the norm.
More to secure the diverse inclusive talent pipeline we need to exploit the best of todays opportunities to digitally transform care and more to lead and shape our response to tomorrows challenges. More advocacy and better articulation of the need to combine technology nous with culture change, leadership learning and organisational development to enable good things to happen and sustain. More quality in the relationship with suppliers and vendors. More celebration when things go well and more reflection when things do not turn out as anticipated. More new mistakes and fewer repeated ones.
More representation at the most senior levels of the Digital Data and Technology Professions. More pathways to excellence for school leavers, graduates and those from the university of life who have insights and lived experience we can all benefit from. More pride in a health and social care system that purposefully “applies the culture, processes, business models and technologies of the internet era to respond to people’s raised expectations.” and needs.
“The community continues to grow with extreme passion, energy and enthusiasm and to support the digital transformation agenda.”
Sarah Hanbridge (CNIO AP 2021-2023), CCIO (Nursing & AHP) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
“The ability to influence national digital agendas, providing a view from the ground, can help shape the future digitalisation of healthcare.”
Fiona McDonald (CCIO AP 2017-2023), CCIO, Redmoor Health
“As an independent body there is an opportunity to speak truth to power and I think this is needed now as much as it ever was. It definitely enriches life as a CIO.”
Ade Byrne (CIO AP 2015-2023), CIO, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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