Get involved
All techUK's work is led by our members - keep in touch or get involved by joining one of the groups below
Skills and Diversity Working Group
Delivering 21st Century Health and Care requires a digitally-skilled workforce. The Skills and Diversity Working Group is supporting the NHS and social care bodies to develop the next generation of digital leaders while encouraging diversity and inclusion in healthtech. For more information, please contact: Leontina Postelnicu| Programme Manager, Health and Social Care.
Health and Social Care Council
The elected techUK Health and Social Care Council is committed to playing an integral and positive role in the digitisation of health and social care service provision. The Council is a representative group of members who reflect the wider techUK health and social care membership. The Council meets regularly to debate and bring focus to techUK's health and social care policy and programme of activities, as well as to provide a consultative industry panel for government and other stakeholders.
Healthcare Group
The Council is a representative group of members who reflect the wider techUK health and social care membership. The Council meets regularly to debate and bring focus to techUK's health and social care policy and programme of activities, as well as to provide a consultative industry panel for government and other stakeholders.
Data and Analytics Working Group
Drawing on our collaboration with NHS England and Improvement, we have launched a Data and Analytics Working Group that aims to provide a forum where experienced and skilled analysts supporting the response to COVID-19 can connect with industry to share knowledge and experience. For more information.
User-Centred Design Working Group
Together with NHSX and NHS Digital, we have launched a User-Centred Design Working Group that is committed to making a real impact in promoting and showcasing the value of designing solutions that meet user needs. The group will seek to identify good practice and thus improve current approaches to user-centred design activities.
Digital Citizens Working Group
The Digital Citizens Working Group aims to increase knowledge of and access to tech to improve citizens' own health through self-care and prevention - reducing ill health, visits and admissions and helping citizens to manage interactions with the system.
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Our team
Tom Russell
Tom is responsible for leading our engagement with a range of NHS and industry stakeholders including NHS Digital, NHSX, DHSC and NHS England/ Improvement.
At techUK he leads our health tech focused working groups on interoperability and User Centred Design and jointly manages the Social Care working group. He also has responsibility for the elected Health and Social Care Council and sits on the Professional Records Standards Body Advisory Board.
Prior to joining techUK, Tom worked for a public policy events company delivering a digital health exhibition and previously to that in a Governmental affairs role for a pharmaceutical company.
He has lived in Germany, France, Switzerland and Egypt and read International Politics at King’s College London.
In his leisure time he enjoys boxing, cycling and swimming. He completed a solo English Channel swim in 2009.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2030
- Twitter:
- @TomPRM
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
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Leontina Postelnicu
Leontina joined techUK in March 2020, where she is supporting the organisation’s Health and Social Care programme. At the moment, she is completing an MSc in Health Policy at Imperial College London.
A former journalist, Leontina previously worked for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) as an associate editor for its International and Media divisions. There, she covered the EMEA region for Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews and HIMSS TV, with a focus on policy and innovation, and contributed to the Women in Health IT newsletter and HIMSS Insights eBook.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading, dancing, travelling and visiting her family in Romania, where she hails from.
- Email:
- [email protected]
Henry Rex
Henry is Associate Director for Government and Health at techUK. responsible for our Central Government Programme, Public Services Board, and Health & Social Care Programme.
He is responsible for managing strategic relationships across Whitehall and the NHS, working with individual departments and cross-cutting Government functions to promote better engagement between the public sector and the tech industry.
Henry originally joined techUK in February 2016 as the Programme Manager for Justice and Emergency Services. Prior to joining techUK he worked as the Policy and Communications Officer in the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. In this role he ran programmes to enhance knowledge exchange between academia and government, with a particular focus on issues of national security, law enforcement and defence. Henry was also responsible for advising on CSaP's communications strategy.
He holds an MA(Hons) in Classics from the University of St Andrews. After graduating he worked in a west London law firm, followed by a spell in the House of Commons, before taking up his position at CSaP.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2017