Health and Social Care Council

Adrian Flowerday

CEO, Docobo Limited

Alan Sumner

Head of Public Affairs , Roche Diagnostics Limited

Alex Eavis

Chief Product Officer – Digital, Data & Analytics, EMIS Health

Biography

Alex joined EMIS Health, one of the UK’s largest point-of-care system suppliers, through acquisition in 2019. She now heads up the product teams across digital, data and analytics divisions, and the product experience and design team. Alex is passionate about the potential of technology to help those that need it the most. Her distributed ledger software company, Dovetail Lab, was set up to make primary and secondary healthcare data uses more citizen centric, and give patients greater control over the medical record data. 

Before founding Dovetail, Alex co-founded an Internet-of-Things care technology business called Alcove; and a social enterprise called HowDoI?, spun out of an outstanding special educational needs school, using NFC technology to launch step-by-step life skills training.

Alex advocates for greater investment in user-centric design, and use of data-driven technologies to enhance the experience of receiving and providing care, reduce inequalities and improve patient, population and provider outcomes.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

I believe I bring a broad perspective on the challenges faced by different groups interacting with the health and care systems - having worked for the NHS and for the third sector; having founded, funded and exited both care and health tech start ups; and now working for a large NHS system supplier. With NHS funding and the economy at crisis point, digital transformation is no longer a “nice to have”; I see our roles in the Council as essential change agents. I would continue to promote health & care innovation, collaboration between members, and support the ongoing advocacy needed to ensure the policy landscape aligns with NHS and citizen requirements, in a way that works for suppliers. I would continue to be an active member of the Council, helping to grow the newly created Life Sciences Forum and promoting the levelling up activities in the North East working with the young people and digital innovators that will make our future.

Angus Honeysett

Head of Market Access and Social Care Working Group Vice Chair , Tunstall

Bryn Sage

CEO, InTechnology Plc

Charlotte Lewis

Principal Associate , Mills & Reeve

David Hancock

Director, New Found Consulting Services

Biography

I have worked in Healthcare IT for nearly 20 years and now have my own company where I work with Health and Social Care organisations, and system suppliers on digital/product strategy, transformation and go to market strategy. I have a focus on interoperability. I have worked in both major IT suppliers and SMEs and understand the issues faced by both as they sell and try to innovate into the NHS and Social Care and the issues they face having to work with the NHS on regulatory requirements, standards and connection to national systems. I have sat on the council for the last 5 years, am also Vendor Co-Chair of INTEROPen and Chair of the techUK Interoperability Working Group where this year we reached the techUK Interoperability Charter. The relaunch was based on our experience of it being in place for the last 6 years, learning the lessons and improving it.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme's work

I am deeply committed to the successful application of digital to Health and Social Care and a believer in the NHS. I recognise the difficulties we face in achieving successful transformation in Health (and Social Care) is down to it requiring real complex adaptive change. There is added complexity because of the way central systems have to work with Trust and Supplier systems. There is also complexity around procurement. I will actively work across all of these issues to enable the situation to be win-win for the "Service" and Suppliers. I want to continue to be Vendor Co-Chair of INTEROPen as the techUK representative and to Chair the Interoperability working group; there is still so much to do. I will represent large and small companies alike and in my role as being independent am not afraid of speaking truth to power, wherever that power is held. It is up to all of us to help get digital right in the NHS and Social Care. I will continue to beat the drum for interoperability. It is in all suppliers interests to be interoperable as it makes "the pie" bigger for all of us, and provides a more vibrant Health IT industry.

Dr Geraint Lewis

Director of Population Health, Microsoft

Biography

With 11 years experience working as a doctor in acute and emergency medicine, followed by 5 years' higher specialist training in public health, Geraint is a consultant public health physician with a specialist interest in predictive modelling and population health management. His previous roles include Senior Fellow of the Nuffield Trust; Senior Director for Outcomes and Analytics at Walgreens; and Chief Data Officer at NHS England. A fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of London and the UK Faculty of Public Health, he is the lead author of the postgraduate textbook Mastering Public Health and has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals including Health Affairs, JAMA, and the BMJ. Geraint was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice at New York University. His awards include the National Directors' Award at the US Department of Veterans Affairs; the Bradshaw Lectureship of the Royal College of Physicians of London; overall winner of the Guardian Newspaper's Public Service Awards; and an unprecedented four Health Service Journal awards for the Virtual Wards project that he conceived and led.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme's work

Throughout my career, I have been passionate about the use of data and technology to improve the quality, efficiency and equity of healthcare. As part of my training in public health, I was a member of the team that introduced predictive risk modelling to the NHS for the first time and I subsequently invented the concept of virtual wards, which are now being rolled out across the NHS. I have held senior roles in the public sector (Chief Data Officer, NHS England), the private sector (Senior Director for Outcomes and Analytics at Walgreens and now Director of Population Health at Microsoft) and the Third Sector (Senior Fellow at the Nuffield Trust). In my current role, I serve as a bridge between Microsoft and the NHS: helping my colleagues understand the needs, priorities and pressures of the NHS, and helping the NHS understand how Microsoft's stack of hardware, operating systems, software and applications, and cloud capabilities can empower the NHS to achieve more. I very much look forward to bringing these varied perspectives to the Council's discussions on promoting a vibrant marketplace for digital health and care in the UK.

Dr Jaz Dhaliwal

Digital Healthcare Partner, KPMG

Biography

I am a Digital Healthcare Partner at KPMG. I am responsible for the growth of KPMG Digital Healthcare Business in the UK. My portfolio is centered on helping clients across the NHS at national, regional, and local level to transform care enabled by digital and data. 

I started my career as a NHS doctor in Acute Medicine and General Practice. I have practised in the UK and New Zealand.  After completing my MBA at Cambridge I decided to pivot my career into Healthcare Consulting. I started in professional services with Deloitte, and went on to work for IBM and Infosys. I have worked with a wide range of Healthcare clients in the UK, US and UAE. I have over 10 years’ experience in clinically enabled technology transformation programmes.

I am a passionate leader. I believe to truly transform the NHS, we need to adopt an ecosystem approach with partners that delivers end-to-end transformation with tangible benefits to the system. This reduces health inequalities and improves outcomes for society.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care work programme

I am a visionary leader. I have served on boards for healthcare tech startups and been a mentor in the NHS Digital Academy. I will contribute to techUK my rare combination of clinical, digital, and consulting experience. I will help identify the key challenges of the healthcare system at large, and facilitate the collaboration of market partners with techUK to influence key stakeholders to shape new models of care delivery.

Given the economic conditions we are facing, and consequently the immense pressure on our care system, technology enablement needs to be part of the core solution. Now is the time for industry partners, NHS organizations, and innovators, to work with techUK to articulate a single vision of what a successful digital transformation looks like that is citizen and end user centric.

I would be delighted and honored to serve the Health and Social Care Council, help elevate techUK’s  positioning in the market, and take our vision forward.

Guy Lucchi

Managing Director, System C Healthcare Ltd

Heather Cook

Special Advisor, Big Health

Indi Singh

Digital Health Lead, PwC

James Norman

EMEA Health & Life Science Director, Pure Storage

Biography

James Norman is the EMEA Health and Life Science Director at Pure Storage. A world respected figure in change management and IT transformation, with more than 30 years experience within the health sector, including 24 years senior management within the NHS. James has led multiple major public sector transformation programmes and published several papers on the potential of Technology in healthcare. James was named Healthcare IT champion of the year in 2011 and later sat as an external advisor to Her Majesty’s Treasury, sitting on the Comprehensive Spending Review board. James was named Thought leader of the year in 2013, named one of the top 50 data leaders in the UK and has ranked in the top 10 CIO 100 list. James established the All4Health&Care (previously Tech4CV19) community to help frontline Organisations and Tech companies come together in the fight against COVID-19, in Partnership with NHS England and techUK.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

My whole career has been dedicated to improving the services of healthcare institutions for better patient outcomes, through my early days in creating new applications for NHS organisations to improve access and equality of care, to my recent work in supporting Health Economy and Regional transformation through greater use of Technology and Intelligence systems. I work very closely with governments around the world to help them understand the potential for Technology to transform the way patients access care as well as with Health Tech suppliers large and small, to support them in understanding the market and provide services / technologies that will deliver improved care. Having previously sat on the Council for many years, I worked hard to embed it as the voice it now is, for suppliers, in shaping policy and supporting simplification of entry to the healthcare market. During Covid I helped techUK members to share services and technologies with healthcare providers to overcome the severe pressures they were under. If voted back on, I will strive to maintain and grow the value of the Council in ensuring the concerns of members are raised and heard keeping communication lines open and accessible to all.

Jon Payne

CTO, InterSystems

Kate Robinson

Managing Director, NHS, IBM

Biography

Kate is NHS Managing Director, an executive role reporting to IBM CEO UK & Ireland, Sreeram Visvanathan. An experienced business leader, Kate has a Management Consulting background and formerly led IBM’s AI business in Europe. Kate is quickly establishing herself as a thought leader in the industry, acting as strategic advisor to the C-suite, helping them to navigate architectural decision points both in the centre (e.g. GEL, HSA UK) and in the regions. Kate recently participated on a main stage panel discussion regarding digital transformation in Healthcare at NHS Confed Expo. Kate is an Advisory Board Member for VC fund TenX Health (acquired by Octopus Ventures), chaired by Lord Philip Hunt. She is a member of the CBI (Confederation British Industry) London Young Leaders Committee influencing policy positions, and acts as a business mentor at Bath Innovation Centre. She is passionate about applying technology and innovation to improve lives.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

Kate is uniquely positioned to provide thought leadership from the breadth and depth of her role in IBM and beyond. Kate will share experiences and examples, drawing on IBM’s activities in the industry, which include supporting HSA UK, NHSE/I, NHS Digital, Genomics England, Test & Trace, Digital Trials, ICSs through the NHS Place programme as well as a number of leading NHS providers. Kate will also draw on IBM’s experiences from around the globe from the global healthcare community of which she is a part. Kate will share relevant thought leadership and experiences from other industries. In some recent examples, Kate was asked to speak with the Cabinet Office around Open Data for Health and participate in a CBI discussion on the Open Life Data Framework. Kate drew parallels to Open Banking, sharing lessons learned and success factors as the financial industry embraced this new paradigm. Kate will openly share feedback from her engagement with national stakeholders, as well as her diverse network and involvement via the VC Health Tech fund which brings an alternative perspective from entrepreneurs solving problems in the industry. Kate would relish the opportunity to participate in this council and would be an active enthusiastic member!

Nigel Brokenshire

Head of Digital Healthcare , Bayer

Biography

Nigel is the Head of Digital Healthcare for Bayer UK/I. He is responsible for the introduction and delivery of digital health innovations and how they can transform the health and well-being for patients, public and underpin the Life Science sector. In his role he stays abreast of relevant national and international strategy, policy and contributes where possible into future trends, initiatives, developments, and consultations. Prior to joining Bayer, Nigel worked across the NHS delivering large-scale digital programmes, with his latest roles seeing him as Digital Programme Director for two STPs (precursor to ICS). Nigel looks forward to further enhancing collaboration between Bayer, the NHS and patients, and making Bayer a trusted industry partner. He is also committed to support UK start-ups/innovators and assist their expansion both locally and globally. 

Nigel works in a non-promotional manner and ‘above’ the Bayer brands. 

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

Nigel has a wealth of knowledge in both the public and private sector and is committed to support UK start-ups/innovators and assist their expansion both locally and globally. 

Nigel is keen to build strong partnerships across the sector to achieve both health outcomes and to support the future of the economy by championing technology across the sector.  

Nigel brings a unique blend of knowledge and experience from the public sector, tech startups along with large corporates which will see Nigel as a trusted and highly influential partner on the council. 

Nigel’s approach is one fueled with collaboration, integrity, tenacity and enthusiasm which are key attributes for the council. 

Phillipa Winter

Account Chief Technologist, Softcat Plc

Rachael Fox

Executive Vice President for the EMEA Business, Altera Digital Health

Sally Rennison

Chief Commercial Officer, Patients Know Best Ltd

Tom Mellor

Head of Private Health and Life Sciences , BJSS Ltd

Wendy Parks

UK Health Tech Lead, AWS, Amazon Web Services UK

Will Smart

Global Director External Relations, Dedalus

Biography

Will Smart is Global Director for External Relations at Dedalus Groups, the Global European Health Teach Company. He is also leading the UKI programme to bring Europe's most used ORBIS EMR solution to the UKI market. Prior to joining Dedalus, Will was CIO for Health and Care in England, leading the national digital programme and was SRO for the GDE and LHCRE Programmes and providing technology policy advice to NHS England and the ministerial team. He has worked in technology in healthcare and the wider public sector throughout his career having served as CIO at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as well as a consultant across the NHS and wider public sector.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

I am passionate about the impact that technology can have on the delivery of care and on the performance of the wider health system. Having worked at the national level of the NHS as well as in front-line healthcare organisations I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience about both the operational delivery of technology into the NHS as well as how technology policy is formed, negotiated and managed nationally and then interpreted and implemented in local organisations. I will bring this insight to the council along with a belief that health, social care and the wider technology community, both client-side and vendor, must work together in partnership if the opportunities afforded by technology are to be realised in this complex environment.