Voting open for techUK Health and Social Care Council

Alan Payne

Development Director, The Access Group HSC

Biography

I am an executive level Digital and Technology leader with over 30 years in Healthcare, Health Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets, bringing digital innovation, vision, knowledge, drive and the ability to deliver globally across multiple businesses and support functions. I’ve held executive technology and engineering leadership positions at Sensyne Health, Aetna International, Nuffield Health, BUPA Merrill Lynch, Oracle and CTO at JPMorganChase. I am now Group Development Director for the Health, Support & Care division at the Access Group. Here I am responsible for the overall vision, direction and delivery of our technology for this crucial group of customers, as they aim to meet the twin aspirations of digitisation and integrated health and care. I also hold an Honorary Professorship at the UCL Faculty of Engineering (Intelligent Systems), and I have specific research interests in Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship.

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

I can bring specific expertise in areas such as how tech and AI can be used in health and care to create additional capacity, help clinicians to make more informed, proactive interventions, and deliver better outcomes for people using services. I’ve also worked across four continents, advised an array of healthcare policy organisations and have been exposed to how different healthcare systems operate and can operate, which should enable me to bring additional perspectives. As Group Development Director at The Access Group, my work and interests align closely with techUK’s Ten Point Plan For Healthtech, especially supporting integration of social care through digital transformation. We remain the largest supplier of software to providers of social care. With recent acquisitions of leading software used in the NHS and local authority commissioning, we now have a technology portfolio and an ecosystem, crossing the care continuum. Working with extensive customer base, I can share a great deal on how the challenges they face and how they have been successful, which should directly support the work of the council. Finally, I am passionate about health and care sector and the impact we as technology leaders can support and help.

Alex Eavis

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.

Ash Thornley-Davies

Healthcare UK, Zoom Video Communications Inc.

Biography

Ash is the lead for NHS and UK Healthcare at Zoom and played a pivotal role in securing clinical certifications and compliance on the Zoom healthcare platform, to enable it to continue to be used in the NHS for patient care. Ash has spent the last 10 years working with NHS organisations to deliver unified collaboration solutions, including early video MDT enablement and virtual consultation platform development. His role includes working directly with both the NHS Central organisations and the Trusts that procure Zoom to deliver outpatient care, and working with 3rd party clinical integrations, such as EPIC and Cerner, to enable NHS organisations to deliver swifter care through integrated platforms. As Integrated Care Boards have now been established, his role will be to enable delivery of consolidated cost savings for the Boards through the merge and reconsolidation of NHS/Zoom contracts.

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

Zoom is already present in more than 70% of NHS Trusts, and the most used virtual consultation platform globally. In fact more than 90% of US Hospital systems use Zoom to deliver outpatient care. Ash’s role not only spans the direct NHS customers that deploy and utilise the Zoom platform, but also a wide array of channel partners - enabling them to become better aware of Zoom’s clinical compliance, and the importance of delivering tools that conform to the Health & Social Care Act 2012. His remit at Zoom, and in previous roles, means that he’s had a front row seat on how the world of telehealth is changing, and how the healthcare ecosystem of partners is adapting to the changes in global health and how competition has become tougher and more difficult to navigate. Ash has a direct relationship with NHS organisations, enabling him to listen and learn about where the NHS (on the ground) are headed and what key themes are impacting NHS organisations on a daily basis. His connections at CCIO / CIO level mean he is able to efficiently sanity-check propositions for their validity and potential impact.

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.

David Price

Client Director, Rackspace Technology

Biography

I have worked with the Health Sector for over 20 Years at a Central Government and Local level/ Healthcare is a passion of mine and many of the Projects and Programs I have worked on over the years have been designed to improve patient care as well as save the NHS money so that they would have more to spend on patient care

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

A deep knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced at all levels of the Health and Social Care environment across the Country and the Role that Technology does, can and could play to drive healthcare innovation, improvements in Patient Care and redirection of spend away from old and outdated practices to newer more cost efficient ways of delivering better care. My work in this Group could also be supported by my Chairmanship of the Open Data Standards Working Group because open data standards across the Health and Care Sectors could drive improved patient outcomes.

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.

Eoin Patrick Perera

Head of Sales - Distributed Government and Healthcare, CDW

Biography

CDW is the largest IT reseller globally providing more than $20bn of solutions annually, and the platform for technology companies to access the international and UK healthcare marketplace. The scale of CDW’s $2bn+ global healthcare business provides expansion opportunities for our partner network. I have led CDW’s UK Health and Social Care team for over 10 years, building a team of specialists that today support more than 200 organisations spanning regional NHS, ambulance services, DHSC and private healthcare. I have defined and delivered strategic partnerships across the tier 1 and SME supplier community, to provide a route to market for their solutions nationally and internationally, securing multi-million digital transformation opportunities. I am dedicated to changing the way that technology is used within the healthcare sector ensuring solutions have a meaningful impact for patients and users.

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

Today brings a greater desire to adopt technology across health and social care than ever before. My focus in the Health and Social Care arena underpins a belief that technology systems already exist to enhance patient outcomes and user experience and so integration and adoption are key. My passion for providing leadership on critical issues and championing better use of technology will ensure the Health and Social Care Council voice for digital transformation is heard, change is delivered and together we help define how to meet the technology ambitions of healthcare leaders. The conversation needs to move past front-end transformation and towards delivering end-to-end change in the way that citizens engage with healthcare services, seeking to close the gaps in access, equity, and patient outcomes. I will use current and future partnerships across hardware and software vendors to deliver insight into the future transformational impacts that IT can deliver to the sector. I want to enhance the way the council engages with its members accelerating impact and reach and to find ways that tangibly supports digital transformation within health and social care. Ultimately, my ambition is to amplify the voice of the council and its members, regionally and nationally.

Fiona Booth

Head of External Affairs, Healthcode

Biography

I hold the position of Head of External Affairs at Healthcode, with lead responsibility for external engagement with stakeholders, including transforming the use of technology within hospitals and by clinicians to support good governance. I build relationships with stakeholders such as regulators, NHS Digital, and NHS England. I am well respected within the industry and a vocal advocate of the use of technology to support healthcare professionals in delivering safe and timely care. Before joining Healthcode I was the CEO of AIHO – the trade association for independent healthcare, raising the profile of the sector and giving it a voice in the media, government and broader healthcare sector. Prior to this I was the CEO of the Hansard Society, a political research and education think tank. In addition, I have worked in education, and had roles at the Red Cross and Age UK.

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

I am a confident, highly motivated individual with 21 years of senior management experience, 9 years of which in healthcare. I believe I have the background and experience to support the HSC Council in promoting the interests of members operating in the HSC Technology Industry. I am very familiar with the process of influencing government and other relevant bodies to inform policy and reform, having successfully led strategic campaigns on political education, parliamentary reform, independent healthcare and most recently on the use of technology to support healthcare professionals and organisations in delivering safe and timely care. I have a friendly yet professional disposition and I am a confident public speaker, having delivered numerous, well received keynote addresses at industry conferences. I am comfortable with meeting and working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences and follow a strategy of cultivating relationships with individuals and organisations, designed to drive and influence partnership and campaigning efforts. I would relish the opportunity to join the HSC Council, to support techUK and contribute to raising awareness of technology in the healthcare sector. I believe growing technological developments will continue to afford techUK and its members an ideal opportunity for growth and influence in the coming years.

Flann Horgan

Vice President, Head of Healthcare Sector, NTT DATA UK

Biography

Having worked in the Health & Social Care sector for more than 20 years across a range of supplier company leadership roles including KPMG, Atos, Accenture, SAP and now NTT DATA, I bring a wealth of experience of the challenges facing central healthcare customers (NHS England, NHS Digital, DHSC), NHS Providers (social care, ICSs and acute trusts) and private healthcare providers. I also bring experience from other health systems around the world including Australia (where I started my career), Ireland and other European companies. I have an extensive network of senior contacts across the UK NHS and central government and command peer-level coaching / trusted advisor relationships with a number of senior NHS stakeholders. Finally, as an organisation NTT DATA is a major supporter of start-up/scale-up organisations which will benefit the smaller entrants into the UK Health & Social Care marketplace.

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

NTT DATA is a very large and innovative global IT services company with more than 130,000 staff worldwide. I will bring the specialist healthcare expert resources available to me, to bring new perspectives to the Health & Social Care Council members. I am fully committed to the philosophy of techUK as an industry body and will approach this with no corporate agenda, no ego and the overarching objective of improving the UK's Health & Social Care sector for the benefit of staff, citizens and patients. I will commit significant amounts of time to techUK to drive forward the agenda, to ensure that all voices are heard and to ensure that the council benefits from the widest set of experiences from the UK and overseas.

Gemma Northover

Managing Consultant, Capgemini Invent

Biography

I have strong connections to the health and social care market. I am currently employed by Capgemini within their Health and Care practice, delivering outcomes to critical challenges across the Health and Care ecosystem, particularly within the digital transformation space. Prior to that, I was Head of Strategy at the Cabinet Office’s commercial executive agency, Crown Commercial Services (CCS), where I was responsible for creating and implementing the Health Strategy across the organisation. I have a strong knowledge of the commercial landscape and have relationships at every level across the system. I have an excellent knowledge of how the ecosystem functions, links back into Government and what the critical challenges are within the digital health space currently. Prior to CCS I worked in the workforce space, particularly within the National Programme for IT, and was engaged in resourcing a number of EPR implementations across the country.

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

I have an excellent knowledge of the health and care space and have worked with all aspects of the ecosystem for a long time. My relationships span across central functions, out into the ICS space across both NHS providers and local authorities. I am well versed with techUK and have worked alongside a number of its partners/members and attended a number of events hosted. My strong knowledge of the health and care system commercial landscape and critical changes underway to the way money is spent in the digital, technology and data landscape will bring huge value to the council and its members. My experience within the workforce space across the NHS will also bring value to the critical human aspect around digital transformation and its success across the ecosystem. My background in the Civil Service and relationships with those teams that are driving innovation across the digital space, as well as those creating the right routes to market to purchase these services, I hope will bring a fresh angle to discussions and opportunities. I have a real passion for the sector and a real passion for improving patient pathways and outcomes by bringing the sector into the digital revolution.

Graham Brown

Marketing Director, Tunstall Healthcare

Biography

Graham has been working in and around the healthtech industry since 2015, with experience working across multiple care settings, covering both health and social care, and a broad range of technologies and services. As a commercial marketing leader he has championed the adoption of technology to drive better outcomes for citizens, whilst working alongside partner organisations to help realise integrated health and care. His current role covers strategy, product, partnerships, and customer engagement, bringing broad and holistic thinking alongside practical experience of leading change programmes. With a passion for realising the true potential of digital adoption, Graham continues to look for new opportunities to have a positive impact on the future of health and care technology.

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

As integrated health and care continues to become more of a reality across the UK, it is essential that techUK reflect the needs of the entire system and the technology landscape that supports it. Tunstall Healthcare provides an established (65 years) voice that has grown to become one of the leading technology and services partners to a wide range of social care, local authority, and housing organisations throughout the UK, whilst also supporting a number of trusts in the implementation of virtual care across a wide range of pathways. By becoming a member of the council, I aim to ensure the wider system requirements are represented, understood, and become embedded in the delivery programmes of techUK. For integrated care models to truly develop and address the many challenges facing the system, it is essential for suppliers to be part of that conversation and understand we are part of a complex ecosystem that needs close collaboration. By bringing together the shared resource, knowledge and passion of the health and social care technology space this council can be a real driver of positive change.

Iain O'Neil

Managing Partner, TPXImpact

Biography

I have been working in digital health for around 15 years now - it is my passion. Until January this year I was heading up the Digital Transformation function within NHSX/E/DHSC overseeing a team of more than 70 digital professionals working on the transformation of NHS services. I joined the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in 2017 and became the head of the digital profession in health for the UK Government. Prior to entering the civil service I was Digital Director at Nuffield Health. I have also spent the past four years as a Trustee of a Social Care charity which looks after adults with mental health challenges and learning disabilities - it is something that is deeply important to me that society's most vulnerable are first in the queue when it comes to benefitting from digitisation and new technology - rather than being left behind.

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

I am incredibly passionate about the potential for technology to transform health and care. It's been my life for the past 15 years and despite the never-ending difficulty of transforming health and care I remain a committed believer that our future will be tech-enabled, personalised, data-driven BETTER health and care! I led the team that wrote the Department of Health and Care's Technology Strategy - The Tech Vision - and I still fully believe in the power of the market to do the things the public sector cannot to help deliver upon the future we all want. Having sat in Gov't, worked in the NHS and in private sector health and social care providers I believe I have a fully-rounded view of the challenges and opportunities and how to bring parties together in order to begin to deliver improved outcomes and efficiencies. I am an arch collaborator. I have, make and maintain very strong relationships with almost everyone I meet through work - including my former colleagues in NHSE/NHSx and DHSC - and I am authentic in my approach. I honestly think I would love to be part of your council and you would enjoy having me on it - I'm a big fan of your work and I see this as a huge opportunity to continue to contribute to the agenda I believe in.

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.

Jo Jackson

Client Partner, UK Public Sector, DXC Technology

Biography

My early career started with training unemployed people and finding them employment, feeding my passion for making a difference to people’s lives. For the past 25 years, I have worked as a Solution Sales professional, with technology as the backbone. In 1997 I started my technology career at Xerox; before moving into the bespoke e-learning industry in 1999. Whilst here I became their Healthcare specialist, working with several NHS clients, which ignited my passion for Healthcare. In 2013 I moved to IBM’s Talent Management solutions Public Sector team, before becoming a Client Executive in 2019, focused on Healthcare. My clients included NHS Digital, NHS BSA, and various NHS Trusts across the North of England. In May 2022, I moved to DXC Technology in the Public Sector Sales Team, where I orchestrate the wider DXC expertise focusing on delivering outcome based digital transformation, modernisation and innovative solutions to Clients across Healthcare.

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

I’m excited to bring my extensive career and life experience to the Council. My work in the technology industry; along with my passion for improving people’s lives is what pushes me to make a difference. Some of the best examples I have been involved in, where technology makes a difference are often when simple and minor technical advances deliver big impact. This can be a ChatBot used by Alder Hey Children’s Hospital to support Patients and their carers before those scary hospital visits; or an e-learning programme delivering Palliative Care Pathway training to Social Care staff, remotely at a convenient time/place. I was born and raised in a very deprived part of Liverpool and have first-hand experience of how health inequality can have a huge detrimental effect on people lives, our communities and our economy. At this time of crisis in our economy, the high cost of living added to our Healthcare system stretched to the limit, we will all face difficulties accessing services and health inequality will potentially get worse not better! We need to think differently, we need to focus on people and how we can help improve health inequality by using technology as an enabler.

Justene Ewing

Vice President Health and Care, CGI UK IT Ltd

Biography

I am the CGI’s VP establishing and leading our strategy for the health and care sector in the UK and Australia. My focus is implementing collaborative user-centred service redesign and boosting use of digital enablers to create capacity – while improving clinical and care outcomes. My strategy is to add value to health and care by forging collaborative partnerships, working with a wide range of suppliers and partners from the world’s largest health technology companies to small, innovative and dynamic SMEs. Before joining CGI in 2017, I was founding CEO of the Scottish Government’s Innovation Centre - the Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI) where we achieved over 100 projects within our first three operating years, with more than 5,000 participants and 250 project partners. I was a member of the Scottish Government’s e-health strategy board, a non-executive director for Citizen Advice Scotland and mentor for the Scottish Funding Council Arora programme.

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

My USP is my unusual combination of public, private and international sector expertise. As DHI CEO I enabled business, academia and the public sector to collaborate to achieve economic growth, civic value and academic insight. I worked internationally as a global ambassador for the Scottish Government and Scottish Development International, championing Scotland as an entrepreneurial state and place for digital health / care collaborative innovation, research and education - as well as attracting inward investment. Now, at CGI, one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world, I combine deep public sector understanding with expertise in the challenges and opportunities that technology and digital innovation can bring to the health and care sector. I offer a broad network of contacts and possess a demonstrable record of transforming, growing and leading profitable, sustainable world-class businesses for over 22 years. A Director General of Scottish Government nominated me for an international award stating “Justene is personally demonstrating leadership making it easier for professionals to step out of their comfort zones and for patients to be in the centre. Through the DHI, Justene is engaging with hundreds of organisations, creating relationships and building networks based on trust and integrity.”

Justin Hassall

Transformation Director, Informed Solutions

Biography

Justin is a Transformation and Main Board Director at Informed Solutions.

With over 25 years experience in the architecture and delivery of national and international digital and data platforms across the Healthcare system and wider public and private sectors, Justin specialises in leading successful ‘end to end’ delivery of challenging, complex assignments and cross-enterprise initiatives.

Highly accomplished at delivering effective business transformation, frequently through the selective use of innovative, leading-edge technologies, Justin has extensive experience across highly regulated industries including the Healthcare, Utilities and Nuclear sectors.

With particular expertise in user centre design-led digital service development in healthcare settings, Justin has most recently consulted on the design and delivery of an innovative NHS wide digital service for exchanging patient safety events. Led by NHSEI and working closely with NHSX and NHSD, the service joins up all providers of NHS funded care through FHIR based APIs and user-centred web apps to drive learning and insight, to continually improve patient safety across the NHS.

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

As part of techUK’s Health & Social Care Council I would bring:

• Knowledge and awareness of the current Healthcare sector challenges and requirements, through Informed’s existing health clients (e.g., NHSEI, NHSD, CQC) and the new Digital Capability for Healthcare Framework.
• Sharing of experiences from the front-line of designing and delivering interoperable systems within the NHS that have successfully passed GDS and NHSX Digital Service Standard assessments.
• Practical, real-world experience of working with data standards and integration with the NHSD APIs and reference data in multi-organisation and multi-vendor environments.
• Experience and learnings communicated through thought leadership articles, advice pieces, and external representation in support of techUK’s Health & Social Care programme objectives.

Knowledge and experience on the positive role the private sector can play in supporting innovation in healthcare systems, and how to shape effective delivery partnerships with healthcare providers.

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!

Kelly Gaddes

Special Adviser, Helicon Health

Biography

Hi, I’m Kelly Gaddes, an antipodean who never went home permanently. I’ve been pursuing health and social care digital innovations throughout my career. I knit together solutions across the public sector, large corporates, SME’s and charities to bring transformation to frontline services. I focus on enabling technology to help people self-service. I spent 5 years as IT Account Manager for a dozen London Social Services Authorities, and was Director of Adult Social Care for LB Bexley. I am a consultant, and special adviser to techUK member (Helicon Health), as well as the Vice-Chair of the Interoperability Group for techUK since 2021. In this role I sit on the UK HL7 FHIR Board setting health and social care interoperability priorities for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. I have further been co-opted onto the NHS England Social Care Data Standards Advisory group as an independent unremunerated adviser.

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

I am a frontline Operational Director turned technologist, savvy of the political landscape and how to influence successfully. I am fluent in health and care data strategies and standards, and understand systems change requirements and timescales. As Vice Chair (techUK Interoperability group), I consider the widest views of the sector, and ensure I work in an inclusive manner. I contact all kinds of Suppliers to understand their issues, and work closely with techUK staff to pass through anything needing attention. I report on interoperability to the techUK Health and Social Care working group which I have attended since 2018. I want to ensure that the sector can scale as quickly as possible to achieve the changes required to take health and social care forward. My mission is to ensure that all business-critical applications are taken forward in a planned manner, and that collaborations enable new technologies to blend with legacy to ensure we can keep the ship afloat. In particular I want to release pressure on public services by creating innovative approaches to technology which disrupt how things have been done. I want to both create new ways of doing things whilst potentially repurposing existent technology to achieve this.

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-gaddes-9001124/

Lauren Bevan

Head of Health and Social Care, BJSS

Biography

My career in health and social care began over 20 years ago. Initially a hospital cleaner, I later became a clinician, and then progressed to Deputy Director of Finance and Performance. Since then I've spent 12 years in industry. The diversity of my experience is hugely beneficial. I'm motivated by finding ways to stretch the NHS and Social Care's sparse resources, striving to secure equality and equity for citizens to manage the health and well-being of themselves and their loved ones. I have a different perspective on how the NHS can benefit from technology, how data can improve its efficiency and how patient experience and outcomes can be enhanced. As a qualified data scientist with active BCS and FED-IP membership, I have a well-rounded view of the tech landscape. I currently lead the Healthcare team at BJSS with over 400 technologists dedicated to spearheading advancements in health and care technology.

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

As an existing council member I've worked with the rest of the council throughout COVID championing the role of the sector in helping respond to the new challenges surfaced as the sector recovers and rebases. With experience of working in the NHS and social care, large multinational corporations and now at a technology specialist, I understand the relative positions and priorities for these organisations. I would continue to work with energy and enthusiasm to bring the parts of the sector together to represent the voice of the sector to develop and deliver the policy objectives to deliver the greatest public benefit to citizens and taxpayers. I work in an environment which champions open standards and open source production and it would be a privilege to be able to continue to work to deliver these as technology standards across the health and social ecosystem. By delivering on the above then I hope I can continue working working the already impressive cadre of skills and voices on the Health and Social Care Council at techUK.

Lee Alan Doughty

Head of Central Health UK, Vodafone Limited

Biography

Currently leading the Vodafone UK Central Health team with over 25 years experience predominately in the ICT Public Sector with corporate executive responsibility to the board. I have an In-depth understanding of consultative client engagements based on business outcomes using technology. A business leader and responsible for leading the some of the largest and most complex projects in Northern Europe during my 6 years in Vodafone Global Enterprise. I have NHS CXO coaches and mentors across Central health has enabled my team to have a deep understating of the NHS challenge’s and focuses from a national view. During my 10 years at Vodafone, I have built relationships with international health teams, which has enabled cross countries collaboration of health solutions from Germany, Spain, and Italy.

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

This is a time for change, and we are all change agents. We should always be driven by our values for good, based on benefits and enabling great outcomes with technology and operational excellence for the NHS and people that need care. I fill that I can contribute stimulate and provoke thought leadership to help that change. I am so proud of the greatness my team and I have delivered for NHS111 and the outstanding call to action to create NHS119 that we delivered during COVID. Enabling the fast-track implementation of NHS119 across 175 telecoms operators, along with Track & Trace mobile and fixed communications achieved in days, rather than months was a monumental delivery for the UK. This has enabled me to build high level CXO relationships and respect across industry and the NHS that will benefit the council. I have a passion to make a change for good by stimulating and provoking conversation with ideas, in-depth knowledge, and approach. My extensive European reach in Vodafone also allows me to bring health outcomes delivered by technology to the UK. This is not about what we need. It is why we need it. This is not about focus areas. It is about collaboration of the industry council and the NHS people we work with.

Liam Birch

Health and Social Care Market Lead, Nutanix

Biography

I am responsible for Nutanix’s Go to Market across the Health and Social Care. This focuses on Electronic Patient Record, Clinical Applications, Clinical Desktops and Hybrid Multi Cloud. Prior to my current role, I have almost a decades experience working across Health and Social Care helping organisations on their Digital Transformation journey. Most recently in Electronic Patient Records and Interoperability, where I was responsible for a Healthcare solution providers business across London and South East. I helped to deliver joined up patient care across multiple hospitals, an ICS and beyond. I have also worked in Process Management and Middleware from mapping out processes to optimising them through Automation. Most importantly, my role as a father and challenges we have faced as users of the Healthcare system over the last couple of years has deepened my passion to help deliver better care for everyone through the benefits that Technology can bring.

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

I collaborate across the Health and Social Care Ecosystem every day which has helped me to develop an extensive network across the NHS, Local Authorities and also other organisations such as Private Health Providers and Hospitals. My network includes all levels of an organisation which means I get to see and hear many viewpoints. I feel it is now time to utilise the knowledge I have built working across this Ecosystem and use it for the good of developing and future proofing Health and Social Care, accelerating the Digital Transformation journey across the organisations responsible for delivering care. I bring ideas to the table which I know can save organisations millions of pounds and improve the delivery of care through Technology. I am passionate about sharing them to make a difference and I am a team player, a good listener and someone who knows it takes a team to achieve anything great. I know there is a team of exceptional people on this council who I can bounce off and together we can continue to drive innovation across Health and Social Care. In my role at Nutanix, I would love the opportunity to be a part of the council, I really would.

Linda Elverson

Account Executive Healthcare , SAP

Biography

As Account Executive for Healthcare at SAP, I am responsible for working with the NHS, to understand and interpret ambitions and develop strategic partnerships that tackle the challenges faced by providers in advancing the delivery of sustainable and seamless care for patients. I have collaborated with the NHS for over 20 years, working across the Department of Health and Social Care’s partner organisations and NHS providers to realise the benefits attained from digital and data innovation, interoperability and transformation.

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

I have been a member of techUK, for many years, through the technology organisations I have represented and work for within the healthcare sector and seen the positive effects achieved from bringing people, companies and organisations together to collaborate. Having recently joined SAP to develop the UK’s healthcare strategy. I see this as an opportunity to share learning experiences and insights, cooperate with other professionals/members and contribute objectively to healthcare topics that will shape how technology and healthcare work together to achieve better outcomes. I hope to bring a (further) versatile perspective from my experiences of healthcare and the technology sector, working with DHSC and across the associated partner organisations, including NHS providers and more recently, Integrated Care Systems. Professionally, I am someone who acts with integrity, seeks diverse perspectives and experiences, engages constructively in dialogue and recognises that we will achieve more by working together and collaborating with others.

Liz Ashall-Payne

CEO, ORCHA Healthcare Ltd

Biography

Passionate about the opportunities that technology and particularly apps offer to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, Liz founded ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application in 2015, determined to present a way to offer much needed guidance to app developers to help raise app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could genuinely improve public, patient and organisational outcomes. Initially a Speech and Language Therapist, Liz has almost 20 years NHS experience. She has successfully led innovative change and service transformation in complex health economies. She has led regional, national and European change programmes and networks to deliver transformational shift and has experience of working collaboratively with Public Sector, Industry and Academia.

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

I am a resilient and motivated leader and I have been privileged to lead innovative change and service transformation for patients in complex health economies with financial deficits and challenging political environments. I very much welcome a challenge and very much value my personal integrity. I am very interested in digital innovations in Health and Care and am motivated to continuously transform care, utilising resources most effectively with all that innovation and technology has to offer. Working with the H&SC council at techUK has been an honour and I would be pleased to continue to support industry members with my collaborative approach and commitment to making a difference. Thank you for your consideration

Mark Burton

UK Health & Social Care Lead , Virgin Media O2 Business

Biography

I started my career in the acute clinical care setting working direct for the NHS. 30 years later my passion remains focused in providing the best care for patients across the healthcare ecosystem. Following my time in frontline NHS I moved into the commercial medical devices field. Spending 17 years within patient monitoring both in clinical and research areas. I also spent 2.5yrs as a Civil Servant with Crown Commercial Service specifically for the Health Sector, supporting the NHS gain routes to market for common goods and services. In 2022 I started my current role as the UK Health & Social Care Lead for Virgin Media O2, I lead the strategy & vertical focus of the Health Sector for Public Sector & Central Government, ensuring the private sector are knowledgeable about health and social care challenges, ensuring we build the right digital solutions to support their digital transformation ambitions.

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

My vision for Virgin Media O2 Business is to ensure we Connect – Protect – Empower NHS Staff & Patients, delivering best in class solutions to support patient care, tackle health inequalities and improve staff working environments supported by the use of digital technology. My background and experience enables me to take a holistic approach to understand the needs of the Health & Social Care ecosystem, from an organisational and frontline care perspective. I feel my knowledge from my time at CCS gives me great understanding of the procurement challenges and complexities faced from the customer I’m keen to join the Health & Social Care council at techUK to keep abreast of the heartbeat within health & social care and bring a further dynamic to the group from a digital provider point of view, especially now Virgin Media and O2 have come together.

Neil Bacon

Principle, Adobe

Biography

Neil Bacon is a seasoned senior executive with expertise in delivering results and driving the strategic, commercial, and digital transformation of large, complex technology and Health Care organisations. His focus is on purpose-led, profitable growth, sustainability, governance and stakeholder value for Adobe into Healthcare. Neil will bring skills in Digital Transformation, Design Thinking, strategy and strategy execution alongside proven ability to drive change bringing multiple organisations together. Neil is chair of the Adobe Public Sector Board. Neil is well versed in bringing people with different agendas together and aligning towards a big new vision.

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

Neil is the Principle within Digital Strategy Group for Healthcare. He is involved in building new strategies and go-to-market methodologies and oversight to the change management landing and adoption of these priorities, and transformational initiatives within both customers and internally within Adobe. He plays a key leadership role within the organisation. Neil is a change agent, someone who sees the big picture and then helps parties navigate and execute effectively, he has an exceptional capability to bring people together from many places and deliver. Prior to joining Adobe, Neil held senior positions at PwC and Accenture delivering multiple transformation projects in the Healthcare space including for NHS Digital. Neil lends his extensive healthcare, technology, digital transformation, sales experience by participating on boards, both in the private and public sectors. He has held NED and board roles at Healthwatch, Help and Care, APMP. Neil was a founding Director of two trade associations – Innopsis and EuroCloud and has extensive experience of managing Trade Associations and relations within both the NHS and wider government. Neil holds an MBA on how technology should be managed in Public Sector and Healthcare, plus has qualifications in Operating-Model Design Thinking & Agile.

Nicky Murphy

International Government Health Lead, Amazon Web Services

Biography

Nicky is passionate about the power of technology to drive health system transformation, to deliver better outcomes and services for populations and individuals. In her role as International Government Health Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Nicky supports policymakers and health system leaders around the world to realise their transformation goals by leveraging cloud technology. Prior to joining AWS in 2019, she worked as Director of Policy Delivery and Chief of Staff for the Deputy Chief Executive of NHS England where she oversaw the implementation of service delivery and transformation across the NHS. She has also worked in the English National Health Service (NHS) for a decade in local hospital, regional commissioning and national regulator operational and strategic management roles.

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

I have a combined experience of national and international policy advocacy roles with delivery of transformational change across the NHS. As a result, I am well-placed to help guide techUK’s agenda and support its initiatives to have a material impact across the UK. My current role as International Government Health Lead for Amazon Web Services also provides me with a deep understanding of the challenges faced by health systems internationally and how they are making use of technology to respond to them.

My current role in a leading, international technology organisation, combined with my former experience at the heart of policymaking and delivery in the NHS, makes me well-placed to:

1. advocate for TechUK’s involvement in national conversations;
2. identify where technology can support the delivery of the NHS’s wider goals; and
3. create partnerships with other public sector organisations and their suppliers.

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. 

Richard Armstrong

Head of Health Registries, NEC Software Solutions

Biography

Richard heads NEC’s (formerly Northgate) Health Registries division. He has worked in healthcare informatics for over twenty years, running and managing national data programmes collecting and reporting clinical and administrative healthcare data. This has included Programme Director roles for Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and the National Patent Reported Outcomes programme. He is Programme Director for the National Joint Registry (NJR), a role that requires close collaboration with clinicians, hospital managers, regulators and the MedTech industry. Richard represents NEC on the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) providing independent assessment of the effectiveness of medical devices. Richard has experience working internationally, supporting development of sustainable, high quality clinical registries to enhance assessment of the quality, safety and effectiveness of treatments, collaborating with partners in Europe, US and India. He has much real-world experience of the challenges and opportunities in collecting high quality health data, and its analysis and interpretation to benefit patients.

What you will bring to the Council and the Health and Social Care Programme’s work.

I have a strong mix of skills and experience to bring to the Council and I will bring energy and enthusiasm to the Programme.  I am fortunate to have worked on major digital transformation programmes that are successfully delivering change across the Health Sector and have developed strong networks with public and private sector stakeholders.  

In my role I spend time with clinicians, hospital managers, NHS management, regulators and the MedTech industry and this gives me unique insight into their challenges and frustrations. I see first-hand the difference high quality data can make to supporting patient care, and the benefit of giving data back to clinicians to make informed decisions about treatments, based upon national and international data sets. I have also faced the significant challenges and frustrations of collating national level data across multiple disparate systems and technologies.  I see common themes across the globe.  Clinicians and providers want to see data in a standardised, comparable way.  I am on a personal mission to ensure technology improves the collection, storing and use of data across the health sector.  My motivation for being a member of the Council is to support achieving this goal.

Samara Lattimer

Senior Manager - Services and Solutions (Healthcare and Life Sciences), Akkodis trading as Modis International Limited

Biography

I have spent most of my professional sales career working with and supporting the health sector in the UK since 2002. It started when I worked for Badenoch & Clark providing skilled interim IT resources for NHS Connecting for Health and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and NHS Trusts delivering on NPfIT objectives. I grew and led dedicated NHS recruitment teams to power the staffing element behind NPfIT. More recently, I have led and grown our managed services for the healthcare sector under Modis, now rebranded to Akkodis. In the last 18 months, I have scoped and solutioned services to support the implementation of Epic EHR to both Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Health & Social Care Northern Ireland providing services to support the build, testing, project management and end user training and we also support NHS Trusts with end user computing managed services too.

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

A digital future for patients and caregivers is being developed and enhanced each day but one of the largest setbacks to this digitalisation is the capacity and capability of the current digital workforce within the NHS. With government targets for digital records to be in place by March 2025 for both NHS Trusts and adult social care providers, I have a front row seat hearing what the barriers are to such efforts from a technology talent and services perspective. As a member of the Health & Social Care council, I will bring deep domain expertise on technology skills, upskill and reskill services. As an example, when Health & Social Care Northern Ireland lacked enough accredited Epic application analysts to start their workflow design and build programme, through a relationship with Epic in the UK, I was proud to design and deliver an Academy solution, reducing the need for more expensive offshore options. I share in the same view as Harvard Business Review who remark that “Digital Transformation is about Talent, not technology”, I will provide insights, contacts and a commitment to sharing best practice for all across health and social care providers.

Sarah Corbridge Nee Marsden

Healthcare Director, Dell Technologies

Biography

Sarah is a Healthcare Director across EMEA at Dell Technologies. Sarah is responsible for delivering digitisation programs to healthcare providers across EMEA to drive the development, adoption, and optimisation of services that positively change the lives of patients, care providers, and the community. Sarah takes a consultative approach with customers to drive smart healthcare through modernised technology, the connected workforce, virtual health, and personalized health, all supported with intrinsic security. An essential part of Sarah’s remit is in partnership and enablement, working with partners to deploy the latest technologies through Dell Technologies to deliver value-added patient care and clinician delivery benefits. Sarah has experience working within the NHS in various roles, including Director of Digital and Head of Integration and Electronic Healthcare Records at Leeds NHS Trust. Sarah joined Dell Technologies from Dedalus in 2021, where she was a sales specialist. She is a graduate of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has an accreditation with the College of Health Information Managers & Executives (CHIME).

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

I would like to sit on the techUK Council for Health and Social care to continue my focus on the power of digital in health and social care demystifying the complex to create opportunity. Creating value through the knowledge and experience that I have gained through my journey of working in both the public and Private Sector, instigating a digital change for the NHS. During my time in the NHS, in various roles, including Associate Director of Digital where I got the real-world experience of delivering Tech in the NHS and the challenges that brings, I managed to gain the skills to realise true digital transformation and how this can help clinicians deliver better patient care and I enabled the understanding of key stakeholders who ultimately funded our digital journey. I believe I can now use this experience to help to shape decisions and policymaking through the trusted body that is the Health and Social care council. I also bring my experience of working as a supplier into the NHS as another asset to the council using the approach I take as a supplier to create trusted partnerships with my customers. We need to make sure that NHS policymakers are also exploiting this same approach and using the power that suppliers can bring to the table in their scale and skillset to build a stronger more sustainable NHS together.

Sarah Howarth

Operations Director, Me Learning Ltd

Biography

Sarah Howarth is Operations Director at Me Learning Ltd and has 15 years’ experience of challenging traditional learning methods to provide cost-effective, technology-led training solutions for social care, health and police. With a strong understanding of customer challenges and drivers, Sarah uses this experience and awareness to ensure that her team places customer needs at the heart of all they do. This includes driving innovation in training design, ensuring learning outcomes are achieved and delivering consistently high levels of customer satisfaction, equalling the best in the learning industry. Focusing on Operational agility to benefit customers, Sarah puts her MBA, earned at Henley Management College, to good use. Team solutioning and the drive for excellent service delivery are what motivates her to get up in the morning. When not at work Sarah is a keen traveller and loves spending hours both planning and looking forward to her next trip

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

Over the last 15 years, I have experienced huge changes in the way technology and supporting services have developed and been deployed, and how workforce skills have evolved. I’ve actively supported health and social care sectors (where our own growth was driven by technological progress) on their transformation journey, as they reacted to broader economic pressures to deliver solutions faster, more cost-effectively and with better outcomes for service users. I have extensive experience across health and care in the implementation and optimisation of technology, new ways of working and digital transformation including the associated policy and legislation, which often drives change. The pressure on our public services has never been greater, and it’s imperative that digital progress, innovation and optimisation continue to be prioritised. I’m passionate about utilising technology to improve outcomes; embracing and anticipating fallout from change; responding to customer needs to deliver solutions that improve people’s lives; helping partners see the art of the possible to achieve adoption. I’d welcome the opportunity to join The Council to play my part in the next chapter for these sectors. I have experience and ideas in abundance, and the energy and enthusiasm to bring these to life for the wider membership.

Sarah Marsh

Partner - UK Health and Lifescience Technology Lead, EY

Biography

Sarah is EY’s Technology Consulting Lead for Health, Lifesciences and Wellness. She has 24 years-experience driving major technology enabled transformations, including 16 years in health delivering IT systems in Acute, Mental Health and Primary Care settings on the National Programme for IT, delivering systems related change at AstraZeneca and as IT Director/CIO for digital at Boots developing online propositions for Health, Wellness, Pharmacy and Opticians. She has spent the rest of her career delivering digital transformation across a range of industries. At EY she leads our work across DHSC including advising on strategy, digital and technology programmes at NHSD, NHS Transformation Directorate, NHS BSA, and at ICS and Trust level. She is part of our global health team where she advises internationally and leads a team who specialise on topics from Data & Analytics, Frontline digitisation, EPRs, Digital Maturity, ESR, Workforce Transformation to technology enabled performance optimisation.

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

As a member of the council, I commit to advocate that the council’s agendas focus on work that will improve patient outcomes. I will encourage all those working in the industry to collaborate, improve the efficiency of the industry driving faster realisation of benefits to those who use technology; including tackling issues where techUK members interests' conflict with developments in the sector to find winning agreements that ensure we have a vibrant, innovative technology market for UK Health; bringing a balanced perspective to the discussions. I will use my network to consider matters ranging from cloud transformation, security, digitisation, implementation, policy, data standards, commercial matters and risk across both health and social care. I will bring my international connections to techUK to help us learn from digital health transformation experience abroad. As a previous IT Director I bring pragmatism and practical experience of procuring, implementing and running IT systems; working with people at all levels and backgrounds in the industry and will help cut through the complexity of the NHS. I also commit to advocating diversity in gender and background bringing EY’s experience developing a pipeline of diverse talent to the industry.

Tom McArdle

Co-lead – UK Healthcare, Palantir Technologies UK

Biography

I co-lead Palantir's engagement with the NHS in England, and oversaw much of our work supporting the NHS's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Palantir’s Foundry platform played an important role as the data management infrastructure for the COVID-19 Data Store, supporting the allocation of critical hospital inventory and NHS England's management of the vaccine roll-out, among other things. My work is now focused on the elective care recovery and other national NHS programs. Prior to my role overseeing our NHS work, I led a number of Palantir’s engagements in the energy sector, and oversaw the development of Palantir's digital twin capabilities (now in use across a range of industries and fields of government). I have a professional background in engineering, with a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London.

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

I’d bring to the Health & Social Care Council the outlook of a software engineer, and the perspective of a software company at the leading edge of applying data to health and care decision-making and operations. I have first-hand experience grappling with the data fragmentation found within and amongst NHS organisation and social care providers. This fragmentation is one of the primary obstacles to integrated, citizen-centric health and social care, and will likely be recurring theme in the Council’s work. Our software has a growing track record supporting health and care organisations to overcome this challenge, and of enabling secure, data-driven decision-making and operations that can span disparate systems, different national and local organisations, and a diverse range of personnel – technical and non-technical, clinical and non-clinical, strategic and operational. I can also provide a unique perspective on the development of the United Kingdom’s positioning as a destination for life sciences technology talent and investment. Palantir is a relative newcomer to the UK’s health and life sciences sector, but is investing deeply in the field. We have around 1000 employees in our London office (the company’s largest globally), and are committed to supporting the UK health technology community.

Tom Scott

Commercial Director , Alcidion

Biography

With over 10 years experience in healthcare IT, I lead Alcidion's commercial function including UK sales, marketing and partner activities, focussing on customer and partner engagements to deliver innovative solutions to the market. I have a broad range of senior experience in the healthtech sector, from delivery through to product and commercial roles giving me invaluable breadth of experience, which allows me to view challenges through a variety of lenses. Alcidion have a wealth of experience in delivering clinical solutions based on open standards across Australia, New Zealand and 19% of acute NHS Trusts across the UK, all aligned to the FHIR standard.

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

I believe my background and experience gives me a good understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by policymakers, healthcare organisations and suppliers in the healthtech space, allowing me to challenge, learn from and articulate the views of the industry. I am a proponent of open standards across both interoperability and data and firmly believe that provides the foundations on top of which we can solve some of healthcare’s deep-rooted challenges. Rather than being the goal, I think it’s important to focus on what quality data and interoperability really mean to healthcare organisations across the spectrum and what benefits it creates. I am a firm believer that there is a space for suppliers in the market to complement each other rather than compete, and that working in partnership with other organisations in the sector provides the right environment for both suppliers and healthcare organisations to succeed. I would bring an innovative, inclusive angle to the council, with an ability to view the challenge from a range of perspectives that appreciates both the opportunity and challenges that both providers and suppliers across the spectrum face.

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.