Digital Matron, County Durham and Darlington FT
Emma Arrowsmith is the Digital Matron at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. Digital is at the heart of healthcare delivery throughout the Organisation and Emma, with the Digital Health Team, are providing education, support and developing digital technology to support the care they provide.
Emma is the current chair of the National Digital Shared Decision Making Council with members spanning each region in England who are all working in digital roles as Nurses, Midwives or Students. Members of the Digital Shared Decision Making Councils will be attending Summer School to share some learning, ideas and a call to action.
Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer/SIRO, NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB
CDIO, Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT
Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office, Catalan Health Service
Senior Clinical Workflow Specialist, International Markets, Imprivata
Daniel has assumed a range of leadership roles in emergency care provision in both clinical and R&D positions in the NHS, Harvard University Hospitals and the Health IT industry.
Daniel has occupied management and operational roles directing frontline services to meet the contemporary challenges in healthcare provisions. He is also a recipient of a NIHR Clinical Research Fellowship award at Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and is Imprivata’s Clinical Safety Officer.
Daniel continues to be active within the nursing community, championing the development of Nursing Chief Information Officer role at a national and European level, with involvement in GDE Nursing & Midwifery Learning and HIMSS Europe Nursing Informatics Communities.
Chief Executive, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
Clinical Lead for Digital Transformation in Primary Care, Cheshire and Merseyside ICS
CIO, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
Shauna is currently the Chief Information Officer & Executive Board member at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG). She has over 15 yrs. experience working in the Canadian Healthcare system. She relocated to the UK in late 2015 to join Frimley Health as their CIO and then went on to be a Partner in Digital Transformation Consulting at South Central & West CSU.
The role she held before coming to the UK was Director of Technology & Infrastructure Renewal at a District Health Authority in Canada. In this role she provided leadership for IT infrastructure, facility planning & all construction, commercial leasing, capital planning and clinical engineering across 8 hospitals and 26 community health care centres.
Shauna is passionate about the positive impact effective digital transformation can have in the health and care system. As a leader she is grounded in the belief that healthy relationships with people are key to success, in combination with a positive attitude to lead and coach teams to achieve and exceed results and targeted deliverables. This in combination with attention to continuous learning she believes are critical components of being a successful Leader.
CIO, NHS England
John joined NHS Digital as Executive Director for IT Operations and Enterprise Services in February 2022, later becoming CIO for the new NHS England.
Prior to joining NHS Digital, John delivered a wide range of programmes and services at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Department for Education, and across Government.
Regional Clinical Safety Officer, NENC ICS and GNCR
Dr Phil Stamp, an A&E consultant based at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was appointed as regional Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) for the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System in 2022. Phil has been working as Regional CSO for the Great North Care Record (GNCR) programme since 2020 and has been responsible for ensuring the regional data sharing programme is clinically safe.
He has also overseen programmes within his own trust and has a wealth of digital experience having previously been the trust’s Chief Clinical Information Officer. Phil provides clinical expertise and leadership across a range of regional programmes in addition to the GNCR including diagnostics and maternity.
He supports a network of CSOs across the region, ensuring that as a region, the systems we deploy meet national safety requirements, and that they are consistently applied across the North East and North Cumbria.
National Chief AHP Information Officer, NHS England
Associate Director of Nursing (Patient Safety & Governance) and CNIO, County Durham and Darlington NHS FT
Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Imprivata
Andy Wilcox, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Imprivata is an experienced professional with over 17 years of experience managing and developing healthcare technology products and services for international healthcare markets.
Based in the UK, Andy has held a range of Product Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development positions in industry-leading healthcare technology companies in the UK, driving customer growth and adoption in markets across EMEA and APAC. Andy has worked at Imprivata for five years and has been instrumental in the development of Imprivata’s Digital Identity Framework.
CCIO, Nuance Communications
Dr Simon Wallace is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) of Nuance’s Healthcare division in the UK and Ireland. Simon has worked as a GP, hospital and public health doctor in Brighton and London. His interest in digital health began in the 90s when he spent a year at the King’s Fund investigating the impact of the internet on shared decision making between patients and their healthcare professional.
For the past 20 years, he has worked for a range of organisations including Bupa, Dr Foster, Cerner Corporation and GSK across a range of technologies which include AI-powered speech recognition, electronic patient records, telemedicine, mobile health and lifestyle devices.