The 2024 networks spotlights will address the themes of the next big challenges in digital health and productivity. Attendees will explore the continued evolution and development of existing roles, providing an opportunity for people to share how they are developing the role, and emerging challenges ahead.
Jane Tyacke
director of strategy, public sector healthcare, Salesforce
Jane is a highly skilled and motivated healthcare consultant with over twenty-five years of experience gained working within both public and private health sectors. Jane has worked on a wide variety of high-profile projects and programmes, delivering innovative business solutions and process improvements to healthcare clients. Jane worked directly for NHS Trusts, major private sector healthcare providers, and leading suppliers of healthcare IT solutions before building a highly successful consulting career.
Dr Lia Ali
CCIO advisory panel member, Digital Health
Dr Lia Ali is a doctor and digital health strategist with extensive experience across the spectrum of digital healthcare. She is passionate about ethics and safety by design, patient centred care and long term conditions including mental health and have particular interests in integrated care and medical education. She believes that delivery of exemplary healthcare requires a holistic, biopsychosocial, service design approach. Lia has done this via transformation roles in the NHS, charities & for-profit sector.
Euan McComiskie
health informatics lead, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Euan qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2007. He worked in clinical roles before his journey with clinical informatics began in 2012. His role at the CSP is to improve informatics knowledge and skills in the physiotherapy profession and to drive informatics inclusion in policy and strategy. He is co-vice chair of the CNIO Advisory Panel, co-lead for AHPs and a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and the Clinical Lead for Physiotherapy at ORCHA.
Bobbie Phippin
lead clinical safety officer, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
My Name is Bobbie Phippin and I am currently the Lead Clinical Safety Officer working at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow Essex.
Currently our trust is in the process of implementing a new electronic health record system. No two days are the same. I am available for support and advice for the team working to support the implementation to ensure we are ready for the ‘Go Live’ later this year. I can be found supporting staff, assessing the clinical safety of the system and challenging the team when gaps are found to mitigate any risks at the earliest opportunity.
The role enables me to work with a team who share my passion about ensuring patients are at the centre of everything we do. The new implementation will enable staff to spend more time with their patients and less time documenting in the patient records.
Qualifying as a midwife in 2007, I have had the opportunity to work in a variety of specialities including community, safeguarding and governance before becoming a matron for Gynaecology and maternity bereavement services. This has allowed me to broaden my knowledge and breadth of experience whilst continuing to keep patients and staff at the centre of everything I do.
My motto in life has to be “Think Big, trust yourself and make it happen!”
Misbah Mahmood
deputy chief midwifery information officer, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
I have been a qualified midwife for 10 years and 5 years in digital at LTHT. I have successfully led on several l projects across maternity services, Including an end-to-end electronic patient record, secure online notes portal. Being a member of the Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group and as the first elected midwife on the Digital Health CNIO advisory council, I have seen first-hand the value of networking. I am honoured to also be a Florence Nightingale Digital Alumni. When undertaking digital transformation, it is my responsibility as Chief Midwifery Information Officer to make sure the clinical voice is heard.
Caroline Palmer
clinical lead, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Caroline is the Clinical Lead for the Digital Health Transformation Service leading the scale and spread of innovation nationally, working with NHS and healthcare organisations and services to safely deliver care in innovative way.
Caroline began working on the ChatHealth messaging project in 2012 and went on to launch ChatHealth across the School Nursing service in Leicestershire in 2014 and subsequently across the UK.
In 2021, Caroline completed a fellowship with the NHS Innovation Accelerator and also undertook the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme. Caroline is passionate about clinical safety, sharing of best practice and ensuring that service users can access healthcare in a way that suits them.
Caroline qualified as a Children’s Nurse in 2007 from Sheffield Hallam University. She worked within the acute care setting up until 2011, and then began work in community services across both School Nursing and Children’s Community Nursing. In 2014 Caroline was awarded the title of Queens Nurse for her work in innovation within the NHS.
Jemima Kola-Abodunde
digital health manager, physiotherapist, PUBLIC
Jemima is an experienced clinician and digital health advisor with a strong background in digital healthcare. Currently serving as a health manager, she is committed to advancing healthcare through innovation, focusing on designing user-centred services that address health inequalities and promote holistic care. With expertise in healthcare systems, technology-driven solutions, and strategic health management, Jemima leads digital transformation projects in health and social care. Her career reflects a passion for driving impactful change and fostering innovation across the NHS and the broader healthcare sector.
Bobbie Phippin, Caroline Palmer, Euan McComiskie, Jemima Kola-Abodunde, Lia Ali, Misbah Mahmood
