Hear the latest developments from the Digital Health Networks including updates from the Birmingham Declaration. Take your opportunity to quiz the experts with an interactive panel discussion. Additionally, build upon your own toolkit whilst exploring ‘the story of self’.
Simon Noel
head of nursing informatics (CNIO), Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust
Simon has worked with clinical informatics for the past 20 years and leads a team of informatics nurses, working collaboratively with clinical, technical and organisational services. Simon is a member of the CNIO advisory panel for Digital Health, he is also on the Faculty of Clinical Informatics working groups for Professionalism, the Office of the CCIO, the FCI Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Panel, and contributed toward the What Good Looks Like Nursing Guidance, participating in the launch at Rewired in 2022.
Abigail Harrison
chief digital and infrastructure officer and vice chair CIO advisory panel, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
I am the Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this, I held the role of Deputy Director for Quality, Innovation and Improvement and CIO for the North West Ambulance Service. I am passionate about transforming health and care for all people by harnessing technology, data and estates, using a methodologically driven approach to improve the way we deliver services. I am a big advocate for clinical leadership and co-design with patients, providing the space for staff, patients and technical teams to work together to generate and test ideas.
I have a unique understanding and combined experience of digital, estates, mental health, improvement and NHS regulatory requirements over my 20 years in the NHS. I have worked nationally, regionally and for providers. I have worked alongside some of the world’s leading healthcare improvers and thought leaders and developed partnerships with industry, academia and health and social care to deliver change. I am passionate about leading teams to deliver standards and governance ensuring safety and security whilst enabling change and doing this thorough collaboration and partnerships where we bring people together to deliver on shared goals.
At LSCFT I have Executive responsibility for Digital and Estates. For 4 years prior I was the CIO at NWAS where we were able to significantly improve our digital maturity, taking us from negative outliers to leaders in the ambulance sector rapidly improving our infrastructure and enabling digital innovation underpinned by improvement methods.
Before NWAS I spent 10 years working in improvement and innovation in Salford. During this time I worked regionally and nationally to deliver national measurement systems, large scale change programmes and provide support to teams testing innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges across the NHS.
Paul Charnley
co-chair, Digital Blueprinting Steering Committee (NHS England)
Hayley Grafton
CNIO, University of Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust
Hayley Grafton is a passionate digital nurse leader, currently fulfilling the position of Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) at the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL). Joining UHL from The Royal Marsden Hospital, where she was the CNIO for the implementation of an enterprise electronic patient record. With over two decades of experience, Hayley specialised in intensive care nursing initially before moving into the digital health field. Hayley was a successful candidate of Cohort 3 of the NHS Digital Academy, Digital Health Leadership programme and is Vice Chair of the Digital Health CNIO Advisory Panel. Hayley has a keen interest in harnessing the power of healthcare technologies to improve the experiences and outcomes of patients.
Ramandeep Kaur
chief clinical information officer, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group
I am an enthusiastic individual, who is passionate about digital innovation and transformation, clinical informatics and raising the profile of Pharmacy and AHPs in the digital world. I am currently the Chief Clinical Information Officer at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. I have completed the Digital Health.London Pioneer Fellowship and Digital Health Leadership Academy programme. I am proud to be co vice chair of the CCIO advisory panel, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Shuri Network member.
