“It is all about the People!” Sir Jim Mackey and Shauna McMahon will explore the next big challenges in digital and address ‘are we slowly losing the battle or making advances in digital?’ Shauna will share her experiences moving to Newcastle the ongoing work to digitize the patient and end user experience. Learn from her approach to collaboration internally, within the region and with The Great North Health Care Alliance. Sir Jim Mackey will address the wider regional and national challenges whilst sharing his experience of being CEO at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NFT.
Chair: Jon Hoeksma
Chief Executive, Digital Health
Jon is the founder and CEO of Digital Health, the health IT B2B news, research and events publisher and professional networks specialist. He previously co-founded and edited eHealth Insider, and is a leading journalist, commentator and thought leader on UK health IT. In 2014 he led the trade sale of eHealth insider to Informa Plc.
Achievements of note include: founding the UK CCIO movement, from launch of CCIO campaign in 2011 to development and growth of CCIO Networks and community; the development of Digital Health Networks – centred on CCIO and CIO Networks – as the leading independent online best practice community of NHS IT professionals – 5,000+ members as of November 2020; plus growing Digital Health Summer Schools into the premier health IT leadership event in UK; and launching Digital Health Rewired in March 2019 as the most dynamic and compelling Expo in digital health space.
Sir Jim Mackey
Chief Executive, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
Having held senior positions as CEO of NHS improvement, interim COO at NHS England and over 20 years’ experience as an NHS CEO, Mackey is one of the UK’s most established and high-profile system leaders. He will discuss the challenges of digital maturity and how to use digital to drive improvements in performance and productivity, drawing on his local and national experience.
Shauna McMahon
Chief Information Officer and Executive Board Member, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
Shauna is currently the Chief Information Officer at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 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.
Samantha Robinson
Associate Director of Live Services – NHS England
