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.
Chair: Paul Jones
CDIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Paul is the Chief Digital Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, where he leads a team of 450 digital and information staff. He has held senior, digital roles in the public and private sector over the last twenty-years including CTO for the NHS in England and Group CIO at Serco.
Adrian Byrne
ex NHS CIO
Jan Hoogewerf
head of health and care, British Computer Society
Jan is Head of Health and Care at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. She joined BCS from the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, where she was instrumental in the set up and early development of the organisation. Prior to that she managed the Health Informatics Unit at the Royal College of Physicians and has worked in health and social care informatics roles for most of her career, both at a local and a national level across all health and care settings.
BCS drives professional standards in informatics and supports the development of digital skills at all career stages, with the aim of achieving an effective and ethical digital workforce. Jan’s priorities in her BCS role are to create opportunities to develop the skills and experience needed by those working in health and social care informatics and to support professionalisation through promoting professional standards and registration.
James Hawkins
chief digital information oficer, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
James is a highly experienced digital, technology and business leader who has led and delivered some of the highest profile digital programmes, products and services in the UK.
James is currently the Chief Digital and Information Officer at York and Scarborough NHS Foundation Trust and prior to that he had several different roles on the executive team at NHS Digital and has been central to the delivery of many of the national NHS IT systems and services.
Debbie Loke
EPR director/CIO, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT
Debbie started in the NHS 20 years ago and is currently the CIO / director of Digital at UHDB. Debbie’s IT career started in the private sector working for a large accounting firm and moving onto Data Warehouse / BI development for IBM, Vodafone and Safaricom. Debbie has successfully delivered several complex-EPR deployments alongside clinical digital projects such as EDRM, electronic prescribing, PACs, RIS and LIMS.
