Join past and present leaders of the CCIO/CIO/CNIO Networks to reflect on ten years of Summer School, consider how far digital leadership has progressed over the past ten years, and look ahead to what is needed next.
Ayesha Rahim
CMIO, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS FT,Clinical Lead for Digital Mental Health, NHSE
Ayesha is a consultant psychiatrist, and graduate of the NHS Digital Academy. She is a steering group member for the Shuri Network, which promotes the participation of BAME women in the digital health field. She is also an elected member of the Digital Health CCIO Advisory Panel.
Dr Ayesha Rahim is a psychiatrist, with 20 years’ experience in the UK National Health Service. She has worked in health tech for a number of years, and is the national clinical lead for Digital Mental Health in England. Her other interests include workforce development, diversity & inclusion, and user-centred design.
Ade Byrne
CIO – University Hospital Southampton NHS FT
As a CIO for one of the large university teaching hospitals I have promoted the concept of open platforms and interoperability for over 20 years. Aside from being DH AP Chair, 2010-2021, I have acted in an advisory capacity to KLAS and a number of suppliers to the NHS and INTEROPen As chair of the CIO network I feel we have had good engagement from the national teams in NHSD/X and have had opportunity to voice an opinion which I believe has occasionally influenced a product, policy or direction. A member of the BCS and accredited CHCIO status.
Dermot O’Riordan
Consultant Surgeon at West Suffolk Hospital & CMIO at ESNEFT
Dermot O’Riordan was recently appointed as joint Chief Medical Information Officer in ESNFT (Ipswich and Colchester) to help with the procurement and then implementation of a new EPR. Previously, Dermot was CCIO in West Suffolk NHSFT from 2014-2023 where he played a major role in successfully procuring and implementing a new EPR, culminating in being awarded GDE status. Dermot still practices as a consultant surgeon in West Suffolk. He was previously medical director and interim CEO. Dermot is an existing active member of the DH CCIO Advisory Panel & previously elected member of council of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.
Jon Hoeksma
CEO, 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.
Prof Daniel Ray
Chief Technology Officer – Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS FT
Daniel Ray has worked in health technology and informatics for over 20 years. He is CTO and DPO of Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS FT where he has been since January 2020. He has with his team and clinical staff driven forward the development, use and uptake of technology during the COVID pandemic crisis and now onto the Trusts EPRs for their different services. He is also a NED/Trustee on the board of an allergy charity NARF and historically in his previous role was Director of Data at NHS Digital; responsible for developing the organisation’s data capability. Daniel was the product owner of the new national data services platform. Daniel in his national role was responsible for all technical data and product delivery for the £50m Data Insights and Statistics Directorate, and lead a number of operational teams. Prior to this he was Director of Informatics at a large teaching hospital in England, where he transformed the health informatics service, set up a quality outcomes research unit, and developed a patient portal among other work programmes.
He also set up commercial analytics businesses in England, Australia, the US and Italy. He has worked in commissioning in the NHS, the private sector and a number of other acute hospitals. He started out life as a clinician in laboratory medicine.
He is also honorary professor of health informatics at UCL’s Institute of Health Informatics, where he gets involved in leading edge research and teaching.
Prof Joe McDonald
Former Chair of CCIO networks AP & Principal Consultant – Ethical Healthcare Consulting
Professor Joe McDonald, founder of the Great North Care Record, former National Clinical Lead for IT. Consultant Psychiatrist. Former Chairman CCIO Network. Medical Director at Sleepstation, SARD JV & Parsek Soltions. Principal Consultant at Ethical Healthcare.
Sarah Hanbridge
CCIO – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Sarah is a Registered Adult Nurse & Practice Lecturer/Practitioner predominantly working within Acute trust with 28 years of clinical and leadership experience. Her current role is a Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) Nursing & AHP Leeds teaching hospital Sarah was previously a Regional CNIO Northwest. Sarah attained one of the first Florence Nightingale Digital Scholarships in 2020, during the pandemic Sarah set up the Northwest Regional CNIO/Mid-wife and AHP network. Sarah is the CNIO Chair of the Digital Health Network Sarah’s and CHIME UK & INTERPenAPI Board member her passion is digital transformation to improve patient care.
Simon Noel
CNIO, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation
Simon has worked with clinical informatics for the past 20 years, in adult intensive care, electronic blood transfusion systems and working as CNIO since 2017. He now leads a team of informatics nurses, supporting digital clinical engagement and systems development, working collaboratively with clinical, technical and organisational services. Simon was recently elected to 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 he has also recently contributed toward the What Good Looks Like Nursing Guidance.
Dr Paul Jones
CDIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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.