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2022 Programme

Summer Schools will provide you with two-days of CPD-accredited content, rewarding education, networking, and best practice exchange, learning from the very best digital health leaders from across the UK.

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Thursday 14th July
Session 1: Keynote 09:15 - 09:50 Simon Bolton, interim CEO of NHS Digital and interim CIO of NHS E&I will deliver the opening keynote speech on the role of digital and data in supporting the NHS to deliver the aims of the Long-Term Plan and new Health and Social Care Act. Followed by an extended Q&A session. 09:15-09:20 Welcome from the Chair Jon Hoeksma - CEO, Digital Health Speaker biography 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. 09:20-09:50 In discussion with... Simon Bolton - Interim CEO, NHS Digital Speaker biography Simon is Interim CEO of NHS Digital, the executive body of the Department of Health and Social Care which provides information, data and IT systems for health and social care nationally.Prior to joining NHS Digital Simon was the Chief Information Officer at NHS Test & Trace, and has held a number of executive technology leadership roles at companies including CIO of Jaguar Land Rover and CIO of Rolls-Royce’s Land and Sea Division.Simon was appointed as an Independent Member of Governing Council for The University of Derby in April 2019 and is also on the Board of Tech Partnership Degrees, an employer-led and not for profit organisation that unites employers and universities to improve the flow of talent into the digital workforce. Simon is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Armis, a computer and network security company based in California. Session 2: How will Integrated Care Systems reduce health inequalities through digital transformation? 09:55 - 10:45 Leadership Panel Discussion An inspiring leadership panel including Tim Ferris, director of transformation NHS E&I, Patricia Miller Chief Executive Designate Dorset Integrated Care System and Shera Chok, acting chief medical officer NHS Digital will examine the potential for ICSs to address and redress health inequalities. The aims of the session include: • National digital health and social care plan: top priorities and how they will help patients, the public and reduce inequalities • The ICS perspective: how will ICSs deliver better outcomes through digital and data enablers • The experience of and impact on frontline staff including nurses, AHPs and informatics teams • Call to action to the audience & NHS on workforce development and creating diverse and inclusive digital teams as part of the national digital workforce strategy 09:55-10:00 Welcome from the Chair Dr Shera Chok - Chair, Shuri Network & Deputy Chief Medical Officer, NHS Digital Speaker biography Shera is a GP in East London and is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at NHS Digital. She is an experienced Medical Director and CCIO and also worked at Barts Health as Director of Primary Care for six years, helping to improve patient pathways across organisational boundaries. She co-founded the Shuri Network in 2019 as she is passionate about increasing diversity, innovation and safety and to encourage other BME women to lead and engage with digital transformation. She has worked at a national level on health policy as a clinical advisor on new models of care and Integrated Care Systems with NHS England and as member of the NHS Independent Reconfiguration Panel for seven years. She is a member of the Sciana Network for European health leaders, sponsored by the Health Foundation. Shera has volunteered as a clinician in countries including Sudan, Laos, Indonesia and Greece with NGOs working in war and disaster zones and with displaced populations. She studied at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on quality improvement, community engagement and leading change and was seconded by the NHS to work with Crossrail. She has completed an M.B.A., M.A. in Inter-professional Education and a Nuffield Trust Fellowship on cross-organisational learning with Sunderland Athletic Football Club. 10:00-10:30 Panellists Dr Tim Ferris - Director of Transformation, NHS E&I Speaker biography Dr. Tim Ferris is the inaugural National Director of Transformation at NHS England and NHS Improvement and previously a Non-Executive Director on the Board. Tim was most recently CEO of the Mass General Physicians Organization (2017-2021) and was formerly the Senior Vice President for Population Health at Mass General Brigham overseeing performance for one of the largest accountable care organizations in the US. He founded the Center for Population Health, which reaches over one million patients annually, focusing on prevention and data to improve health, reduce inequities and save lives. Tim trained in medicine and public health at Harvard University, and remains on the staff of Mass General. He was awarded numerous NIH and foundation grants and co-authored over 130 publications on health care quality measurement, health disparities and health IT. Tim became a professor at Harvard Medical School in 2018 and continues as an adjunct Professor. Patricia Miller - Chief Executive Designate, Dorset Integrated Care System Speaker biography Patricia is the Chief Executive Officer Designate for Dorset’s Integrated Care Board. Responding for overseeing complex health services and health improvement programmes for local communities. Patricia has over 30 years’ experience of working in the NHS and holds a Masters degree in Health Care Management.  She is a graduate of the East of England Aspiring Directors Programme, the ‘Breaking Through’ Leadership Programme, the Athena Leadership Programme for Executive Women, and the Collaborative Leadership Programme at the Kings Fund.  Whilst working in the NHS Patricia has remained passionate about improving the lives of patients and staff in ways that matter to them. Patricia has a strong focus on equality, diversity, inclusion, and health inequalities. She is currently co-chair of the provider Chairs and CEOs network, and member of the NHS England’s Health Inequalities Oversight Group. Patricia is a member by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health and has been a member of the NHS Assembly since its inception. Patricia was named as one of 25 Rising Stars of the NHS in 2013, one of the top 50 CEOs in 2019, was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to the NHS and was named amongst the top 50 BAME figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the NHS and health policy in 2020. Trish Hughes - Director of Nursing (Professional Representation) / Deputy Director of Nursing and AHP Workforce - North West, NHS E&I Speaker biography I started my nursing career on a medical ward, and after a year, worked on an oncology/ haematology ward which I loved. I worked there for 9 years and then became a Haematology Specialist Nurse. I moved to London in 2014 to take up a Head of Nursing role in cancer at St George’s, before becoming a Matron at University College London Hospital (UCLH). Throughout my career I have helped lots of colleagues to progress. ‘Lift as you climb’ is my philosophy which I achieve by encouraging people of colour to apply for opportunities. I am also passionate about the digital agenda and am an active member of the Shuri Network. Some of my past accomplishments include being the founding member and Chair of the UCLH BAME Network for almost 400 members. I joined The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust as a Divisional Nurse Director in February 2020. And made a significant impact as a champion for equality and inclusion. My current role is Director of Nursing (Professional Representation)/ Deputy Director (Nursing and AHP workforce) for NHSE/I (NW region). My aim is to be a chief nurse so others can see that it can be done! Rushownara Miah - Head of Business Intelligence, Pennine Care NHS FT Speaker biography I have been working within the NHS for the past 6 years, having 7 years’ experience within the private sector prior to working in the NHS. I started out as a SQL Developer at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and I am now Head of Business Intelligence at Pennine Care. 10:30-10:45 Panel Q&A

Session 3: Paths to convergence 11:30 - 12:15 Leadership Panel Discussion Leading NHS trust CIOs will explore the challenges of convergence on standardised platforms across ICSs, sharing their local contexts and offering suggestions on how convergence can best be achieved. 11:30-11:35 Welcome from the Chair Adrian Byrne - CIO, Southampton University Hospitals NHS FT Speaker biography 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. 11:35-12:00 Panellists Debbie Loke - CIO / Director of Digital, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS FT Speaker biography 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 Glenn Winteringham - CIO, Royal Free NHS FT Speaker biography Glenn Winteringham is the Chief Digital Officer for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) . Glenn has worked in NHS Information Management and Technology for 35 years and has led the RFL Digital Transformation Programme since 2017. This has included the delivery of their Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) ; EPR roll out across all RFL hospitals and digitising 40 standardised care pathways ; achieving HIMSS EMRAM 7 at Chase Farm Hospital ; establishing a shared EPR domain with West Herts University Hospitals Trust ; and supported the deployment of shared Health Information Exchange and Population Health Management solutions across NCL ICS. Liam McLaughlin - CIO, West Suffolk NHS FT Speaker biography Liam worked in the pharmaceutical and retail sectors before joining the NHS in National Clinical Audit as part of the Health and Social Care Information Centre. He moved to West Suffolk NHS FT in 2009 and was lead for the Data Migration and Integration workstreams of their EPR implementation in 2016. He leads on the shared care record roll out across the ICS and wider system partners and was appointed CIO in January 2021. Dr Paul Jones - CDIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Vice-chair of the CIO AP Speaker biography Paul is the Chief Digital & Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust where he is part of both the Executive Team and the Board. Paul is also the CIO for the West Yorkshire ICS. He re-joined the NHS in November 2019 having spent eight years in the private sector with global roles at Serco and Bupa. Previous to that he was the CTO for the NHS in England from 2005-2012 where he was responsible for the national design authority and was senior responsible officer for N3 and The Spine. Paul holds a PhD in Computer Science, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered IT Professional. 12:00-12:15 Panel Q&A Session 4: Speed meets 12:25 - 13:25 Speed meets are a fun, informal, fast paced and lively activity to help break up the regular conference format. This is your unique opportunity to meet a large number of people you perhaps wouldn’t normally be able to speak to and create new connections.


Session 5: Breakout sessions 1 14:30 - 15:30 Introduction to AI - everything you ever wanted to know about AI in health but were afraid to ask Interested in the potential use of AI in health, but confused about the difference between AI and ML? Trying to better understand how to test, evaluate and deploy AI tools in your organisation, but not sure where to begin? The introduction to AI breakout offers an essential primer on AI in health. Panellists Haris Shuaib - Consultant Clinical Scientist & Head of Clinical Scientific Computing, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS FT Speaker biography Haris Shuaib is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of the Clinical Scientific Computing section at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS FT. He is also the AI Transformation Lead at the London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare where he oversees the development of AI prototypes in partnership with academia, industry and NHS Trusts. He is also the inventor and technical lead of AIDE, a platform which seeks to make integration of AI software into clinical pathways safe and efficient. Dr Simon Wallace - CCIO, Nuance Communications Speaker biography Dr Simon Wallace is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) of Nuance’s Healthcare division in the UK and Ireland. Simon has worked as a GP, hospital and public health doctor in Brighton and London. His interest in digital health began in the 90s when he spent a year at the King's Fund investigating the impact of the internet on shared decision making between patients and their healthcare professional. For the past 20 years, he has worked for a range of organisations including Bupa, Dr Foster, Cerner Corporation and GSK across a range of technologies which include AI-powered speech recognition, electronic patient records, telemedicine, mobile health and lifestyle devices. Dr Yan Jia - Research Fellow, University of York Speaker biography Dr Yan Jia is a Research Fellow at University of York. Her work focuses on safety management in healthcare, unifying and integrating work in safety engineering and in machine learning. Recent work has enhanced some of the explainability methods for ML and investigated their role in safety assurance for healthcare. Achieving Digital Maturity on a shoestring With NHS organisations urged to increase their digital maturity, how can you make a little go a long way? When you can’t go big how can you still make progress? In the digital maturity on a shoestring breakout, you’ll learn how trail-blazing NHS organisations can still improve their digital maturity working with very limited budgets. Panellists Darren McKenna - Director of Digital - Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS FT Speaker biography Darren has 30 years experience working in Digital Health and for the past 20 years has held senior informatics leadership roles within specialist Mental Health Trusts leading the delivery several large scale and innovative developments. Outside of the organisation, he has worked at a regional and national level. Darren currently co-chairs the NHS Providers Digital Board Leaders Network and chairs the North East CIO Network. He was voted eHealth Insider CIO of the Year 2017. Andy Callow - Group CDIO, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Speaker biography Andy is Group Chief Digital Information Officer at Northampton and Kettering General Hospitals and was ranked #14 in the CIO 100 2021 list. He has been responsible for big changes in the way technology enables care during the time he’s been at the hospitals. Prior to joining Kettering, Andy worked at NHS Digital and was the Programme Director for the NHS App, which went from a concept to availability in the App stores in little over a year. Andy previously was Head of Technology Delivery for NHS.UK, the national website for the NHS in England, which receives c40m visits a month. Andy oversaw the technology refresh of the site during which time NHS.UK had the highest period of availability and reliability in its 10-year history. Andy is a passionate public servant who sees massive potential to improve patient and staff experience using technology but starting with understanding their user needs. He’s a believer of working in the open and seeks to tweet and blog regularly to share learning and strive to build a better NHS. Dr Constantin Jabarin - CCIO, Altera Digital Health Speaker biography Dr Constantin Jabarin, International CCIO for Altera is a senior experienced clinician who continues to practice medicine. He was initially a paediatrician but following a stint in paediatric emergency medicine, he retrained in adult medicine and continued a clinical career in emergency medicine. He currently practices at weekends in Gloucester & Cheltenham Hospitals as a Locum ED Consultant. He also has over 12 years of IT experience, having worked both as an independent consultant, as well as an NHS CCIO and for other healthcare companies. In Altera, he runs an International clinical team that manages clinical conversations with new and existing clients around the globe. Shauna McMahon - CIO, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS FT and Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Speaker biography Shauna is currently the Joint CIO & Executive Board member at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS FT (NLaG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH). Prior to joining the NHS in 2015 she worked for 15 years in the Canadian Healthcare system. Shauna has provided leadership for IT infrastructure, facility planning & construction, commercial leasing, capital planning and clinical engineering, digital solutions and health information across 8 hospitals and 26 community health care centres. Prior to Healthcare, she worked in Banking and the HR sector. Shauna is passionate about the positive impact digital transformation can have in the health and care system and most importantly the people we serve. 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. This in combination with attention to continuous learning and professional development she believes are critical components of being a successful Leader. Shuri - the little Network that roared: what's next for our members and how to be a good ally Three-years on from the launch of the Shuri Network at Summer School 2019, the Shuri breakout will review and celebrate milestones, together with future plans and opportunities to support and take part. Panellists Dr Ayesha Rahim - CCIO, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT & Clinical Lead for Digital Mental Health, Transformation Directorate NHS E&I Speaker biography Ayesha Rahim is a consultant psychiatrist and CCIO. She is also the Clinical Lead for Digital Mental Health in the new Transformation Directorate of NHSE/I. She leads a team of clinical informaticians in her organisation and has successfully delivered several large-scale digital transformation projects. She is a founding member of the Shuri Network which supports BAME women in digital health, and offers personal shadowing opportunities and mentoring to other professionals. Ayesha is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and is a keen proponent of User Centred Design. Rafiah Patel - Chief Digital Ethics and Privacy Officer, Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS FT Speaker biography As Chief Digital Ethics and Privacy Officer, Rafiah has a novel NHS role building a robust and iterative ethical foundation for digital health through channels including equality and inclusion, user voice, clinical safety and information governance. Rafiah is also an experienced NHS Speech and Language Therapist, currently undertaking a PhD exploring co-designed digital therapy solutions for children with language and learning needs. Dr Anne Marie Cunningham - Associate Medical Director (Primary Care), Digital Health and Care Wales Speaker biography Dr Anne Marie Cunningham is a founding fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and was elected to the first faculty council. She is currently Vice-Chair of Council and leads for the executive on professionalism. She is also serving her second term on the Digital Health CCIO Advisory Panel. She believes that multidisciplinary teams, and patients and carers, must be active in healthcare informatics, and social media and networks as well as events such as hackathons can be a way to facilitate this participation. She is currently Associate Medical Director (Primary Care), Digital Health and Care Wales, as well as a practicing GP in the South Wales Valleys but is moving back to Northern Ireland later this year. Bisi Soledolu - Shuri Network Project Manager, Shuri Network Speaker biography Bisi is a dual qualified Nurse and Midwife, certified Project Manager and Quality, Service, Improvement and Redesign Practitioner. As part of her commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion she supports the Shuri Network leading on the innovative Shuri Network Digital Fellowship Programme supporting women interested in Digital health. Tambu Foroma - Shuri Network Fellow, Learning Environment Lead, Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS FT Speaker biography Tambu is a Shuri Network Fellow. She is an experienced mental health nurse, mentor and coach. Tambu is passionate about Nursing education, increasing diversity and encouraging other BAME nurses to engage and lead in the digital arena. The many routes to leadership in digital health In the first of two Year of the Digital Profession sessions national system leaders will explore the pressing need to ensure there are many routes available to become a digital health leader. Panellists Yinka Makinde - Director of Digital Workforce Strategy, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Yinka combines a career in Pharmacy, Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship, and an unrelenting passion to prevent illness through the adoption of technology. She is driven by impact and legacy. Over the course of her 27-year career, Yinka has worked for Accenture, CSC, GlaxoSmithKline, Singapore General Hospital, and multiple NHS organisations across the UK leading digital transformation and care delivery. She is currently Director of Digital Workforce Strategy for NHSx. Yinka recently took on the role of Director of Digital Workforce at NHSEI. Previously serving as Head of Innovation at NHSx and as Programme Director at DigitalHealth.London, she grew London’s position as a global commercial destination for digital health innovation, through programmes that supported payors and digital health suppliers. Prior to that Yinka as an entrepreneur founded and led the commercialisation of a tech start-up Vitalfootprint. Yinka has been featured in the media including the Guardian; National Health Executive; Tech City News, and is a regular speaker at industry events. Yinka sits on the Smart London Board and the London Child Obesity Taskforce, and until recently was a Trustee of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. Sonia Patel - System CIO & Director for Levelling-Up, NHS Transformation Directorate Speaker biography Sonia’s key priorities are to provide a clear vision for 'What Good digital transformation Looks Like’ for the nation; support in the best way possible the levelling-up of digital foundations for front-line organisations; supporting local board's ownership of digital transformation; building a digitally confident workforce to provide new and meaningful ways to empower citizens health and well-being through the use of technology and data. She brings 20 years of healthcare sector experience, her breadth and wealth of knowledge makes her an authentic leader that has proven to deliver digital innovation even in the most challenging of circumstances. She’s passionate about diversity, equality and inclusion and a big supporter of the Shuri network and stemettes and also actively mentors up and coming talent. Prof. Jonathan Benger - Portfolio Lead, Digital Citizen and Interim National CCIO, NHS England Speaker biography Professor Jonathan Benger CBE Leads the Digital Citizen Portfolio within the Transformation Directorate, and is Interim CCIO of NHS England. He was the Chief Medical Officer (Executive Medical Director) of NHS Digital between October 2019 and June 2022, and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Between May 2013 and July 2019 Jonathan was the National Clinical Director for Urgent Care at NHS England and led reform of the ambulance services and wider emergency care system, including implementation of the Emergency Care Data Set. In his clinical work, Jonathan is an NHS Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care, and is also Professor of Emergency Care in the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England, and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. Dr Natasha Phillips - CNIO, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Dr Natasha Phillips is a clinical academic; a nurse who started her career as a nursing assistant at the North London Hospice before going on to train at Middlesex University. She went on to follow a career in critical care nursing and obtained a BSc Critical Care Nursing from King's College London. Natasha has held a number of operational and strategic leadership positions in the NHS. She has led a large number of transformational programmes of change.involving the use of digital technologies and informatics; most recently the implementation of an enterprise wide electronic health record at University College London. She is currently the Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHS Transformation Directorate. Natasha is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London, her research interests include digitally enabled nursing, organisational design and clinical leadership.Natasha is passionate about developing nurses with the skills to lead in complexity; her thesis on ward leadership highlights the need to develop the skills of reflexivity amongst nurse leaders to support their leadership practice.. Natasha is an Alumni of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and a qualified organisational development practitioner. Simon Bolton - Interim CEO, NHS Digital Speaker biography Simon is Interim CEO of NHS Digital, the executive body of the Department of Health and Social Care which provides information, data and IT systems for health and social care nationally.Prior to joining NHS Digital Simon was the Chief Information Officer at NHS Test & Trace, and has held a number of executive technology leadership roles at companies including CIO of Jaguar Land Rover and CIO of Rolls-Royce’s Land and Sea Division.Simon was appointed as an Independent Member of Governing Council for The University of Derby in April 2019 and is also on the Board of Tech Partnership Degrees, an employer-led and not for profit organisation that unites employers and universities to improve the flow of talent into the digital workforce. Simon is also a Member of the Board of Advisors for Armis, a computer and network security company based in California. Dave Turner - Chief Technology Officer, NHS England and NHS Digital Speaker biography Dave joined NHS England in April 2020 as CTO. He helped establish the test and trace service, design and test the NHS COVID 19 app, rollout the technology solution for the vaccination programme and support the design and testing of the COVID travel pass. Prior to his role in the NHS Dave was the Group CTO for William Hill leading on agile transformation across the entire organisation and cloud migration of the trading platform for the US and European business. Dave introduced new ways of working and coaching teams to focus on continuous improvement and value delivery. He also led on an initiative to protect people from gambling harm using a facial recognition system in gaming shops. Dave has 24 years of experience in IT graduating with an MSc in Computer Science and has a passion for technology and employing it to build great solutions that empower people to deliver better outcomes.

Session 6: Breakout sessions 2 16:15 - 17:15 Enabling Staff Movement through improved onboarding The team behind the multi award-winning NHS digital staff passport will present how the passport will enable staff movement and improved onboarding Panellists Phil Graham - Digital Programme Director, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT, CIO Editorial Panel Member, Digital Health Networks; Director and Treasurer, INTEROPen. MBCS. Speaker biography Philip is currently substantively employed as a Digital Programme Director at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTH) and has held senior posts in healthcare technology for over twenty years including Chief Information Officer, or equivalent. He is currently working with NHSE/I on various commissions involving Workforce Solutions, Digital Identity, Provisioning, Staff Access and Digital Passports. Andrew Temple - Digital Programme Manager, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT Speaker biography Andrew is a Digital Programme Manager at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has had several roles during his 13 years in the NHS. Andrew graduated in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster and as a Postgraduate studied Teaching, and undertook several roles in the private sector before joining the NHS. Andrew is currently working with NHSE/I and ICS’ on several Digital People Programmes, including Interoperable Collaborative Banks, Provisioning and Systems Access and Digital Staff Passports. During the Covid-19 pandemic Andrew worked on the development, deployment and product management of the NHS COVID-19 Digital Staff Passport Programme, which was rolled out to over 100 trusts which has been nominated for several awards, recently winning the European Identity and Cloud Conference award in the Verifiable Credentials and Decentralised Identity category. Helena Palin - Deputy CCIO, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT Speaker biography I am a Nurse of some 20+ years at this Trust working across a number of specialities. Whilst based at our Community Hospital I collaborated on a project with our local hospice to develop a Virtual Clinic for patients on a Palliative pathway. Following the success of this nurse led digital clinic (we won a 2019 Nursing Times Award), I seconded to the Digital Health team to look at digital inclusion, safety, and new ways of working. Connecting capabilities at scale in health How can NHS organisations most effectively connect to national platforms, services and capabilities? What are the supports that are available and what’s coming next? Join the NHS Digital team at the connecting capabilities at scale breakout to learn more. Panellists Dr Jenna Hartley-Smith - Senior Engagement Manager, Platforms, NHS Digital Speaker biography Dr Jenna Hartley-Smith is a bioengineer by training and engagement and policy practitioner by profession. She has worked in charity, higher education, and research sectors before joining NHSX in June 2021. She now leads on policy and engagement for the Platforms team within the Transformation Directorate in NHS England. Core services – building, using and integrating technology at scale Shan Rahulan - Director of Platforms – Core Services, NHS Digital Speaker biography The Platforms team aims to make it easier to build health tech products, with Shan’s focus being the use of common tools and services. Integration Tony Heap - Product Owner, API Management, NHS Digital Speaker biography Tony Heap is the Lead Product Owner for API Management at NHS Digital. An ex-developer-turned-product-person, he has spent much of his 25+ year career grappling with integration and APIs. His mission is to “make integration easier” for people building health and care software. Social Care as part of digital strategies of ICSs Integrating health and social care is a central aim for ICS, requiring supporting digital strategies. This breakout will explore different strands of work underway to support digital social care. Panellists Digitise, Connect, Transform - the social care offer to ICS Emma Harris - Assistant Director for Digitising Social Care, NHS England Speaker biography I have worked in Health and Social Care for 18 years and in that time, I have had experiences across acute, mental health, community and learning disability. My dedication for the adoption of technologies in health and social care have been paramount to my focus to support the sector. Shared Care Records in an ICS – A Local Authority Perspective Neil Bartram - Business Relationship Manager, North Yorkshire County Council Speaker biography Neil sits as the Local Authority Lead on the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record (YHCR) Delivery Board. The YHCR is one of the original Local Health & Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) regions established by NHS England in 2018. He also chairs the national ShCR Local Government Network where local government representatives from localities implementing shared care records can share best practice and influence national initiatives aimed at improving the sharing of information between health and social care organisations. Developing the Social Care Digital Workforce in ICS Mark Nicholas - Clinical Director and Chief Social Worker, NHS Digital Speaker biography Mark Nicholas is the Chief Social Worker at NHS Digital and the Head of Profession for Social Care Informatics. He is a founder of the national Digital Social Care Advisory Group and is senior clinical lead for a number of key national programmes at NHSD across both health and social care. Levelling-up and convergence: ICS Digital Strategy Celebrating Summer School coming to York this session explores how levelling-up and convergence is being pursued by different organisations across Yorkshire and neighbouring counties. Panellists Andy Williams - Interim CDIO, Humber & North Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership Speaker biography Andy Williams has over 20 years’ experience leading health and social care digital delivery organisations. His experience ranges from local interim CDIO roles to national leadership roles. As Director of AHLC Solutions Ltd, Andy has grown a company to support digital transformation programmes across the country, with extensive SME partnerships. Dr Paul Jones - CDIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Vice-chair of the CIO AP Speaker biography Paul is the Chief Digital & Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust where he is part of both the Executive Team and the Board. Paul is also the CIO for the West Yorkshire ICS. He re-joined the NHS in November 2019 having spent eight years in the private sector with global roles at Serco and Bupa. Previous to that he was the CTO for the NHS in England from 2005-2012 where he was responsible for the national design authority and was senior responsible officer for N3 and The Spine. Paul holds a PhD in Computer Science, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered IT Professional. Shauna McMahon - CIO, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS FT and Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Speaker biography Shauna is currently the Joint CIO & Executive Board member at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS FT (NLaG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH). Prior to joining the NHS in 2015 she worked for 15 years in the Canadian Healthcare system. Shauna has provided leadership for IT infrastructure, facility planning & construction, commercial leasing, capital planning and clinical engineering, digital solutions and health information across 8 hospitals and 26 community health care centres. Prior to Healthcare, she worked in Banking and the HR sector. Shauna is passionate about the positive impact digital transformation can have in the health and care system and most importantly the people we serve. 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. This in combination with attention to continuous learning and professional development she believes are critical components of being a successful Leader. Dylan Roberts - CDIO, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) Speaker biography Dylan has worked as a CIO or equivalent for 22 years. He is the newly appointed CDIO at BCUHB, with the remit of transforming the service and the use of Digital across the whole system in North Wales. This builds on his pioneering work as City CDIO for the City of Leeds, the Leeds Care Record, 100% Digital Literacy Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record and the turnaround work at York and Scarborough Trust. Dylan has made significant contributions to National Policy over the years on behalf of Local Government, championing a joined up approach to health and care delivery, digital literacy, smart cities and shared services across public sector providers with a people driven approach focused better outcomes for people and places not outputs for individual organisations. The work across the City of Leeds and Yorkshire resulted in him being placed in the Top 10 of cross sector CIO 100 for 2018, 2019, 2020 years an award that recognises the most transformative and disruptive CIOs in the UK. Dylan recognises that he still has a lot to learn and values interactions with colleagues to do that which is why Summer School is a priority date in his diary. Lee Rickles - Yorkshire & Humber Programme Director and Chief Information Officer, Humber Teaching NHS FT Speaker biography He is a fellow of the BCS, FEDPI Leading Practioner, CHIME Certificated Health Chief Information Officer and alumnus of the Digital Academy. He has three decades of transformation and programme management experience. His first decade focused on UK military aircraft projects and for the last two decades he has focused on digital transformation in the NHS. He is currently leading the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record development to provide an open platform shared care record and population health systems. He is the Senior Responsible Owner for the mental health digital transformation of Humber & North Yorkshire ICS. He is also the CIO of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been award the status as a project innovator as part of the NHS digital aspirant plus programme. Lee is a reader, a keen runner and a children’s football coach and referee.

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Friday 15th July
Session 1: Keynote 1 09:30 - 10:00 National Keynote with Matthew Taylor, chief executive of NHS Confederation Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, will provide the Summer School national keynote sharing how digital and data will underpin the next phase of NHS development. 09:30-09:35 Welcome from the Chair Jon Hoeksma - CEO, Digital Health Speaker biography 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. 09:35-10:00 In discussion with... Matthew Taylor - Chief Executive & Chair, NHS Confederation Speaker biography Matthew joined the NHS Confederation as its chief executive in June 2021, having been chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) for 15 years. During his tenure, Matthew transformed the RSA into a global institution, with 30,000 fellows and a high profile and influential research programme.
Session 2: Keynote 2 10:05 - 11:15 Leadership national speakers Three national leadership presentations. Sonia Patel, System CIO and national director for levelling up, on year of the digital profession; Natasha Philips national CNIO, on the Philips Ives Review; and Rhidian Hurle, medical director NHS Health and Care Wales, on building a culture of collaboration. 10:05-10:10 Welcome from the Chair Jon Hoeksma - CEO, Digital Health Speaker biography 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. 10:10-10:25 Building a culture of success in Wales People, policy and politicians all have an influence on digital transformation. Developing a culture of engagement and collaboration within a devolved health and social care system where there is no internal market has allowed the delivery of national All Wales / Once for Wales programmes delivering real benefits and efficiencies to patient care. Patient pathways are complex, cross different health settings and a vision of the why is the start of the story. Rhidian Hurle - CCIO for Wales & Medical Director, Digital Health Care Wales Speaker biography Rhidian was appointed Chief Clinical Information Officer for Wales in 2015 and is also the Medical Director of Digital Health Care Wales. He continues part time clinical practice as an NHS Consultant Surgeon working in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Heath Board specialising in urological oncology. Rhidian holds a masters with distinction in Digital Health Leadership and is a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. He has a keen interest in the use of technology as an enabler of high quality health care delivery with a particular focus on user interfaces and is committed to the use of technology to drive through improvements in the quality and eﬃciency of healthcare. 10:25-10:40 *The Phillips Ives Nursing & Midwifery Review* The Topol Review (2019) outlined recommendations to ensure the NHS is the world leader in using technologies to benefit patients. Nurses and midwives represent over half a million of the workforce and are key to realising this vision. The Phillips Ives Review builds on this work and will provide evidence and inform strategy; ensuring that nurses and midwives are given access to the knowledge, skills and education required for safe, effective digitally enabled practice. The review was launched on the 26 May 2022. In this keynote Dr Natasha Phillips, RN will tell you more about the work. Dr Natasha Phillips - CNIO, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Dr Natasha Phillips is a clinical academic; a nurse who started her career as a nursing assistant at the North London Hospice before going on to train at Middlesex University. She went on to follow a career in critical care nursing and obtained a BSc Critical Care Nursing from King's College London. Natasha has held a number of operational and strategic leadership positions in the NHS. She has led a large number of transformational programmes of change, involving the use of digital technologies and informatics; most recently the implementation of an enterprise wide electronic health record at University College London. She is currently the Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHS Transformation Directorate. Natasha is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London, her research interests include digitally enabled nursing, organisational design and clinical leadership. Natasha is passionate about developing nurses with the skills to lead in complexity; her thesis on ward leadership highlights the need to develop the skills of reflexivity amongst nurse leaders to support their leadership practice. Natasha is an Alumni of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and a qualified organisational development practitioner. 10:40-10:55 Year of the Digital Profession Sonia Patel - System CIO & Director for Levelling-Up, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Sonia’s key priorities are to provide a clear vision for 'What Good digital transformation Looks Like’ for the nation; support in the best way possible the levelling-up of digital foundations for front-line organisations; supporting local board's ownership of digital transformation; building a digitally confident workforce to provide new and meaningful ways to empower citizens health and well-being through the use of technology and data. She brings 20 years of healthcare sector experience, her breadth and wealth of knowledge makes her an authentic leader that has proven to deliver digital innovation even in the most challenging of circumstances. She’s passionate about diversity, equality and inclusion and a big supporter of the Shuri network and stemettes and also actively mentors up and coming talent. 10:55-11:15 Panel Q&A

Session 3: Breakout sessions 1 12:00 - 13:00 Digital AHPs – Reflecting on the past, debating the present and shaping the future Digital Allied Health Professionals are on the march, representing a wide range of health professionals and fast emerging group of digital health leaders. Join Euan McComiskie, Melissa Andison and Natasha Phillips as they explore the future. The aim of this session is to grow the community of #DigitalAHP leaders exploring the lessons from the past, challenges of the present and shape the future. Panellists Euan McComiskie - Health informatics Lead, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Speaker biography I qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2007 working in clinical roles before my journey with clinical informatics began in 2012. I worked at regional and national level in Scotland before moving to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in 2018. My role at the CSP is to improve physiotherapists’ informatics knowledge and skills and to drive informatics inclusion in policy and strategy. I am a member of the PRSB Advisory Board, Digital AHP Steering Group, Clinical Genomics Leads Group, and International AHPs Digital and Data Collaboration. I am a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. Melissa Andison - AD of Clinical Digital Experience and Associate CCIO, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS FT Speaker biography I'm an Occupational Therapist with a diverse clinical background, having worked across acute and community health care settings, and was an independent digital health consultant for five years for start-ups, local and regional transformation programmes. Currently, I'm the Associate Director of Clinical Digital Experience and Associate CCIO for a mental health organisation in the South East. As an AHP and women's digital health leader, I am proud to hold these roles. I'm a BCS, RITTech and FCI Associate Member and NHS App Ambassador. Graduate of Cohort 1 Minerva Programme and NHS Digital Health Academy Cohort 3. I'm undertaking an MSc at Imperial College London and studying digital clinical safety practices. Natasha Phillips - CNIO, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Dr Natasha Phillips is a clinical academic; a nurse who started her career as a nursing assistant at the North London Hospice before going on to train at Middlesex University. She went on to follow a career in critical care nursing and obtained a BSc Critical Care Nursing from King's College London. Natasha has held a number of operational and strategic leadership positions in the NHS. She has led a large number of transformational programmes of change, involving the use of digital technologies and informatics; most recently the implementation of an enterprise wide electronic health record at University College London. She is currently the Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHS Transformation Directorate. Natasha is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London, her research interests include digitally enabled nursing, organisational design and clinical leadership. Natasha is passionate about developing nurses with the skills to lead in complexity; her thesis on ward leadership highlights the need to develop the skills of reflexivity amongst nurse leaders to support their leadership practice.. Natasha is an Alumni of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and a qualified organisational development practitioner. Future Digital Nursing Leaders, including the launch of CNIO mentorship programme Digital nursing is the fastest growing group of digital leaders in the NHS. Sarah Hanbridge, Sarah Newcombe and Helen Balsden, from the CNIO Advisory Panel, will share work underway to support future nursing digital leaders, including the launch of the new CNIO Mentorship programme. Panellists Helen Balsdon - Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Fellow, NHS Transformation Directorate Speaker biography Helen is a digital fellow on secondment to NHS Transformation Directorate. Helen is leading on the development of an interoperable nursing standard. Prior to joining the NHS Transformation Directorate team, Helen was CNIO at Cambridge University Hospitals, a strategic role working across the organisation providing clinical leadership for all aspects of informatics, including implementation and use of the electronic patient record, Epic. Sarah Hanbridge - CCIO, The Christies NHS Foundation Trust Speaker biography Sarah is a Registered Adult Nurse & Practice Lecturer/Practitioner predominantly working within Acute Medicine with 26 years of clinical and leadership experience. Her current role is a Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) Nursing & AHP The Christies NHS Foundation Trust in 2019. 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 advisory member her passion is digital transformation to improve patient care. Sarah Newcombe - CNIO, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital Speaker biography Sarah has been CNIO at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital for the last 4 years, she was privileged to lead the clinical teams through a Trust wide implementation of an enterprise EPR, which led to HiMMS level 6/7 accreditation. Prior to that she held clinical leadership roles within the Trust where her passion for digital Transformation began. Sarah has been part of the Digital Health CNIO network since 2017, joining when she was awarded the Digital Health London Pioneers award for Digital Leadership. This year Sarah has completed the NHS Digital Academy and has been appointed CNIO NHSE/I London region. Sarah is keen to support our diverse workforce to use data and incorporate technology to improve the way they deliver care. Growing the next generation of CCIOs Where are the next generation of CCIOs going to come from? CCIOs have become established across the NHS but it’s not clear enough is being done to support future CCIOs? Where will they come from and what support and encouragement do they need? Join our panel of new and veteran CCIOs to explore the issues. Panellists Dr Hiba Sher Khan - Deputy CCIO, The Hillingdon Hospital Speaker biography Dr Hiba Sher Khan is a junior doctor specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London and Deputy/Divisional Chief Clinical Information Officer at Hillingdon Hospital, making her one of the youngest in the NHS to be appointed to the CCIO panel. She has extensive professional experience in digital health having worked in health tech previously and now as an Advisor to scaling startups, with a particular interest in FemTech. Following her recent appointment, she is now also joining NHS X / NHS England as Obstetric Clinical Lead advising on the national Digital Child Health and Maternity Transformation Programme. Ramandeep Kaur - Chief Clinical Information Office (Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs), University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Speaker biography I am an enthusiastic individual, who is passionate about digital innovation, clinical informatics, patient and medicines safety and developments in technology. My passion stems from my first role as an EPMA Pharmacist in 2014 and I am currently the Lead EPMA Pharmacist at Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust (BHRUT). I have completed the Digital Health.London Pioneer Fellowship Programme and on Cohort 4 of the Digital Health Leadership Academy. I am proud to be Co Vice Chair of the CCIO Digital Health Network, a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Shuri Network. Sarah Thompson - CCIO, Stockport NHS FT Speaker biography Sarah Thompson is a Pharmacist and CCIO at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. Specialising in EPMA deployment in 2011, Sarah has worked on both Trust and supplier side and, following a number of years as the clinical lead for EPR & digital optimisation, was appointed as CCIO in 2021. James Freed - CDIO, HEE Speaker biography James Freed is the Chief Digital and Information Officer for Health Education England. His career has taken him through Cancer Research, Change Management and Standards development. As well as being a CIO, he is currently the Deputy SRO of a Programme responsible for delivering digital readiness to the three million staff in Health and Care in England. Dr William Lumb - CCIO University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Speaker biography William for the past year has been Clinical Director of Integrated Community Services in Morecambe Bay with 900 staff (£30M budget) providing a broad range of clinical, nursing and therapy services over 1000 square miles to 350000 patients. He retains a CCIO role locally leading the patient flow (integration) agenda within the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), delivering one of the few NHS Digital Level 3 record sharing localities and has developed one of the more comprehensive health & care enterprise architectures in the UK.In recognition of his contribution to clinical informatics in the UK he was elected in 2018 as a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. Additionally William has led (for the past 3 years) a successful Integrated Care Community (and has been recently appointed as Clinical Director of the associated PCN), whilst remaining clinically active as a GP, senior partner and responsible officer at Sedbergh Medical Practice (CQC rated Good) in the Yorkshire Dales. What is future role of CIO in ICS landscape? What kinds of CIOs are needed in the brave new world of Integrated Care Systems? As ICSs evolve what are the new kinds of skills that will be required from digital leaders to orchestrate and align digital and data strategy and objectives across multiple organisations. Join Lisa Emery, Graham Evans and Paul Charnley as they explore the fresh challenges ahead. Panellists Lisa Emery - CIO, The Royal Marsden NHS FT Speaker biography Lisa has been CIO at the Royal Marsden since August 2018, overseeing a comprehensive programme of digital transformation, having previously been CIO at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust from 2014. She started her career in the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology) before moving into a variety of technology roles within healthcare, including a stint in Dubai. Prof Graham Evans - Executive Chief Digital and Information Officer/SIRO - NHS North East and North Cumbria – Integrated Care Board Speaker biography Professor Graham Evans is the Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO) for North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, Graham is currently the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Integrated Care System (ICS). Paul Charnley - Digital Lead, Healthy Wirral Partners Speaker biography Paul is currently Digital Lead for Healthy Wirral Partners and a Co-Chair of the NHSX Blueprinting Steering Committee. Before that he was Digital Lead at Cheshire and Merseyside ICS. He has more than 35 years’ experience in health informatics having worked in senior roles at National, Regional and Trust Level. He also worked for 5 years for Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar leading their strategic Informatics programme.

Session 4: Breakout session 2 14:00 - 15:00 35 under 35: future digital leaders To mark the launch of the Fed-IP ‘35 under 35’ programme for digital leaders across health and care hear from a cross-section of the cohort talk about their experiences to date and the help they need. They’ll be joined by national leaders of the profession. Panellists Andrew Griffiths - CEO, FEDIP Speaker biography Andrew is the CEO of the Federation for Informatics Professionals in health and care (FEDIP). FEDIP was established by the professional bodies, with the dual-core purposes of Voluntary registration/regulation and Developing the Health and Care Informatics profession.Andrew was the CIO for NHS Wales for over ten year having previously been instrumental in establishing a national organisation to develop and implement the Welsh digital strategy – Informing healthcare. He began his career in the NHS after graduating with a degree in computing unaware that the NHS needed technology people, after completing the general management scheme he returned to managing technology services in acute and mental health services along with a period working for the private sector. Adam Ansell - Delivery Lead, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Speaker biography Adam is the Product Lead and non-clinical Product Owner for both the self-built patient portal and electronic health record at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Following studies in Biomedical Science and Biotechnology, Adam has worked for several years in data management and data capture design, leading the low-code/eforms team on a programme of data capture solutions across several clinical areas of the trust. Now, as Product Lead, alongside the CCIOs, he is now responsible for outlining the future of EHR development and growth in line with The Christie’s openEHR commitment to data capture. Sam Coffey - Lead EPMA Pharmacist, University Hospitals Sussex Trust Speaker biography Lead Pharmacist for EPMA across two acute hospital sites at University Hospitals Sussex Trust. In post since March 2020, working with stakeholders, key influencers and MDT approach to design, build and implement EPMA across 50 wards to date. Focus on safer management of medicines using technology across primary and secondary care. Rushownara Miah - Head of Business Intelligence, Pennine Care NHS FT Speaker biography Rush has been working within the NHS for the past 6 years, having 7 years’ experience within the private sector prior to working in the NHS. She started out as a SQL Developer at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and is now Head of Business Intelligence at Pennine Care. Harriet Roostan - Advanced Technical Solutions Analyst (Software Engineer), University Hospitals Southampton NHS FT Speaker biography Harriet is an Advanced Technical Solutions Analyst at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). She has worked for UHS for over 10 years in a variety of roles ranging from secretarial to software development. She is passionate about making useable software which improves both our clinicians and clerical teams ability to do their jobs. At UHS she worked on Digirounds (HSJ Awards Finalist 2020:Connecting Services and Information) and in-house tools designed to help clinicians gain a greater oversight on their waiting lists. Sarah Homewood - Nursing Lead for Digital Health, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Speaker biography Matthew Lee - FY3 Doctor, King' College London (MSc Healthcare Technologies full-time), Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (part-time) Speaker biography Sarah Hanbridge - CCIO, The Christies NHS Foundation Trust Speaker biography Sarah is a Registered Adult Nurse & Practice Lecturer/Practitioner predominantly working within Acute Medicine with 26 years of clinical and leadership experience. Her current role is a Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) Nursing & AHP The Christies NHS Foundation Trust in 2019. 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 advisory member her passion is digital transformation to improve patient care. Lisa Emery - CIO, The Royal Marsden NHS FT Speaker biography Lisa has been CIO at the Royal Marsden since August 2018, overseeing a comprehensive programme of digital transformation, having previously been CIO at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust from 2014. She started her career in the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology) before moving into a variety of technology roles within healthcare, including a stint in Dubai. Dr James Reed - CCIO, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS FT Speaker biography James Reed is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS FT. He was first appointed as CCIO in 2013 and during this time has overseen a range of digital projects including BSMHFT’s role in the Global Digital Exemplar Programme. He is also clinical lead for the West Midlands Shared Care Record programme. James has been involved in the CCIO network since its inception and has been on the advisory panel for the last 6 years and was elected chair in 2019 and re-elected in 2021. James Freed - CDIO, HEE Speaker biography James Freed is the Chief Digital and Information Officer for Health Education England. His career has taken him through Cancer Research, Change Management and Standards development. As well as being a CIO, he is currently the Deputy SRO of a Programme responsible for delivering digital readiness to the three million staff in Health and Care in England. Prof. Jonathan Kay - Chair, FCI Speaker biography Jonathan Kay is Chair of the Council of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics He spent most of his career as a chemical pathologist in Oxford and has also been Clinical Informatics Director at NHS England and Professor of Health Informatics at City University London and University College London. He was Chair of the Information Group of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, a senior consultant to the Design Authority of the NHS National Programme for IT for England, and a member of the National Information Board.In his spare time he acts, cycles, and works in outreach to schools. Philips Ives Review of Digital Nursing The Philips Ives Review is the new blue-ribbon review of the future of digital nursing. In this breakout session you’ll learn from the team behind the review about aims and objectives, how the review will be carried out and opportunities to take part. Welcome from the chair Dr Natasha Phillips - CNIO, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Dr Natasha Phillips is a clinical academic; a nurse who started her career as a nursing assistant at the North London Hospice before going on to train at Middlesex University. She went on to follow a career in critical care nursing and obtained a BSc Critical Care Nursing from King's College London. Natasha has held a number of operational and strategic leadership positions in the NHS. She has led a large number of transformational programmes of change, involving the use of digital technologies and informatics; most recently the implementation of an enterprise wide electronic health record at University College London. She is currently the Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHS Transformation Directorate. Natasha is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London, her research interests include digitally enabled nursing, organisational design and clinical leadership. Natasha is passionate about developing nurses with the skills to lead in complexity; her thesis on ward leadership highlights the need to develop the skills of reflexivity amongst nurse leaders to support their leadership practice. Natasha is an Alumni of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and a qualified organisational development practitioner. Facilitators Judith Dando - Programme Lead, Phillips Ives Nursing & Midwifery Review Speaker biography Judith Dando MBE is employed by South Central West Commissioning Support Unit as a Digital Transformation Consultant leading the year-long Phillips Ives Nursing & Midwifery Review on behalf of Health Education England’s Digital Readiness Education programme. Prior to joining the NHS in spring 2021 she was employed as a full time Army reservist and led an Op ENTIRETY (Afghanistan campaign) Urgent Operational Requirement project to deliver the Army Knowledge Exchange (AKX), an Army-wide system for sharing assured knowledge to help meet the Army’s requirement to transform into a learning organisation. Ian Bell - Project Support Officer, Phillips Ives Nursing & Midwifery Review Speaker biography Ian Bell is a Project Support Officer for Health Education England currently supporting The Phillips Ives Nursing & Midwifery Review. He has several years’ experience of working within various sectors of the NHS including five years within an acute trust. Colette Fretton - Collaboration Facilitator, Phillips Ives Nursing & Midwifery Review Speaker biography Colette is an experienced Organisational Development professional with further experience in the fields of HR and Organisational Change both in the NHS and the private sector. She is currently employed by NHS South Central West Commissioning Support Unit (NHS SCW CSU) as an OD Programme Manager and has joined the Phillips Ives Review Programme Team as their Collaboration Facilitator where her main role is supporting the panels in gathering evidence via Round Tables, Workshops, Webinars and other information gathering sessions on their behalf. Digital and reducing harm to patients - EPMA and patient safety The EPMA and patient safety breakout will focus on the vital role electronic patient management and administration has in reducing harm to patients and improving patient safety. Led by Ann Slee the session will take stock of progress to date and explore what remains to be done to achieve the full potential of EPMA. Panellists Ann Slee - Associate CCIO (Medicines), NHS England Speaker biography Ann is the Associate CCIO (Medicines) for NHSX leading work in the Digital Medicines arena. She is a former Director of Hospital Pharmacy having worked at all levels in this sector. She has led various local and national initiatives around Digital Medicines and ePrescribing with experience in the development, deployment and evaluation of digital technologies. She has held several honorary academic appointments and was a member of the advisory board for the Wachter review and the Scottish Digital Strategy. She is a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and is the current vice chair of the education subgroup. Dr Sam Patel - Consultant, Physician NHS Lanarkshire Speaker biography Dr Sam Patel is a clinical eHealth Lead for NES Technical Service, a national health board charged with delivering key strategic digital infrastructure for health and care. Medicines and digital delivery have been his focus over the past decade, and he is currently co-leading NHS Scotland’s EPS programme whilst pressing the need to develop a CMR in Scotland. He is a founding fellow of the Faculty of Clinical informatics and a practising respiratory physician. Dr John Payne Speaker biography Dr Payne is a Consultant Cardiologist who started his training in Edinburgh. Following this he travelled to London for a 5-year period of research at University College London and the Royal Brompton Hospital. He returned to Edinburgh to complete his cardiology training and took up his Consultant post in Glasgow in 2010. He now works with the NHS at the Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Service based at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital. Co-creating a digital workforce strategy The second of the year of the digital profession sessions, this is your opportunity to help shape and co-create the next digital workforce strategy. The interactive session will be led by Sonia Patel and colleagues from the transformation directorate at NHS England. Panellists Sonia Patel - System CIO & Director for Levelling-Up, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Sonia’s key priorities are to provide a clear vision for 'What Good digital transformation Looks Like’ for the nation; support in the best way possible the levelling-up of digital foundations for front-line organisations; supporting local board's ownership of digital transformation; building a digitally confident workforce to provide new and meaningful ways to empower citizens health and well-being through the use of technology and data. She brings 20 years of healthcare sector experience, her breadth and wealth of knowledge makes her an authentic leader that has proven to deliver digital innovation even in the most challenging of circumstances. She’s passionate about diversity, equality and inclusion and a big supporter of the Shuri network and stemettes and also actively mentors up and coming talent. Yinka Makinde - Director of Digital Workforce Strategy, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Yinka combines a career in Pharmacy, Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship, and an unrelenting passion to prevent illness through the adoption of technology. She is driven by impact and legacy. Over the course of her 27-year career, Yinka has worked for Accenture, CSC, GlaxoSmithKline, Singapore General Hospital, and multiple NHS organisations across the UK leading digital transformation and care delivery. She is currently Director of Digital Workforce Strategy for NHSx. Yinka recently took on the role of Director of Digital Workforce at NHSEI. Previously serving as Head of Innovation at NHSx and as Programme Director at DigitalHealth.London, she grew London’s position as a global commercial destination for digital health innovation, through programmes that supported payors and digital health suppliers. Prior to that Yinka as an entrepreneur founded and led the commercialisation of a tech start-up Vitalfootprint. Yinka has been featured in the media including the Guardian; National Health Executive; Tech City News, and is a regular speaker at industry events. Yinka sits on the Smart London Board and the London Child Obesity Taskforce, and until recently was a Trustee of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. Kate Pavlidou - Head of Professionalisation, NHSE&I Speaker biography Gagan Mehta - Assistant Director of Programmes, Transformation Directorate, NHS England Speaker biography Zack Pandor - OD Programme Manager, NHSE&I Speaker biography Why NHS cyber security is about patient safety Cyber security is often framed in the NHS as securing networks and systems, and exclusively as a technical matter. The panel of NHS and industry digital leaders will explore the benefits of reframing it as primarily a patient safety issue that matters to everyone working in health and care. Panellists James Norman - EMEA Health & Life Science Director, Pure Storage Speaker biography James Norman is the EMEA Health and Life Science Solutions Director at Pure Storage, enabling the organisation to better understand and meet the needs of Health, Life Science, Social Care and Pharmaceutical organisations. A world respected figure in change management and IT transformation, James has more than 30 years’ experience within the health sector, having held several senior positions within finance, performance, operations and IMT. James joined Pure Storage in 2022 following 8 years in similar senior roles across industry, having previously worked in the NHS for over 24 years.James has led multiple major public sector transformation programmes and published several papers on the potential of Technology to enable organisational transformation and enhance public services. He was appointed as an external advisor to Her Majesty’s Treasury in 2015, sitting on the Comprehensive Spending Review board. In 2016, James was named as one of the top 50 data leaders in the UK by Information Age, for his thought leadership on digital transformation. He sits on the Health and Social Care Council within TechUK, two health advisory panels and established the All4Health&Care (previously Tech4CV19) community to help frontline Organisations and Tech companies come together in the fight against COVID-19.James is proud to have spent the majority of his professional career within the NHS, and is passionate about supporting healthcare organisations, not selling to them. He encourages organisations to think in terms of outcomes rather than technology and to develop a collaborative mindset.In recognition of his work, he was named EHI Healthcare IT champion of the year in 2011 and Thought leader of the year in 2013. James is a graduate of Liverpool John Moore’s University, with a BSc (Hons) in Technology Management and holds a Post Grad in Leadership for Health Service Improvement from Birmingham University Health Service Management Centre. Daniel Johnston - Clinical Workflow Specialist & Clinical Safety Officer, Imprivata Speaker biography Daniel has assumed a range of leadership roles in emergency care provision in both clinical and R&D positions in NHS, Harvard University Hospitals and Health IT industry. Throughout maintaining his clinical practice, Daniel has occupied management and operational roles directing frontline services to meet the contemporary challenges in healthcare provision. He is also a recipient of a NIHR Clinical Research Fellowship award at Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, researching Emergency Department Overcrowding, Human Factors and Organisation Resilience. Daniel continues to be active within the nursing community, championing the development of Nursing Chief Information Officer role at a national and European level, with involvement in GDE Nursing & Midwifery Learning Community and HIMSS Europe Nursing Informatics Community. Mike Fell - Executive Director – National Cyber Security Operations Speaker biography Mike has spent 15 years in range of security roles for the UK Government, and is currently Executive Director of National Cyber Operations for NHS Digital, with accountability for the security of NHS Digital’s data and systems, as well as supporting the resilience of the wider Health System in defending and respond to cyber attacks. Prior to this, Mike spent six years as the Head of Cyber Security Operations and Deputy Chief Security Officer for HMRC. Previous roles have included leading HMRC’s anti-phishing efforts, work with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Afghanistan, helping to secure the 2012 Olympic & Paralympics and voluntary work to help others protect themselves from cyber threats. Daniel Hallen - Head of Digital Technology and Digital Urgent & Emergency Care, NHS England & Improvement – North West Speaker biography Daniel is a technology leader with a strong background in digital technology across both public and private organisations. Working at a regional level in the North West of England, Daniel has led significant developments in Digital Technology across the NHS and Digital Urgent & Emergency Care and has shaped the strategy at locality level. Paul Charnley - NHS Cyber Security Leader of the Year, NHS Wirral PIC & BIOG Speaker biography Paul is currently Digital Lead for Healthy Wirral Partners and a Co-Chair of the NHSX Blueprinting Steering Committee. Before that he was Digital Lead at Cheshire and Merseyside ICS. He has more than 35 years’ experience in health informatics having worked in senior roles at National, Regional and Trust Level. He also worked for 5 years for Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar leading their strategic Informatics programme.
Session 5: Preventing the brain drain 15:10 - 16:15 Preventing the Brain Drain The final session of Summer School will explore facets of the unprecedented challenges of recruiting and retaining experienced digital staff being experienced by many NHS organisations. When staff can change their jobs, and increase their salary, without ever leaving their lap-top, the panel will explore effective strategies for countering the digital brain drain in the NHS. 15:10-15:15 Welcome from the Chair Jon Hoeksma - CEO, Digital Health Speaker biography 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. 15:15-15:55 Panel discussion Melissa Andison - Deputy CCIO, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Speaker biography I'm an Occupational Therapist with a diverse clinical background, having worked across acute and community health care settings, and was an independent digital health consultant for five years for start-ups, local and regional transformation programmes. Currently, I’m the Associate Director of Clinical Digital Experience and Associate CCIO for a mental health organisation in the South East. As an AHP and women’s digital health leader, I am proud to hold these roles. I'm a BCS, RITTech and FCI Associate Member and NHS App Ambassador. Graduate of Cohort 1 Minerva Programme and NHS Digital Health Academy Cohort 3. I’m undertaking an MSc at Imperial College London and studying digital clinical safety practices. Dr Paul Jones - CIO, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Speaker biography Darren McKenna - CIO, Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS FT Speaker biography Darren has 30 years experience working in Digital Health and for the past 20 years has held senior informatics leadership roles within specialist Mental Health Trusts leading the delivery several large scale and innovative developments. Outside of the organisation, he has worked at a regional and national level. Darren currently co-chairs the NHS Providers Digital Board Leaders Network and chairs the North East CIO Network. He was voted eHealth Insider CIO of the Year 2017. Louise Cave - Florence Nightingale Digital Fellow, NHS England Speaker biography Louise is a Florence Nightingale Leadership Fellow, working within NHS England Transformation directorate. She is studying for her MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and is a developing clinical academic. Her primary area of interest is using data to enhance patient care, by providing nurses with meaningful metrics to encourage nurse led research. Louise is a member and previous chair of the Digital Shared Decision-Making Council for Nursing. Prior to her fellowship, Louise was the first Digital Nurse Implementer at The Christie NHS Foundation trust, where she worked on developing the electronic health record. Stacey Hatton - CNIO, Barnsley Hospital NHS FT Speaker biography Stacey [RGN, BSc, MSc] is the Chief Nursing Information Officer at Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust. She has held various digital transformation roles in three large NHS acute trusts since 2017. Before taking up positions in digital transformation, she worked clinically in the Emergency Department, medical wards, and the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement team.Stacey is a Florence Nightingale Foundation 2022 Digital Scholar and whilst she has been involved in and led several digital transformation projects, she is interested in how to create a digitally positive culture in the NHS and plans to explore this during her FNF year.In addition to her NHS experience, Stacey also co-founded a health IT company, a clinically-led enterprise developing forward-thinking quality assurance and improvement software. The start-up is on a mission to help clinical colleagues use data to improve patient care. 15:55-16:05 Panel Q&A 16:05-16:15 Closing remarks Jon Hoeksma - CEO, Digital Health Speaker biography 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.

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