2024 SPEAKERS

Emma Arrowsmith is the Digital Matron at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. Digital is at the heart of healthcare delivery throughout the Organisation and Emma, with the Digital Health Team, are providing education, support and developing digital technology to support the care they provide.

Emma is the current chair of the National Digital Shared Decision Making Council with members spanning each region in England who are all working in digital roles as Nurses, Midwives or Students. Members of the Digital Shared Decision Making Councils will be attending Summer School to share some learning, ideas and a call to action.

David Elliott is Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trusts, Executive Chief Digital Information Officer leading on IT Strategy including the Digital and Data developments across the trust. As part of the executive team and trust board, he brings over 17 years of technology transformation experience spanning the private sector in board level roles from the Energy sector through to hospitality and retail brands.

Dr Simon Eccles is the national Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care, and head of profession for CCIOs. As part of the newly established NHSE/I Transformation Directorate, Simon has responsibility for clinical programmes including digital primary care, the digital transformation of screening, and enhancing clinical safety.

Simon was previously the national Medical Director in Connecting for Health. He was the Clinical Director for Urgent Emergency Care for NHS London and SRO for urgent emergency care in South East London. Simon was an early graduate of the major project Leadership Academy at the Said Business School and still practices emergency medicine as a Consultant at St Thomas’s hospital, London.

With over 30 years of midwifery experience, Jules Gudgeon is a key player in advancing digital technology in maternity care, post the 2015 National Maternity Review by Baroness Cumberlege. Leading roles in the NHS Digital Maternity Programme and the creation of the award-winning Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group, now the Digital Maternity Leaders community, showcases her commitment to collaborative efforts in the digital maternity landscape.

As the National Chief Midwifery Information Officer at NHS England, she was a 2023 HSJ Clinical Leader of the Year Award finalist. In 2024, Jules persists in advocating for digital leadership and addressing the maternity digital divide with #FixTheDigitalDivide #DigitalMaternity.

I am the Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this, I held the role of Deputy Director for Quality, Innovation and Improvement and CIO for the North West Ambulance Service. I am passionate about transforming health and care for all people by harnessing technology, data and estates, using a methodologically driven approach to improve the way we deliver services. I am a big advocate for clinical leadership and co-design with patients, providing the space for staff, patients and technical teams to work together to generate and test ideas.

I have a unique understanding and combined experience of digital, estates, mental health, improvement and NHS regulatory requirements over my 20 years in the NHS. I have worked nationally, regionally and for providers. I have worked alongside some of the world’s leading healthcare improvers and thought leaders and developed partnerships with industry, academia and health and social care to deliver change. I am passionate about leading teams to deliver standards and governance ensuring safety and security whilst enabling change and doing this thorough collaboration and partnerships where we bring people together to deliver on shared goals.

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.

Sue Jacques has been with County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust since 1997 and in the role as Chief Executive since 2012. She is a past president and trustee of the HFMA (Healthcare Financial Management Association).

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is a large integrated acute and community provider that works closely with partners in local authorities and primary care. It employs almost 8000 staff and serves a population of some 650,000.

Sue chairs the CRN NENC Partnership Group (Clinical Research Network North East and North Cumbria), sits on the Boards of the AHSN and is chair of the NHS Pension Scheme, Scheme Advisory Board.

Dr Jordi Piera-Jiménez is dually trained in Computer Science Engineering and Business Management by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He also holds an MSc in Telemedicine, a PhD in Medical Informatics from the Open University of Catalonia, and an MBA from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In the acadèmic field, Jordi is associate professor in informatics at the Open University of Catalonia, the DS3 research group’s principal investigator lead and is affiliated with the IDIBELL research institute. Jordi is currently the Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office at the Catalan Health Service and Director at openEHR International.

Daniel has assumed a range of leadership roles in emergency care provision in both clinical and R&D positions in the NHS, Harvard University Hospitals and the Health IT industry.

Daniel has occupied management and operational roles directing frontline services to meet the contemporary challenges in healthcare provisions. He is also a recipient of a NIHR Clinical Research Fellowship award at Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and is Imprivata’s Clinical Safety Officer.

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 and HIMSS Europe Nursing Informatics Communities.

Dr Tom Micklewright is a GP, Primary Care Digital Transformation Lead for Cheshire and Merseyside ICB and Medical Director at ORCHA, the world’s leading digital health quality management platform. Previously, Tom has held senior positions within the British Medical Association and helped lead one of Europe’s largest telehealth providers to work with the NHS and to safely integrate with NHS clinical IT systems. His passion is patient empowerment. To this end, he regularly writes and speaks on citizen-facing digital health and has launched a school-based mental health programme in Merseyside.

Shauna is currently the Chief Information Officer & Executive Board member at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG). 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.

John joined NHS Digital as Executive Director for IT Operations and Enterprise Services in February 2022, later becoming CIO for the new NHS England.

Prior to joining NHS Digital, John delivered a wide range of programmes and services at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Department for Education, and across Government.

Maddie began her NHS career as an NHS Informatics Graduate Management Trainee, and has been Deputy Director of Digital and Data Services at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust for the last 18 months. Her broad experience working in both digital and non-digital roles has given her a unique perspective on what is needed to build effective digital teams, which she has demonstrated through the successful deployment and configuration of the trust’s electronic patient record.

Dr Phil Stamp, an A&E consultant based at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was appointed as regional Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) for the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System in 2022. Phil has been working as Regional CSO for the Great North Care Record (GNCR) programme since 2020 and has been responsible for ensuring the regional data sharing programme is clinically safe.

He has also overseen programmes within his own trust and has a wealth of digital experience having previously been the trust’s Chief Clinical Information Officer. Phil provides clinical expertise and leadership across a range of regional programmes in addition to the GNCR including diagnostics and maternity.

He supports a network of CSOs across the region, ensuring that as a region, the systems we deploy meet national safety requirements, and that they are consistently applied across the North East and North Cumbria.

Prabha Vijayakumar is the Chief Allied Health Professions Information Officer in NHS England. She is a registered Occupational Therapist with over 25 years of experience operating at board level, managing complex projects and business transformations within clinical, health and care services. Prabha also has experience of leadership in reducing inequalities across health and social care.

Prabha in her current role is looking at identifying and bringing together clinical leadership in Informatics across the AHP professions. She is also keen on highlighting AHP involvement within mainstream Clinical Informatics programmes nationally, regionally, and locally. She is keen and looking forward to driving the overarching digital strategy for AHPs at a national level and regional levels, ensuring supported alignment across the systems.

Andy Wilcox, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Imprivata is an experienced professional with over 17 years of experience managing and developing healthcare technology products and services for international healthcare markets.

Based in the UK, Andy has held a range of Product Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development positions in industry-leading healthcare technology companies in the UK, driving customer growth and adoption in markets across EMEA and APAC. Andy has worked at Imprivata for five years and has been instrumental in the development of Imprivata’s Digital Identity Framework.

Dr Simon Wallace is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and Director of Business Strategy at Microsoft 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.