Daniel Ray /

Professor Daniel Ray, CTO, BWC NHS FT
Daniel Ray has worked in health technology and informatics for over 20 years. He is CTO and DPO of Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS FT where he has been since January 2020. He has with his team and clinical staff driven forward the development, use and uptake of technology during the COVID pandemic crisis and now onto the Trusts EPRs for their different services.

He is also a NED/Trustee on the board of an allergy charity NARF and historically in his previous role was Director of Data at NHS Digital; responsible for developing the organisation’s data capability. Daniel was the product owner of the new national data services platform. Daniel in his national role was responsible for all technical data and product delivery for the £50m Data Insights and Statistics Directorate, and lead a number of operational teams. Prior to this he was Director of Informatics at a large teaching hospital in England, where he transformed the health informatics service, set up a quality outcomes research unit, and developed a patient portal among other work programmes.
He also set up commercial analytics businesses in England, Australia, the US and Italy. He has worked in commissioning in the NHS, the private sector and a number of other acute hospitals. He started out life as a clinician in laboratory medicine.
He is also honorary professor of health informatics at UCL’s Institute of Health Informatics, where he gets involved in leading edge research and teaching.