HEALTH AND CARE TRANSFORMATION 2022 IS THE MUST ATTEND ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR HEALTH LEADERS DRIVING CHANGE WITHIN THEIR ORGANISATIONS

Helen Puttick is the Scottish Health Correspondent for The Times. She has covered health news in Scotland for almost 20 years, working for The Herald before moving to The Times in 2017. She has been nominated for a number of awards and regularly appears as an expert commentator on broadcast media.

Professor George Crooks is currently the Chief Executive of the Digital Health and Care Institute, Scotland’s national innovation centre for digital health and care. He leads an organisation that is tasked with delivering innovation in digital health and care that will help Scotland’s people to live longer, healthier lives, deliver sustainable health and care services for the future and create economic benefits for Scotland. DHI provides opportunities for Scotland’s public sector, academia and industry to co-design digital solutions to some of the country’s biggest health and care challenges working with patients, service users and their families. 

He was previously the Medical Director for NHS 24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth & Telecare. George was a General Medical Practitioner for 23 years in Aberdeen latterly combining that role as Director of Primary Care for Grampian. George is on the Board of the European Connected Health Alliance and is past president of the European Health Telematics Association. He is a Board member of TEC Quality, a UK organisation leading the implementation of quality standards and practices across the assisted living sector in the UK. He is an assessor for the European Commission on programmes involving digital health and care provision and is a member of the WHO roster of experts for digital health. He has been an advisor to several European governments and organisations on digital health and care. He is an advisor to Innovate UK for its Industrial Grand Challenge programme for Health Ageing. He is also an adjunct Professor of Telehealth at the University of Southern Denmark. 

He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2011 for services to healthcare. 

Ryan Anderson is the Policy Lead for Data and Intelligence in the Digital Health and Care Division of the Scottish Government. As part of this role he is responsible for the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, as well as Part Two of the proposed National Care Service Bill. 

He has been a civil servant for seven years and joined the Scottish Government in February 2021, following a career as an intelligence analyst in the military and with HMRC.  

Dr Donald Macaskill is CEO of Scottish Care which is the membership body for organisations that provide care in care homes, home care and housing support across Scotland. Scottish Care published a Human Rights Charter for Technology and Digital in Social Care with associated Guidance in late 2019 and a Vision for Technology in 2020. Scottish Care hosts a Technology and Innovation project which amongst other things has developed the work around the emerging role of the Care Technologist.
In August 2018 Dr Macaskill wrote ‘TechRights: human rights, technology and social care.’ which explores issues of AI and smart technology, arguing for citizens to be in full control of the technology they use in their homes and care. Scottish Care published a Human Rights Charter for Technology and Digital in Social Care with associated Guidance in late 2019 and a Vision for Technology in 2020.
Dr Macaskill’s interest in the necessity of a human rights and ethical framework for the use of technology and digital in social care has led to him addressing conferences across the UK and North America on this and related issues.

Professor Lis Neubeck is a cardiac nurse with over 25 years of experience in a range of cardiac in-patient and out-patient settings. She lived in Australia for 11 years and during that time she undertook a PhD at the University of Sydney, then subsequently a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She is currently Head of the Centre for Cardiovascular Health at Edinburgh Napier University. Lis has recently taken up the role of National Health Service Research Scotland Cardiovascular Clinical Network Lead. Her own research focuses on innovative solutions to secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, identification and management of atrial fibrillation, and use of digital health to improve access to health care. Lis is the current President of the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals of the European Society of Cardiology.

Ali is a senior consultant within Capgemini’s Data and AI Advisory team. He has a background in engineering and public health. His experience spans across multiple national and international public sector organisations (Local Government, Policing, Healthcare) in delivering digital strategy, strategic analytics, data driven change transformation projects as well as data modelling, visualisation and analysis. His focus and core area of interest are driving patient centred care using advanced analytics and AI, improving and strengthening health systems, enabling and improving access to healthcare and reducing health inequities and inequalities in the UK and globally.

Margaret is Head of Innovation for Care and Wellbeing.  She has over 20 years experience working with Scottish Government,  in strategic and programme delivery roles, bringing experience of significant change programmes along with  her clinical experience and  delivery roles with NHS Fife.    

Up until January 2024 Margaret led the   national cross sector TEC Programme in partnership with the NHS, Local Government, Third, Housing and Independent sector  providers aimed at supporting scale up and deployment in Scotland. This centred around the citizen and focused on improving access to services by using digital technologies and approaches to enable improved outcomes.  Margaret also championed a number of Digital Inclusion programmes and continues to lead the Digital Lifelines Scotland portfolio.  

Margaret leads the national Digital Health and Care Fest  proving a national and  international focus to developments in Scotland.  She is also involved in international projects and collaborations. 

Within DHI, Margaret’s role is to champion and lead the opportunities for digital innovation for integrated care and wellbeing bringing a spotlight to wider social care and housing opportunities.  

Margaret is a Trustee/Board member  of ENABLE Scotland and Hanover Housing Association. 

Dr Sam Patel is a clinical informatician, digital leader and physician with 30 years of frontline clinical experience. The latter has shaped his holistic approach to the development and implementation of transformative and adaptable digital technologies that address the needs of Health and Social care.  At present, he is the lead for the national Digital Prescribing and Dispensing Pathways Programme, aimed at removing the paper prescription, eventually from all community settings. This will start with general practices, but with a design that can expand across all community care settings.  He remains passionate about empowering our care givers by giving access to the information they need to deliver high quality care, but more importantly give people access to their data, enabling them to make the best decisions for their wellbeing.  

Dr Chris Williams is the Joint Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland and a salaried GP based in Grantown-on-Spey.

Chris has been an NHS doctor in Scotland for over 20 years- occupying a wide variety of clinical posts in hospitals before a remote and rural GP training scheme took him around Orkney, Moray and Wester Ross. He has also worked in medical education roles including postgraduate, undergraduate and multidisciplinary positions.

Chris has been actively involved in RCGP since he was a trainee and attending Scottish Council regularly since 2013. His interests include digital health and information governance. The policy priority for the Joint Chairs in Scotland is climate and sustainability.

Dr Steve Baguley is a consultant in Sexual Health & HIV and Clinical Director of eHealth for NHS Grampian.

Steve has long had an interest in information management in healthcare, completing an MSc in Healthcare Informatics in 2008, a PG Dip in digital health leadership in 2019 and was a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. From 2019-2020 he was a clinical advisor to, what became, the NES Technology Service and from 2020-2022 he was clinical chair of the Health Board Digital Leads, during which time he was a clinical advisor to the Digital Health & Care Directorate of the Scottish Government and was instrumental in establishing the Scottish Digital Health & Social Care Network.

Morag Hearty is currently National Lead for Remote Health Pathways/Connect Me within Scottish Government Digital Health & Care Directorate. 

Since qualifying as a Registered General nurse in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Morag worked in various Primary and Secondary care posts before developing and managing several innovative joint and integrated discharge and community teams in Lanarkshire and Glasgow before leading the implementation of the Lanarkshire Technology Enabled Care service. 

The National Primary Care Digital Hypertension management pathway is a key priority and, together with other long term condition pathways, contributes to several strategic plans.    

Garry is Market Integration Director within The Access Groups Health and Care Division, joining from a recent acquisition of the care software company Servelec. He’s worked in Health and Social Care IT for over 25 years in a variety of senior roles focused on the design, development and implementation of enterprise-wide systems.  Garry has been an instrumental part of the interoperability programme within Servelec, with a focus on the establishment of links between core Servelec products, national systems and external suppliers. Garry leads the project on integration across health, social care and the care division at The Access Group.

Robert Tysall-Blay serves as Chief Executive of CareFlow Medicines Management Ltd (CMM), part of the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance. Mr. Blay has over 40 years’ experience in the healthcare field, 10 years in medical lab science within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), and 30+ years in clinical healthcare IT systems. He has spent 19 of those years as the CEO of CMM (formerly WellSky International, JAC).

Marc is the National Lead for the Near Me Network. Prior to his current role Marc was an Allied Health Professions Practice Education Lead and Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in Shetland where he used Near Me clinically to provide remote services to children & families by video. As the COVID 19 pandemic took hold he supported staff and patients in their use of Near Me to enable the continuity of services to remote island communities. Marc was then part of a team who created digital resources and ran webinars to enable wider health services across Scotland to use Near Me at pace and scale.

Marc was then seconded into the Near Me Network as the National Lead to further roll out and embed Near Me within all areas of Health, Social Care and the Voluntary sector. He is currently leading on the implementation and scale up of video group consultations across Scotland using Near Me. He is also collaborating with academic institutions and NHS Education for Scotland to support the digital capabilities of both the current and future health and care workforce. Marc continues to work with partners across Scotland to provide opportunities for those who experience digital poverty to access Near Me if they choose.

David J. Lowe is Clinical Director of Innovation at the University of Glasgow, Emergency Consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, and Clinical Lead for Innovation for the Scottish Government. With extensive experience fostering innovation in healthcare, he collaborates with academic and industry partners globally to develop cutting-edge devices, services, and solutions. He has led AI-focused initiatives as lead for the Digital Health Validation Lab, including applications in COVID-19, osteoporosis, and the development of AI solutions across a range of imaging modalities including echo, CT and X-Ray. David directs programmes implementing and evaluation technologies within clinical pathways focused on system redesign focusing on diagnostics and long term condition management. He is a founding member of the Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science- AI, part of UK Commission for AI Regulation in Heath and on the board for MHRA Airlock. Areas of focus are COPD, HF and lung cancer embedding new medtech and specifically AI solutions to support case-finding, diagnosis and prioritisation. 

Dr Winter was appointed Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV in Glasgow, UK in 1999 after completing a PhD in Infection at Birmingham University. Dr Winter’s main interest is in digital health leadership: he led adoption of the national sexual health system in Scotland since mid-2000s, was appointed as clinical e-Health lead in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in 2015, and in 2020 became Vice-Chair of the Scottish Health and Care Digital Network and a Scottish Government clinical adviser. He is now Clinical Chair of the Digital Leads Group. He graduated from the first cohort of the UK’s NHS Digital Academy and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. He is a co-investigator in two NIHR-funded studies of digital sexual health transformation. His clinical interests are in HIV care and STI diagnostic testing.

Carol has responsibility for a varied strategic portfolio within Public Health Scotland including delivery of its Digital and Data Strategy. She is a keen champion and advocate for innovation across the public sector including the Scottish Government’s CivTech® programme and is a founding Challenge Sponsor and member of its Advisory Board.

Carol has held a number of senior leadership roles in the NHS across territorial and national boards. She has led a number of data driven improvement and innovation programmes for PHS and sits on the NHS Scotland national boards’ digital collaboration group. In July 2019, Carol joined the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) as a Non-Executive Director where she chairs the audit committee as well as sitting on the clinical governance committee and SAS board.

Tom’s 15 years of experience span engineering, business transformation and healthcare management consultancy. He is particularly interested in the potential for data and technology to support early-ID and management of health conditions, the role of technology as an enabler for integrated care, and building high quality, user-centric digital health services.

Professor Marion Bennie is  Chief Pharmacist, Public Health Scotland and Professor of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde.  She is the senior officer in PHS responsible for all national medicines intelligence resources spanning the whole health care system.  Her academic portfolio includes leadership in pharmacoepidemiological  studies using real world data to generate intelligence to drive improvements in clinical care locally, nationally and internationally.

Liam is a data scientist specialising in machine learning, particularly deep learning and computer vision, with a background as a research scientist in theoretical particle physics.
He has worked variously on scientific programming, geospatial machine learning with earth observation data, medical imaging and monitoring systems in manufacturing.

Mark Broughton has worked in Digital Health for over 19 years.  During this time, Mark has supported and led large scale digital transformation projects. With expertise in patient engagement which translates to clinical and operational efficiencies.  Having operated on a National basis for a number of years, Mark’s focus is now working with Health boards across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  With the acquisition of Healthcare Communications to Cisco 12 months ago he is now leading on strategic and tactical initiatives aligned to Ciscos Healthcare strategy.

Rachel has over 25 years of experience as a clinical scientist in the field of embryology. For 18 years she ran a very successful IVF laboratory, completing book chapters and publications in the field of assisted reproduction and transitioning to the additional role of Person Responsible.  Recently Rachel changed to a corporate leadership position and is currently Group embryology support and Timelapse lead. This role focuses on consistency across the group, management of change and Timelapse development, concentrating on research and implementation of new technologies with a special interest in Artificial intelligence.

Ewan Morrison is the Director of Pharmacy at NHS National Services and is the co-lead of the Digital Prescribing and Dispensing Programme. In parallel he has a role as Pharmacy Director within the Scottish Health and Industry Partnership (CSO) in Scottish Government. Prior to these roles he has worked as a senior Pharmacist across the acute sector in Scotland and in various Pharmaceutical Industry roles.  

Ian is Falkirk Councils CCTV / Digital Alarms Hub – Business Lead, he is also the Analogue to Digital Project Manager for the Council. He is responsible for the Telecare Alarm Receiving Centre and for the development and implementation of the new Digital Telecare service which is now deployed across Falkirk.

Ian has a wealth of operational knowledge which has in influenced and shaped Falkirk’s strategic direction towards digital care, digital telephony and digital CCTV. Through his work and working with Pauline Waddell (MECS Team Manager). They have achieved a first in Scotland to switch on Digital Telecare at scale.

Precision Medicine Scotland is a pan-Scottish industry, academia, NHS collaboration with core funding from the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise. It is one of eight Scottish Innovation Centres [ICs], whose remit is to connect the expertise and capabilities of Scotland’s universities and colleges with business to enhance knowledge exchange, promote innovation and address industry demand-led opportunities which are transformational for the Scottish economy. 

Marian has worked at Precision Medicine Scotland for 5 years where she has developed a strong understanding of, and passion for, precision medicine. In 2016, she gained a M.Sc. in Stratified Medicine and Pharmacological Innovation with Distinction at the University of Glasgow. Prior to that she developed her extensive business experience from various management level roles within the pharmaceutical industry where she worked for over 10 years, working mostly in the Oncology Divisions of AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly. 

Gavin Woods is an award-wining consultative sales and L&D professional with over 15 years’ experience in learning technology solutions.

As the Client Services Director of Aurion Learning, he champions the positive effects that engaging, effective learning content can have on an organisation and its stakeholders.

Gavin is skilled at developing the right solution for each of his client’s unique needs. Taking pride in his ability to listen attentively, he applies his in-depth knowledge of digital learning to select the best products that work for the organisation and individual user needs.

Gavin works with a wide range of public sector and corporate healthcare organisations to transform their learning vision that delivers real results.

Pauline is Falkirk Councils MECS Team Manager, she is responsible for analogue to digital transition the ongoing maintenance of this new digital service.

Working with Ian Whitelaw, together they pursued and influenced market change and perspective in terms of successful, safe, transition to digital Pauline was responsible for ensuing new digital products was effective and fit for use.

Pauline was heavily involved in incorporating service user engagement throughout the process. This people centred approach led to real engagement and buy in from the people who were most affected by the work.

Charles trained in medicine in London and continues to practice as an emergency physician for one day each week at St Thomas’ hospital, London. For the last 15 years he has spent the majority of his time in a range of editorial, evidence-based medicine, clinical decision support, clinical governance and healthcare IT strategic leadership roles. These roles have included Executive Editor at The Lancet, Editor in Chief at the BMJ Evidence Centre, and Vice President for Clinical Solutions at Wiley. At present, Charles is also a longstanding member of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) External Accreditation committee, a member of the Cochrane Collaboration editorial committee, and Editor in Chief of the Clinical Case Reports journal and the International Journal of Clinical Practice. Charles lectures internationally and his current focus is on clinical governance, clinical decision support and the interface between clinical information, healthcare technology, and clinical workflows. Charles has written many book chapters, scientific papers, and opinion leading articles in global peer reviewed journals.

As Senior Medical Officer for Capita Plc he leads a team of around 1300 clinicians who work across a broad range of contracts delivering vital health services at national levels in the UK and internationally. He leads the clinical governance framework for the company, the health related corporate functions,  and the clinical aspects of corporate commercial health strategy. He feeds directly into the Capita Healthcare Decisions Senior Leadership Team and advises the Clinical Editorial Team.

Dr Paul Miller is a Clinical Informatics Lead at NHS Education Scotland Technology Service and a General Practitioner in Paisley. Paul has extensive practical experience in health informatics with particular interests in clinical safety, data modelling and terminologies. In his current role he leads on clinical modelling in FHIR and openEHR for the Care Data Repository at the core of the National Digital Platform. He is a Clinical Safety Officer for NES, implementing clinical risk management processes for the Technology Service. Previously Paul was the Clinical Lead for Sottish Clinical Information Management in Practice (SCIMP), an expert primary care informatics group advising Scottish Government, and prior to that he was the chair of the GPIT system Vision’s National User Group. Paul is a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and a member of the RCGP Health Informatics Group.