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

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 the Technology Enabled Care and Digital Healthcare Innovation within Scottish Government. She is responsible for the national Technology Enabled Care cross sector TEC Programme in partnership with the NHS, Local Government, Third , Housing and Independent sector providers which is aiming to support at scale deployment in Scotland . This is centred around the citizen, and focuses on improving access to services by using digital technologies, including the ability to self-manage remotely.
Margaret leads the national Digital health and Care Fest in Scotland, proving a national and international focus to developments in Scotland. She is active in the European arena and is responsible for the International Engagement Team for digital health and care. Margaret was a finalist in Digital Leaders (UK) 2019.
Margaret is currently leading a number of scale up digital programmes in the context of the COVID emergency.

Dr Sam Patel is a consultant respiratory physician with 25 years of frontline clinical experience. He has worked in both the Scottish and English healthcare systems, undertaken research and completed his doctorate in Cardiorespiratory Physiology at Glasgow University. A decade ago, he expanded his lifelong interest in technology to the health sector and led the Scottish Government commission: ‘Closing the Loop’, aimed at improving electronic communication between Primary and Secondary care. Since then, Sam has been closely involved in the electronic management of medicines both in hospitals and in the community. To overcome his impostor syndrome, he undertook his masters in Global eHealth at Edinburgh University, graduating in 2018. He is a founding fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and is currently a Clinical eHealth Lead at NES Digital Services. His latest project is co-leading the work to deliver paperless digital prescribing in the community.

Dr Chris Williams has been a GP for the past nine years and is currently working as a salaried GP in Grantown-on-Spey. He has also worked across Highland as a sessional GP including out of hours roles and has worked in Orkney, Moray and Gairloch as part of a remote and rural GP scheme. Chris has been actively involved in RCGP since he was a trainee and has attended Scottish Council for the past seven years. He represents RCGP Scotland on the Scottish Government’s Rural Working Group and is also on the board of the Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative. Chris is currently Chair of North Scotland Faculty and is RCGP Scotland’s Clinical lead for IT and co-chair of the Scottish Joint GP IT Group.

Dr Steve Baguley is a consultant in Sexual Health & HIV and Clinical Director of eHealth for NHS Grampian. In 2020 he was appointed chair of clinical digital leads for Scotland.

Steve has long had an interest in information management in healthcare, completing an MSc in Healthcare Informatics in 2008 and a PG Dip in digital health leadership in 2019. In 2016 he spent a month studying digital health in Estonia and sits on various national groups that advise on Digital Health strategy and implementation in Scotland.

In his role as chair of the clinical digital leads Steve has been improving collaboration between clinicians and managers and was instrumental in establishing the Scottish Digital Health & Care Network.  The goals here being to improve representation and to increase the pace of delivery – bringing benefits to citizens and staff alike.

Morag Hearty is currently National Strategic Lead for Remote Health Pathways within  Technology Enabled Care (TEC), Scottish Government Digital Health & Care Directorate. 

This has included the Scale up BP programme, Covid-19 symptom monitoring and several other priority conditions to assist the response and recovery delivery plans across Scotland.  

 Since qualifying in 1974 as a Registered General nurse in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Morag worked in various primary and secondary care posts before being instrumental in developing and managing several innovative joint and integrated discharge and community teams in Lanarkshire and Glasgow. 

Morag recently retired from her substantive NHS Lanarkshire TEC programme manager post but is continuing in her National role.  

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).

Prior to his current role Marc was an Occupational Therapist in Shetland and used Near Me clinically to provide services to children & families. As the COVID 19 pandemic took hold last year he supported staff and patients in their use of Near Me to facilitate the continuity of services in a remote island community. Marc was then part of a team who created digital resources and ran webinars last year to enable wider NMAHP 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 3rd sector. Prior to his current role Marc was an Occupational Therapist and AHP Practice Education Lead in Shetland where he used Near Me clinically to provide services to children & families.

Chal leads on DHI’s technical strategy and is responsible for the way we support and deliver technical innovation, by applying systems thinking and methodologies in support of the DHI innovation model. He is devoted to the idea that citizens can be empowered to take an active role in their own wellbeing. Chal believes that digital health offers the tools to achieve this, and the DHI has the fresh perspective necessary to reconceive the relationship between the citizen and those who might care for them. He brings a range of skills including a Master’s in Healthcare Management & Leadership and a Master’s in Public Health Policy: Health Systems. He has spent seven years working in digital innovation, seven years working in Scottish Government public policy and healthcare service delivery and has led the design, development, integration and roll out of many digital health and care services with several now in use at scale across Scotland.

Established EmQuire research group focusing on data, device and decisions. As WoS innovation lead have delivered against a range of projects building capability and infrastructure within the test beds. Work focusing on enhancing clinical pathways by embedding data driven approach and patient co-management and leading on range of projects across trauma for the STN (thetraumaapp.com), Dynamic COPD (support.nhscopd.scot) and OPERA (early diagnostic heart failure utilising AI). In partnership with DHI, NES Digital and NHS GGC to deliver asynchronous care solutions aligned to life science and Scot Gov remobilisation strategy. He is leading both the development and validation of AI solutions with industry and academic partners across a range of clinical use cases including unscheduled care admission, radiology and long term condition management. 

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 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.

Nicola Cooper is Technology and Digital Innovation Lead with Scottish Care who hold specialist knowledge and expertise on the topic of human rights in technology and digital and continue to progress this agenda in digital health and social care.

Nicola has over 10 years of experience of leading on innovation and digital transformation in Social Care, having led on a CivTech 4.0 challenge while at Alzheimer Scotland, and the development and implementation of digital platforms and Apps. She is interested in how we create the future within ethical frameworks, using human rights-based person-centred principles.

Nicola comes from a creative background where she delivered international programmes and with local audiences to widen access to the arts and culture, supporting opportunities for community regeneration initiatives. Her creative and problem-solving mindset includes a natural curiosity in people and systems, and an interest in social justice and user centred practices.

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.

Ryan Anderson is the Policy Lead for Data and Intelligence in the Digital Health and Care Directorate of the Scottish Government. Ryan joined the Scottish Government in 2021 following a career as an intelligence analyst with the UK armed forces and HMRC. In his current role he is responsible for supporting the development of a Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, a key commitment of the Scottish Governments recently refreshed Digital Health and Care strategy. In addition, he is in the process of forming a new Data Board for Scottish Health and Social Care data, to ensure there is suitable governance and oversight of decisions taken as part of the Data Strategy and in the wider context of data in the sector. 

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.

Paul is one of the founders of Storm ID, a digital transformation consultancy, based in Edinburgh employing 100 people. Over the past twenty years, he has led major transformation programmes in the public and health sector across the UK. He is passionate about the opportunity to transform healthcare delivery in the UK by developing new care models that are preventative, proactive and participatory, which led him to the foundation of Lenus Health in 2021.

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.