Health and Social Care Council members
Chair and Vice-Chairs
Shane Tickell
Shane Tickell
Phillipa Winter
Phillipa Winter
Charlotte Lewis
Charlotte Lewis
Council Members
techUK Health and Social Care Council, starting from January 2023:
Alan Sumner
Alan Sumner
Alex Eavis
Alex Eavis
Biography
Alex joined EMIS Health, one of the UK’s largest point-of-care system suppliers, through acquisition in 2019. She now heads up the product teams across digital, data and analytics divisions, and the product experience and design team. Alex is passionate about the potential of technology to help those that need it the most. Her distributed ledger software company, Dovetail Lab, was set up to make primary and secondary healthcare data uses more citizen centric, and give patients greater control over the medical record data.
Before founding Dovetail, Alex co-founded an Internet-of-Things care technology business called Alcove; and a social enterprise called HowDoI?, spun out of an outstanding special educational needs school, using NFC technology to launch step-by-step life skills training.
Alex advocates for greater investment in user-centric design, and use of data-driven technologies to enhance the experience of receiving and providing care, reduce inequalities and improve patient, population and provider outcomes.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work
I believe I bring a broad perspective on the challenges faced by different groups interacting with the health and care systems - having worked for the NHS and for the third sector; having founded, funded and exited both care and health tech start ups; and now working for a large NHS system supplier. With NHS funding and the economy at crisis point, digital transformation is no longer a “nice to have”; I see our roles in the Council as essential change agents. I would continue to promote health & care innovation, collaboration between members, and support the ongoing advocacy needed to ensure the policy landscape aligns with NHS and citizen requirements, in a way that works for suppliers. I would continue to be an active member of the Council, helping to grow the newly created Life Sciences Forum and promoting the levelling up activities in the North East working with the young people and digital innovators that will make our future.
Andreas Haimböck-Tichy
Andreas Haimböck-Tichy
Angus Honeysett
Angus Honeysett
Bryn Sage
Bryn Sage
David Hancock
David Hancock
Biography
I have worked in Healthcare IT for nearly 20 years and now have my own company where I work with Health and Social Care organisations, and system suppliers on digital/product strategy, transformation and go to market strategy. I have a focus on interoperability. I have worked in both major IT suppliers and SMEs and understand the issues faced by both as they sell and try to innovate into the NHS and Social Care and the issues they face having to work with the NHS on regulatory requirements, standards and connection to national systems. I have sat on the council for the last 5 years, am also Vendor Co-Chair of INTEROPen and Chair of the techUK Interoperability Working Group where this year we reached the techUK Interoperability Charter. The relaunch was based on our experience of it being in place for the last 6 years, learning the lessons and improving it.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme's work
I am deeply committed to the successful application of digital to Health and Social Care and a believer in the NHS. I recognise the difficulties we face in achieving successful transformation in Health (and Social Care) is down to it requiring real complex adaptive change. There is added complexity because of the way central systems have to work with Trust and Supplier systems. There is also complexity around procurement. I will actively work across all of these issues to enable the situation to be win-win for the "Service" and Suppliers. I want to continue to be Vendor Co-Chair of INTEROPen as the techUK representative and to Chair the Interoperability working group; there is still so much to do. I will represent large and small companies alike and in my role as being independent am not afraid of speaking truth to power, wherever that power is held. It is up to all of us to help get digital right in the NHS and Social Care. I will continue to beat the drum for interoperability. It is in all suppliers interests to be interoperable as it makes "the pie" bigger for all of us, and provides a more vibrant Health IT industry.
Dr Geraint Lewis
Dr Geraint Lewis
Biography
With 11 years experience working as a doctor in acute and emergency medicine, followed by 5 years' higher specialist training in public health, Geraint is a consultant public health physician with a specialist interest in predictive modelling and population health management. His previous roles include Senior Fellow of the Nuffield Trust; Senior Director for Outcomes and Analytics at Walgreens; and Chief Data Officer at NHS England. A fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of London and the UK Faculty of Public Health, he is the lead author of the postgraduate textbook Mastering Public Health and has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals including Health Affairs, JAMA, and the BMJ. Geraint was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice at New York University. His awards include the National Directors' Award at the US Department of Veterans Affairs; the Bradshaw Lectureship of the Royal College of Physicians of London; overall winner of the Guardian Newspaper's Public Service Awards; and an unprecedented four Health Service Journal awards for the Virtual Wards project that he conceived and led.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme's work
Throughout my career, I have been passionate about the use of data and technology to improve the quality, efficiency and equity of healthcare. As part of my training in public health, I was a member of the team that introduced predictive risk modelling to the NHS for the first time and I subsequently invented the concept of virtual wards, which are now being rolled out across the NHS. I have held senior roles in the public sector (Chief Data Officer, NHS England), the private sector (Senior Director for Outcomes and Analytics at Walgreens and now Director of Population Health at Microsoft) and the Third Sector (Senior Fellow at the Nuffield Trust). In my current role, I serve as a bridge between Microsoft and the NHS: helping my colleagues understand the needs, priorities and pressures of the NHS, and helping the NHS understand how Microsoft's stack of hardware, operating systems, software and applications, and cloud capabilities can empower the NHS to achieve more. I very much look forward to bringing these varied perspectives to the Council's discussions on promoting a vibrant marketplace for digital health and care in the UK.
Dr Jaz Dhaliwal
Dr Jaz Dhaliwal
Biography
I am a Digital Healthcare Partner at KPMG. I am responsible for the growth of KPMG Digital Healthcare Business in the UK. My portfolio is centered on helping clients across the NHS at national, regional, and local level to transform care enabled by digital and data.
I started my career as a NHS doctor in Acute Medicine and General Practice. I have practised in the UK and New Zealand. After completing my MBA at Cambridge I decided to pivot my career into Healthcare Consulting. I started in professional services with Deloitte, and went on to work for IBM and Infosys. I have worked with a wide range of Healthcare clients in the UK, US and UAE. I have over 10 years’ experience in clinically enabled technology transformation programmes.
I am a passionate leader. I believe to truly transform the NHS, we need to adopt an ecosystem approach with partners that delivers end-to-end transformation with tangible benefits to the system. This reduces health inequalities and improves outcomes for society.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care work programme
I am a visionary leader. I have served on boards for healthcare tech startups and been a mentor in the NHS Digital Academy. I will contribute to techUK my rare combination of clinical, digital, and consulting experience. I will help identify the key challenges of the healthcare system at large, and facilitate the collaboration of market partners with techUK to influence key stakeholders to shape new models of care delivery.
Given the economic conditions we are facing, and consequently the immense pressure on our care system, technology enablement needs to be part of the core solution. Now is the time for industry partners, NHS organizations, and innovators, to work with techUK to articulate a single vision of what a successful digital transformation looks like that is citizen and end user centric.
I would be delighted and honored to serve the Health and Social Care Council, help elevate techUK’s positioning in the market, and take our vision forward.
Dr Justin Whatling
Dr Justin Whatling
Biography
NHS medical doctor by background, Justin has 25 years of experience using technology and informatics to transform outcomes for patients.
He currently serves as Palantir’s Managing Director for Global Health & Life Sciences, and a non-executive director for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He is also a member of techUK’s Life Sciences Working Group.
Justin holds voluntary roles as a trustee of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and a member of the BCS Academy of Computing’s board, representing BCS on the management committee of the BMJ Health & Care Informatics Journal. He is a fellow of BCS, founding fellow of FCI, and a lead practitioner in FEDIP. He was previously an independent member of the NHS National Information Board.
Justin previously led population health management at Cerner, was clinical director at BT Health, and held roles at Accenture and Bupa.
What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?
I have actively supported techUK for many years. While chair of BCS Health we had regular partnership meetings and ran joint events including the tech start-up school for healthcare entrepreneurs, and have supported working groups on topics such as data accessibility. I am currently a member of the Life Sciences Working Group and its predecessor, Life Sciences Forum.
As Palantir’s Managing Director for Global Health & Life Sciences, I’d contribute the company’s substantial expertise in secure, multi-modal data integration and AI. Here in the United Kingdom, this has been gained through our role in the elective care recovery programme, providing our Foundry software as the platform that underlying the Care Coordination Solution in multiple trusts. Foundry also underpinned NHS England’s COVID-19 Data Store, supporting the vaccine roll-out and other aspects of the COVID response. In the United States, our software underpins a number of National Institutes of Health programmes, as well as a fast-growing number of U.S. hospital systems. My role at Palantir spans healthcare, social care and life sciences – experience will help keep a broad perspective across the breadth of techUK activities.
Beyond Palantir, I bring a rich background of experience across a broad range of informatics topics that can help inform techUK priorities, including in population health management, data and analytics, AI, research, telehealth, EPRs, health information exchanges, patient reported outcome measure programmes, and patient support programmes.
I have strategy and policy experience gained through roles at the BCS The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) and with the National Information Board (NIB) – I can use this experience to help guide the Council and techUK on policy related matters.
I have deep roots and hold senior roles in health IT professional bodies and would help the Council strengthen its relationships with these groups to support its work on policy, training and other areas.
I have strong relationships with vendors across the health IT market, and have partnered with many of them. I believe my relationships and history in holding industry roles for 25 years, will help me to represent our wider membership in techUK, and to help actively engage all members in our work.
What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?
TechUK’s ten-point plan for healthcare remains a good guiding agenda, as it engages with the health and social care sector. The experience outlined above means I’m well-placed to contribute to this agenda.
I have a keen interest to help drive forward efficiencies for demand and capacity management in health and care at this time of great need, with focus on frictionless processes and integrating data to assist in routine operational and clinical decision making. I firmly believe if we get this right, we will together build the new post-COVID digital highway that will underpin how we introduce a breadth of medtech innovation, create an attractive environment for life sciences, and deliver on the promise of population health to improve outcomes of all who we serve.
A key priority will be providing new and emerging health technology firms with better access to the NHS and, conversely, providing the NHS with easier access to their innovation. The NHS shouldn’t compromise its necessarily high standards of security and data governance but, with the right technology and governance enablers, there’s more that can be done here.
A particular focus here will be to help drive forward AI – the NHS has a wide range of needs amenable to AI, and to large language models (LLMs) in particular. The potential benefits to NHS productivity and for patient outcomes are significant. Given its membership, there’s much that the Council can do to support the acceleration of AI adoption, in a responsible, secure and well-governed way.
Heather Cook
Heather Cook
Indi Singh
Indi Singh
James Norman
James Norman
Biography
James Norman is the EMEA Health and Life Science Director at Pure Storage. A world respected figure in change management and IT transformation, with more than 30 years experience within the health sector, including 24 years senior management within the NHS. James has led multiple major public sector transformation programmes and published several papers on the potential of Technology in healthcare. James was named Healthcare IT champion of the year in 2011 and later sat as an external advisor to Her Majesty’s Treasury, sitting on the Comprehensive Spending Review board. James was named Thought leader of the year in 2013, named one of the top 50 data leaders in the UK and has ranked in the top 10 CIO 100 list. James established the All4Health&Care (previously Tech4CV19) community to help frontline Organisations and Tech companies come together in the fight against COVID-19, in Partnership with NHS England and techUK.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work
My whole career has been dedicated to improving the services of healthcare institutions for better patient outcomes, through my early days in creating new applications for NHS organisations to improve access and equality of care, to my recent work in supporting Health Economy and Regional transformation through greater use of Technology and Intelligence systems. I work very closely with governments around the world to help them understand the potential for Technology to transform the way patients access care as well as with Health Tech suppliers large and small, to support them in understanding the market and provide services / technologies that will deliver improved care. Having previously sat on the Council for many years, I worked hard to embed it as the voice it now is, for suppliers, in shaping policy and supporting simplification of entry to the healthcare market. During Covid I helped techUK members to share services and technologies with healthcare providers to overcome the severe pressures they were under. If voted back on, I will strive to maintain and grow the value of the Council in ensuring the concerns of members are raised and heard keeping communication lines open and accessible to all.
Lauren Bevan
Lauren Bevan
Biography
Lauren has worked in and with the NHS for almost 20 years. She trained as a Physiotherapist, and then trained as an accountant with PwC specialising in public sector finance. She spent time as a Deputy Director of Finance and Performance in the NHS where she inherited IT and data services.
Lauren went back to consulting and spent 8 years at EY where she led the health data and digital team for UK&I. She has worked on understanding the mortality changes at Mid Staffs, major service reconfigurations and new hospital builds. She is FEDIP accredited and part of the FCI.
She then worked at BJSS for 4 years where she led the industry team who worked on nhs.uk, the NHS App, eRS and other national core systems.
Lauren is now Director of Consulting at Ethical Healthcare where she leads the delivery team helping the NHS to utilise and deploy technology.
What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?
Lauren previously sat on the council as the representative for BJSS for 3 years and therefore knows the duties and responsibilities of the council. She continues to work for a supplier agnostic advisory company and this helps with impartiality.
Her experience from a clinical and operational perspective as well as a technology agnosticism helps to further the cause of interoperability, standards and clinical and operational engagement as part of technology projects.
As a recovering finance professional, Lauren is keen that finance (including procurement) and technology and IT teams in the NHS work closer together to ensure modern ways of procurements are being brought to bear into the NHS.
What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?
As a champion for equality and diversity the key focus areas for Lauren if she were successful in her nomination would be
Tech agnosticism including helping the NHS avoid inappropriate vendor lock-ins
Promoting user-centred design and user testing in system selection, delivery and optimisation
Building the links between the technology and finance teams in the NHS
Helping suppliers and the sector to matchmake solutions and services based on a proper understanding of issues
Procurement - always procurement - how to help embed standards including interoperability into procurement processes.
How industry helps with NHS DDaT talent shortages in the short and medium term
Above all, Lauren brings a sense of humour and pragmatism when faced with the same issues we have been working on as a community for a long time.
Liz Ashall-Payne
Liz Ashall-Payne
Biography
Passionate about the opportunities that technology and particularly apps offer to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, Liz founded ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application in 2015, determined to present a way to offer much needed guidance to app developers to help raise app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could genuinely improve public, patient and organisational outcomes. Initially a Speech and Language Therapist, Liz has almost 20 years NHS experience. She has successfully led innovative change and service transformation in complex health economies. She has led regional, national and European change programmes and networks to deliver transformational shift and has experience of working collaboratively with Public Sector, Industry and Academia.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work
I am a resilient and motivated leader and I have been privileged to lead innovative change and service transformation for patients in complex health economies with financial deficits and challenging political environments. I very much welcome a challenge and very much value my personal integrity. I am very interested in digital innovations in Health and Care and am motivated to continuously transform care, utilising resources most effectively with all that innovation and technology has to offer. Working with the H&SC council at techUK has been an honour and I would be pleased to continue to support industry members with my collaborative approach and commitment to making a difference. Thank you for your consideration
Nigel Brokenshire
Nigel Brokenshire
Biography
Nigel is the Head of Digital Healthcare for Bayer UK/I. He is responsible for the introduction and delivery of digital health innovations and how they can transform the health and well-being for patients, public and underpin the Life Science sector. In his role he stays abreast of relevant national and international strategy, policy and contributes where possible into future trends, initiatives, developments, and consultations. Prior to joining Bayer, Nigel worked across the NHS delivering large-scale digital programmes, with his latest roles seeing him as Digital Programme Director for two STPs (precursor to ICS). Nigel looks forward to further enhancing collaboration between Bayer, the NHS and patients, and making Bayer a trusted industry partner. He is also committed to support UK start-ups/innovators and assist their expansion both locally and globally.
Nigel works in a non-promotional manner and ‘above’ the Bayer brands.
What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work
Nigel has a wealth of knowledge in both the public and private sector and is committed to support UK start-ups/innovators and assist their expansion both locally and globally.
Nigel is keen to build strong partnerships across the sector to achieve both health outcomes and to support the future of the economy by championing technology across the sector.
Nigel brings a unique blend of knowledge and experience from the public sector, tech startups along with large corporates which will see Nigel as a trusted and highly influential partner on the council.
Nigel’s approach is one fueled with collaboration, integrity, tenacity and enthusiasm which are key attributes for the council.
Paula Ridd
Paula Ridd
Biography
Paula Ridd is Strategy Director, Health and Care at Civica. With 20 years’ delivery experience across health and care, she is responsible for health and care strategy, and for the portfolio of capabilities across the Civica Health and Care business. She is also accountable for the investment spend across all Civica’s health and care solutions.
An essential part of Paula’s role is to join up technologies and best practice across health and social care, with Civica’s software platforms widespread across the NHS, private practice and the care home sector.
With a proven ability to lead and drive change at all levels in an organisation, Paula has wide experience across senior roles in the health and care sector; notably as Global Head of Product Management (Health Care) at CSC and General Manager, UKI at Allscripts/Altera.
Passionate about supporting women across the technology sector, Paula is also the Chair of the Women In Civica Affinity Group.
Please watch the video to learn what they can bring to the Health and Social Care Council and how they can contribute to techUK’s work in health and social care.
Sally Rennison
Sally Rennison
Sara Lillywhite
