NHS of the Future 2025

Chief Clinical Information Officer & Mental Health Nurse: A decade of leading digital transformation in healthcare; enhancing NHS systems in patient flow, cyber security, and user experience.

Deputy Mayor of Medway and Councillor Gillingham North - Committees, Health and Social Care Scrutiny, Planning and BAME lead.

Social Media & Branding Expert: Creator of #1 trending LinkedIn videos; specialist in video content, dynamic content strategy, and personal/corporate branding.

Collaboration Maestro: Known as the 'catalyst for collaboration'; expertise in uniting stakeholders using Maslow's Hierarchy, Solution & Miller Heiman methodologies for high adoption and satisfaction rates.

Author & Thought Leader: Contributor to podcasts and interviews (including BBC), keynote speaker; advocate for mental health and IT & Digital Development in nursing.

Innovative Mindset & Lifelong Learner: Committed to staying abreast of digital transformation trends, continuously refining skills for value-driven partnerships.

Visionary for NHS Transformation: Proponent of advanced technology to overhaul clinical care; championing improved patient care and staff empowerment through modern systems.

Oliver is a policy expert focused on the use of artificial intelligence in public services and its impact on the future of work. He co-led a project that proposed a policy framework for government approaches to platform work, which was informed by the needs of workers using the platforms.

Through policy, he hopes to bring transformative change that makes people’s lives healthier and more productive and fulfilling.

Oliver was previously a senior policy analyst at the Centre for Social Justice, where he organised a high-profile commission that fed into the United Kingdom government’s National Disability Strategy. His policy work has been recognised through awards and national competitions.

Bringing an international lens to healthcare innovation, Dr. Karen Pien is a healthcare data strategist dedicated to putting people—both clinicians and patients—at the heart of digital transformation. Currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Vlerick Business School with a focus on healthcare’s digital future, she leads projects that help hospitals move from passive data collection to actionable insights that improve care quality, enhance patient engagement, and support healthcare workers’ needs. With experience across European healthcare systems, she champions technology that works for people, not the other way around

Dr Faris Al-Ramadani is an award-winning GP, PCN Clinical Director, and HealthTech consultant dedicated to enhancing patient care through technology and innovative clinical pathways. As a GP Partner, his practice, St Wulfstan Surgery, was named HSJ Primary Care Provider of the Year (2024) and in 2023 ranked number one in England for patient satisfaction for practices with more than 10,000 patients. His leadership at Warwickshire East PCN also led to a shortlisting for PCN of the Year (2024).

To further bridge the gap between innovation and real-world application, he founded and leads the St Wulfstan Digital Accelerator, a pioneering initiative that pilots cutting-edge digital health solutions within a primary care setting.

A respected thought leader and keynote speaker on digital transformation, Dr Al-Ramadani advises HealthTech companies through his consultancy, One Health. He is passionate about redesigning clinical pathways, particularly in mental health, and fostering collaborations that successfully integrate new technologies into clinical practice to deliver tangible benefits for both patients and providers.”

Split persona, working with some of the leading names in both the property and healthcare industries, building a property portfolio in Yorkshire that provides investors with secure, stable returns; whilst also supporting some of the largest healthcare organisations both in the UK and internationally to achieve their goals.

Accomplished leader with a high record of achievement in the NHS, managing multidisciplinary teams in excess of 200 people, and multi-million pound budgets. Dedicated individual with the ability to create a collaborative vision, garner appropriate buy in and take through to implementation. Able to not only build the strategy but carry it through to full application.

Most recently, the Lead for the Scan4Safety Programme across the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of 6 acute Trusts with a shared vision to provide the best patient outcomes through innovation. Previously responsible for delivering the largest public sector open source software & infrastructure programme in the UK whilst at HSCIC (now NHSD); Spine 2.

Truly passionate about successful delivery, looking to work with forward thinking organisations that embrace new technology and practices.

- PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner, Qualified Professional Scrum Master and Agile Project Management Practitioner
- Agile coach with experience in all aspects of software delivery
- Digital business analyst with sound understanding of open source technologies

I am passionate about leading for good. Healthcare leader with 20+ years of experience in nursing, midwifery, and public health. I have built a robust foundation in clinical practice, governance, research & education, strategy & policy, and leadership & management.

I am deeply committed to enhancing the health and well-being of women and children. My approach to healthcare leadership is shaped by a core set of values that influence both my professional actions and personal life:

*Integrity: I believe in putting patients and service users first. To achieve this is vital to lead with honesty, transparency, and a commitment to doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

**Inclusion: I believe in promoting a teamwork-oriented environment where respect, cultural competence, empathy, and meaningful recognition are paramount. This approach ensures that every team member feels truly valued and fosters a strong sense of belonging.

***Improvement: I am committed to striving for excellence through a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and sustainability. By nurturing a culture of creativity and forward-thinking, we pave the way for groundbreaking developments in healthcare and beyond.

My career has taken me through diverse healthcare systems in Spain and the UK. I have collaborated and provided specialist consulting services across the UK, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, and Argentina. This has provided me with a global healthcare perspective and identity.

I have successfully led diverse teams and managed complex healthcare programs in both public and private sectors. I am passionate about mentoring the next generation of healthcare leaders, driving innovative solutions, and consistently improving service quality.

Debra is President of the Institute of Biomedical Science, Clinical Pathology Service Manager at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and a chartered scientist.

In her role as IBMS President, Debra is dedicated to the promotion, development and delivery of excellence in all aspects of biomedical science and is committed to providing the highest levels of service to patients and the public. In her ten years as an IBMS Council member, she has advocated, listened, represented and addressed the issues that are most important to IBMS membership at national, regional and local levels.

Debra became IBMS President in 2022 after a career covering 24 years working in clinical NHS laboratories. She is an advocate for workforce development, innovation in healthcare and continuous quality improvement.

Her current roles encompass the provision of leadership and management with accountability for the delivery of cost effective, high quality, safe and sustainable services across the Northumbria and the wider health economy. These responsibilities give her a strategic insight to deliver operational priorities both for her own Trust and those of National programmes.

Her professional activities include Lead Healthcare Scientist for NHCT, Pathology Network Operational Lead for North East and North Cumbria ICS, committee member for BSI ISO 15189 mirror committee and STEM ambassador.

Head of Research and Skills, leading the Research and Knowledge Management team at the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre.

David is Head of Product for the NHS Digital Academy and has over 30 years of delivery experience in the NHS and major private sector organisations.

He is responsible for the Academy’s suite of education products, aimed at improving the digital skills of the workforce. David is particularly proud of successfully driving the design, delivery and sustainable positioning of products such as the Digital Health Leadership Programme and the Digital Boards Programme.

He is passionate about supporting the need to bridge the digital skills gap and is also a workstream lead in support of Futuredotnow’s cross-industry work in this area.

• Dr Diamond is a consultant in Emergency Medicine. She has trained in the UK and Australia. She was an international examiner for the Royal College before taking position as the deputy medical director of the Southern Trust in Northern Ireland. Her portfolio covers workforce and training.
• She developed an out reach service to manage intoxicated patients rather than using the default position of send to ED.
• She has developed several apps and cloud based technology in partnership with the University of Ulster.
• She has developed and grown 2 companies which have seen growth through periods which were associated with austerity.

An Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner by background, Linda Vernon is Head of Digital Empowerment at Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

Passionate about how technology can empower individuals, communities & our workforce to thrive, and the principles of user-centred design & co-production, Linda leads the digital citizen portfolio across Lancashire & South Cumbria, as well as the overarching digital and data strategy for the wider digital portfolio.  She also drives the digital, data and AI literacy agenda for the ICB, and is passionate about empowering our workforce and our citizens to access and benefit from digital tools.  She is an ‘upstreamist’ with a focus on how we can better support the prevention and population health agendas.

Linda enjoys climbing fells in the Lake District, playing guitar, ukulele and singing, and believes the health of the planet and her inhabitants are mutually dependant.

Lee is a fellow of the BCS, FEDPI Leading Practitioner, CHIME Certificated Health Chief Information Officer and an alumnus of the Digital Academy.

He has three decades of transformation and programme management experience. His first decade focused on UK military aircraft projects and for the last two decades he has focused on digital transformation in the NHS.  He is currently leading the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record development to provide interweave as an open platform for shared care record and population health systems.  He is also the CIO of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Senior Responsible Owner for the mental health digital transformation of Humber & North Yorkshire ICS, member of the PRSB advisory board, member of the National ICS Digital Council and vice chair of Northern, Yorkshire and Humberside Digital and informatics Forum (NYHDIF).

Specialties: Digital Transformation, Portfolio, FHIR, Programme & Project Management, Agile, lean, PRINCE 2, MSP, CHCIO, FBCS, FEDIP.  Lee is likes to read, a keen runner and a children’s football coach and referee. 

I have more than a decade of experience in the NHS, the majority of which has been senior operational and programme management roles. Currently I am working at SWBH as Director of Operational Performance.

I chair our system working group on Artificial Intelligence and have a personal and professional interest in Health Inequalities. I am an active supporter of the NHS graduate management scheme and run the SWBH link with the training programme.

My prior role was within the Midland Met Programme Company as Associate Delivery Director. This was a purpose-built team focusing on the development and opening of Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in 2024. My workstream comprised of clinical support, facilities, logistics and corporate services.

I am heavily involved in local community groups – I was recently chair of a community organisation which purchased and now runs a local business, which is run as a cooperative, reinvesting profits into a community arm

I am a Strategic Estates Lead, NHS Estates Delivery Unit and on Secondment to the New Hospital Programme, ICS Estates Infrastructure Guidance, developing Digital Smart Buildings (New and Existing NHS estate programmes). I'm engaged in strategic Estates and Facilities requirements across the NHS (Primary, Acute & Mental Health), whilst also developing digital smart building guidance capturing; sustainability, EFM asset management, asset tracking and much more. My function, as part of the Digital Smart Building programmes, relate to, new builds and legacy estate plans, driving the necessary links, improving processes and practices to produce tangible and measurable outputs during the capital build phase, which are fed into the operational phase for continuous improvement opportunities during the assets life. I target critical areas of estates and facilities programme, linked to clinical and non-clinical environments and identify realisable monetary and non-monetary (e.g. patient) benefits.

I am a member of UK Digital Estates Group, a Fellow of the Leeds Sustainability Institute and continuously advancing my knowledge of the built environment, specifically Asset & Process Digitisation; Smart Enterprise Asset Management solutions; FM & Estates strategies. Working with numerous UK academic institutions, industry bodies, standards groups and WHO.

I have won, developed and maintained multi-million pound projects and portfolios in public and private sectors. Self motivated with the ability to engage at all levels of business, Government, corporate and supply chains. I have delivered international Healthcare and Digital Real Estate ecosystem conference talks in Dubai, Lisbon, Hamburg, Stockholm and across the UK. I have studied and had published a number of academic papers and articles, regarding negotiation & influencing; real estate strategies; digital asset management & sustainability; healthcare estates & patient flows; digital innovation & transformation strategies and IoT projects.

I have business, corporate and real estate experience ranging from strategic planning, optimisation & utilisation and finance, along with, commercial and strategic understanding of IT, procurement, R&D programmes, project management, facilities & estate management, asset assessment & improvement programs, IoT projects, integrated data systems, all aimed at delivering client requirements, RoI, whilst maximising and capitalising on new opportunities

Peter Cox is an experienced director with over 20 years working across both public and private sectors, including senior roles within the NHS and consultancy. He has led major transformation programmes and estate strategies, managing portfolios of up to £950 million. Peter’s career spans leadership positions in organisations such as the New Hospital Programme, Morgan Sindall Investments and several NHS organisations in North London and the East of England, where he has delivered complex capital projects, strategic partnerships, and innovative estate solutions. His work continues as Programme Director for the New Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn.

Dr Chris Mason is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he works on a general and neuro intensive care. He trained throughout London and holds a PhD in the molecular mechanisms of muscle wasting.

Dr Mason is the patient safety lead for the intensive care directorate and conducts trust wide investigations at Imperial under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. He is also a certified medical expert witness.

I am an experienced healthcare leader and General & Laparoscopic Consultant Surgeon (Colorectal) with 20 years of NHS experience. As a lead IBD and Endometriosis Surgeon, I provide specialist support to the West Midland Endometriosis Society and Birmingham Women's & Children's Hospital. I am passionate advocate for sustainability, working closely with the Green Team within the TRUST to drive sustainable healthcare practices. Committed to the NHS Net Zero goal,I actively empower colleagues to integrate sustainability into their practice, their patient care and hospital operations and policies. Through advocacy, education, and collaboration, we can make healthcare greener and more sustainable for future generations

At the North East North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) , The sustainability programme leadership and coordination supports the 11 NHS trusts in advancing their environmental strategies. 

The team's efforts in implementing the Clean Air Framework and Regional Green Plans exemplify the commitment to integrating healthcare excellence with environmental stewardship.

I am a chartered environmentalist and a leader in the areas of environmental sustainability, environmental and social governance and net zero. My priorities are to promote the benefits of good environmental practices and empower key stakeholders to become actively involved in responding to the current environmental challenges we face as well as optimise emerging environmental opportunities.

Specialties: Environmental Management Systems; Environmental and Social Governance; Net Zero; Carbon and Energy Management; Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation; Sustainable Development and Livelihoods.

Simon is a recognised specialist in social value, impact, and sustainability within the health and wellbeing sector. With a strong track record of delivering meaningful and measurable projects in this space, Simon has more recently focused on partnering with NHS organisations. His work helps these organisations unlock enhanced sustainability and social value outcomes — as well as attract greater investment — by embedding these priorities strategically within their procurement processes.