NHS Long Term Plan 2020 Speakers

Dr Partha Kar OBE
National Specialty Advisor for Diabetes
NHS England & Improvement

Professor Partha Kar is National Specialty Advisor, Diabetes with NHS England and co-lead of Diabetes GIRFT with NHS Improvement. He has led and delivered so far on (April 2016- till date): Freestyle Libre being available on NHS -across country NHS Right Care Diabetes pathway Diabetes “Language Matters” document Type 1 ...

Dr Shahed Ahmad
National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
NHS England & Improvement

Dr Shahed Ahmad is National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at NHS England & Improvement. Shahed is an experienced NHS Director, performing director posts in PCTs since 2002. Shahed was the lead director in his PCT for Fitness for Purpose and producing the Commissioning Strategy Plan. Shahed has benefitted in his ...

Chris Hopson
Chief Executive
NHS Providers

Chris Hopson joined NHS Providers (then the Foundation Trust Network) in September 2012 as chief executive following a career spanning the public, private and voluntary sectors. Between 2005 and 2012, Chris worked at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), in several board-level roles. Other roles include board-level corporate affairs director at ...

Matthew Taylor
Chief Executive
NHS Confederation

Matthew is a high-profile public figure who has had a distinguished career at the heart of public policy for the last 20 years. He has led the RSA for 15 years and during that time he has transformed the organisation into a global institution, with 30,000 fellows and a high-profile and influential research programme. Before that, he was Chief ...

Ben Bridgewater
Chief Executive
Health Innovation Manchester

Ben Bridgewater is the CEO at Health Innovation Manchester. He was formally a consultant cardiac surgeon at the University Hospital of South Manchester and an Honorary Professor at Manchester Academic Health Science Centre. He led the programme to collect, analyse and publish data on cardiac surgical outcomes in the UK and ran ...

Christianah Olagunju
Project Manager
Health Innovation Network

An experienced Healthcare Consultant with experience in Healthcare service improvement, Public health and Project management who is passionate about embarking on more opportunities to improve and transform healthcare services. I have a demonstrated history of Clinical Care Pathways, Information technology and reviewing Patient Experience.

A Representative
To be confirmed
Smith & Nephew

Lesley Soden
Programme Director
Health Innovation Network

Lesley has worked in NHS and public sector roles for over 20 years. She has worked in senior business and strategy roles in mental health and community trusts and has experience in market insights, transformation, policy development, and clinical service re-design, all delivered in collaboration with a variety of partnerships. Most ...

Glyn Barnes
Strategic Marketing Director, EMEA
iRhythm

Glyn has worked in the medical devices industry for more than thirty years and spent time with some of the well-known multinationals such as GE Healthcare, Draeger and Datex-Ohmeda. Having started his career in sales he progressed into marketing culminating in a global director of comms role with Spacelabs Healthcare. Most ...

Dr Yassir Javaid
Clinical Adviser for Cardiology
Royal College of General Practitioners

Dr Javaid qualified from Cambridge University and completed his GP VTS training in Northampton. He has an interest in cardiology and echocardiography and was a clinical lead in the Northamptonshire Community Cardiology service, which had a focus on patients with heart failure and valve disease. He was named Pulse “GP of ...

A Representative
To be confirmed
Cambridge Consultants

Polly Toynbee
British journalist specialising in the NHS
& member of the NHS Assembly

Polly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She is a social democrat and was a candidate for the Social Democratic Party in the 1983 general election. She now broadly supports the Labour Party. Toynbee previously worked as social affairs editor for the BBC and also for The ...

Dr Ed Seward
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ed Seward trained in Edinburgh for six years before moving first to Liverpool and then London, where he worked as a registrar and gained his MD. His first consultant’s post was at Whipps Cross Hospital – now part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Situated in the diverse area of Waltham Forest, this enabled him to develop a broad experience ...

Lisa Hollins
Director of Innovation Delivery
NHSX

Lisa Hollins is the Director of Innovation Delivery at NHSX. Until September, she was Executive Director of Improvement, Informatics and ICT, at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Shelford Group Transformation Directors. Lisa is an experienced health leader and has worked in the NHS for over 25 years. Until ...

Professor Matthew Cripps
Director of Sustainable Healthcare
NHS England & Improvement

Professor Matthew Cripps BA MA CPFA created and developed the RightCare approach and embedded NHS RightCare is a national programme in NHS England, active in every local health economy, with a focus on population healthcare improvement to deliver the best care to patients. He now leads on spreading the concepts of population healthcare, optimal ...

Maria Kyriacou
Deputy Director
NHS Innovation Accelerator

Maria joined the NIA as Interim Deputy Director on secondment from a Hers Valleys CCG in Hertfordshire where she was the Associate Director for Transformation, leading on the QIPP PMO and Operating Planning for the CCG. She joined the NHS 15 years ago and has led on strategy, cancer and cardiovascular pathway redesign, CCG ...

Dr David Smart
Clinical Director
General Practice Alliance (GPA)

David is a ¾ time GP at Leicester Terrace Health Care Centre in Northampton town centre and Clinical Director of GPA Federation covering Northampton leading on mental health and prevention. He is a member of NICE expert reference group developing “A Framework for Community Mental Health Support, Care and treatment for Adults and ...

Mr Richard Davies
Director for System Transformation
Smith and Nephew

Richard Davies is the Director for System Transformation at Smith and Nephew across the U.K.I and Nordic countries. Richard heads up the System Transformation Team with a focus around how innovative technologies can transform the care pathway and a drive towards improving outcomes, reducing costs, freeing up clinical time and improving the ...

Mr Alec Mason BSc (Hons) Podiatry
System Transformation Manager / Advanced Wound Management
Smith and Nephew

Alec Mason is the System Transformation Manager at Smith and Nephew. The System Transformation Team have a focus on how innovative technologies can transform the care pathway and a drive towards improving outcomes, reducing costs, freeing up clinical time and improving the quality of care. Alec has held various senior roles in the ...

Christina Farrow
Deputy Director for Innovation
NHS England and NHS Improvement

Christina Farrow is the Deputy Director for Innovation in the Innovation, Research and Life Sciences Group within NHS England and NHS Improvement. She is a registered adult nurse, who specialised in critical care, with an interest in adjunct technologies to support patient communication and reduce PTSD. She has a BSc in Critical Care and an MSc ...

Mark England
Fellow
NHS Innovation Accelerator

Previously NHS Deputy National Director for Urgent and Emergency Care, Mark is committed to empowering high-need patients to live better lives, supported by innovative, proactive health care services. In his first year as CEO, HN was commissioned across a population of 1.8 million people; finding, inviting, and onboarding 2,152 patients (42% ...

Mark Lomax
Fellow
NHS Innovation Accelerator

Mark initially worked in the NHS as a doctor after completing his undergraduate training at Barts Medical School in 1999. After several years of working as a junior doctor across a range of medical specialities, he founded his first business, the award-winning MediHome. During this time, he created a new market (hospital at home) and disrupted ...

Becky Reeve
Professional Relations Lead, General
Sanofi

Daniel Morris
NHS Engagement Lead - General Medicines
Sanofi

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