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 ...

Dr Amanda Begley
National Director
NHS Innovation Accelerator

Dr Amanda Begley is Director of Innovation and Implementation at UCLPartners. Her focus is to build partnerships and expertise to deliver innovation at scale and pace for patient and population benefit. She is co-founder and National Director for the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), which is delivered as a partnership between NHS ...

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 a number of 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 ...

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BBI Group

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Lundbeck

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Smith & Nephew

Katherine Thompson
Head of CVD Prevention Programme
Public Health England

As Head of the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention Programme at Public Health England (PHE), Katherine is responsible for providing national leadership on the locally delivered NHS Health Check programme which aims to prevent CVD in 15 million eligible people in England. Katherine also oversees PHE’s contribution to achieving the ...

Dr James Teo
Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Director of Data Science
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr James Teo is a consultant neurologist with an interest in stroke and Parkinson’s Disease. He began his undergraduate medical training at University of Oxford and Royal Free Medical School. He completed his PhD in Clinical Neurology at the prestigious UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square. He has written more than 30 peer-reviewed ...

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 the Year” ...

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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 ...

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Olympus Keymed Ltd

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 as 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 ...

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