NHS Long Term Plan 2020 Speakers

Nick Hulme

Chief Executive, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Nick Hulme has worked in the NHS and social care for more than 35 years . He has worked in operational management and leadership roles in large, complex London acute Trusts. His first management role was in sexual health services before being appointed to senior leadership roles in operational and general management. Nick successfully brought together community and hospital based care in his previous role as Chief Executive of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

Nick was appointed Chief Executive at The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust in January 2013 and in May 2016 also became Chief Executive of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust. Following successful joint working, the two trusts merged on the 1 July 2018 to form East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, of which Nick is now Chief Executive. He is also leading the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for east and west Suffolk and north east Essex.

Morning Plenary 2: Utilising the Evidence Base

The Vision for Integrated Care Systems

10:55 - 11:10

Nick Hulme
Chief Executive
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Jonathan Valabhji OBE
National Clinical Director for Obesity and Diabetes
NHS England & Improvement

Professor Jonathan Valabhji is national clinical director for diabetes and obesity at NHS England. He is a consultant diabetologist at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and so remains highly active at the clinical coalface. The published clinical outcomes from his multidisciplinary diabetic foot service at the Trust ...

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 ...

Niall Dickson
Chief Executive
NHS Confederation

Niall has served in some of the most prominent national roles in health and care. Before joining the NHS Confederation, for seven years he was the chief executive and registrar of the General Medical Council, where he oversaw a raft of major reforms. For six years before that he was chief executive of the King’s Fund which under his ...

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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” ...

Jaquie Finn
Head of Digital Health
Cambridge Consultants

Jaquie is Head of Digital Health at Cambridge Consultants and leads the initiative to provide strategic guidance and technical solutions for clients transitioning their business model to include a digital element. These digital elements include device connectivity, AI, security, launch strategies, behavioural science and digital service ...

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 ...

Helen Vanner
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Olympus Keymed Ltd

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Nick Hulme

Chief Executive, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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