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

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 ...

To be confirmed
National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
NHS England

Matt Kearney is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and a GP in Shropshire. He has been working for both NHS England and Public Health England since 2013, building programmes to improve primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In particular, he has focused on driving ...

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 ...