Members of data and tech group for 10 year health plan revealed
- 9 December 2024
- Digital Health News can reveal the membership of the key group leading strategy on data and technology for the NHS 10 year health plan
- It has a mix of representatives from a range different backgrounds, including think tanks, patient groups, industry groups, academia and NHS trusts
- There are no representatives from integrated care boards or NHS chief clinical information officers (CCIOs) or chief nursing information officers (CNIOs)
Exclusive: Digital Health News can reveal the membership of the key group leading strategy on data and technology for the NHS 10 year health plan.
The group, being co-chaired by Ming Tang, director data and analytics NHS England and Dr Tim Ferris of Harvard Medical School and former director transformation NHS England, contains 19 membersĀ and had its first meeting in late November 2024.
It has a mix of representatives from a range different backgrounds, including: Henry De Zoete, AI advisor to former prime minister Rishi Sunak and visiting fellow at Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; Dr Malte Gerhold, policy director at The Health Foundation; Doug Gurr, chair of the Alan Turing Institute and British Heart Foundation, and former chief executive of Amazon UK; and Professor James Teo, cofounder of Cogstack and consultant at Kingās College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Patient representation is provided by Laura Blunt chief executive of mental health advocacy group Young Minds; industry representation by Shane Tickell, chair of the Tech UK Health and Care group; and social care by Eve Roodhouse interim director of strategy at the Local Government Association.
Of NHS trust representatives, the list contains two widely respected chief information officers (CIOs), Amy Freeman and David Walliker, though no local NHS chief clinical information officers (CCIOs) or chief nursing information officers (CNIOs). Strikingly there are no nursing representatives on the panel.
The full membership of the group is:
Ming Tang, NHSE
Dr Tim Ferris, Harvard Medical School
Lucy Vickers, Department of Health and Social Care
Professor James Teo, Kingās College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Vipan Bhardwaj, Wokingham Medical Centre
Eve Roodhouse, Local Government Association
Paul Willmott, Central Digital and Data Office
Doug Gurr, Alan Turing Institute
Henry de Zoete, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Dr Malte Gerhold, The Health Foundation
Shane Tickell, TechUK
Charlotte Refsum, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Nicola Hamilton, Understanding Patient Data
Amy Freeman, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
David Walliker, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Bruno Botelho, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Laura Bunt, Young Minds
Dominic Dodd, UCL Partners
Lisbeth Neilson, Danish Health Data Authority
While four NHS trusts are represented, there are no integrated care boards – a notable omission given shifting care into the community is meant to be at the heart of the plan.
The data and technology enabling working group is one of 11 groups set up to help form the 10 year health plan, announced by prime minster Sir Keir Starmer in September 2024, following the publication of Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the health service in England.
The plan, which is expected to be published in spring 2025, will be underlined by three big shifts: hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention.
Vin Diwakar, director of transformation is co-chair of the working group for enabling research, life sciences and innovation, along with Lord Darzi.
However there are no places on the groups for John Quinn national CIO, Alec Price-Forbes, national CCIO or Helen Balsdon, national CNIO.
Gerhold, Tang, and Refsum will be speaking atĀ Digital Health Rewired 2025Ā which is taking part at the NEC in Birmingham on 18-19 March 2025.
