Meet the Speakers

Stephen Chilton is the Director of ICT at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He has accumulated 17 years of NHS ICT experience that has enabled Stephen to combine leadership, research, innovation and drive to deliver value to the NHS.

Stephen is an active member of the British Computer Society, the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers and the Information Technology Service Management Forum.

As a protagonist of operational and business led change supported by agile ICT – Stephens department has featured in a significant number of case studies that have demonstrated measurable improvements to quality of care and patient experience.

Stephen Chilton
Director of ICT
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Responsible for all Information, Communication and Technology services at the Trust, Mike Denis operates as CIO at South London & Maudsley, the largest specialist mental health services provider in Europe. In support of the organisation’s aims of delivering world class Clinical, Research and Education & Training services, Denis’s role focuses on the development of strategic information and systems programmes that deliver innovative technology services designed to empower clinical teams, researchers, students and patients to communicate and collaborate effectively.

With 23 years experience working in NHS Health Informatics he leads a team of 70 ICT professionals at the Trust as well as acting as Joint CIO at Kings Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. In this role he is responsible for establishing effective collaboration with Industry and academic institutes worldwide to facilitate the partnership’s translational research objectives.

Denis holds a Masters degree in Information Systems from Kingston University. He has served as Chair of the London ICT Directors forum for 9 years and on the Connecting for Health IT programme board for mental health. He and his wife Livia have one son and reside in London, UK.

Mike Denis
Director of Information Strategy
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Care UK is a leading provider of specialist health and social care services to the NHS and social services. Working in close partnership with local authorities, Primary Care Trusts and the DoH, the company draws on over 20 years of experience and expertise to deliver innovative, tailor-made service solutions including residential, community, specialist, acute, diagnostics and primary care.

The company has invested over £200 million in care facilities throughout the UK and has recently acquired a number of specialist organisations as part of the company’s strategy of offering higher added value services. 20%+ growth per annum is achieved through a combination of acquisitions (currently 1 per month); major contract wins (2-5) per month and the organic growth of existing services.

Reporting to the Group Finance Director I am responsible for all the organisations IM&T activity including information governance. Historically I have also been responsible for Payroll, Procurement, Accounts Payable.

Although trained in IT, I have spent the majority of my working life changing the way businesses work by implementing technology based solutions from within. Before joining Care UK I held a number of senior operational management roles within Alcan (primary and secondary aluminium processing), PCA (food) and Caradon (building Products). My functional experience extends through all the main operational disciplines; Procurement, Logistics, Production, Quality, IT and Finance.

On a lighter side I took a 10-month sabbatical in 2000 to navigate Yacht 44 (Compaq Non-stop) to 2nd in the BT Global Challenge (Yacht race around the world against the prevailing winds and currents).

James Greenman
Group IT Director
Care UK

Dr Amir Hannan - amir.hannan@nhs.net - a full-time general practitioner, started his career in 2000 taking over Harold Shipman's practice in Hyde, Cheshire. Taking on patients, many of whom had lost complete trust in the medical profession as well as the governance arrangements, he has gradually won them over by re-establishing a healthy "Partnership of Trust" between patient and clinician and enabling over 800 patients to access their GP electronic health record on-line. He has previously been a Professional Executive Committee member as well as Clinical Governance lead in Tameside & Glossop Primary Care Trust. Presently he is Information Management & Technology lead for NHS Tameside & Glossop as well as Primary Care IT lead for NHS North-West. He is a member of the Clinical Leaders Network and the Map of Medicine clinical lead for NHS North-West. He is also a member of the National Clinical Reference Panel for the Summary Care Record, NHS Connecting for Health. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Communication in Healthcare and has set up an innovative health 2.0 website for his practice, www.htmc.co.uk putting patients and clinicians at the heart of healthcare and enabling "Real-time Digital Medicine".

References:

Hannan A, Webber F. Towards a Partnership of Trust. Medical and Care Compunetics 4: 108-116
Hannan A. The paradigm shift in healthcare - overcoming challenges in giving patient access to their electronic records. Journal of Communication in Healthcare Volume 1 Number 1: 7-18
Hannan A. Providing patients on-line access to their primary care computerised medical records - a case study of sharing and caring. Informatics in Primary Care 2010; 18

Amir Hannan
GP, Hyde Cheshire and Primary Care IT lead
NHS Northwest

Deputy Director of ICT at Barts and The London NHS Trust (BLT). Has been at the Trust for 36 years mainly in the Service Support, Operations and technical areas and has been a Senior Manager for the past 23 years.

Responsible for first, second and third line support teams covering, Service Desk, Desktop, Servers, network support including Security and Technical Strategy.

The ICT Directorate at BLT provide a 24 x 7 365 support service to not only Barts and The London but also PCTs, Foundation Trusts including Mental Health within the North East London area. Support is also provided for non NHS customers.

Senior Responsible Officer for the Trusts New £1billion build programme for delivering the network and IT services into the new building at St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals. The St Bartholomew’s first Phase went live in March 2010 with full occupation scheduled for the end of May 2010. The Royal London Hospitals is scheduled to have the first occupation in October 2011 and full occupation for Phase 1 by Spring of 2012.

A keen advocate for Service Management, Doug is chair of the recently formed NHS Accredited Local Service Desk forum which is looking to increase the awareness of ITIL and Service management within the NHS, provide support and assistance to Trusts who wish to become accredited and also to share good practise with colleagues

Barts and The London is a challenging and ambitious Trust which has a world class reputation for delivery of routine and specialist healthcare to its patients. The need to have a professional and expert IT infrastructure and support service is of paramount importance.

Doug Howe
Deputy Director & Head of IT Services
Barts and the London NHS Trust

Peter qualified from Leeds University Medical School in 1984, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1990. Between 1990 and 1992 Peter worked as a Lecturer in Anaesthesia at the University of Leicester and then became a Senior Registrar on the South West Rotation, based in Bristol and Exeter.

After a final year as an Acting Assistant Professor in Paediatric Anaesthesia at the Children's Hospital, Seattle (University of Washington), Peter was appointed, in 1995, to the post of Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC). Peter’s clinical work covers Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia and Paediatric Intensive Care and he is the Clinical Governance Lead for Paediatric Intensive Care.

Over recent years Peter has developed an interest in Health Informatics, completing an Honours Degree in IT and Computing with the Open University (2007) and undertaking a part-time secondment with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), as a Clinical Advisor in the Technology Office in Leeds. He was part of the Design Steering Groups for the National Summary Care Record and the Central Medication Record and is also a Board Member of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics.

His current interests relate to Intensive Care Health Information Systems, Electronic Prescribing and the development of Telemedicine and Teleconferencing solutions. Peter also has an interest in Medical Simulation and is helping to develop the Paediatric Cardiac Theatres Human Factors Training Programme at Bristol Children's Hospital which is using simulation to identify how both human and situational/environmental factors can result in error.

Dr Pete Murphy
National Clinical Lead for Hospital Doctors, NHS Connecting for Health and Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Dr Peter Murray, PhD, RN, MSc, CertEd, FBCS CITP has nearly 30 years health experience, starting as a coronary care nurse before moving into education and health/nursing informatics, in which field he has been actively involved internationally for 15 years. He is currently Executive Director of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association and remains actively involved in teaching health informatics at post graduate level, most recently at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

He has an MSc in Nursing and a PhD in nursing informatics and educational technology, and is a qualified nurse teacher. His current interests include free/libre and open source software, and the use of Web 2.0 technologies, in particular for virtual engagement with health informatics events. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and has presented over 110 papers, tutorials, workshops and panels at national and international events.

Dr. Peter J. Murray
Executive Director
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)

Chris Reynolds is a resourceful and inspirational programme manager, with an excellent understanding of stakeholder management, benefits realisation and change management. He has a proven track record of delivery as a project and programme manager. He is currently The Head of IT Projects for an IT Shared Service in Coventry and Warwickshire. He leads a team of project managers, trainers and the information governance and security manager. He has a keen interest in Information Governance.

Chris Reynolds
Head of IT Projects
NHS Coventry PCT

Peter has been a full time GP and Clinical Assistant in Elderly Medicine for more than 20 years in Derbyshire, and increasingly involved in informatics for 15 years. He remains in clinical practice two days a week, while providing an advisory role to NHS CFH since March 2008. His priorities remain the maintenance and development of clinical information systems to support clinical care in the GP & community environment, the enabling of appropriate Health Information sharing across care settings and increasing the clinical influence from all professional groups on IT strategy and delivery.

He has had significant personal experience of healthcare delivery and NPFIT support from a user perspective during 2009, contributing to a more balanced perspective!

Dr Peter Short
National Clinical Lead for GPs, NHS Connecting for Health and GP
Stewart Medical Centre, Derbyshire

Colin is the Director of ICT at King’s College Hospital. He has wide experience in the area of Electronic Patient Records. He has been the lead for the EPR project at King’s since 1997 leading on the initial requirements, market research and system evaluation.

Colin managed the implementation, which was rolled out by 2002. The initial core functionality of Results Review, Order Communications and Electronic Prescribing has been enhanced with in-house developments in clinical notes, letter maker, form builders and eDischarge.

Colin works closely with his clinical colleagues in developing and delivering the Trust strategy, which has resulted in the implementation of a number of clinical and administrative systems during his tenure. This has included a replacement PAS, PACS, and a number of diagnostic and department systems.

Prior to working at King’s Colin worked for Sema from being a trainee programmer to a senior project manager.

Colin Sweeney
Director of ICT
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

John has 35 years NHS experience, with a degree in Microbiology. He worked in Para Medical services for several years covering Microbiology and Haemotology, then moved to work in Cancer research before moving into Information Management in the NHS in the 1990’s, before progressing to Director of informatics at Walsall and Wolverhampton PCTs. John moved to Worcestershire as Director of ICT in 2004 and now manages the strategy and implementation of all ICT projects across 5 Acute Hospitals, The Worcester MHT and The Worcester PCT. He was recently shortlisted for Government Computing IT Innovator of the Year – 2010. John is preparing his trust for the future by ensuring the integration of IT services can be introduced when they are in demand.

John Thornbury
Director of ICT Services
Worcester Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Christine has many years experience as an IT professional, 17 of which have been in senior managerial roles. Most of her career has been spent working in the private sector and for a number of years she was a Director of a Software House specialising in food wholesale distribution systems.

Christine's IT experience is substantial and broadly based, covering a wide range of different systems and many different applications. Her work has encompassed many disciplines including Programming, Total Quality, Product Ownership, Analysis, System Design, System Development, Project Delivery and Service Delivery.

Christine joined the NHS in July 2004 and joined Salford Royal Foundation Trust in February 2005 as the Deputy Head of IT and was promoted to the role of Associate Director of IM&T in April 2007. Christine was appointed to the role of Associate Director of IM&T at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in October 2009.

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest in the North West of England with 10,000 staff, serving a population of approximately 850,000 residents across the north east of Greater Manchester. The Trust provides district general hospital services and a range of special services, including the regional infectious disease unit which is based at the North Manchester General Hospital.

The Trust has an annual operating budget of around half a billion pounds – spending the equivalent of £1.4m million per day on providing services for local people. Last year the Trust saw and treated over a million patients. This included 106,000 inpatients, 80,000 day cases, 716,000 outpatients and 277,000 A&E cases. Maternity services delivered 10,000 babies. In addition, 450,000 x-rays, scans and diagnostic tests were carried out and 12 million tests were processed through its laboratories.

Christine is a great advocate of technology as an enabler and one of her main focuses since joining the NHS has been to work closely with clinical staff in developing IT solutions that meet their needs whilst also helping to provide safe patient care.

Christine Walters
Associate Director of IM&T
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Mikael Wintell has worked with Healthcare, Västra Götalandsregionen since 1989. During the first years at VGR he also worked as an Instructor for United Nations, where his first assignment was to train the Mobile Army Hospital team that Sweden sent to Somalia 1992. In the beginning of 2002 he also cofound IHE and DICOM Consultant Company.

In late 2001 Mikael became manager of the department of X-ray technology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, a position he held until 2006 when he became CIO/CTO for the University Hospital.

During this time Mikael worked a lot with creating a fundament for regional collaboration within the area of health informatics and this gave him the opportunity in 2008 to start work as the Medical CIO/CTO for the regional health informatic at the department of HSA (Healthcare Governance VGR). Mikael also teach at Chalmers (eHealth/Msc) and at University of Goteborg (IT and the society/MSc).

Mikael Wintell
CIO
Region Västra Götaland, Sweden