The Fourth Annual Report of the House of Commons, evaluating the Government’s commitment to the digitisation of the NHS and Social Care examined nine commitments across four broad policy areas outlined below. These included important and measurable ambitions.
This webinar, run by Medilink Midlands in collaboration with the Midlands Engine, plans to discuss the Report’s findings and explore what needs to happen next to bridge the digital gap between current reality and the further ambitions of the health and care system.
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We’re delighted to be joined by a fantastic line-up of speakers for this session, including three distinguished members of the Report’s Expert Panel:
- Professor Dean Fathers DL
Professorial Fellow, IMH; Visiting Professor of Healthcare Leadership, The University of Nottingham; Visiting Professor of Resilience, The University of Lincoln - Chris Gledhill
CEO, PDMS & TechUK Central Government Council Member - Dr Caroline Johnson
MBBS MRCPCH, MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, Consultant Paediatrician, Member of the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, Report Panel Expert - Sir David Pearson CBE
Chair of TEC Quality, Chair of the Advisory Board for the social care research programme in England, Integration Adviser – NHS, Report Panel Expert - Professor Maureen Baker CBE
Chair Professional Record Standards Body, Report Panel Expert (Health and Social Care Workforce Specialist Member)
Key policy areas that will be discussed in this session include:
- The care of patients and people in receipt of social care
- The health of the population
- Cost and efficiency of care
- Workforce literacy and the digital workforce
Speaker Profiles
Professor Dean Fathers DL
Dean has held Board appointments across the private, public and civic sectors and developed an international career with experience working on Boards in the UK, Europe, Australasia and North America.
Chair of the Midlands Engine Health Care and Life Science Board, Dean is also Independent Chair of Quality Safety and Risk at Voyage Care, a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman (where he chairs the Quality Committee) and a Non-Executive Director for the Academy of Health Care Science (where he is Chair of the Life Science Industry Steering Group). He is also an investor or advisor to digita/health organisations ATMPS, Blum Health, CAL International, Cerina, GreenKite, NeedleSmart, Oxehealth, PDMS, Sekoia and Tuli Health and co-chairs the Midlands Medilink Digital Health Special Interest Group.
Formerly Chair of various commissioning and provider organisations and past board roles with the NHS Confederation, the NHS Leadership Academy and NHS Providers, Dean has been recognised with Honorary Professorial roles at Cass (now Bayes), Leeds, Nottingham and Lincoln Business Schools.
He also holds Trustee appointments with charities Portland College and Care After Combat.
Chris Gledhill, Chief Executive Officer, PDMS
Chris co-founded PDMS in 1993 with a mission to help organisations get the maximum value from information technology and their associated data assets. His experience lies in recognising the business benefits that can be achieved by effective use of information technology to make services cheaper, safer and more convenient. He attended Manchester University and Cranfield Institute of Technology and gained his Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors. Drawing on his extensive knowledge and passion for technology, has recently been re-elected as an SME representative on the techUK Central Government Council. Chris also sat on the Advisory Panel as part of an Independent Review of the Isle of Man health and social care system conducted by Sir Johnathan Michael in 2019. Chris has a particular interest in Digital Health and citizen centric services – putting the individual at the core and designing digital services to help improve a patient’s experience and outcomes. Chris is passionate about the benefits that organisations and individuals can achieve through good software engineering. However, he believes that technology is rarely the best starting point, it’s all about understanding the problems and achieving positive outcomes.
Dr Caroline Johnson, MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham
Dr Caroline Johnson, MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, is on Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee and chairs the 1922 Health & Social Care Backbench Committee. She has previously served as Minister for Mental Health and Public Health. Caroline also works part time as a Consultant Paediatrician, having first qualified as a doctor in 2001.
Sir David Pearson CBE
David has a wide range of experience and expertise in social care and Health, nationally and locally. He was the Director of Adult Social Care and Health for 14 years and the Deputy Chief Executive for Nottinghamshire County Council. He was elected the President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in 2014/15. He was the Chair of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Health and Care System between 2016 and 2021.
In 2017, he was appointed as an independent advisor to the Government on the Social Care Green Paper in England. In June 2020 David was asked to lead the Government Taskforce on COVID 19 in the social care sector. In January and February of 2022, he chaired another Government Taskforce on the delivery and take up of vaccine boosters in social care. He was the Co- Chair of a Commission on the future of housing with care and support conducted by SCIE.
David is the Chair of TEC Quality, that has the only externally validated Quality Service Framework in the UK for technology enabled care.
David is a System Transformation Advisor on the integration of health and social care for NHS England and is the co- Chair of the National Multidisciplinary Professional Leaders Network. He is also a Senior Intervenor for the NHS in situations where people with a learning Disability and Autism are in segregated settings on a long-term basis. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board for the social care research programme in England.
David was appointed to the Expert Panel of the Parliamentary Health and Social Care Select Committee in November 2022.
David was awarded a CBE in 2016 for services to adult social care and a Knighthood in the 2021 New Year’s Honours for services to health and social care integration.