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Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances this webinar has been postponed, all registered delegates will be notified of the new date. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Join us for the next in the series of our Digital Health Special Interest Groups with PDMS at this webinar; “Digital Identity Unmasked – how digital identity is key to empowering the patient and the healthcare provider “.
The webinar will be chaired by Professor Dean Fathers and will include presentations on:
– Introduction to Digital Identity
– NHS Digital – focusing on the NHS login project, plus a case study
– Decentralised digital identities
– Digital identity in action in a digital vaccination system
– Digital identity in a mental health care app
This free-to-attend event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses, the value of which is £190, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme, attendance is not restricted to companies in the Leicester/Leicestershire area and is open to all.
DURATION: 1.5 hours
Speaker Profiles:
Professor Dean Fathers DL
Dean has held a portfolio career for over twenty five years combining senior roles across the commercial, public and University sectors. Dean started his commercial career in logistics with Pioneer, TNT and Abbey Hill BMW before becoming a serial entrepreneur and developing an international business base. He continues to hold a portfolio of commercial roles, currently being the Chair of Progress Care, a Non-Executive Director of NeedleSmart and an advisor to the Boards of several organisations primarily in the health and digital technology sector like OxeHealth and PDMS. A commercial mentor on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur’s programme, Dean further supports commercial healthcare organisations through his role on the Board of the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, where he Chairs the Healthcare Strategic Advisory Board, sits on the Innovation Council and also represents the GLLEP on the Midlands Engine’s Health Board. Dean became a Professor in the Practice of Healthcare Management at Cass Business School in 2010 and Chaired the Centre for Healthcare Enterprise. He is currently Chair of both the Centre for Organisational Resilience and the Lincoln International Institute for Rural Healthcare at the University of Lincoln where he is a Professor of Resilience. He is also a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health and an Honorary Professor in Healthcare Leadership at the Nottingham University Business School. In addition to being the Chair of separate Acute, Community and Mental Health NHS Trusts, Dean has also Chaired NHS commissioning bodies. With a strong interest in leadership, workforce development and digitisation, Dean has held roles on ancillary NHS bodies such as the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, NHS Providers and the NHS Leadership Academy, supporting numerous national and regional initiatives. He remains an Independent Director of the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman, is a Lay Member of the Academy of Health and Care Science’s Regulatory Board, where he is also a Life Science Industry Registry Council member too, and finally is Chair of the Midlands Medilinks’ Digital Health Special Interest Group.
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.
Matthew Henry, Senior Project Manager NHS Login, NHS Digital
In 2019, after serving 24 years in British Army, Matt joined NHS Digital to work within the HR and Organisation Transformation Directorate; managing the core team supporting an organisational wide restructure programme. During the pandemic Matt moved into a variety of positions, working flexibly to support several different programmes during an extremely busy period. Matt was delighted to move into a permanent role with NHS Digital in August 2021 as the Senior Partner Onboarding Manager for NHS login, helping to provide a re-usable way for patients to access multiple digital health and social care services with a single NHS login.
Raja Sharif, Founder & CEO, FarmaTrust
Raja is Founder and CEO of FarmaTrust, who are driving the company’s vision and mission of creating innovative, digital solutions for the personalised medicine and healthcare sector to protect patients and creating efficiencies in the cell and gene therapy industry. Using IoT and blockchain technology, FarmaTrust is creating a transparent, auditable, secure, global solution to give confidence to patients, clinicians and regulators worldwide. Raja is a UK qualified barrister, with over 25 years legal and business experience in multinationals including Guardian IT PLC, Globix, BT plc, COLT and Al Jazeera.
Cliff Kirby, Founder & CEO, NeedleSmart
Cliff is the founder and CEO of NeedleSmart, who have offices in Knowsley. Having the original idea in 2008, Cliff successfully developed the business to proof of concept, obtained intellectual property and attracted seed capital. Subsequently, he lead multi-million pound investment into the business which produces patented needle-destruction devices. NeedleSmart is now a thriving entity with an exciting suite of products being delivered to healthcare markets globally. Cliff now has a number of business interests in the Liverpool City Region (LCR) and sits on the board of Knowsley Chamber, the LCR board of Health and Life Sciences and is an active member of the LCR Engineering landscape.
Prasannajeet Mane, Founder & CEO, Cerina
Prasannajeet is the Founder and CEO of Cerina, an early-stage digital health startup venture which is bringing digital interventions to treat anxiety disorders and depression. The origin of the venture is rooted in Prasannajeet’s own personal experiences of surviving a clinical psychological disorder. The research experience of studying different mental health conditions, long experience of using traditional and digital platforms, and business training at London Business School made him familiar with the clear gaps that are present in the existing mental health landscape. Prasannajeet is a graduate of London Business School and Indian Institute of Technology. Previous to his masters from London Business School, Prasannajeet worked as a mental health researcher for where he helped building an award-winning digital intervention and his research work got published in Nature.
Adam Wright, Programme Development Manager, NHS Providers
Adam is a programme development manager at the membership body NHS Providers. He is currently working on the Digital Boards programme, which aims to support trust boards lead the digital transformatino agenda. Prior to this he was part of NHS Providers’ policy team.
