Join us online for the first Digital Health Special Interest Group (SIG) with PDMS, the topic for this SIG is ‘Exploring Digital Innovation & Integration for Health and Social Care’. The SIG will be chaired by Professor Dean Fathers and will include a presentation by Microsoft, a panel discussion, breakout groups plus the opportunity to feedback following the breakout sessions, please see further details below:
Helena Zaum, Industry Solutions Manager from Microsoft will be talking about ‘Digital Innovation in Social Care’:
Technology has transformed the world around us, but as yet it has only had a relatively small influence on how we experience care and healthcare. The opportunities presented by technology to provide more personalised support for people and to underpin services which are oversubscribed are substantial, however critical issues around ethical innovation, digital inclusion and workforce skills remain largely unbroached. During the course of her presentation, Helena will cover some of the potential technology offers to meet the challenges we face, but will also highlight some of the opportunities to take a responsible and inclusive approach to technology in social care.
Panel discussion, Chaired by Chris Gledhill, Chief Executive Officer, PDMS:
– Daniel Casson, Digital Adviser, Care England
– Richard Wild, Chief Information Officer, Manx Care
– Helena Zaum, Industry Solutions Manager, Microsoft
– Peter Northrop, Locality Manager (Yorkshire & Humber/NE), Skills for Care
– Lauren Stacey, Locality Manager (Midlands), Skills for Care
Breakout sessions x 3:
– Challenging the ethical dilemmas of the aggregation of personal health and social care data into management information
– The digital divide – how do we ensure inclusive and accessible health and social care that works for everyone?
– What are the current barriers preventing technology from enabling the health and social care workforce from achieving their full potential?
DURATION: 2 hours
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 £254, 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.
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.
Helena Zaum, Local and Regional Government Industry Lead for Social Care and Integrated Care, Microsoft UK
Helena is passionate about the positive impact which technology, sensitively applied, can have on communities and cities of the future. Technology embedded in the fabric and infrastructure of our lives should help improve our day to day experiences, but it must do so in a way which helps us build a strong sense of community with those around us, and encourages a shared sense of ownership about our immediate environment, and our impact on those further afield. Digital technologies can also transform our ability to deliver person centred care and health in the community and at home. Helena’s remit at Microsoft involves looking at how technology can help transform public services, particularly integrated health and social care. During her ten years at Microsoft, Helena has worked in various public sector focused roles, working with a mixture of start ups and major commercial organisations serving the public sector and with local government customers in the UK on their digital transformation activities. Prior to Microsoft, Helena managed a number of large change programmes and is well versed in the importance of the people side of change and transformation.
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.
Daniel Casson, Adviser on digital transformation, Care England
Daniel is Care England’s social care transformation and partnership building consultant. He was for 12 years head of business development at Jewish Care, a social care organisation which provides a broad spectrum of care from nursing and residential care to home care and social work services. His focus is on integration with a special interest in digital pathways for integration of health and social care. He woks with innovators, social care providers, local authorities, the NHS, regulators and other health bodies to embed digital transformation and innovation in their everyday work. He is also part of the Digital Social Care Team, working on the NHS Digital-financed programme to support care providers to transform digitally, and recently drafted the PPP paper The future of social care: Turning rhetoric into reality under the chairmanship of Damian Green. He writes a regular blog for Care England and co-hosts the Talking Care podcast. He is a governor of the Alder Hey Foundation Trust.
Richard Wild, Chief Information Officer, Manx Care
Born and raised on the Isle of Man, Richard Wild graduated from the University of London with an MSc in Advanced Computer Science and began his career at Demon Internet in 1994 as a computer programmer. With expertise in internet development, he subsequently moved to California and worked with one of the world’s largest e-retailers as Chief Technical Architect. Returning to the UK in 2002, Richard became the Lead Security Architect at the Cabinet Office and moved to the Department of Health in 2004. In this role, he became a respected expert in confidentiality, privacy and information risk management. He was a trusted advisor to Dame Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian, and was the Director of her two Caldicott reports on confidentiality and data security. Returning to the Island in 2015, Richard joined the Department of Health and Social Care and was lead author of its ‘Health and Social Care in the next five years’ strategy published that year. He moved to the Cabinet Office in 2017 as Executive Director of Government Technology Services, before joining Manx Care in January 2021 as Chief Information Officer.
Peter Northrop, Locality Manager (Yorkshire & Humber/NE), Skills for Care
Peter is one of Skills for Care’s Locality Managers, working to support adult social care employers to deliver what the people they support need and what commissioners, and regulators expect. We do this by helping employers get the best from their most valuable resource – their people. Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level through to senior leadership and management roles. Skills for Care’s role is to work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future. Our role is to respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using data and evidence to drive forward widescale change. We provide best practice, tools, resources, and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture. All of our work is collaborative.
Peter’s background is as a registered social worker, having qualified in 1982 and he maintains his registration to date. He has worked with children and families, older people, and as an approved social worker in Mental Health. Peter has worked at Skills for Care for the past 15 years engaging with employers from Local Authorities and the Private, Independent, and voluntary sectors.
Lauren Stacey, Locality Manager (Midlands), Skills for Care
Prior to joining Skills for Care, Lauren worked in various roles in further and higher education before discovering her passion for adult social care while working as a support professional in community services for adults with learning disabilities. Lauren then worked as part of the external workforce team at Leicestershire County Council where she specialised in social care recruitment and retention, with a special interest in digital marketing for recruitment. Lauren now volunteers at a community service for adults with learning disabilities alongside her role as a Locality Manager for Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire at Skills for Care.
