GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting | 15 October

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI will host these facilitated, weekly virtual meetings to give NHS non-executive directors an opportunity to share their concerns, challenges and ideas as we rethink the future of health and social care. The goal is to collectively think about the role NEDs play as part of the controlling mind of their organisations, to discuss immediate safeguarding issues and to ensure we all learn from this experience to assure better outcomes for citizens in the future. If you would like to join this meeting, please email events@good-governance.org.uk.

ABOUT

Hosted by: Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

Chair: Dr Usman Khan, GGI Special Advisor, Good Governance Institute

In Conversation with: Andy Vernon, Non-Executive Director, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

‘Digital transformation – what happened to the agenda?

Digitisation of the NHS has been a long-held ambition, but prone to delays, failures and funding gaps over the past few decades that leave us adrift from international best practice.

• Who is owning this change at executive level?
• What are the clinical governance arrangements?
• How are we going involve our clinicians etc in the project and how will key requirements be agreed upon?
• How will this be landed in the Trust?
• What will the changes proposed do to our technology during transition and is any of that being put at risk?

About Andy:

Andy’s career has focussed on working with public and private sector organisations to design and deliver digital transformation programmes. He has over 35 years of practitioner experience of digital strategy, change management, and business transformation gained in over 100 different organisations in the UK, mainland Europe and the Middle East. Following a degree in maths, Andy started his career in the nascent software development business in 1980s before moving into mainstream management consultancy in the late 90s having taken an MBA.

Until 2016 he was a partner at PA Consulting and was more recently interim CIO at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. He has considerable experience of health care systems, processes and operations from a digital and data perspective and remains involved in consulting on strategic engagements in digital healthcare. His wider experience of includes work in acute, mental health and community care settings, GP federations, national level digital health strategies, work with many local authorities, private sector care providers and insurers, and medical device manufacturers. Andy is a Non-Executive Director of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS FT sitting on the audit, workforce and digital, and hospital charity subcommittees. He is also involved in also providing voluntary services in the charity and university sectors.

Outside of work Andy is carer, a church bellringer, and strives badly to play electric guitar, ski and play golf with equal degrees of ineptitude.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation and is open to all NHS Non-Executives Directors, Chairs and Associate Non-Executive Directors of NHS Providers. Others may attend by special invitation.

For further details, comments, questions and suggestions please contact: events@good-governance.org.uk