Big data, big change: Using patient data for population health management

Professor Sir Muir Gray set up the Oxford Value and Stewardship Programme to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals and published a series of  How To Handbooks for example, How `to Get Better Value Healthcare, How To Build Healthcare Systems and How To Create the Right Healthcare Culture. His hobby is ageing and how to cope with it and he has published a book for people aged seventy called Sod 70 ! one for the younger decade called Sod60! This with Dr Claire Parker, Other books in series on Sod Ageing are Sod it, Eat Well, with Anita Bean and  Sod Sitting, Get Moving with Diana Moran, the Green Goddess. For people of all ages Dr Gray’s Walking Cure summarises the evidence on this wonderful means of feeling well, reducing the risk of disease and minimising disability should disease strike. He is Director of the Optimal Ageing Programme at Oxford.

Dr Simon Eccles is the National Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care, and head of profession for CCIOs. As part of the newly established NHSE/I Transformation Directorate, Simon has responsibility for clinical programmes including digital primary care, the digital transformation of screening and enhancing clinical safety.

Simon was previously the National Medical Director in Connecting for Health. He was the Clinical Director for Urgent Emergency Care for NHS London and SRO for urgent emergency care in South East London. Simon was an early graduate of the major project Leadership Academy at the Said Business School ad still practices emergency medicine as a Consultant at St Thomas’ hospital, London.

Helen has been a GP in the NHS for over 30 years and has had an interest throughout her career in training and service development. She is committed to driving system integration of care to deliver improved outcomes for people, by creative redesign of care pathways, intelligent use of digitalisation and data, and workforce revisioning. For much of her career she has been a GP trainer and a course organiser and a professional GP appraiser.

Her leadership and board-level experience includes Calderdale CCG where she is the clinical lead for community integration and Population Health Management and is passionate about addressing inequalities. She has a strong interest in leading multi-disciplinary teams. She is a keen horse rider and fell runner. 

Reema Patel is an experienced public engagement and dialogue practitioner who has recently joined Ipsos UK from the Ada Lovelace Institute – an institute that specialises in the governance of emerging technologies. When at Ada, she co-foundedthe organisation and helped grow it to a team of 20+. Reema’s public engagement work spans the emerging technologies’ landscape and she brings considerable expertise in ensuring diverse publics are able to engage with the future of their use and development.   At Ipsos, Reema is currently directing UKRI and Sciencewise’s mini dialogue on the Future of Flight technologies (such as air taxis and drones) as well as the use of data to inform the prioritisation of NHS waiting lists for Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She oversees Ipsos’s work on deliberative engagement as a whole.