Digital approaches to end of life care: Dying in a technology enhanced way

Ivor Williams is a Scottish designer dedicated to transforming our relationship to life, death and loss. He is Lead for End-of-Life Care at the Institute of Global Health Innovation and Helix Centre at Imperial College London, leading cross-functional teams of designers, developers, academics, clinicians and policy analysts. He previously co-founded the mental health start-up Humane Engineering and created the NHS-approved music therapy app, Cove. He is an advisor to start-ups and venture groups including Zinc VC and other organisations such as End Well and The Collective Psychology Project, and is a visiting lecturer at Imperial College London. In 2018, he was named a New Radical by innovation foundation Nesta and the Observer newspaper for "pioneering a human-centric approach to the experience of dying, bereavement and grief". 

Andrew has been a GP in South Gloucestershire since 1996, and has always had a keen interest in how information technology can enhance patient care, improve outcomes and increase efficiency. He was appointed as GP IT lead for South Gloucestershire in 1999, and in 2012 took on the role of Digital Clinical Lead for S.Glos CCG. With the merger of 3 CCGs in 2018, he became CCIO for BNSSG CCG. He completed the Diploma in Digital Health Leadership with the NHS Digital Academy in 2021 and is a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. 

Projects he has recently been involved in related to end-of-life care:  

• Primary Care Lead for the role out of the national ReSPECT form across BNSSG in 2019, developing integration into the GP EMIS system,  
• Developed an electronic anticipatory drugs chart and an accompanying EMIS protocol to simplify and improve the quality of completion of anticipatory drugs charts, and to allow them to be shared more easily between organisations.  
• Clinical lead for the BNSSG ReSPECT Plus shared care plan project since it commenced in 2020 

Andrew Moran is a senior executive at Oracle Health, leading population health strategy with a passion for tackling inequalities and delivering for the wider determinants of health.  

He has wide experience across health and care strategy and IT, leading work on Flu, CVD, COVID-19 and delivering population health management and connected systems to deliver improved outcomes at scale.  

Andrew has a background in healthcare strategy working at Oracle, Cerner, Public Health England and the NHS. Providing leadership on population health, public health, health and justice, intelligence, CVD and diabetes prevention.

Katherine had a career in health and social care in Hampshire and Buckinghamshire.  She was a social worker, team manager, senior NHS manager and finished her career with the University of Southampton and the Wessex Academic Health Science Network working in the area of digital health.  She promoted the use of digital health in Wessex and worked with NHS Trusts and local authorities to adopt systems to support integration of care services.  She is passionate about people only having to tell their story once.  She is a governor at University Hospital Southampton and sits on the sustainability board working with the Trust to reduce its carbon footprint.