Welwyn, England, United Kingdom
I head the Digital Health work of the Department for Business and Trade, globally. This involves overseeing the strategy and delivery for exports and foreign direct investment across a range of markets. I also head the Department’s healthcare and life sciences work in India. With over 18 years of experience in management consulting and international exposure in Digital Health, technology enabled business transformation and technology services procurement, my experience is both broad and deep. My primary interest and expertise lies the strategic adoption of technology enabled Healthcare in the public and private sector as well as a global perspective on Healthcare markets. My current role has given me a fantastic view of the evolution of healthcare technology in the UK and the unique strengths which we can promote in overseas markets. I have also been at the heart of the organisation's efforts in promoting the UK's Digital healthcare expertise in major developed and emerging economies such as the US, Saudi Arabia, China, India, UAE, Brazil and Japan. Innovation has been at the core of my work with original initiatives such as the Healthcare AI Catalyst in India (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-india-extend-health-partnership-to-deal-with-global-health-risks), UK Digital Health Demonstrator in China (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-digital-health-demonstration-centre-opens-in-zhejiang-china) and the DBT Digital Health Playbook (developed with Hassan Chaudhury). I have worked on Digital health projects in the private sector such as a new telehealth solution for Novartis, an innovative customer portal for Pfizer nutrition and cloud infrastructure procurement for Roche as well as public sector projects such as a commissioning and good-practice guide for Telehealth for the NHS and advising the UK's Department for Health and Social Care on the national case for mobile working within community services. I set up a Telehealth venture in India (2010-2012)
Leading the effort to grow the UK's Digital Health exports and investment globally. Providing strategic leadership as well as directing implementation of the work we do to present the UK's offer and the SME community through the global DIT network to leading healthcare organisations worldwide.
The fellowship consisted of access to in-person lectures around AI and to a network of experts within the Imperial ecosystem. My chosen topic was the economic growth potential for the UK in Gen AI for Healthcare. The fellowship deepened my understanding of how AI models are constructed and work in practice as well as current developments in Gen AI in healthcare.
Healthcare UK is a joint initiative between The Department for International Trade, NHS England and the Department of Health and is responsible for driving British healthcare exports in international markets. As the Assistant Director for India, I was responsible for growing British exports to India across all aspects of Healthcare including: - Setting out the strategic focus, export targets, market segments, resource requirements and marketing activities. - Identifying key initiatives, behaviours and processes that the Healthcare UK and DIT India team would undertake to achieve export targets - Managing the delivery of major initiatives that will support the achievement of the country strategy. - Mobilising the supplier community in the UK to address the market opportunity As the lead for Digital Health, I am responsible for ensuring opportunities in this space in major emerging markets such as the US, Middle East, India and APAC, are accessible to British organisations. This includes: - Developing the export strategy for Digital Health - Formulating specific market propositions and building industry consortia to deliver these propositions - Leading innovative initiatives for export promotion from concept to implementation.Supporting UK organisations in identifying and progressing opportunities through innovative platforms such as the Digital Health demonstrator (http://ehi.co.uk/news/EHI/9531/uk-digital-health-centre-opens-in-china). - Providing UK organisations access to high-visibility platforms, such as ministerial trade visits, to present their services under the UK government banner. - Ensuring organisations and governments in our main markets understand the UK's capabilities in the digital health space.
Responsible for leading the organisation through a reorganisation of a team with 85 people in addition to specific responsibility for healthcare trade and investment in China, India and the area of Digital Health.
I had the opportunity to work on a range of fantastic client engagements in the technology services and healthcare space including: - Developing the service design and architecture for a new Telecare service for one of the world's leading Pharmaceutical majors - Advising UK Trade and Investment on eHealth propositions which the UK provider community could promote in overseas markets. - Developing a Telehealth technical specification and good practice guide for the NHS - Delivering a Cloud IAAS procurement for the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. - Delivering a global procurement and transition programme for UKvisas involving the outsourcing of visa services and the introduction of Biometric data collection in 72 countries worldwide. - Testing and deployment of Patient Administration Systems for the NHS under the National Programme for IT - Business transformation planning for key airline systems for one of the world's leading airlines.