Judges

Adam Drury

Chair, ASSIST

Adam joined Tribal (now Capita's) Health Informatics Team in August 2008 and he is currently a Managing Consultant with particular expertise in project and programme management, training and development, delivery of organisational change, business cases and strategy development. Adam is also currently chair of the national informatics professional association (ASSIST). Prior to this, Adam worked as part of the senior management team of a Health Informatics Service (HIS) where he was Head of Business Management, and prior to that he was Head of Education, Training and Development (ETD) for a local health community. Adam's first NHS experience was as Health Informatics Research and Development (R&D) Manager in an acute Trust, where he developed and managed a newly formed department (Academic Informatics) comprising Health Informatics R&D, Academic IT support services and Library Services. Prior to joining the NHS, Adam worked in the academic sector on the development of computer based courseware to support undergraduate chemistry teaching.

Robin Lawrenson

Clinical Performance Manager, Scottish Ambulance Serivce and Overall Winner 2010

Robin has worked in the NHS for 36 years, and for the last 22 has been based in Scotland. He has progressed through operational management and training to become responsible for the strategic elements of clinical performance and effectiveness, ehealth, standards and guidelines for the Scottish Ambulance Service. He has provided the clinical input to many innovative technologies now in operation in pre-hospital clinical areas. He remains a practising consultant paramedic, providing senior clinical services across Scotland, and is now in his 24th year as a qualified paramedic.

Robin firmly believes that IT professionals should be continually challenged to produce solutions that they have never previously conceived, and that fit quietly into the clinicians toolkit. He is genuinely looking forward to seeing such innovation in the EHI Awards 2011.

Dr Martin Murphy M.B B.Ch. MRCGP MA (Cantab)

Clinical Director, NHS Wales Informatics Service

Martin was born and lives in Ynys Mon. He studied medicine at the Universities of Cambridge, Wales and Manchester. He had a full time medical career as a psychiatrist and a GP for 13 years. During this time he was also a postgraduate tutor and introduced clinical audit as chairman of Cheshire MAAG. Subsequently, he has also had a full time management career as a medical director of a Health Authority, director of commissioning and as a chief executive of a Health Authority.

He has a lifelong interest in large scale clinical and process change in healthcare. This led him to work full time as director of IM&T across a hospital trust and two Primary Care Trusts for three years and on to director of health information and knowledge for the whole of the NHS at the Information Authority.

He joined the Informing Healthcare programme in 2005 as clinical director to support the delivery of improved health services across Wales. He is responsible for the overall design of the new clinical and healthcare information services which are supporting the transformation of care. He chairs the National Architecture Board and is responsible for all the governance processes required to deliver the information services.

John Thornbury

Director of ICT, Worcestershire Health

John has worked in the NHS for 35 years after studying microbiology and completing a higher degree in computing, pharmacy, business and marketing. He worked in paramedical services for several years covering microbiology and haemotology. John then worked in cancer research before moving into information management in the NHS and progressing to director of informatics at Walsall and Wolverhampton PCTs. He moved to Worcestershire as director of ICT in 2004.

He has won and been shortlisted for several awards, including: Health IT Effectiveness Awards in 2003, Best Example of Technological Innovation, 1st place, with Walsall Health Partnership, shortlisted for Government Computing IT Innovation of the Year in 2010 and the winner of the EHI Healthcare IT champion of the year award in 2010.

Dr Justin Whatling

Chief Clinical Officer, BT Health

Justin is the Chief Clinical Officer leading health strategy and clinical assurance for BT Health.

Justin trained in medicine in London and has a degree in molecular biology. He has worked at a number of teaching centres and was previously a hospital physician in the field of neurology. Since Justin has acquired ten years experience of health-ICT in the business sector with a special interest in wellbeing, telehealth, health outcomes and health informatics.

After his work in the NHS Justin established Outcome Technologies Ltd and operated this as a BUPA Group Company. Subsequently Justin worked for Accenture in its UK NHS health ICT delivery programme as Clinical Business Architect. He then started at BT in August 2006 as a Clinical Informatician focusing on health record architectures and standards, and then developed BT's global health strategy.

Justin is a Visiting Professor at University College London, UCL, in the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, CHIME; Non-Executive Director of the BMJ Publishing Group; Vice Chair, Strategy & Policy, BCS Health, British Computer Society; sits on the Steering Committee of Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), on the Advisory Board of the BMJ Evidence Centre, on the Innovation Committee of NHS Direct, and on the Policy and Public Affairs Board of the BCS. Justin is a founder and Director of Wellbe CIC.

Ian Woodburn

Chair of the Information in Nursing Forum

Chair of the Royal College of Nursing, Information in Nursing Forum and a nurse in the NHS for 30 years. Ian's varied nursing career has covered many different areas of community nursing practice and management.

He is passionate about the nursing profession and the importance of valuing nursing interventions across all levels of practice.

Ian has an NHS role as a Business Change Manager within a Health Informatics Department, working with Clinical Services to implement IT systems, enabling beneficial service improvement.

He suggests the use of IT systems and supporting technologies can drive service improvement, facilitating a reduction in nursing/clinical time used duplicating core information, resulting in extra time for patient care.

Ian is an advocate in the use mobile working for clinicians enabling access to information in the right place at the right time.

Linda Davidson

Co-founder and Director, eHealth Insider

Linda is a director and co-founder of eHealth Media, publishers of eHealth Insider and EHI Primary Care. A healthcare journalist, and editor, Linda is a former editor of Nursing Times and editorial director of Health Service Journal.

Jon Hoeksma

Editor and Director, eHealth Insider

An editor and journalist with 10 years experience of the healthcare sector. Jon is a former editor of Health Manager Today, and reported on health IT issues for a variety of publications including Computer Weekly, the Health Service Journal, Reuters Health and British Journal of Healthcare Management. Before entering journalism Jon was an NHS graduate trainee working in Southampton, chiefly in primary care. He graduated from the University of Warwick in 1991.

Lyn Whitfield

Managing Editor, eHealth Insider

Lyn is a graduate of Oxford University and the London School of Economics, from which she holds an MSc in public policy and planning. She has been a journalist for more than a decade. Lyn started her journalism career on local newspapers, but went on to develop an interest in the public sector and technology. She joined eHealth Insider as managing editor in 2008, after five years as a freelance writer, editor and project manager working for health service organisations and think-tanks as well as newspapers and magazines.