Healthcare Advisory Board

GP and Director of Barlow Collins

Dr Donal Collins possesses 27 years of NHS GP experience, with the latter half of his career in senior leadership positions. He has set up his own company — Barlow Collins Ltd with the mission to deliver insulin sensitivity to everyone who wishes to improve their metabolic health. He’s also an advisor to Hampshire Hospital Trust, Gosport, and Fareham Academy School and a member of the NAPC clinical faculty.

Director and Consultant of a small international Consultancy

Robyn Davies previously held the role of the Head of Innovation for the Velindre University NHS Trust and was a member of the Cardiff Clinical Innovation Partnership, based in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University. He’s passionate about innovation and the role of advanced digital technology in transforming healthcare. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, a Fellow of the CIPD, and a visiting professor at the University of South Wales.

Managing Director of Innovation at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Claire Liddy possesses 20 years of experience working in the health sector as an orthoptist, qualified accountant, and NHS Executive. As the Managing Director of Innovation and a member of the Trust Board of Directors, she heads up the award-winning Innovation Centre and Commercial Unit. She’s won various HSJ and other national awards for innovations.

Director, NHS Insights at Wilmington Healthcare

Paul Midgley is an active patient leader who has contributed to numerous committees in local NHS and Social Care organisations, including Digital Nottinghamshire’s Patient Advisory Group, East Midlands Clinical Senate, and others. He writes extensively for the pharmaceutical and med-tech press and contributes to webinars and podcasts on major NHS changes. He has chaired over 150 regional multidisciplinary network conferences including Regional Mental Dermatology, Diabetes, Rheumatology, Neurology and Gastroenterology Networks.

Director of GM Interoperability at Salford Royal Agency

Scott Watson is a senior IT leader with 15 years of healthcare experience specialising in information systems architecture. He has extensive strategic and digital leadership experience across health economies including acute care, primary care, oncology, and genomics. Scott is passionate about improving the lives of health and care practitioners through innovation and positively impacting the health and well-being of citizens.

Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Pramod Prabhakaran has over 20 years of experience in clinical, educational, and leadership roles in the UK, currently practising as a Consultant Psychiatrist, specialising in adult and elderly psychological, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric conditions. Among other roles, he’s an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and module lead for market access at the National Institute of Health Research London IVD Cooperative.

Specialist Board Advisor and Healthcare Sector Commentator

Hanif Wazir has over 29 years of experience working in healthcare, including positions in UK Government Departments where he has been a Director in charge of Policy and Strategy on innovative programmes and sat on boards of various large hospitals in the NHS as a Director of Transformation, Strategy and Commercial Divisions. Recently, he worked with the DHSC looking after critical national infrastructure through the test and trace programme and events research project and held the position of Chief Growth Officer for the UK’s largest diagnostics company. Hanif is also a council member of the NSPCC.

Head of Strategy & Service Planning at ARCH

Siôn Charles has worked in a range of complex organisations and environments, taking a particular interest in health service innovation, organisational development, and transformational change. He supports and advocates for emerging sciences and approaches to change, such as prudent healthcare, value-based healthcare, co-producing health services and personal care, behaviour change, complexity, cultural anthropology, and systems working. Currently, he chairs the NHS Innovation Leads Group and is a member of the Innovation Advisory Council for Wales.

Managing Partner at Monticle

Catherine Davies has held senior regulatory positions in the health sector in England for almost a decade, including serving as Executive Director of Cooperation and Competition at Monitor and Trustee at both National Voices and Reform. Most recently, Catherine has been Managing Partner at Monticle, advising digital health companies on how to partner with the NHS at scale as well as advocating for an environment that is conducive to scaling innovation in a publicly funded healthcare system. She also hosts the Women in Healthtech Show podcast.