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Overview

How can we turn promising innovation into real progress in the complex, high-stakes world of healthcare? In a sector where the ambition to innovate responsibly and improve patient outcomes is already widely shared, the real challenge lies in making it happen. 

   

This means navigating organisational complexity, skills gaps, limited capacity, infrastructure challenges and leadership hurdles. This panel will explore how we can move beyond ideas and into delivery, connecting with the State of Digital Government report recommendations and considering the short and longer-term opportunities emerging from the NHS England abolition. We'll examine how to unlock meaningful progress on data and service innovation, AI and sustainability in health and social care. To innovate not just boldly but effectively, so we can achieve better outcomes for patients.  

Speakers

Gordon Cullum, Technology Director, Axiologik and Chief Architect, NHS England Screening  

Ute Schauberger, UCD Service Design Practice Lead, Opencast  

Lisa Sewell, Director of Data and Informatics, North East & Yorkshire GenomicsService and Programme Director, Great North Record  

Murray Ellender, GP and Head of UK Healthcare, Huma (moderator)  

  

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Speakers

Gordon Cullum
Gordon Cullum
Technology Director
Axiologik
Gordon Cullum is the Technology Director at Axiologik, where he leads the provision of technology services and shapes strategic capabilities to meet the demands of modern digital delivery. With deep expertise in enterprise architecture, business intelligence, and large-scale transformation, Gordon has delivered complex programmes across multiple sectors including health and telecommunications.

Gordon is the Chief Architect on the Digital Transformation of Screening at NHS England, he previously served as Deputy Digital Lead at the UK Health Security Agency, playing a pivotal role in the national COVID-19 response and also, he led the client-side digital delivery partnership for NHS Test and Trace/UKHSA.
Murray Ellender
Murray Ellender
Head of UK Healthcare
Huma
Dr Murray Ellender is Head of UK Healthcare at Huma and a practising GP Partner at Hurley Group. He qualified from King’s College London in 1999 and trained in emergency medicine before starting his career in general practice 20 years ago. He joined the Hurley Clinic in 2006 and still practices across the Hurley Group, in both general practice and urgent care settings.

He was a co-founder of eConsult in 2013, which spun out of the NHS. eConsult’s focus is to bring NHS care into the digital age, offering patients the ability to consult with their own NHS GP online and be triaged digitally in secondary care settings. In 2024, eConsult was acquired by Huma, becoming part of a UK-founded global digital health provider. Murray now heads up the UK healthcare business.
Ute Schauberger
Ute Schauberger
Service Design Practice Lead
Opencast
Ute is a designer and anthropologist. Her creative practice is driven by openness, curiosity, and collaboration. She uses approaches and methods from service design, co-design, ethnography, and social research. This allows her to unravel and re-imagine experiences and services, and to lead and engage others in this process. Ute cares deeply about inclusive design and the impact her work has. She thrives where research, design and strategy meet.

Ute has been at Opencast since 2022, working as part of the consultancy’s user-centred design practice. She has been Service Design Practice Lead since July 2023.
Lisa Sewell
Lisa Sewell
Director of Data and Informatics
North East and Yorkshire Genomics Service
Lisa Sewell is Director of Data and Informatics at the North East and Yorkshire Genomics Service, as well as Programme Director at the Great North Care Record. Most recently she was Head of Digital Innovation and Delivery at The Newcastle Foundation Trust Hospitals.

She is an established digital leader with considerable experience of leading digital transformation and delivery across primary, community, diagnostics and secondary care at a system level. Improving patient care and staff experience is her principal driver ensuring that solutions are designed to enhance the user experience.

The Great North Care Record successfully supports 1 million clinical encounters every month across the North East and North Cumbria, improving experience and outcomes for front-line staff and the patients it serves across the whole health and social care system

NEY Genomics Service provides services across the region with three primary laboratory sites operating from Newcastle, Sheffield and Leeds. It is one of seven regional alliances in England that delivers services supporting patients and clinicians across the North East and Yorkshire.

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