BCS Faculty of Health and Care: Meet the Board
Here are the members of the BCS Faculty of Health and Care Board.
Chair, Faculty of Health and Care Board, Professor Philip Scott CITP LFEDIP FBCS.
Professor Philip Scott is Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Transformation for the Health & Care Professions at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He was previously Reader in Health Informatics at the University of Portsmouth. Philip worked in the NHS in various IT development and management roles for fifteen years before moving into academia in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of Health Level Seven and board member of HL7 UK.
Philip is Deputy Editor of BMJ Health & Care Informatics and co-chair of the BCS working group on computable biomedical knowledge. He was co-chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for MedInfo 2021 and MedInfo 2023, the biennial IMIA global health informatics conference. Philip’s most recent publications can be viewed in the UWTSD research repository.
Philip has previously been chair of the evaluation working group of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI), member of the steering groups for the NHS Digital Academy and the Global Digital Exemplar evaluation programme, non-executive Board member of the Professional Record Standards Body and member of the informatics committee of the Royal College of Radiologists.
Social Care Lead
Tommy Henderson-Reay MBCS
A registered Social Worker, Tommy has worked across social care both for local authorities and represented the not-for-profit care provider sector in his current role as the National Care Forum’s Digital Lead. Having worked both locally and nationally, he has an excellent understanding of using technology, digital and data standards to promote person-centred integration across health and social care. Tommy is focused on ensuring that people and those who work in care have the skills they need to engage with technology. In addition to his role with BCS, he is a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, the British Association of Social Workers, and a trustee of youth engagement charity, Grow UK, in Sheffield.
FEDIP Liaison Lead Wendy Dearing, FBCS LFEDIP
Wendy is Head of Workforce and Organisational Development with a nursing background. She holds an MSc in Change & Innovation and recently has been awarded an Honorary Professorship from the University of Wales Trinity St David. The professorship in Applied Practice has been awarded in recognition of Wendy’s expertise and knowledge in championing professionalism in technology and information. Her role includes workforce planning recruitment and retention; professional recognition and registration; education and training; career pathways & CPD.
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Chair, BCS Nursing Group
Fran Beadle, AFEDIP MBCS
Fran is the Chief Nursing Information Officer at DHCW, my role is to oversee and advise all national clinical programmes from a nursing and clinical perspective. Fran supports the development of national nursing digital leaders both internal to DHCW and the wider NHS across the UK by providing mentorship and leadership advising on key nursing digital strategies by collaborating with government and national nursing leaders.
Fran’s unique mix of nursing knowledge and technical ability have translated into transformative improvements for patients and clinicians; resulting in Innovation and improvement awards in both the user and patient categories. Fran holds an MSc in Health Informatics alongside her Registered Nurse qualification and has presented at international and local conferences on the subject of clinical informatics.
Currently Chair of the British Computer Society (BCS) nursing committee, Member of the WNMC and Executive Nurse Directors forums and Welsh representative on the 5 Nations Nursing Informatics Group.
Treasurer
David Sanders, MBCS
David has worked across the Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Healthcare sectors since completing a degree in Business Information Systems at the University of Portsmouth. David is a Senior Business and Data Analyst at GSK Consumer Healthcare, focussing on the implementation of innovative data solutions across R&D, Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain and Digital. Prior to joining GSK, he previously worked within the Financial Services Data Team at KPMG, and the Digital IT team at Eli Lilly and Company. David has a keen interest in technological solutions in healthcare, having previously published research on the provision of technology for people living with dementia.
Chair, BCS Mental Health Specialist Group
Mike Jones MBCS
I am the Chair of the BCS Mental Health Informatics Group. I trained as a Psychiatric Nurse, working mainly in acute and forensic care. I became the Product Lead for Mental Health in the London Programme for IT in 2004 until 2011, and during that time, for 2 years I was also National Clinical Lead for MH nursing.
Technical Standards Lead
Mike Andersson MBCS
Mike is a healthcare informatics and information governance consultant. He has worked in healthcare IT for most of his career, including five years as an IT Director in the NHS. He has been involved in ICT standards, not only in healthcare, but also other fields, for many years. He has considerable experience of developing and assuring technical as well as professional standards. In addition to his BCS role, Mike is a member of the HL7 UK Management Board.
Chair, BCS Health and Care Scotland
Dr Katie MacLure, FBCS
Katie is an experienced digital health and health inequalities researcher with a background in IT. An active member of BCS Aberdeen Branch committee as Education Liaison Officer for many years. A former Lecturer in Computing, Procedures Analyst, latterly Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer with RGU School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences, and still supervising several PhD students. Katie represents BCS Health & Care on the Scottish Government led annual DigiFest and The Alliance led Discover Digital conferences. Deputy Editor on BCS BMJ HCI and Academic Editor with PlosOne and Accreditation Assessor with FED-IP. Katie is now working as an independent research consultant.
Equality and Diversity Lead
Minal Patel AFEDIP, MBCS
Minal has held a number of senior leadership positions in the NHS at provider level since 2004 before taking up a national role in 2021. She is currently Assistant Director of Programmes within Frontline Digitisation working to level up digital capability across the NHS. As a previous Deputy CIO at an acute trust, Minal has an in-depth understanding of the role that digital, data and technology plays in driving transformation to improve experience and outcomes for all. Focussed on promoting the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion within health and care ensuring that the sector truly represents our diverse population now and into the future.
Events. Publications and Communications Lead
Dr Elisavet Andrikopoulou Phd MBCS
Dr Elisavet Andrikopoulou is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (UK). Elisavet holds a PhD in health informatics. She has won several awards including the HDR UK Collaborathon 2020. Elisavet has held a variety of positions in the fields of database administration, IT consulting, and health informatics in Greece, Germany, Belgium, and the UK. Her current areas of interest are biomedical knowledge sharing, supporting healthcare decision-making, and utilising personal health record-focused technology to enhance the quality of life for individuals with chronic illnesses. Elisavet is the events and communications lead of the health and care executive group of BCS and a member of IET and EFMI, and her teaching focuses mainly on data visualisation and data analytics.
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Strategy and Policy Lead
Dr Tito Castillo, CITP CDMP CHCIO FBCS
Tito began his career as a Medical Physicist and Researcher, focussing on development of software for the measurement and analysis of gastrointestinal physiology, and he continues to be a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. Throughout more than 35 years in biomedical computing he has had roles in software development, project management, service development that led him to a variety of strategic leadership roles including CIO of Life Study, IT Director of the NIHR BioResource, Application Architect at UCLH and Data Architect at Guy’s & St Thomas’. He has provided consultancy to Chatham House, UCL, The Welcome Trust and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and, most recently, a large UK government healthcare transformation programme.
Chair, Primary Health Care Specialist Group
Ian Thompson, MBBS MSc PhD FRCGP FBCS DFSRH
Ian Thompson is a part-time GP in a semi-rural practice in East Lothian and GP Clinical Lead for Digital Health and Care at Scottish Government, he has held previous roles as Clinical Lead for the Emergency care Summary in Scotland (2011-2020) and Conference chair for Scottish Clinical Information Management in Practice (SCIMP) 2013-2017 and was Secretary for BCS Health Scotland 2011-2015, He is a MBBS/PhD Graduate of University of Newcastle and holds and MSc in Health Care informatics from University of Bath/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He remains an active member of the Royal College of General Practice Health Informatics Group. He has interests in Clinical Safety and Information Governance in relation to GP practice data. Outside of the Medical and Computing spheres he is an active Scottish Country Dancer and enjoys life in East Lothian with his wife and 3 children.
