Digital Health and Care Leadership Programme (DLP)

Professor Lesley Holdsworth OBE, Clinical Lead for Digital Health and Care, Scottish Government

Over the last 30 years, Lesley has spearheaded a number of professional initiatives - both at a national level and with a variety of professional and academic organisations. This has included leading projects related to quality improvement, informatics, clinical guidance, and research. In her current role, she has responsibility for digital strategic direction of nursing, midwifery, and the allied health professions (NMAHP) in Scotland. Additionally, she leads on digitally enabled workforce development for all professions and sectors, something which she is passionate about. Lesley is currently leading a number of national, UK and global digital initiatives around standards/guidelines for digital practice and workforce development. Lesley holds a professorship with Glasgow Caledonian University and is Honorary Professor at a further two. She is also a council member and Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and former Chair of the Board of Bield, the largest Housing Association in Scotland. In 2018, she was named Scottish Digital Impact Leader and Digital Health’s UK Digital Leader of the year. She was awarded an OBE in the Queens honours in 2019 for services to healthcare.

Don McIntyre, Design Director at the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre and with the Innovation School at Glasgow 

Don and is an expert on the transformative capability of design innovation. His career spans 25 years across a range of areas including immersive VR, interactive entertainment, product, communications and service design, digital, design research and healthcare. Don has worked at the junction of design and technology with many companies and organisations through commercial, public and applied research sectors.

Scott Barnett, Head of Information and Cyber Security, NHS National Services Scotland

From the public to the private sectors and back again, Scott has worked in information and cyber security for the past 17 years. As Head of Information and Cyber Security he leads the mission to deliver a world class cyber security operations capability for Scotland’s Health Sector. He is excited by the opportunities that new technologies and ways of working bring to society and an advocate of cohesive security strategies presented in everyday language that’s understood by users, managers and decision makers alike.

Ananda Allan, Performance and Intelligence Manager, NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Ananda has worked for NHS Dumfries and Galloway for over 25 years in Clinical Audit, Public Health Intelligence and Strategic Planning. With experience in systems thinking, biostatistics, population health and management practices, she has a wealth of real life examples from the health and social care world. Ananda is a big fan of an elegant solution and likes to keep things simple and practical. 

Kathleen Paterson, Specialist Lead – Organisational Development & Leadership, NHS Education for Scotland

After working the voluntary and private sectors, Kathleen has now worked in the NHS for 20 years. She has experience across a wide number of organisations in both the English & Scottish NHS, focusing on Human Resources, Workforce Planning, Health Strategy and, for the last decade, Organisational Development. Her focus is supporting people to explore their own unique experience of leadership to enable them to develop a diverse & flourishing workforce.

Dr Dawn Orr
Current role - Nurse Consultant, Telehealth and Telecare, Profession of Practice
Specialism/current projects - digital health, telephone triage, clinical algorithm development, research to improve patient journey
Contact me - dawn.orr@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk, X- @dawnorr24

Gillian Ferguson
Current role - AHP Digital Clinical Lead in NHSGGC and Team lead Paediatric Physiotherapist
Specialism/current projects - Workforce Digital Skills and Literacy, NMAHP Digital Champions Network, Datix review and clinical safety, supporting staff with project requests to the NHSGGC Project Managment Office, promoting and supporting staff with DlP applications, leading on vCreate test of change project in paediatric physiotherapy
Contact me - gillian.ferguson3@ggc.scot.nhs.uk, X- @GillieAHP 

Iain Trayner
Current role - Improvement Lead, Connect Me Programme & Digital Front Door
Specialism/current projects - Service Development & Process Improvement specialist with 20 years experience across private and public sector, main areas of focus within Digital are; Lean Service Creation, Process Design, Root Cause & Success Cause Analysis.
Contact me - iain.trayner2@nhs.scot, Connect with me on LinkedIn

Joanna Teece
Current role - Senior Educator - AHP/Dietitian
Specialism/current projects - interested in public health, prevention, education and AHP work across the lifespan and settings within and out-with health. Member of NMAHP digital Board leads group and BDA Scotland Board, Co- Lead AHPScot, and part of cohort 1 of MSc leading digital transformation across health and care.
Contact me - X- @JoannaTeece

Marc Beswick
Current role - Digital Education and Adoption Lead, Digital Health and Care, Scottish Government. Currently leading on enabling public services to embed Near Me as part of "business as usual" plus other digital tools.
Specialism/current projects - I am an Occupational Therapist and specialised in Children and Family practice. I was previously an AHP Practice Education Lead. Currently I am working with Higher Education Institutes to enable them to use Near Me to support health and social care students' learning outcomes related to digital capability and video consultation skills. In addition, I am part of a team exploring how Microsoft 365 can facilitate cross organisation collaboration in public services. 
Contact me - marc.beswick@nhs.scot, Connect with me on LinkedIn, X- @marcbeswickahp 

Rachel Marshall
Current role - Digital and eHealth Programme Delivery Manager
Specialism/current projects - I lead a team of eHealth Project Managers and eHealth Facilitators, who are responsible for delivering change across NHS Forth Valley as well as the training and education to users of NHS Forth Valley clinical systems. The type of work we do involves end to end project delivery for digital solutions across NHS Forth Valley, M365, Digital Pathology, GP IT System Replacement, Electronic Patient Record, to name a few. My team also facilitates with the production of Options Appraisals and Business Cases. I am qualified in PRINCE2®, Managing Success Programmes (MSP) and International Better Business Cases.
Contact me - rachel.marshall2@nhs.scot, Connect with me on LinkedIn

Professor Elaine Hunter
Current role - National Allied Health Professions Consultant working in a national strategic leadership role, bringing together the strengths of allied health professionals in both health and social care and in collaboration with key stakeholders and partners.
Specialism/current projects - Elaine has always worked in mental health and dementia and in her current role she is integrating policy and evidence into practice for the benefit of people with lived experience. Leading on an AHP dementia programme, in partnership, to support access to evidence based AHP self-management resources using a range of platforms hosted and supported by Alzheimer Scotland. You can see some of the work at www.alzscot.org/ahpresources
Contact me - ehunter@alzscot.org, X- @elaineahpmh

Wendy Munro Ph.D
Current role - Organisational Development Business Partner
Specialism/current projects - My specialism is developing robust OD/L&D initiatives to leverage performance.
Contact me - Connect with me on LinkedIn 

Marina Copping
Current role - working in the NHS NSS and leading on clinical safety. Marina is a nurse with a Masters in Informatics and has a long history the fields in NHS Lothian, nationally, across UK and through BCS, CPHVA and FCI. 
Contact me - marina.copping@nhs.scot  

Lewis Mackay
Current role - Advanced Practice Occupational Therapist - Digital Leadership & Transformation
Specialism/current projects - Lewis's role focuses on who we are and what we do as a service. Understanding the needs of the workforce in terms of digital skills, building networks to share knowledge and experience, and Leveraging the benefits digital systems and initiatives to improve the services we offer 
Contact me - lewis.mackay@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk , X- @LewisdigitalOT

Nicola Henderson
Current role - Dietitian and AHP Digital Clinical Lead NHS Forth Valley
Specialism/current projects - The optimisation of digital systems to transform clinical services and the effective use of data to support service delivery. Nicola completed a master’s degree with Distinction in Digital Health Leadership in 2021 and has won several awards relating to her digital work.
Contact me - nicola.henderson7@nhs.scot X - @Nic_RD_AHP

Euan MacLeod
Current role - Strategic Planning and Commissioning Manager, NHS Dumfries & Galloway, with a portfolio including Care and Support at Home, Digital Strategy and development of a Digital Delivery Plan and Community Resilience building/Place based planning. 
Specialism/current projects - Leading on development of Digital Delivery Plan, particular interest in community empowerment, digital innovation, digital democracy, collaborative approaches to health and social care and thinking creatively.
Contact me - euan.macleod@nhs.scot

Elizabeth Payne

Current Role: Project Manager, Digital Transformation Team, NHS Lanarkshire

Specialism/current projects - Leading on the development of NHS Lanarkshire’s transition to an interactive, data driven, Electronic Health Care Record (EHCR). Leading on the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). Led in partnership with Edinburgh University NHS Lothian’s Connect Me Blood Pressure Programme and Led in partnership with NHS Lothian Respiratory teams and Glasgow Caledonian University
Contact me - Elizabeth.payne@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Gillian Davies
Current role - Principal Educator, MHLDD and Spiritual Care, NMAHP
Specialism/current projects - I am a mental health nurse and currently work within the Mental Health Improvement, Self-harm and prevention of Suicide programme in NES. I am currently working on a number of projects which include a focus around health inequalities, creating capacity within our workforce to deliver suicide prevention education and a refresh of our knowledge and skills framework. I have an interest in advanced technology within education.
Contact me - gillian.davies2@nhs.scot , X- @DaviesGill14