Digital Health and Care Leadership Programme (DLP)

Jonathan Cameron, Deputy Director Digital Health and Care, Scottish Government

Jonathan is the Deputy Director for Digital Health and Care in the Scottish Government and has overall responsibility for the Digital Health and Care Strategy and major programmes of delivery.
Prior to joining the Scottish Government in November 2019, Jonathan held a number of Data and IT roles in the Public and Private Sector and has delivered several complex IT and eHealth projects and programmes. His career in eHealth in Scotland includes the delivery of the Emergency Care Summary and Key Information Summary systems. Jonathan has been a CivTech challenge sponsor for the first 3 years of the programme and innovation has been a major focus throughout his career.

Emma Scatterty, Digital Leadership Specialist Lead, Public Services Delivery Scotland

Emma is at the forefront of developing digital leadership capabilities across Scotland's health and social care workforce. As part of the Digital Capabilities Programme, commissioned by the Scottish Government and COSLA, Emma plays a pivotal role in equipping leaders with the skills needed to navigate and lead in the digital age. 

Emma leads the delivery of the Digital Health and Care Leadership Programme (DLP) and facilitates various leadership training initiatives tailored to empower individuals and teams across the sector. With a professional background in workforce development, particularly within the housing and social care sectors, Emma also holds an MSc in Human Resource Management and a Postgraduate Certificate in Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care.

Emma is passionate about building the networks and resources which empower current and aspiring digital leaders to drive and deliver change in their organisations to bring value to both staff and citizens. 

Sarah Bennie, Specialist Educator, Quality Improvement Team, Public Services Delivery Scotland

Sarah joined Public Services Delivery Scotland in January 2025 as a Specialist Educator within the Quality Improvement Team. She is a faculty member on NES-delivered programmes including the Scottish Improvement Leaders (ScIL) programme and the Practical QI learner pathway, both of which focus on building QI capability across health and social care. In addition to her teaching role, Sarah supports internal improvement work within NES, helping to embed QI approaches across the organisation.

Prior to joining NES, Sarah worked in NHS Lothian as an Associate Quality Improvement Advisor for Primary Care, where she coordinated the QI & Safety Enhanced Service. In this role, she supported GP practices across Lothian to deliver quality improvement initiatives as part of the Scottish Enhanced Service Programme (SESP).

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. 

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.

Kathleen Paterson, Specialist Lead – Organisational Development & Leadership, Public Services Delivery 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 amd 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.

Scott Barnett, Chief Information Security Officer, 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. In his current role, 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.

Katie Edwards, Knowledge Manager, Public Services Delivery Scotland

Katie is a qualified Librarian with over 10 years’ experience as a Knowledge Manager in NHS Scotland. She supports the delivery of The Knowledge Network, the national digital library enabling evidence‑based practice across health and social care. Her work focuses on promoting digital library services, strengthening information, digital and health literacy, and using knowledge management approaches to improve collaboration. In recent years, she has specialised in building and supporting virtual networks and communities to enhance digital capability and knowledge sharing.

Andy Willetts, Health Information Scientist, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Andy has extensive experience of working on the National Right Decision Service platform. In his current Health Information Scientist role, he leads on training and communications for the platform. He previously worked as Decision Support programme manager with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde where he oversaw a large team working on developing and creating Right Decision service apps. He is a keen runner who is currently training for the London marathon.

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

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 Management 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, 

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.

Marc Beswick
Current role - Head of Careers Development & Employability, NHS Lothian
Specialism/current projects - I am an Occupational Therapist and specialised in Children and Family practice. I was previously an AHP Practice Education Lead and then took on the role of Digital Education and Adoption Lead for Scottish Government. I led on enabling public services to embed Near Me as part of "business as usual" plus other digital tools. I have also worked 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.
Contact me - marc.beswick@nhs.scot, Connect with me on LinkedIn

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

Wendy Munro PhD, MBA, FCIPD
Current role - Organisational Development Business Partner at Ark Housing 
Specialism/current projects - Wendy is the Organisational Development Business Partner at Ark Housing, a Scottish care and housing charity. She leads the organisation’s Learning and Development function and delivers key organisational development and digital transformation projects aligned with corporate strategy and regulatory requirements.

Wendy brings a wealth of experience in organisational and learning development, having previously run her own successful consultancy business delivering training, policy development, and leadership programmes across Southeast Asia.

Wendy has held senior academic leadership roles, including Director of Teaching and Learning at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, where she managed the academic departments and quality assurance.  She has also lectured at higher education institutions including Virginia Commonwealth University in the USA. 

She holds a PhD in Education and an MBA, is a Fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD), and has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care at the University of Edinburgh.
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

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

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.

Laura Lennox
Current role - AHP Practice Education Lead
Specialism/current projects - I have been a participant of the DLP (cohort 13) and I undertook a digital project with the aim of supporting AHP staff with the safe and effective use of social media for public messaging and raising the AHP profile. I continue to support local AHP staff across all levels of practice with digital capacity and capability and through coaching on DLP.

Kirsty Bateson
Current role - Knowledge Exchange Manager
Specialism/current projects - My background is in social care and digital marketing and I joined Cohort 16 of the DLP as a participant of the DLP. I started the programme as a Project Development Officer for Project ECHO (ECHO stands for Extension of Community Health Outcomes and is a US based  online community of practice model which brings health and social care practitioners together to access specialist knowledge sharing and apply this to anonymised patient or process cases) and my current role is now Knowledge Exchange Manager for Highland Hospice, also overseeing some of our public health and conference activity. I am also a participant on the Leading Digital Transformation postgraduate programme.