An NAPC event
15.00–17.30 on Wednesday 21 April
Our speakers / panelists
Session 1
NHSE/ I Legislation for Integrated Care Systems – what this means and future for NHS including integration and place based care
Dr Penny Dash, Chair, North West London, ICS
Dr Penny Dash has worked in the healthcare industry for the last 35 years, focusing on health-system strategy and advising local, regional, and national health systems globally. She is currently Senior Partner and Head of Healthcare for Europe at McKinsey & Company and was previously a Trustee and Vice Chairman for the King’s Fund, a Non-Executive Director of Monitor and Head of Strategy and Planning at the Department for Health.
Katrina Percy, NAPC Digital
Katrina joined the UK’s National Health Service over 23 years ago as a graduate management trainee and since then has worked in all sectors of the health service, including two years working internationally running a hospital in Tanzania. She was in her CEO role for nearly 10 years, delivering financial and operational turnaround of services, innovative change programmes and system wide transformation. Katrina is particularly passionate about leading organisations through transformational change. She was instrumental in designing a comprehensive leadership development and cultural change programme for a UK health provider. Katrina is a regular speaker on the future of healthcare services and ways to deliver these at higher quality and sustainable cost. Since leaving the UK National Health Service, Katrina now heads up the global team at Ryalto – a mobile platform for healthcare workers enabling them to run their working life. In this role she continues to focus on innovative healthcare delivery models and the engaged workforce.
Professor Joe Harrison, CEO, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Joe Harrison has been a Chief Executive for nearly 8 years and joined Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Executive over five years ago. The Trust is an acute hospital serving a fast-growing population of 320,000 and employing over 4,500 staff. Joe’s focus at the Trust has been on improving patient safety, experience, and clinical effectiveness, and supporting innovative digital solutions to help improve clinical and operational effectiveness. Joe has nearly 30 years’ experience working in acute hospitals, including in senior director roles at the Trust and Barts Health, as well as in several district general hospitals.
Miriam Deakin, Director of Policy and Strategy, NHS Providers
Miriam is the Director of Policy and Strategy at NHS Providers, the influential membership organisation for NHS trusts and foundation trusts. As a member of the executive leadership team, she contributes to organisational strategy at board level and helps lead and steer influencing activity. Miriam works closely with trusts and a range of national stakeholders.
Vikki Beddow, NAPC Director of Strategic Partnerships and Organisational Development (Session Facilitator)
Vikki is trained as a clinical nurse specialising in cancer care and has over 30 years’ healthcare experience spanning the NHS, charity, and private sectors, including developing NHS transformation programmes. Vikki is a member of NAPC’s senior leadership team and leads our national and international faculty alongside Dr Nav Chana, which supports the delivery of NAPC’s programmes across England and internationally. Vikki is passionate about improving healthcare from a global perspective, learning from UK and other countries.
Session 2
Population Health: A unique approach to understanding the needs of a population and why this is important for commercial and third sector partners
Dr Nav Chana MBE, Clinical Director, NAPC
Dr Nav Chana, former NAPC Chair and now National Primary Care Home Clinical Director, has been integral to the development and roll out of more than 200 primary care home (PCH) sites across England. He has been a GP at the Cricket Green Medical Practice in South West London for over 30 years. Previously Nav was Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the new care models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education. Nav featured in Pulse’s Power 50 list of the most influential GPs in 2018.
Jag Mundra, NAPC Population Health Management Lead
Jag specialises in the management and application of operational research, quantitative analysis, and modelling techniques to support health systems understand population health need easily, cheaply, and sustainably. Jag has worked collaboratively with several providers of population health analytics solutions to help PCNs make practical use of their products. Jag is working with the NHS England Population Health Management team on their on their roll out of population health within ICSs and is supporting the UK Research and Innovation Healthy Aging Challenge on learning approaches. He carried out a cost benefit and population health analysis of the Primary Care Home (PCH) model of care for the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC). By adopting an iterative and pragmatic approach, the evaluation was able to rapidly show evidence of benefit with limited up-front investment. Whilst working for NHS London, he designed and conducted a comprehensive review of urgent care across London. He managed a large, multidisciplinary team to gather and analyse qualitative and quantitative data across the range of urgent care providers including A&E departments, Urgent Care Centres and Minor Injury Units to help redesign services in order to improve both cost effectiveness and patient outcomes.
Dr Johnny Marshall OBE, NAPC President
Johnny is a GP at Westongrove Primary Care Home and a highly experienced NHS leader. During his career, Johnny has built a reputation as a trusted leader and advisor, providing valued vision and insight on health and care policy on behalf of NHS membership organisations. Johnny has established effective partnerships at board level between NHS membership organisations and key partners including national NHS bodies, local government, and professional representative groups. Johnny remains passionate about adopting a population health perspective across health and care and developing sustainable support for individuals and communities, particularly through NAPC’s primary care home model. His previous roles include NAPC Chair and Director of Policy at NHS Confederation.
Annabel Beasley
Annabel excels at challenging conventional thinking. She is curious about why people and systems do the things they do and what stops them changing. Clients quickly learn to trust Annabel’s open, authentic style. She is a champion at making connections between people and teams, helping them find those serendipitous opportunities to make a real difference to the populations they care for. Annabel has worked for a large biomedical research charity and the academic sector. For the past 11 years she has been working in the health sector and has a background in workforce, education, leadership and developing collaborative networks.
Session 3
Technology in the NHS: Exploring how technology is improving patient outcomes within a population health approach
Dr Pooja Sikka, NAPC Council Member, Partner Octopus Ventures
Pooja is a NAPC Council Member and Partner at Octopus Ventures – a hands-on venture capital firm dedicated to health tech, alongside supporting the development of NAPC Digital. She has a background in healthcare consulting and Ventures at EY and expertise in population health models. Pooja is a Locum GP in Lambeth, London where she has been practising for over ten years.
Matthew Walker, Director of Strategy, NAPC
Prior to joining NAPC Matthew worked for 13 years as a management consultant focused on workforce strategy and planning, primary care estates strategy and investment, and the development of new models of integrated care and quality improvement. During this time, he led a multi-year STP wide programme of work supporting investment into primary and community care estates and was deputy director of primary care transformation for one of the most populated STPs in England. Matthew has been involved in the NAPC’s primary care home programme since 2015 supporting its set up, spread and evaluation. He now leads NAPC ‘s strategy and business development operations and oversees the work of NAPC Digital which supports practical digital innovation in primary and integrated care.
Dr Johnny Marshall OBE, NAPC President
Johnny is a GP at Westongrove Primary Care Home and a highly experienced NHS leader. During his career, Johnny has built a reputation as a trusted leader and advisor, providing valued vision and insight on health and care policy on behalf of NHS membership organisations. Johnny has established effective partnerships at board level between NHS membership organisations and key partners including national NHS bodies, local government, and professional representative groups. Johnny remains passionate about adopting a population health perspective across health and care and developing sustainable support for individuals and communities, particularly through NAPC’s primary care home model. His previous roles include NAPC Chair and Director of Policy at NHS Confederation.
Dr Julia Sutton-Mcgough, Digital Programme Manager, NAPC (Session Facilitator)
Julia has supported over 50 PCNs in North East and North Cumbria ICS and Cheshire and Merseyside STP, this includes facilitation of group discussions and individual support relating to population health management, workforce planning, care model development, leadership, and estates strategy development. Since 2010 Julia has run her own consultancy business. This has included the management of projects for national Health and Social Care Charity Sue Ryder, an NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington Health Plus Community Interest Company. She has supported general practices to deliver process improvements in Warrington, Leeds, and North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Groups and also to embed the Clinical Pharmacist role in practices across Yorkshire.
Dr Juhi Tandon, Clinical Director and Co-Founder at Cognitant
After a decade in a salaried GP role, Juhi made the decision to switch to become a portfolio GP – allowing more flexibility in her role as Clinical Director at Cognitant Group. Juhi’s GP roles now are a combination of telemedicine and locum GP.
Session 4
Partnering with the NHS: How the partnerships sector can make a positive difference to scale and spread of NHS innovation
Dr Nav Chana MBE, Clinical Director, NAPC
Dr Nav Chana, former NAPC Chair and now National Primary Care Home Clinical Director, has been integral to the development and roll out of more than 200 primary care home (PCH) sites across England. He has been a GP at the Cricket Green Medical Practice in South West London for over 30 years. Previously Nav was Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the new care models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education. Nav featured in Pulse’s Power 50 list of the most influential GPs in 2018.
Simon Nicholson, Managing Director, UK & ENI Cluster, currently appointed for Organon & Co at MSD
Simon Nicholson is a highly experienced pharmaceutical industry leader and is passionate about building customer-focused teams who strive to innovate for the benefits of patients, the health system and the industry.
Simon is currently Managing Director for Organon across the UK & ENI where he is actively driving the creation of a, first of its kind, Women’s health focussed company. Prior to Organon, Simon joined Schering-Plough in 2006 and then MSD after the merger of MSD/Schering-Plough in 2010. Simon has built a wide breadth of experience including several UK leadership team positions within MSD ranging from Primary Care Business Unit Director, Market Access, Healthcare Services and Strategy & Commercial Operations.
Dr Minesh Patel, NAPC Chair
Minesh qualified in 1991 in London and entered general practice in 1996, joining a GP partnership in a total purchasing pilot. He is a GP Partner at Moatfield Surgery in East Grinstead. He took on the Mid-Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) lead role to adopt gold standards frameworks for coronary heart disease (CHD) and then diabetes. Minesh then became the Mid-Sussex PCT Professional Executive Committee chairperson. He has been a clinical voice in commissioning and for five years was the Chair of Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group. He led a review of Stroke Services in Sussex and chairs the Sussex Sustainability Transformation Partnership (STP) Clinical Board. Minesh has led the development of the Healthy East Grinstead Partnership Primary Care Home.
Professor Nick Harding, Chief Medical Officer at Operose Health
Professor Nick Harding is Operose Health’s Chief Medical Officer and a practising GP with more than 25 years clinical experience. Previously he was the Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group since 2011. He also held a number of roles, including working on secondment as Senior Clinical Advisor for the NHS England Accountable Care Systems’ Primary Care Development Programme and for Right Care. Nick has experience both as a commissioner and provider of healthcare. As a commissioner, he created an award-winning CCG recognised for its innovative culture, approach to engagement and its consistent high performance. As a provider, he was a founding GP Partner for a large super partnership which is now a multi-site primary care provider.
Hamza Drabu, Partner at DAC Beachcroft
Hamza specialises in commercial law, regulatory and governance matters. Hamza has advised on a number of projects with an international focus, including advising clients on inward investment projects into the UK, as well as leading on multi-jurisdictional projects alongside an international team of lawyers. He has over 12 years’ experience advising clients in the health and social care sector. His key clients include medtech and digital health companies, NHS commissioners and providers, independent operators of health and social care, at-scale providers of primary care services and voluntary sector organisations. He has advised on a broad range of matters, including major strategic procurements, public/private sector collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory due diligence and highly regulated commercial contracts in the health and social care sector. Hamza’s experience in advising health and social care sector clients means that he is expert in understanding the regulatory framework that they operate within; his commercial advice is provided in that context.
John Pope CBE, NAPC Chief Executive Officer (Session Facilitator)
John has more than 35 years’ experience in healthcare – his roles have included Finance Director and acute trust Chief Executive, for more than a decade. He worked at national level for the Department of Health as part of a team reviewing whole health communities and as Chief Operating Officer for the London Deanery. John joined the NAPC in late 2015 supporting the development of the primary care home programme and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in summer 2016. He is inspired by local frontline energy and a desire to improve local health and care services.