Director and CCIO of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment Program and Head of Data Science and AI (Analytics Infrastructure/Artificial Intelligence) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, responsible for building our secure data platform for research, population health and direct care intelligence. As Honorary Professor and member of the Data Science Institute at Lancaster University and General Surgeon with 2 decades of experience, I am passionate about the NHS, data driven healthcare, and improving the experience of patients as well as healthcare providers.