Advisory Board

Rony has been named as the Top 100 Most Influential Data Leader in 2021 (DataIQ), representing the analyst community in this prestigious list. As the Head of Analytics for NHS England and NHS Improvement, Rony is leading the Data and Analytics team. In previous roles, Rony has worked as the Assistant Director of Information for the Devon STP, led Informatics teams in Acute, Community and Mental Health Trusts to deliver Business Intelligence, Clinical Systems and Application Development services.

Rony has been responsible for delivering innovative analytics solutions, his work includes focusing on co-design, application of advanced methods to deliver insight and intelligence. He has also been at the forefront of the move to data visualisation to provide compelling stories.

I am a senior NHS Information Manager, covering the usual whole gamut of BI, Performance and Planning….as well as being a jobbing analyst! I love the strategic role but I also love to get my teeth into a bit of analysis, and these days I find myself taking an increasing lead in all things Population Health.

After a very varied start to my working life as an insurance broker, life assurance claims clerk, printed circuit board sales manager, holiday rep and buyer for an engineering firm, I found myself in Yeovil District Hospital where I started my NHS career 28 years ago!! When I left 23 years later having taken voluntary redundancy from my role as Head of Information, I was headhunted by Somerset Partnership, I have since worked in acute, mental health, community and latterly have found myself in CCG land.

Ruth joined Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Deputy CIO in 2011, having been a Board-level ICT Director south of the Thames. She is passionate about digital and data professionals being part of the multidisciplinary healthcare team to help deliver quality patient care and research. Ruth has been the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA) London branch lead since December 2020 and invests time in developing and mentoring the next generation of data and analytics leaders. Ruth is an alumni of the NHS Leadership Academy having completed its Nye Bevan Programme in 2017, is a champion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and recently completed a postgraduate diploma in Digital Health Leadership with the NHS Digital Academy.

Andi is a Health Economist and the Director of the Health Economics Unit, an NHS organization that supports health & care organisations locally, regionally and nationally, providing expertise in economics, population health, analytics & evaluations.

Andi is particularly interested in population health analytics especially how to best address health inequalities and the concept of impactibility modelling and is researching this for his PhD at Imperial College London. Andi is also a Senior Advisor for NHS England on Population Health Management in the Data and Analytics Directorate working with and advising STPs and ICSs across the country.

I have worked in the NHS since 1987, although I only intended to fill a gap year, before starting a fine art degree! I started in district finance, in the days of directly managed units, as a trainee, and was an internal auditor before embarking on an information role within commissioning when the new NHS Trusts came into being.

I finally squeezed in a business degree before heading off for a more generalist role within one of the new PCGs being set up, moving back to a more focused role as Information Manager at Bournemouth and Poole PCT several reorganisations later. I currently work at University Hospitals NHS Trust Dorset as the Head of Performance Monitoring within the Business Intelligence Team; it’s a varied and challenging role but a thoroughly enjoyable one.

Mark has worked in healthcare analytics for over 10 years and is passionate about championing the value of analytics and the benefit it can have for patients.  He is keen to bridge the gap between decision makers and analytics by improving organisation data literacy and ensuring that data informs decisions.  Mark is particularly interested in performance analytics and working with stakeholders to develop solutions to problems or to learn how to improve outcomes.

Mark is excited to see the profession become stronger and for more analysts to become professionally registered as well as seeing more structured careers and training available. As Director of Programmes, Mark will oversee a range of work packages to help further strengthen the analytical community and AphA.