You can now catch up on HACA 2025 on demand:
-
HACA YouTube channel – keynotes, main stage, workshops, and all stream sessions
Link to Visit the HACA YouTube Channel -
Conference platform – full programme recordings, slides and virtual poster booths
Link to Access the Conference Platform
Sally Gainsbury
Senior Policy Analyst at Nuffield Trust
Sally Gainsbury is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Nuffield Trust, focusing on health and social care funding and NHS financing systems. She also contributes to the Trust's rapid response work on emerging policy issues.
Session Information
Title: Three Big Accepted Truths in Current Health Policy that Might Need a bit More Exploration.
Link to Recording
Penny Dash
Chair at NHS England
Dr Penny Dash has dedicated her career to improving the quality and efficiency of health and care services. A physician by background, she has held senior roles as Head of Strategy for the NHS and Department of Health and Social Care, and as Chair of the North West London Integrated Care Board.
Jess Morley
Health Data Academic at Yale Digital Ethics Center
Dr Jessica Morley is Associate Research Scientist and Associate Director of Research at Yale's Digital Ethics Center, and a long-standing contributor to the UK health and care analytics community. She co-authored the Goldacre Review, shaping UK policy on Trusted Research Environments, reproducibility, and open methods, and holds a PhD on deploying AI in the NHS.
Marc Farr
Chief Analytical Officer at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Marc is one of the NHS’s most experienced leaders in data and analytics. He oversees the use of data to inform strategy and operational delivery across acute and system-wide services, and through his leadership of the Chief Data & Analytical Officers Network he brings together senior professionals to shape how analytics supports integrated care, hospital planning and system transformation.
Steven Wyatt
Head of Research & Policy at Strategy Unit
Steven Wyatt is Head of Research and Policy at The Strategy Unit. He is an experienced analyst with deep knowledge of health policy and 20 years' experience leading analytical services across the NHS and social care.
Session Information
Title: Strategic Commissioning & the ICB Blueprint: A Watershed Moment for Analysis in the NHS?
Link to Recording
Minal Bakhai
National Director Primary Care Transformation at NHS England
Dr Minal Bakhai is a practising GP and the Director for Primary Care and Community Transformation and Improvement at NHS England. She also serves as SRO for the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme.
Session Information
Title: From Vision to Action: Turning the Dial on Neighbourhood Health.
Link to RecordingSamantha Riley
Director of Making Data Count at NHS England
Samantha has worked in the NHS for nearly 30 years, holding a wide range of improvement-focused roles across various areas of the health sector. Her experience includes leading a system-wide improvement programme in West London, taking on a national improvement role with the Modernisation Agency, spearheading the national rollout of the Friends and Family Test, and establishing the South East Coast Quality Observatory.
Session Information
Title: Beyond the Dashboard: From Data to Influence - Turning Numbers into Change.
Link to Recording
Alastair McAlpine
Chief Statistician at The Scottish Government
Ally McAlpine is the Scottish Government's Chief Statistician. He has overall responsibility for the coordination and implementation of professional standards that help maintain trustworthiness in the use of data, its quality, and that deliver improved outcomes for people in Scotland.
Session Information
Title: The People Behind the Data - How Stories, Not Dashboards, Change Policy.
Link to Recording
Ben Goldacre
Director at Bennett Institute of Applied Data Science
Ben is a doctor, academic, writer, and broadcaster. He trained in medicine at Oxford and UCL, in psychiatry at the Maudsley, and in epidemiology at LSHTM. His academic and policy work is in informatics, epidemiology and evidence based medicine, where he works on various problems including variation in care, better uses of routinely collected electronic health data, evidence-based social policy, access to clinical trial data, efficient trial design, and retracted papers.
Andi Orlowski
Director at Health Economics Unit
Andi Orlowski is a health economist and the Director of the Health Economics Unit, an NHS organisation supporting health and care locally, regionally and nationally, providing expertise in economics, population health, analytics and evaluations.
Session Information
Title: Closing of HACA 2025: Day 2