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.

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.

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.

Samantha 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.

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.

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.