Medilink Midlands have partnered with Health Innovation West Midlands and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to deliver this hour long informative webinar.
With the launch of the new network of NHS England Secure Data Environments and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust leading this work for the West Midlands region, Our guest speaker, Hilary Fanning, Managing Director of Research Development & Innovation, will be discussing this new infrastructure and the services it will provide and how the Secure Data Environment will integrate with Health Data Research UK.
Hilary will also describe how Industry, Academics and Clinicians will be able to engage with Secure Data Environments and what services will be provided.
Speaker Profiles:
Joanne Mewis, Digital Enterprise Lead, Innovation & Commercial, Health Innovation West Midlands
Joanne helps to deliver the Health Innovation West Midlands Innovation and Commercial Digital portfolio, working across the West Midlands health and social care system supporting the development of a digital innovation pipeline. She also help innovators to understand what the regional and national NHS challenges are and connect them to the help they need. Working in partnership with the NHS, SMEs, Care Homes and universities to spread evidenced innovations at scale and pace, enabling the West Midlands healthcare system to take advantage of innovations that can help to save time, money and lives.
Hilary Fanning, Managing Director of Research Development & Innovation, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Hilary manages the Trust’s research and innovation portfolio, overseeing in excess of £250m research infrastructure and a department of approximately 350 wte Research Development & Innovation Directorate staff. Her department supports the full spectrum of research at UHB, including research business support, research governance and grant preparation for submission for funding though to delivery of clinical trials, and support for generation, evaluation, implementation and audit of AI technologies. In collaboration with UHB’s Education Directorate and University of Birmingham, RD&I supports a portfolio of education and training activities for medical and allied health professionals academic capacity building.
Her department’s innovation portfolio encompasses healthcare data research infrastructure including the INSIGHT, PIONEER and PATHWAY health data research hubs. More recently, she has taken on the role of Programme Director for West Midlands Secure Data Environment (SDE), which is hosted by UHB. This is one of the regional SDEs which comprise an evolving national network as part of NHSE’s Data for R&D programme. Hilary is a member of the Birmingham Health Partners executive. Her BHP executive role includes senior NHS operational responsibility for developing and delivering the research strategy of BHP.
Hilary qualified as a registered nurse in 1985, going on to specialise in renal nursing. She has worked in both the public and private health sectors in the UK and Ireland. Hilary moved to UHBFT in 2001 from St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, where she held a joint Senior Lecturer Practitioner post with Thames Valley University, providing senior nurse management for St Mary’s Renal Services and leading post-graduate specialist renal nurse education for North West Thames.