Mental Health 2019 Speakers

Duncan Selbie
Chief Executive
Public Health England

Duncan Selbie is the founding Chief Executive of Public Health England. Prior to 2013, he was Chief Executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, the regional teaching hospital for the south east of England. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director General of Programmes and Performance for the Department of Health and subsequently its ...

Andrew Herd
Mental Health Lead - NHS and Cross-Government Delivery
Department of Health & Social Care

Andrew has worked at the Department of Health & Social Care for 20 years and in mental health policy for 6 years. During this time, he has led a variety of mental health policies including improving choice in mental health, secure mental health services, debt and mental health, addressing stigma and crisis care. Most recently, he led the ...

Jane Ray
Head of Hospital Inspections (Mental Health)
Care Quality Commission

Jane is a Head of Hospital Inspection with the Care Quality Commission overseeing the regulation of mental health services across the London region. The Care Quality Commission through bringing together the findings from their inspections are in a position to assess on a national level the quality and safety of care. Jane has supported this work ...

Phoebe Robinson
Head of Mental Health
NHS England

Phoebe Robinson is head of mental health at NHS England. Phoebe joined NHS England in May of 2015 and coordinates the 5 Year Forward View for mental health, Phoebe has additionally led work on mental health data and transparency. Prior to joining NHS England, Phoebe was head of project development and performance at Imperial College Health ...

Emma Thomas
Chief Executive
YoungMinds

Emma joined YoungMinds as CEO in July 2018, with overall responsibility for the organisation and its impact for young people. Prior to this, she worked as a consultant supporting digital adoption and strategic development for a range of charities such as Barnardo’s, YMCA and London Youth. She was CEO of YouthNet (now the Mix) and has worked ...

Richard Andrews
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Healios

Having close family and friends who’ve suffered from mental illness and dementia, Richard experienced first-hand the challenge of accessing support for both those affected by the illness and the families involved. In 2013, he founded Healios to transform the way mental health care is delivered through technology; helping people with mental ...

James de Bathe
Director of Partnerships
Ieso Digital Health

James has worked in a mix of Charity, Public and Private sector organisations, driving innovation and new ways of working to support people in health and social care. For the past 6 years he has been dedicated to driving the acceptance of digital mental health services in the NHS and beyond. In his current role as Director of Partnerships and ...

Jenny Mace
Strategic lead
Home Group

Jenny is our Strategic Lead for learning disabilities. Jenny is currently developing our new support practice approach for all customer groups. She has a particular interest in health equality and supporting this for all the people and communities Home Group works with. Jenny has 30 years’ experience working in social care including ...

Richard Cunningham
Service Dvelopment Director
Lifeways SIL

Richard has c. 30 years’ experience of working with vulnerable groups, much of this managing services working with entrenched rough sleepers in central London, before moving on to commissioning roles in local government (London Borough of Lambeth) and as a ‘Specialist’ Advisor to the Rough Sleeping Team at the then DCLG ...

Dr Phil Moore
Chair - Mental Health Commissioners Network
NHS Clinical Commissioners

Dr Phil Moore , Deputy Chair (Clinical) at NHS Kingston CCG, is a long-standing and enthusiastic GP committed to transforming the NHS through the opportunities afforded by the new Health & Social Care Bill. He is a GP trainer and honorary teaching fellow at Imperial College. Locally he is CCG lead on education & training, appraisal, ...

Henry Jones
CEO
Big White Wall

Henry is an experienced Business/P&L owner and natural people-leader, with a track record of driving high growth and building high performing teams. He has extensive experience in the tech sector, holding previous Executive/Director level roles on the leadership teams of Aconex, Axiom, Satmetrix and TARP Worldwide. In 2019, Henry was ...

Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt
Chief Nurse
Health Education England & and Programme Lead, Nightingale Challenge, Nursing Now

Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt was appointed as Director of Nursing at Health Education England (HEE) in 2012 and in this role she is responsible for leading national policy, workforce planning, and multi-professional education and training commissioning for the non-medical healthcare workforce. She includes in her remit the role of Deputy Director ...

Dr David Smart
Clinical Director
General Practice Alliance (GPA)

David is a ¾ time GP at Leicester Terrace Health Care Centre in Northampton town centre and Clinical Director of GPA Federation covering Northampton leading on mental health and prevention. He is a member of NICE expert reference group developing “A Framework for Community Mental Health Support, Care and treatment for Adults and ...

Professor Siân Griffiths OBE
Deputy Chair
Public Health England

Professor Siân Griffiths OBE is Chair of Staffordshire University’s Centre for Health and Development. She is also Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London, interim Deputy Chair of Public Health England, Chair of the PHE Global Health Committee, Trustee of ...

Jacqui Dyer MBE
Vice-Chair
Mental Health Taskforce

Jacqui Dyer MBE was educated at London universities, where she completed post graduate research in decision-making within children’s’ social care services. Currently an independent health and social care consultant with a background in adult mental health commissioning as well as community and family social work. Jacqui has worked ...

Ian Binns
Head of Information (Community & Mental Health)
NHS Digital

Ian Binns is the Head of Information at NHS Digital. He has managed the Mental Health portfolio for the last 4 years which includes the monthly collection of the Mental Health Dataset from over 170 providers and the monthly publication of a range of mental health statistics. During these 4 years he has introduced the annual updates to ...

Dr Matthew Gaskell
Consultant Psychologist for Addiction Services
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Matthew Gaskell C.Psychol AFBPsS is a Consultant Psychologist and Clinical Lead for addiction services with the Leeds & York Partnership Foundation Trust. He is Clinical Director of the NHS Northern Gambling Service, which has clinics in Leeds, Manchester, and Sunderland. He has twenty years’ experience working with addiction problems ...

Anna Hemmings
Chief Executive Officer
GamCare

Anna joined GamCare in January 2018 with extensive experience in working in addictions recovery. What’s more, she has senior management and Board experience across the private and third sector. Anna has led large and complex service portfolios. In addition she has previously worked with a range of commissioners, grant givers ...

Martin Boggan
Managing Director
Lifeways SIL

SIL’s Managing Director, Martin Boggan, began his career in health & social care in 1994 initially working in children’s residential services before qualifying as a social worker in 1997. After several years working in a busy children & families safeguarding team for Nottingham City Council, he moved back into residential care ...

Mark Spraggs
Operations Director
Lifeways SIL

SIL’s Operations Director, Mark Spraggs, has worked within mental health services since 1994, qualifying as a Social Worker in 1999. Mark spent many years as an Approved Mental Health Professional and Social Work Manager in a variety of NHS and Local Authority community mental health services. As Social Care Professional Lead with Wiltshire ...

Dr Tim Rogers
Clinical Director
Big White Wall

Dr. Rogers is a medical doctor and consultant psychiatrist to athletes in high performance sport and elite dance. He regularly consults across a wide variety of sports, including Premier League football, Premiership Rugby and those in the Olympic and Paralympic systems. In addition to this, he is a specialist member of the Sport ...

Gregor Henderson
National Lead for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Public Health England

Gregor is the National Lead for Mental Health and Wellbeing for Public Health England (PHE). PHE is a national agency responsible for protecting and improving the public’s health and reducing health inequalities. Gregor has worked in a variety of roles in mental health over a 30 year career. Developing and managing care and treatment ...

Lynda Patino
Individual Packages of Care (IPC) and Rehabilitation Service Manager
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT)

Lynda is a Registered Mental Health Nurse having spent most of her 25 year career working in the NHS in community mental health settings. In the past she has worked in Community Mental Health Teams, Assertive Outreach Teams, Crisis Team, Acute Liaison and the Early Intervention Psychosis Service. Lynda has also worked in primary care and set up ...

Janet Ince
Mental Health Transformation Manager
NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG and NHS Greater Preston CCG

Janet has spent most of her career in the public sector, working in a variety of roles at Lancashire Constabulary, including project and programme management activities relating to Best Value Reviews. Her latest role was Quality Improvement Lead where Janet was at the forefront of the transformational programme that saw Constabulary performance ...

John McCracken
Director of Commissioning
Gambleaware

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