The chairs of the Digital Well being Community advisory panels, Hayley Grafton, Amy Freeman and Penny Kechagioglou, will keynote at Digital Well being Rewired 2026.
The all-female panel of chairs, elected in June 2025, lead the nationwide chief scientific data officer (CCIO), chief data officer (CIO) and chief nursing data officer (CNIO) advisory panels (APs), which make up the UK’s largest linked group of digital well being professionals.
Grafton, CNIO at College Hospitals of Leicester NHS Belief, is on the forefront of digital nursing actively working to develop a digitally enabled NHS workforce.
She performed a key half within the 10 12 months well being plan working group for folks and has led requires the NHS to be bolder and extra bold in driving change.
Grafton is a graduate of the NHS Digital Academy, Digital Well being Management programme and at the moment serves as chair of the Digital Well being CNIO Advisory Panel.
Kechagioglou, CCIO at College Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Belief, was just lately named Digital Well being CCIO of the Yr.
Balancing roles as a chair of the CCIO AP, a digital chief, chief medical officer and advisor scientific oncologist, she champions secure, significant innovation via empowered digital scientific management.
Digital Well being’s CIO of the Yr Freeman, chief digital data officer at College Hospital of North Midlands NHS Belief, has led pioneering digital initiatives and was a standout speaker eventually 12 months’s Rewired.
The CIO AP chair has been a senior lead for greater than 20 years and advocates for NHS supplier organisations to be nearer to frontline care.
The trio will communicate on the brand new two-day Digital Management stage, the place the perfect CCIO, CIO and CNIO and trade leaders will share their views on growing management professions, expertise from workforce transformation and innovation.
They’re the most recent audio system confirmed for Rewired 2026, the UK’s main digital well being convention, bringing collectively names from the well being sector and digital innovation to share insights, experiences and alternatives.
The increasing speaker line-up contains NHS England audio system Minal Bakhai, director of major care transformation, Alec Worth-Forbes, nationwide CCIO, and Helen Balsdon, nationwide CNIO.
Different keynotes already introduced embody Beverley Bryant, chief digital officer at Dorset Suppliers, Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief government at The Well being Basis, Dr Jessica Morley of the Digital Ethics Middle at Yale College, and Dr Charlotte Refsum, director of well being coverage on the Tony Blair Institute for International Change.
The co-headline sponsors for Rewired26 are The Entry Group and Optum, who additionally sponsor the Built-in Care and Digital Transformation levels respectively. The occasion takes place on 24-25 March 2026 on the NEC within the Birmingham.
Guide your house now to attend Rewired26. Free for NHS, public sector, charities, analysis and training. Industrial tickets begin from £769+VAT.
