Welcome to the new members of Team Shuri’s Leadership and Advisory team
We are honoured and delighted to welcome Professor Patricia Miller OBE, Bisi Soledolu, Lisa Emery and Felicia Akubue to our team! Our new members bring vast expertise in inclusive leadership, system transformation, technology, clinical and management. You can read more about our team here:
Digital Summit, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, 31st March 2026
It was a special occasion at the Digital Summit at the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust as our alumni, Sharon Toora spoke about the Shuri Network and our impact on her professional development at Basildon Hospital. The event focused on the single patient record programme, Nova, cybersecurity, AI and national digital priorities Our Network was also represented by Bibi Hossenbux, Anita Patel, Head of Digital Transformation, NHS England, East of England and our Chair, Dr Shera Chok.
The Shuri Network is proud to be a partner of Rewired 2026. Our team, members and alumni were in Birmingham on stage and in the audience exploring how digital technologies drive productivity, equity, and better outcomes. It was fantastic to meet our members, allies as well as our new Fellows from Cohort 5 of our ground-breaking Digital Fellowship at the conference. Thank you to the Rewired team for your wonderful support !
Growing the Digital Talent Pipeline to Deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan: Innovation and Industry. HETT Leaders’ Summit, 12 February 2026.
The Shuri Network led an exclusive invitation-only roundtable at the HETT Leaders’ Summit in Leeds. The roundtable focused on developing the digital talent pipeline with industry partners, highlighting successful examples and bringing experts from NHS England, clinical, the tech industry, digital, innovation and research backgrounds together to identify actions that will help us maximise the use of technology to deliver a digital healthcare service powered by cutting-edge technology. For the NHS10YP to succeed we need to invest in growing our digital workforce and developing leaders who can design, implement and lead change at a system level.
Guests included Martin Dennys, Deputy Director Digital Profession TSAS/CTO, NHS England, Ola Zahran, CTO of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Mary Hopkins, Chief Digital and Information Officer, North London NHS Foundation Trust, Lisa Emery, Partner, Hunter Healthcare, Professor Rebecca Randell, Professor of Digital Innovations in Healthcare, University of Bradford, Richard Stubbs, Chief Executive Officer, Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber, and our alumni Felicia Akubue, Light Chibuzor Caleband Mayflor Bernal.
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