Celebrating Your Authentic Self: Shuri Members’ Workshop at HETT!
Join us for this exclusive workshop with Rita Symons on Tuesday 29 September at this years HETT conference! Rita is a distinguished author and executive coach and a former NHS Chief Executive.
Register for the workshop here! – Please note that places are limited and tickets are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
You will also need to register for the HETT conference
Meet our team at the HETT Show, London !
Registration for HETT Show 2026 is now open – and we’re proud to be a partner!
📅 29-30th September 2026
📍 ExCeL London
🎟️ Free to attend for health and care professionals
HETT is a two-day event that brings together people working across health, care, local government and life sciences to focus on practical progress in digital transformation. Our team and members will have a Shuri stand and exclusive events with digital and healthcare experts – register now for your place !
HETT is a space to:
✔️ Hear what’s working (and what isn’t) through real-world case studies
✔️ Connect with peers solving similar problems
✔️ Access CPD-accredited content designed to support your day-to-day work
✔️ Explore tools and services that might help
We will be:
** Leading a panel on Day 1: Build, Borrow or Buy? Solving the Digital Skills Crisis with Mary Hopkins, Ufuoma Okpeahior, James Freed, Dr Shera Chok and Shana Vijayan.
** Running an exclusive workshop for our members with Rita Symons on Day 1
** Convening an invitation-only roundtable on Day 2 on How to Build the Digital Talent Pipeline with Industry Partners
This year’s agenda includes over 200 speakers and dedicated spaces for networking, problem-solving and sharing our experience of leading digital change. Don’t miss your chance to meet us and be part of the conversation. Secure your free pass now 👉 Register here!
Servita x Shuri Network Mentorship Program – Reducing the Digital Skills Gap with the Tech Industry.
Earlier this year, we launched our mentorship programme in partnership with Servita. The programme was designed to provide hands-on experience of software engineering and architecture through a real-world consulting challenge. We were delighted to collaborate with James Smith, Holly Lawrence and Alex Drew from Servita.
Ufuoma Okpeahior and Precious Onyeachu took part in the pilot earlier this year. Feedback demonstrated how we can work across public and private sectors to upskill digital staff, share expertise and deliver innovation in the NHS:
“Coming from a clinical research background, I didn’t have a natural pathway into Product Management, and the Servita mentorship gave me that opportunity. Over four weeks, I developed a product canvas, worked closely with an engineering team, and prioritised a backlog using RICE for a real NHS virtual ward initiative, alongside people who had experience delivering healthcare products.
The experience taught me how to translate complex clinical realities into a structured product roadmap and showed me the value of learning by doing. Beyond the practical skills, it gave me a clearer vision of my career path at the intersection of clinical research, digital health, and product leadership. I have carried these lessons directly into my work leading key aspects of SMaRT-PD, a clinical decision support system for remote Parkinson’s care.” Precious Onyeachu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Medical Sciences
“The most tangible outcome of my Servita mentorship, created through the Shuri Network, is a real project in my Git portfolio and the confidence to build. In four weeks, I moved from reading about REST APIs to producing a full-stack proof of concept for a virtual healthcare discharge system, with a GP Connect–integrated solutions architecture and a real NHS build-vs-buy recommendation to sector standards. The lesson that I want to ring true is that investing in hands-on pathways doesn’t just upskill individuals, it grows the builder capacity the NHS is short on and closes the gap between underrepresented talent and technical delivery faster than we assume. That capacity is exactly what I’m channelling into the digital health tools I’m building next.” Ufuoma Okpeahior, Senior Project Manager, ICT Infrastructure Programme.
Read more about the programme below!
Previous Events and News :
Shuri presents: AI in Healthcare with Dr Shereen Fouad: Tuesday 30th June 2026, 1pm – 2pm
We were delighted to hold a special webinar on AI in Healthcare for our members, led by Dr Shereen Fouad, Senior Lecturer in Applied AI and Robotics at Aston University and a distinguished international expert. To join future events complete the online form to be part of our Network – click here
Oracle host the Shuri Digital Fellows: June 2026
We had a brilliant day at Oracle in June with Ainslie Beattie, Patience Chinwadzimba, Distie Profit, Gangotri Darji_ and Tom S. talking about AI, public speaking, digital career paths, delivering value to health and care systems and using data to direct resources. Our Fellows also loved hearing from Eddie Olla , Owen Chinembiri, Shera Chok and Sheila Doyle CDir about their career paths, entry points into successful tech careers, seizing opportunities to progress and translating tech and data into tangible outcomes.
Every Shuri event is a powerful reminder that we have the talent, ability and energy in our workforce to implement any digital innovation mentioned in the NHS 10YP safely, on time and budget. However, the NHS must invest in digital skills development and stop ignoring and undermining staff from certain groups, leading to delays, a lack of trust, rising costs and safety risks.
A huge thank you to Oracle for a memorable day 💖💖
NHS Confed Expo: 10 – 11 June 2026
The Shuri Network was well-represented at the NHS Confed Expo 2026 in Manchester this June. Our team and members took part in multiple discussions on digital leadership, inclusion, equity, women’s health and delivering the NHS 10 Year Plan over the two days.
Our chair Dr Shera Chok spoke in sessions with the NHS Alliance BME and Women’s Health and Care Networks including a panel on Digital inclusion: ensuring an equitable digital front door to the NHS, chaired by Dr MaryAnn Ferreux where Shera was a panel member alongside our senior Digital Fellowship Programme Advisor Professor Patricia Miller OBE and other senior leaders. We were also represented on the panel Leading for equity, culture and care: turning insight into action with Sam Allen, Joan Saddler, Anita Day, Helen Buckingham and Shera Chok, as well as the NHS Alliance BME Leadership Network lunch with Lord Victor Adebowale and Dame Donna Kinnair.
Further details can be found in the agenda linked: NHS ConfedExpo 2026 | Agenda
Shiftworks by The King’s Fund webinar – Wednesday 29th April 2026, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
How do you advance your career when it feels like the system is rigged against you? And how do you stay ambitious without burning out along the way?
Our lunchtime workshop with ShiftWorks founder Dr Simon Newitt, explored what a meaningful career looks like in health and care today, how to navigate your way through an uncertain, rapidly changing environment and how to keep true to your values and self.
Shiftworks is a new online learning movement for a just, kind and inclusive health and care workforce, offering members an engaging, digestible and accessible way to develop leadership skills. Shuri members have access to an exclusive discount – code shared in our latest newsletter.
Welcome to the new members of Team Shuri’s Leadership and Advisory team
We are honoured and delighted to welcome Professor Patricia Miller OBE, 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 member, 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.
News and Events Pre-2026: