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Indigo at The O2
205 Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula
London, Greenwich, SE10 0ES
United Kingdom

Alexandra Adams

Alexandra is a 4th year medical student. She is also registered blind and hearing impaired, making her the first deafblind person in the UK to be trained towards becoming a doctor. Having faced discrimination and inequality in the workplace, she advocates for better diversity, inclusivity and representation for those with disabilities.

Andy Knox

Andy trained as a doctor in Manchester, England and worked in various hospitals across the city before training as a GP. He is now an executive GP for Lancashire North Clinical Commissioning Group and works with the Better Care Together Team for Morecambe Bay. His particular area of interest is ‘Health and Wellbeing’. As a qualified facilitator he loves to host and facilitate conversations about re-imagining cities and regions as healthy places and generally re-imagining the future.

Charlie Webster

Charlie is an experienced broadcaster and journalist across both TV and radio, covering nearly every major sporting event. She has spoken widely about her personal experiences of PTSD, having experienced sexual abuse as a teenager, as well as a near death experience when she contracted malaria during a charity cycling challenge.

Dan Wadsworth

Dan, a transformation manager, and his colleague Rachel, a consultant opthalmologist, co-founded 15s30m to enable all NHS staff and patients to reduce frustration and increase joy. 15s30m has now become an internationally recognised tool for spreading quality improvement in health and social care.

ELFTIn1Voice Choir

ELFTIn1Voice is the choir of the East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT).

Fatima Elguenuni

Fatima has been member of the North Kensington community for over 20 years. Since the Grenfell tragedy Fatima has had a major a role in helping organisations to develop relationships with local communities to move beyond Grenfell. She is passionate to ensuring that the community voice is amplified at decision-making levels both locally and nationally.

Jacob Bayliss

Jacob currently manages Pride in Practice for the LGBT Foundation - a quality assurance and social prescribing award focusing on the health needs of the LGBT community. He has a long history of training, consulting and developing community-led initiatives to tackle health inequalities and to create meaningful change.

Jen Gilroy-Cheetham

Jen has had a challenging few years with regards to her health and just wants to feel safe within the health system. In her lived experience journey, Jen feels that highlighting what’s worked well to help her to feel safe and what needs to change is valuable and may help others in the future.

Kate Morrissey

Kate is a senior programme manager for NHS England, leading a national programme on improving mental health in secure and detained settings. Kate also leads on the care after custody initiatives (RECONNECT), focussing on pathways of care out of custodial settings. She is a champion for the views of service users across community, prison and immigration removal settings, ensuring they are involved in the development of services.

Katie Massie-Taylor

Katie Massie-Taylor and Sarah Hesz met in a playground as tired new mums and since then have created the top social app for mums, Mush. They champion the importance of friendship and community for new parents and raise awareness of the loneliness and confidence crisis many new mums experience. Mush is part of the NHS Innovation Accelerator.

Lucy Watts

Lucy is a young adult with a life limiting condition who has exceeded every prognosis given. She is a prominent patient advocate and disability activist. Lucy works closely with the NHS to improve patient experience as well as internationally to improve access to palliative care. She received an MBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours at the tender age of 22 in recognition for her work.

Prerana Issar

Prerana Issar is the first NHS Chief People Officer. In joining the NHS, Prerana brings a wealth of expertise in leadership development and strategic talent management, as well as diversity and inclusion. Prior to joining the NHS Prerana was Director for Public-Private Partnerships at the United Nations, leading the development of the United Nation's first strategic human capital approach.

Rachel Pilling

Rachel, a consultant opthalmologist and her colleague Dan, a transformation manager, co-founded 15s30m to enable all NHS staff and patients to reduce frustration and increase joy. 15s30m has now become an internationally recognised tool for spreading quality improvement in health and social care.

Raj Adgopul

Raj is a first-generation Indian economic migrant who arrived in the UK with just £5 in his pocket. Raj now has 20+ years of nursing experience in theatre, district nursing and public health, with a specialisation in early years development. To date Raj is the only male Indian Health Visitor in the whole of the UK.

Sammy Batt-Rawden

Sammy is a Registrar in emergency and intensive care medicine, a doctor with the Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex and the current chair of The Doctors' Association; Sammy is a fierce advocate for doctors and the NHS. Following the premature birth of her son Joshua and a turbulent 3-month stay in the neonatal intensive care unit, she now has a new appreciation of the NHS.

Sarah Hesz

Sarah Hesz and Katie Massie-Taylor met in a playground as tired new mums and since then have created the top social app for mums, Mush. They champion the importance of friendship and community for new parents and raise awareness of the loneliness and confidence crisis many new mums experience. Mush is part of the NHS Innovation Accelerator.

Sarah Hillman

Sarah is a clinician and academic researcher working in the Coventry/ Warwickshire area. She first became interested in understanding the role of gender in medical practice as an undergraduate. Sarah went onto complete her PhD looking at antenatal tests used in pregnancy and her research interests now lie in women’s health within primary care.

Yusuf Yousuf

Yusuf is a healthcare support worker in Older Person's Services at The Royal London Hospital, Barts NHS Trust, a role he transitioned to after more than 10 years as a hospital porter. He has an interest in patient-centred care and what this means to staff.