Linda Watts

Associate Director of Digital Transformation | Programme Director Digital Outpatients
Imperial College Healthcare Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust

Senior NHS digital transformation leader with over 20 years’ experience in technology driven improvements in acute healthcare. As Assoc. Director of digital transformation at Imperial college and incoming Digital Outpatient Programme Director at Barts Health I have led major programmes including £30m Global Digital Exemplar initiative, trust wide EPR improvements, digital monitoring and management of workflows, and large scale medical records digitisation which resulted in Imperial achieving HiMMS level 6 status.

I am passionate about interoperability, clinical usability, and human-centred design, and champion equality, diversity and inclusion whilst guiding organisations towards advanced digital maturity such as HiMSS 6.