Tara Donnelly

Tara is an authority on tech enabled health care models, and their potential to transform care globally, having worked as Chief Digital Officer for the NHS, introducing this model of care as part of the pandemic response. She now runs Digital Care, a boutique advisory firm that supports health systems and digital health innovators scale digital care, with a particular emphasis on supporting health in new ways through tech enablement, resulting in more time to care for clinicians and more time spent well at home for patients.

Clients include leading digital scale ups and startups in health as well as NHS organisations, and international speaking engagements have included Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Melbourne. Tara has worked in senior leadership roles in healthcare for over 30 years, with a career that has spanned a range of operational roles in hospitals across London including Director of Operations at the Whittington hospital, Managing Director roles at University College London Hospitals and Chief Executive of the West Middlesex University Hospital.

Her second Chief Executive position was leading the Health Innovation Network, the academic health science network for south London. Most recently she spent four years as the Chief Digital Officer for NHS England. She is Trustee and Senior Independent Director of leading think tank, the Nuffield Trust, President of the Health CEOs' Club and spent ten years on the Board of Macmillan Cancer Support. Tara frequently speaks and writes about digital health in the UK and internationally and articles are collated on her website www.digital.care.