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Agenda 8:45 9:00 9:05 9:20 9:35 9:50 10:05
Registration & welcome refreshments Welcome & introduction
Theodore Toulson-Roberts, Conference Director, LaingBuisson
Tech and the way forward
Dr Anesh Shetty, Board Member, Narayana Health
Delivering world class care
Barry Downes, CEO, Affidea UK
Lesson’s from Nuffield Alex Perry, CEO, Nuffield
Redifining access
Ken Anderson, CEO, 10M Healthcare
The future of care delivery
Daniel Bulkin, CEO, Healistic
Speaker Q&A and discussion ‘The state of the sector’
Dr Anesh Shetty, Board Member, Narayana Health
10:15
Barry Downes, CEO, Affidea UK Alex Perry, CEO, Nuffield Ken Anderson, CEO, 10M Healthcare Daniel Bulkin, CEO, Healistic
10:45 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00
Networking break & exhibitor showcase The future trajectory of private care David Hare, CEO, IHPN
Overarching views of patient data Ian Gargan, CEO, PHIN
PMI funded healthcare trends
Richard Aris, Director of Strategic Partnerships and External Affairs, Healthcode
Working with the NHS to reduce wait times
Rob Findlay, Independent Analyst
Speaker Q&A and discussion ‘Where we’re at, where we’re going’
12:15
David Hare, CEO IHPN
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Agenda 12:30 13:30
Lunch Stream A: PMI How best to finance affordable healthcare
Mark Southern, Executive Director, WPA
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Leigh Stanger, Client Director, Marsh Rishi Patel, Clinicla Director, Vitality Sarah Taylor, Director of Corporate Healthcare Proposition, Healix Health
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Constructive disruption
Prof William RIbbans, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon and CMO Bloom Health, Milton Keynes. Liz Heath, Consultant, LaingBuisson Daniel Bulkin, CEO, Healistic
Comfort break Staying responsive: Capturing the new generation of private patients
The London market: What’s the attraction
Andy McClure, CCO, Benenden Health
Mark Kildea, CEO, Howard DeWalden
Richard Aris, Director of Strategic Partnerships Nathan Kasivisvanathan, CMO, London Clinic and External Affairs, Healthcode Emma Galland, Partner, Hill Dickinson Will Temple, Managing Director, Hannah Haines, Head of Consultancy – CorityMeddbase Healthcare, Christies & Co. Cara McDonagh, Head of Comms, IHPN Patrick Dawkes, Head of Trading Hospitals & Primary Care, Nuffield Health
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Stream B: Future face of healthcare
Abi Stapleton, CCO, Cleveland Clinic
Networking break & exhibitor showcase Plenary Closing Panel: Risky business: The tech challenge
Mark Hitchman, Managing Director, Canon Medical
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Benedict Heaver, CEO, Streets Heaver Alex Fairweather, Client Engagement Manager, Ideal Health Peter Wickham, Division Director, Howden Dr William Cook, Commercial Partnerships – UK & Ireland, Tandem Health
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Theodore Toulson-Roberts, Conference Director, LaingBuisson
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Speakers Abigail Stapleton - CCO, Cleveland Clinic
Abigail Stapleton is responsible for the commercial functions of Cleveland Clinic London including strategy, business development, marketing and patient access; she has been with the organisation for 7 years serving in a range of roles including as the Executive Director of International Strategy. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic London, she was Executive Director of Strategy & Commercial and a board member of Kings College Hospital Trust. She also worked at Bupa for several years across its U.K. businesses.
Andy McClure - CCO, Benenden Health
Andy McClure is Chief Commercial Officer at Benenden Health, one of the UK’s leading healthcare mutuals. Before joining Benenden Health, he held commercial leadership roles at AXA Health, Marsh, AIG and Zurich Insurance. Along the way, Andy and his family were fortunate enough to enjoy expat life in Chicago, Dubai and Singapore. Outside work, he is an enthusiastic, if distinctly average, runner, cyclist and boot camp regular.
Alex Perry - CEO, Nuffield Health
Alex Perry joined Nuffield Health as Chief Executive in September 2024, attracted by its unique ability to combine fitness, prevention, and healthcare within a single purpose led organisation.
He has extensive experience in senior leadership roles within the independent healthcare sector, including eight years as CEO of Bupa UK Insurance, the UK’s largest health insurer. During his tenure at Bupa, he oversaw record growth in customer numbers and a significant increase in market share, along with the full digital transformation of its service and support offering. Before joining Bupa, Alex was a Principal at Marakon Associates, a strategic advisory firm, and held several senior commercial roles at First Choice Holidays.
Alex has served on the board of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), and has been a trustee of Bupa’s charitable arm, the Bupa Foundation. He has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, and a degree in Modern History from Oxford University.
Alex Fairweather - Client Engagement Manager, Ideal Health
Alex’s experience spans medical logistics, commercial and corporate development, operations, market strategy and technology in healthcare. He is a regular writer and researcher on healthcare innovation and adoption for Laing Buisson and Healthcare Today, with a focus on AI and emerging technologies. Combining formal business qualifications with real-world experience, Alex works collaboratively with clients in the healthcare sector to identify high impact opportunities across AI, Ambient Voice Technology (AVT), digital strategy and transformation.
Barry Downes - CEO, Affidea UK
Barry Downes is Chief Executive Officer of Affidea, UK & Ireland. He brings extensive leadership experience across operations, business development and transformation, having begun his career in engineering before moving into senior leadership roles in Ireland and Canada, including the turnaround of a private equity-backed business. Since joining Affidea in 2017, he has led significant growth and transformation across both markets, expanding Affidea’s footprint in diagnostics and out-of-hospital specialist care. In the UK, this includes the development of Affidea’s new 33,000 sq ft flagship ambulatory clinic in Wimbledon Quarter, one of Southwest London’s major retail and leisure destinations, its ownership of Fortius Clinic, and its strategic partnership with LIPS Healthcare, including a new 40,000 sq ft multispecialty clinic on Prince of Wales Drive and the expansion of its existing Battersea Power Station clinic. Barry is also overseeing major growth in Northern Ireland, including a 100,000 sq ft healthcare facility on Belfast’s Boucher Road. These investments reflect Affidea’s ambition to build a broader UK network, backed by the scale and experience of a European healthcare group operating more than 420 centres across 14 countries.
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Speakers Dr Anesh Shetty - Board Member, Narayana Health
Dr Anesh Shetty is a Director and Board Member of Narayana Health (NH), a leading healthcare group headquartered in India, where he oversees the Group’s businesses and investments in the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.
Founded in 2000, Narayana Health has grown into one of India’s largest hospital groups and is publicly listed in India. Internationally, NH owns Practice Plus Group, a major independent provider of NHS-funded and private healthcare in the UK, and Health City Cayman Islands, the Caribbean’s largest provider of tertiary healthcare. A medical doctor by training, Dr Shetty began his career at Narayana Health, working with the Group CEO on strategic and organisation-wide initiatives. He completed his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2021 and subsequently worked in healthcare investing and health technology in the United States with General Catalyst and Commure, before returning to Narayana Health.
Benedict Heaver - CEO, Streets Heaver
Benedict Heaver is Chief Executive Officer of Streets Heaver, a UK healthcare technology company that has been transforming private healthcare for four decades. Having joined the business in 1999, Ben has spent 27 years helping shape the company’s strategy, technology and culture, progressing through multiple roles before becoming CEO.
With more than 20 years of leadership experience, Ben has played a pivotal role in Streets Heaver’s growth from a specialist software provider into one of the UK’s leading private healthcare technology companies. Under his leadership, the business has grown from 18 employees to more than 100, achieving sustained annual growth while continuing to invest heavily in innovation, customer success and its people. Ben’s career combines strategic leadership with deep technical and operational knowledge. He was instrumental in delivering the early NHS Choose and Book programme across ISTC and ECN sites and led the establishment of Streets Heaver’s Microsoft-certified data centre, helping lay the foundations for the company’s modern cloud platform. Today, the Compucare System supports more than £1.5 billion of private healthcare revenue annually, enabling organisations including BUPA Cromwell Hospital, King Edward VII’s Hospital and many of the UK’s leading independent healthcare providers. A passionate advocate for empowering people, Ben believes the role of a CEO is to create an environment where talented individuals can thrive, innovate and exceed their own expectations. This philosophy is reflected in Streets Heaver’s mission: “To be curious enough to dream the impossible, and brave enough to make it a reality.” Under his leadership, the company also became a Certified B Corporation, demonstrating its commitment to responsible growth, ethical leadership and creating long-term value for customers, employees and the wider healthcare sector
Cara McDonagh - Head of Communications, IHPN
Cara McDonagh is Director of Communications at the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), which represents independent organisations delivering NHS and privately funded healthcare across the UK. Cara has more than 20 years’ experience in senior communications and engagement roles across health and social care. Before joining IHPN, she was Director of People and Communications at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She has also held senior communications roles at NHS England, where she worked on major programmes of health service transformation, and at the NHS Confederation. She has extensive experience in strategic communications, media relations, stakeholder engagement and communicating complex health policy to a wide range of audiences.
Daniel Bulkin - CEO, Healistic
Daniel Bulkin is the founder and CEO of Healistic, a UK-based healthtech platform digitally connecting clinics, pharmacies and patients. Healistic enables clinicians to prescribe medications in a matter of seconds, with prescriptions seamlessly fulfilled through Healistic’s nationwide network of trusted pharmacy partners. Medications are delivered directly to patients’ homes within hours. Daniel previously founded a series of other businesses and runs an investment syndicate, backing early-stage businesses across Europe. Before becoming an operator, he was an Investment Manager at Private Equity firm H.I.G. Capital, executing on healthcare and technology investments. His board involvements included HCS Group, McDonalds Nordics and Welcome Hotels.
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David Hare - CEO, IHPN
David joined the organisation in 2014 as Chief Executive and has gone on to build the single representative body -the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) across the UK private healthcare industry, consolidating industry representation and growing membership from just over 20 members to 100 today. Before joining IHPN, David helped to establish a top 7 0 UK political communications company and he has also been the Director of Strategy for a major trade association in the healthcare infrastructure sector.
David regularly contributes to the policy debate about the role of private healthcare in the UK through the media and Parliamentary Select Committee appearances and engages extensively with government, Non¬ Departmental Public Bodies and regulators across all four nations of the UK on behalf of IHPN members.
David was awarded an MBE in the 2023 New Year’s Honours for services to healthcare, particularly during Covid. David was also recognised for the ‘outstanding contribution’ award at the 2022 LaingBuisson Awards for his ‘overwhelmingly positive influence in the health and care sector’.
Emma Galland - Partner, Hill Dickinson
I’m a partner and solicitor-advocate specialising in healthcare and administrative law, with a client portfolio that includes NHS trusts, independent providers, regulators and individual practitioners.
Being a solicitor-advocate means I’m often in court representing clients at Coroner’s Inquests, in the High Court (Family Division).
and in the Court of Protection. Higher Court cases are usually complex and can often be very sensitive or difficult for those involved, so I pride myself on being approachable - my clients find it easy to speak to me and appreciate that I avoid unnecessary legalese and always aim to keep my advice user-friendly. The most rewarding part of my work is finding solutions to urgent or complex issues while keeping my clients’ requirements at the front-of-mind, so it’s really good to know they regard me as a trusted and safe pair of hands.
Hannah Haines - Head of Consultancy, Christie & Co
Hannah is Head of Consultancy at Christie & Co and leads on projects for our healthcare clients across the UK. With extensive experience supporting some of the country’s largest independent healthcare providers and medical businesses, she has played a key role in many of Christie & Co’s most significant healthcare transactions.
Drawing on extensive market and transaction experience, Hannah advises healthcare providers, investors, and operators on growth and acquisition strategies, benchmarking, and commercial due diligence. Her work provides valuable insight into the trends shaping the sector, including policy direction, provider performance, investment activity, and the evolving opportunities facing independent healthcare organisations. In her spare time, she plays with her beautiful cat Olive who is the fluffiest cat you’ll ever see.
Dr Ian Gargan - CEO, PHIN
Dr Ian Gargan is the Chief Executive of the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), a UK government-mandated, independent organisation dedicated to improving transparency and outcomes in private healthcare. He joined PHIN in September 2022, bringing with him a unique blend of clinical and strategic expertise as both an orthopaedic surgeon and a qualified psychologist. With a career spanning both public and private healthcare sectors, Dr Gargan has led organisations focused on using data to drive improvements in patient care. At PHIN, he has championed a mission to “serve the patient, support the stakeholder, and deliver the Order”—a reference to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order, which PHIN is responsible for implementing. Under his leadership, PHIN has undergone significant transformation. In 2024, the organisation successfully delivered Stage 1 (bronze) of the CMA Order and is on track to deliver Stage 2 (silver) at the end of September 2025. Dr Gargan has positioned PHIN as a pivotal player in the UK healthcare landscape, advocating for the secure and effective sharing of data between the NHS and the independent sector to support informed patient choice and improved service quality.
He is known for his data-driven approach, collaborative leadership style, and commitment to ensuring that patients have access to clear, reliable information to guide their healthcare decisions.
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Speakers Ken Anderson - CEO, 10M Healthcare
Ken Anderson brings more than three decades of international experience at the intersection of healthcare delivery, finance, and reform. He began his career in the United States, where he and his wife Pamela founded and expanded a successful multi-state rehabilitation business, later acquired by Columbia Healthcare (now HCA). Ken has advised governments and leading global healthcare organizations on transformation, investment, and policy as Senior Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Minister of Health from 2016 to 2020, he helped design and implement the new delivery model for the Saudi Healthcare Transformation Programme, part of Vision 2030. Ken is Adjunct Professor of Finance and Health Management at Imperial College Business School, serves on the board of Texas A&M University’s Biotechnology
Commercialisation Company and advises NEOM’s “The Line” development in Saudi Arabia.
Liz Heath - Consultant, LaingBuisson
Liz Heath is a marketing and communications professional with extensive experience in the independent and public healthcare sectors. She is a recognised researcher, author and commentator on key private healthcare markets including self-pay, cosmetic surgery, cosmetic dentistry and NHS private patient units. Liz also has board experience as a non-executive director of an acute hospital Trust including roles as Deputy Chair and Senior Independent Director.
Liz spent 13 years with BMI Healthcare, ultimately as divisional marketing director. She has spent nearly 30 years in consultancy working with clients in the health and care sectors including some with national and international profiles.
Leigh Stanger - Client Director, Marsh
Leigh Stanger is a Client Director at Marsh and one of the business’s Industry Insight Leaders, responsible for leading strategic relationships and delivering successful outcomes for a portfolio of key clients. With more than 12 years’ experience in health and employee benefits, Leigh began his career at Vitality Health before moving into consulting seven years ago, joining Marsh four years ago. His background across healthcare and protection gives him a strong technical understanding of the market, combined with a practical focus on client strategy, affordability, and workforce wellbeing. In addition to his client leadership role, Leigh is an advocate for Marsh’s Workplace Health Consulting practice, helping organizations address employee and organizational health challenges through data-led insight and tailored solutions. He is particularly passionate about improving health, wellbeing, and clinical outcomes for clients and their employees.
Mark Hitchman - Managing Director, Canon Medical
Leading from the front, Mark Hitchman has the innate ability to put people at ease, communicate with professionalism and energise those around him.
He began his career in medical imaging at NHS Lincolnshire, where, as Head of CT Imaging, he was involved in the installation of one of the UK’s first Toshiba Medical CTs. He later joined Toshiba as a Clinical Specialist, training radiologists and radiographers across Europe, before holding roles as CT Product Manager at Philips Medical Systems BV and Managing Director at radiotherapy company Nucletron. In 2011, he returned to Toshiba Medical Systems as Managing Director, which was acquired by Canon Inc. in 2016.
Under his leadership, Mark has steered an expanding team of product, service and support professionals while responding to growing patient demand and workforce pressures. During the Covid pandemic, he helped deliver relocatable CT units to NHS hospitals requiring extra or separate imaging capacity. He has also strengthened research collaborations with academia, the NHS and wider industry, alongside long-term partnerships such as Manchester United. Mark has also championed environmental and social responsibility, helping take Canon Medical UK to net-zero carbon status and supporting initiatives including Support Dogs and Sheffield Sharks Basketball Club’s RESPECT schools programme.
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Mark Kildea - CEO, Howard DeWalden
Mark joined The Howard de Walden Estate as Finance Director in July 2011 and became Chief Executive in September 2020. He leads and sets the strategy for the business, focussing on the strength of its Marylebone location, its unique health district, family ownership, and long-term investment horizon. He is the member of the Executive Team responsible for strategy, people and sustainability. Prior to joining the Estate, Mark was Group Treasurer for 16 years at Capital Shopping Centres Group, with responsibility for arranging and managing the Group’s borrowings of approximately £3 billion. He left shortly after completing the demerger of the Group’s two divisions: Capital Shopping and Capital & Counties. Prior to this he spent seven years in banking.
Mark Southern - Executive Director, WPA
Mark joined WPA in 2008 and has held a number of roles across the business. He is currently the Sales and Marketing Director with responsibility for Distribution across WPA. He is also the Chief Executive of the Group’s health insurance intermediary, WPA Healthcare Practice Plc. Prior to joining WPA, Mark was a Royal Marines Commando Officer.
Dr Nathan Kasivisvanathan - CMO, London Clinic
Dr Nathan Kasivisvanathan is Chief Medical Officer at The London Clinic, the UK’s largest independent hospital by patient volume, offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of medical and service lines in the UK private sector. In this role, he provides executive leadership across all medical services, with responsibility for medical strategy, clinical governance, patient safety, quality, research, and innovation. He also plays a key role in shaping strategic commercial partnerships and driving clinical service growth. He previously served as Medical Director at Circle Health Group, the UK’s largest private healthcare provider, where he provided executive medical leadership across a national network of 54 hospitals, with responsibility for the performance of over 6,000 doctors. Prior to this, he held several senior leadership positions at the world-renowned cancer centre The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, including Clinical Director of Surgery and Inpatient Care, and Head of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine. Clinically, Dr Kasivisvanathan is a practising consultant anaesthetist with a distinguished record of national leadership, including as National Clinical Director of Anaesthesia and as a Board member of the UK Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network — roles in which he has contributed significantly to the advancement of surgery, anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, research, and clinical standards across the UK. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, secured research grants, and held editorial responsibilities for leading medical journals. Dr Kasivisvanathan is a national and international speaker on healthcare leadership, patient safety, perioperative medicine, healthcare innovation, and digital transformation.
Patrick Dawkes - Head of Trading - Hospitals & Primary Care, Nuffield Health
Patrick is an experienced healthcare leader and Head of Trading at Nuffield Health, with over 12 years driving performance across hospitals and primary care. He is passionate about translating commercial strategy into improved access, better patient experience and outcomes, and achieving meaningful social impact.
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Speakers Professor William Ribbans - CMO, Milton Keynes
Bill has been a Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant since 1991. He has held appointments during that time at the Royal Free, Hampstead and Northampton General Hospital. He entered full-time private practice in 2012. He is Professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Northampton.
His sub-specialty interest has been lower limb surgery and care of the elite athlete. He is an active researcher and educator. He has recently written two books: Knife in the Fast Lane (2020) and A Plague on all our Sports (2024). He undertakes a lot of media work: TV; radio, written media; and podcasts.
He has been in private practice in various locations over the last 35 years: Harley Street, Wellington and St John and St Elizabeth Hospitals in London during the 1990s. In Northamptonshire, his surgical work was predominantly at Circle and Ramsay hospitals. From 2011-2026, he opened, with a colleague, his own clinic, The County Clinic, for out-patient work. It was CQC registered and had contracts with all major health insurance groups. Since earlier this year, he has been appointed as CMO at Bloom Health in Milton Keynes.
Richard Aris - Director of Strategic Partnerships and External Affairs, Healthcode
Richard Aris is Director of Strategic Partnerships and External Affairs at Healthcode, with a background as Head of Business Development.. His role is increasingly customer facing, focused on working closely with insurers, providers, and partners to identify strategic opportunities as the private healthcare landscape evolves. He works with both new and existing customers to help them navigate change, helping organisations respond to shifting funding models, increasing complexity, and rising expectations around efficiency, transparency, and patient experience across healthcare.
Dr Rishi Patel - Clinical Operations Director, Vitality
Rishi is the Clinical Operations Director at Vitality Health, responsible for driving excellence in clinical functions, and efficiency across end-to-end claims operational processes. Rishi qualified as a doctor in 2012 and has experience working clinically in hospital and community settings, both in the UK and Australia. He also has an academic background having worked in international clinical trials and holds a Masters (MSc) in Global Health and Epidemiology from Oxford University. Rishi worked as a public health doctor in the NHS between 2018 and 2021, prior to spending 4 years at Bupa where he led a number of large-scale clinical transformation initiatives across the UK and global businesses.
Rob Findlay - Director of Strategic Solutions, Insource
Rob is a specialist in NHS elective waiting times. He writes a column for the Health Service Journal, works with hospitals on planning and managing waiting times, and commentates in the media. Previously he worked for the NHS, HM Treasury, and in science.
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Peter Wickham - Division Director, Howden
Peter Wickham, Divisional Director at Howden Health & Care, has more than 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry, specialising in medical malpractice and healthcare risk across the full spectrum of the healthcare sector. He works with a diverse range of organisations, from hospitals, clinics and individual practitioners to National Governing Bodies, professional associations, and high-profile sports clubs. Alongside his extensive expertise in medical malpractice, Pete also advises life sciences businesses, including research and development organisations, helping them navigate complex and evolving risks at every stage of growth.
Pete is known for taking the time to understand what matters most to every stakeholder involved, enabling him to develop tailored insurance and risk management solutions that support long-term success. Passionate about solving problems, he works closely with clients to identify practical, innovative approaches to even the most complex challenges. Whether partnering with ambitious start-ups, rapidly growing businesses or well-established organisations, Pete combines deep sector knowledge with a collaborative approach to help clients achieve their objectives with confidence.
Sarah Taylor - Director of Corporate Healthcare Proposition, Healix Health
Sarah Taylor is Director of Corporate Healthcare Proposition at Healix Health. She is a senior clinical leader specialising in corporate healthcare strategy and population health. With extensive experience working with employer-funded healthcare schemes, Sarah focuses on how data, clinical insight and benefit design can be used to improve workforce outcomes, reduce long-term risk and create more sustainable approaches to employee health.
Dr William Cook - Commercial Partnerships – UK & Ireland, Tandem Health
William Cook is a UK-trained doctor and orthopaedic surgeon turned health tech commercial leader, with 6+ years’ experience scaling health technology companies in the UK and internationally. He now leads enterprise sales and commercial partnerships for the Tandem Health, the clinical AI company building an AI operating system for healthcare.
Will Temple - Managing Director, CorityMeddbase
Will Temple is the co-founder of Meddbase, with over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology. His early work building IT infrastructure for healthcare providers gave him first-hand insight into the operational challenges facing clinical teams, inspiring him to co-found Meddbase in 2004 and help pioneer secure, cloud-based clinical software.
As Managing Director, he helped grow the business into an international platform used by major healthcare organisations, including Bupa, HCA and International SOS. Working closely with these providers, he helped shape its development into a comprehensive system connecting patient care, complex employer contracts and financial operations, enabling healthcare organisations to scale while maintaining quality of care. Today, Meddbase supports more than one million patient appointments each year. Acquired by Cority in 2025, the business now operates as Cority Meddbase.
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Healistic is a leading healthtech platform empowering clinicians with a safe, secure, and highly efficient solution for issuing private e-prescriptions. Their technology enables healthcare professionals to prescribe medications in a matter of seconds, with prescriptions seamlessly fulfilled through Healistic’s nationwide network of trusted pharmacy partners. Medications are delivered directly to patients’ homes within hours, ensuring timely access to treatment and enhancing patient care.
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At Canon Medical, providing effective healthcare solutions that enhance workflow and productivity is at the heart of our “Made for Life” philosophy. Solutions that address our customers’ specific business needs help improve life for everyone. Our goal is to deliver optimum health opportunities for patients through uncompromised performance, comfort, and safety features in workflow spaces designed to enhance efficiency.
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Streets Heaver is an industry-leader in innovative, private healthcare software. For 40 years our future-proofed solution, Compucare®, has been trusted by top health organisations of all sizes, delivering a robust end-to-end system that cuts costs, whilst maximising productivity through smarter processes. Compucare optimises and streamlines everything from the initial referral, scheduling of appointments, and patient pathway, through to billing, invoicing, and full credit control. Hosted in secure Microsoft-certified cloud databases, Compucare is continuously developed in-house to meet the changing requirements of healthcare professionals across the private sector. Ensuring you’re always up-to-date with the latest enhancements and the very best security.
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An unpredictable world calls for a progressive-thinking law firm that’s aligned to your ambitions. At Hill Dickinson, we thrive on delivering clarity in complexity, through trusted relationships, deep expertise and human connection. Drawing on decades of advising health and social care organisations, we bring a unique perspective on the distinct pressures facing the independent healthcare sector. Our team partners with organisations ranging from national hospital groups to specialist clinics and groups of doctors, providing tailored guidance across clinical and corporate governance, employment law, technology and other commercial contracts, intellectual property, corporate transactions and property matters. Hill Dickinson is a law firm that is committed to achieving the right outcome for you.
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Tandem Health builds an AI medical assistant for European clinics, embedded directly into clinical workflows to help clinicians document, decide, and act in real time. Used by 10,000+ care organisations across 12+ markets, Tandem integrates with 130+ health record systems and meets top European standards for compliance, security, and clinical safety.
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Heidi is your AI Care Partner, on a mission to double the world’s capacity for care. Founded in Melbourne, Heidi now supports clinicians in over 190 countries, across 200+ specialties. UK clinicians run more than 557,000 consultations using Heidi’s ambient scribe every week. For private hospitals, Heidi now goes further. Clinical coding proposes CCSD, ICD-10 and OPCS-4 codes from the documented episode for your coders to approve, shortening the path from clinic to invoice. Evidence gives clinicians citation-backed answers from guidelines and peer-reviewed sources. Heidi Remote is our hardware device built for the ward round, where documentation happens nowhere near a desk. Built by clinicians, for clinicians, Heidi connects to the EPR and PAS systems private hospitals already run, and meets the security, privacy and compliance bar clinical work demands. Faster letters in outpatients, cleaner inpatient records, lower admin cost across every site.
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Cority Meddbase is the multi-clinic practice management platform that helps growing practices run every clinic like their best one. By bringing scheduling, clinical records, patient communications, and billing into one system, owners can grow their clinic footprint while staying in control protecting revenue, their time, and the patient experience. Private healthcare practices across the UK trust Cority Meddbase to manage more than 1 million patient appointments every year.
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From wet lab to final report, Diagnexia gives NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers consistent, subspecialist-quality histopathology at scale. Handling 180,000+ cases a year across 32+ NHS Trusts and the independent sector, our pathologist network is backed by AI-supported case routing and scan-quality checks, with every report signed out by a GMC-registered subspecialist.
Aexis Medical helps independent providers run smarter perioperative care. Our XLine platform unifies procedure planning, patient flow, traceability, and compliance reporting in one real-time system, cutting admin burden and risk: 200+ implementations; 20 years’ experience; NEDi2 compliant; GS1 UK approved; and Cyber Essentials Plus certified. Let’s talk.
At Alpha Health Partners, we support healthcare organisations from any stage of their journey. From the start-up phase, through to established facilities who may wish to significantly enhance business operations and governance processes, achieve greater profitability, develop their market presence and propel the business to new heights.
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Pharmacierge is the UK’s leading ePrescribing platform and private prescription delivery service. Its free clinician app, mPrescribe®, streamlines prescriber workflows, saving time and delighting patients. Prescriptions are managed at our robot-enabled dispensary in the Harley Street Health District. Trusted, discreet, and efficient, Pharmacierge supports thousands of practitioners across all specialities.
Healthcode provides intelligent online solutions for the healthcare sector. Established in 2000 as the official medical invoicing company, Healthcode clears around 12 million invoices a year worth over £5bn. Its solutions – Prescribing, ePractice, PPR and ICE, help practitioners, hospitals and insurers improve their ways of working and deliver better care.
THEMIS Clinical Defence revolutionises healthcare indemnity with specialist, contractual protection tailored exclusively for clinical professionals and institutions. Our comprehensive policies ensure clear, non-discretionary cover, safeguarding clinicians from negligence claims and protecting hospitals with bespoke corporate indemnity. Driven by realtime claims data, competitive premiums, and expert underwriting, our service combines robust risk management with exceptional, personalised support. Backed by a dedicated Clinical Governance and Claims team, we empower practitioners to focus on patient care, confident in our secure, forward-thinking indemnity solutions.
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Skin Analytics are helping more people survive skin cancer. By leveraging DERM, the only Class III CE mark AI as a medical device for dermatology, Skin Analytics helps NHS and Private Healthcare dermatology teams build world-leading skin cancer pathways that enable better patient outcomes and sustainability for health systems, globally.
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Delegates First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Abby
Cable
The Royal Marsden - Private Care Commercial Director
Abi
Stapleton
Cleveland Clinic
CCO
Adrian
Stevensen
Independent Care
Chief Executive Officer
Adrian
Nye
Aviva
Supply Chain Director
Aileen
Wu
Savills (UK) Ltd
Director
Alex
Fairweather
Ideal Health
Client Engagement Manager
Alex
Perry
Nuffield Health
CEO
Alex
Garnham
AbbVie Ltd
Private Healthcare Brand Consultant
Ali
Bahram
Mansfield Advisors
Associate Partner
Alistair
Russell
Imperial College Healthcare
Director of Business Development
Amanda
Williams
Roche Diagnostics
Senior Key Account Manager
Amanda
Wright-Kluger
Bevan Brittan
Partner
Amanda
Jones
SpaMedica
Senior Commercial Manager Freedom Vision
Anastasiia
Seliuk
LaingBuisson
Events Coordinator
Andrea
Mignot
Healistic
Account Executive
Andrew
Griffith
Howard DeWalden
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew
Archibald
Medmin
CEO
Andy
McClure
Beneden
CCO
Andy
Imrie
Ramsay Health Care
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Anesh
Shetty
Narayana Health
Board Member
Annum
Shahid
Aexis Medical
Clinical Solutions Specialist
Anthony
Meyerstone
Mayo Clinic
COO
Arthur
Stephen
Nuffield Health
Chief Medical Officer
Ashleigh
Jay
Elavon
Payments Specialist - Emerging Verticals
Barry
Downes
Affidea UK
CEO
Ben
Webber
Heidi Health
Account Executive
Ben
White
AXA Health
Senior Strategy Manager
Benedict
Heaver
Streets Heaver
Chief Executive Officer
Bethan
Griffiths
Healthcare Management Trust
Executive Director of Finance & Procurement
Cara
McDonagh
IHPN
Head of Communications
Carl
May-Smith
Hill Dickinson
Partner
Carly
Caton
Browne Jacobson
Commercial Healthcare Partner
Caroline
Smith
Maulin Group
Group President, Healthcare Professional Services
Caroline
Frayer
MDU Services
Professional Services Director
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First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
Catherine
Tilson
Toca.Health
Business Development Manager
Charli-Ann
Lynch
Diagnexia
Commercial Marketing Specialist
Charlie
Wilyman
Semble
Director of Sales
Charlie
MacEwan
WPA Health
Corporate Communications Director
Chengetayi
Pswarayi
Novocure UK Ltd
Director, UK Market Access and Public Affairs
Chinwe
Onyema
Bupa Health Services
Head of Strategic Development
Chris
Gilbert
Vitality Health
Provider Management Director
Claire
Mount
AstraZeneca
Business Insights Manager
Claire
Allen
Practice Plus Group
PR and Comms
Clare
Auty
Hill Dickinson
Partner
Dan
Squirrell
AstraZeneca
Head of Private Partnerships
Dan
Robinson
LaingBuisson
Head of Business and Client Relations
Dana
Lupu
Pharmacierge
Practice Success Lead
Daniel
Bulkin
Healistic
CEO & Founder
Daniel
Parr
Canon Medical
Imaging Systems Business Manager
Daniel
Holland
Ramsay Health Care UK
Commercial Accountant
david
Watson
Exponential-e
Senior Account Manager
David
Hare
IHPN
CEO
David
Johnson
Doctify
Head of Business Development
David
Anderson
Vista Health
Director of Partnerships
David
rowlands
MedicAir Limited
Group Business Development Director
David
Gunn
Spire Healthcare Limited
Commercial Director
Dean
Philpott
Healthcode
Business Development Executive
Dominic
Di Paola
Exponential-e
Account manager
Dr Ian
Gargan
PHIN
CEO
Dr Ravi
Pattanshetty
Affidea UK
Chief Medical Officer
Dr Rishi
Patel
Vitality
Clinical Operations Director
Dr Thomas
Moors
FastTrackTreatment.com
Investor / Partner
Dr Vik
Vasishta
Vista Health
Medical Director
Dr William
Cook
Tandem Health
Commercial Partnerships – UK & Ireland
Edward
Collier
Affidea UK
BD Lead
Edward
Ungar
Pharmacierge
CEO & Co-Founder
Eisha
Rana
Healthcode
Marketing Coordinator
Eliane
Dudley Smith
Semble
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Delegates First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
Elin
Richardson
Horder Healthcare
CEO
Elizabeth
Abraham
Bupa UK Insurance
Head of Clinician Engagement and Proposition
Ellen
Teesdale
Carnall Farrar
Business Development Manager
Em
Spellman
The London Clinic
Chief Operating Officer
Emily
Masey
Electiva Healthcare Ltd
Group Financial Controller
Emma
Galland
Hill Dickinson
Partner
Emma
Robertson
New Victoria Hospital
Business Development Director
Emma
Philips
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Programme Manager - Private Patients
Emma
Mimmack
Lloyds Clinical Ltd
National Business Development Manager
Enda
O'Meara
Affidea UK
Director of Operations
Erich
Klinspon
Healistic
Lead Engineer
Faye
Collins
Collins Consulting Group Ltd
CEO
Filippos
Gkintonis
Cleveland Clinic London
Strategy & Commercial Analyst
Fiona
Booth
FionaB Consultancy Ltd
Stakeholder Engagement Consultant
Gautam
Chawla
HF
Partner
George
Maughan
Themis Clinical Defence
Director of Healthcare Indemnity
George
Cardwell
Cority
Sales Director
Glen
Ferris
Healthcarecare Today
Managing Director
Greeba
Heard
J&J Innovative Medicine
Head of Private Sector
Greg
Thorpe
Battersea Hospital
Hospital Director
Hannah
Haines
Christies and Co
Head of Healthcare Consultancy
Hannah
Browning
Alpha Health Partners
Director
Hannah
Allen
Heidi Health
Chief Medical Officer UK & EU
Harpreet
Sarna
Vitality
Chief Medical Officer
Helga
Grossmann
The London General Practice
Business Development Manager
Henry
Bushell
Heidi Health
Head of Private Healthcare
Henry
Harris
Welbeck Health Partners
Business Development
Holly
Dix
Practice Plus Group
Head of Sales and Marketing
Holly
Johnson
Streets Heaver Healthcare Computing
Marketing Executive
Holly
Durrant
Patients Know Best (PKB)
Lead for the Independent Sector
Irina
Bush
Healthcode
Marketing and Communications Manager
Isabelle
Comber
52North
Commercial Manager
Jack
Crozier
Bupa UK Insurance
Senior Product Manager
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First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
Jacob
Barnes
Streets Heaver
Customer Account Executive
Jakob
Strandgaard
ABPI
International Policy Manager
James
Armstrong
AstraZeneca
Private Healthcare Manager
James
Hudson
Benenden Health
Research and Insight Manager
James
Hanson
WSP
Director - Property Transactions Lead
Jamie
Foster
Hill Dickinson
Partner
Jasy
Loyal
Alpha Health Partners
Director
Jenifer
Mitchell
Bupa UK Insurance
Insights Manager
Jennette
Newman
HF
Partner
Jo
Patterson
Novocure UK Ltd
Key Account and Marketing Manager
Joe
Perry
LaingBuisson
Manager of Consumer Healthcare
Jon
Twinn
Top Doctors
Head of UK B2B
Jonah
Pain
Streets Heaver
Senior Customer Account Executive
Jordan
Mepham
Imperial College Healthcare
Service Manager
Julia
Suckling
JS Health Consulting
Director
Julie
Walker
Affidea UK
UK Marketing Lead
Karen
Woodley
The Exeter
Head of Healthcare Distribution
Karen
Prins
Nuffield Health
Chief Operating Officer
Karl
Hudson
Aviva
Head of Supply Chain Management
Kathleen
Armstrong
Guy’s and St Thomas’
Marketing Executive
Katie
Baker
Tandem Health
Director UK & Ireland
Ken
Anderson
10M Healthcare
CEO
Kevin
Gilhooly
MRI Software (Healthcare)
Business Development Director
Kevin
McIntosh
PMP
CEO
Kia
Nejad
Heidi Health
Account Executive
Kieran
Aust
Pharmacierge
Practice Support Associate
Kieran
Waterston
Aexis Medical
UK Commercial Director
Kieran
Doona
Lloyds Clinical Ltd
Chief Commercial Officer
Kim
Taylor
Skin Analytics
Strategic Partnerships & Commercial Lead
Kim
Coppin
MedPro
Senior Underwriter, UK and Ireland
Klaudyna
Johnstone
Source BioScience
Commercial Director
Larissa
Stevenson
Aviva
Associate Medical Director
Laura
Bingham
Flexzo AI
Ai Workforce Consultant
Laura
Penn
Penn Power Consulting Ltd
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Delegates First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
Laura
McLaughlin
Electiva Healthcare Ltd
Marketing Director
Lee
Rycroft
Electiva Healthcare Ltd
Chief Clinical Officer
Lee
Mackinnon
Transform Medical Services Limited
Managing Director
Lee
Cavendish
LaingBuisson
Revenue Operations Manager
Leigh
Stanger
Marsh
Client Director
Lena
Klinspon
Ophthalmology
Clinician
Lesley
Laird
PMP
Head of Marketing
Letty
Winterflood-Blood Bevan Brittan
Partner
Lin
Li-Williams
Sirkka Health
Founder & CEO
Linda
Horsfall
Canon Medical
National Sales Manager
Lisa
Jordan
SpaMedica
Chie Commercial Officer
Lisa
Hanson
Electiva Healthcare Ltd
Managing Director
Liz
Heath
LaingBuisson
Consultant and Author
Lizzie
Tuckey
Scan.com
UK MD
Lloyd
Bowden
Healistic
Partnerships Lead
Lorenzo
Mannelli
LMVP Telemedicine
CEO & Founder
Lucy
Hubbard
Diagnexia
Business Development Manager
Lucy
Ball
Fortius Clinic
Director of Radiology
Madeleine
Durand
Bupa UK Insurance
Head of Healthcare Strategy and Governance
Maria
Davies
LaingBuisson
Head of Content
Mark
Kildea
Howard DeWalden
CEO
Mark
Hitchman
Canon Medical
Managing Director
Mark
Southern
WPA
Executive Director
Mark
Wilkinson
Streets Heaver
Customer Success Manager
Mark
Smith
Nuffield Health
Director of PMI
Martin
Taylor-Hemingway
Medical Protection Society
Client Relationship Manager
Martin
Rennison
Spire Healthcare Limited
Group Partnerships Director
Martina
Zagaria
Oxford University Innovation
Senior Licensing Project Manager
Matthew
Chase
Exponential-e
Business Development Manager
Maxine
Wood
Healthcode
Business Development Manager
Mike
Langford
Diagnexia
Senior Director of Clinical Operations UK
Mike
Lord
Quest Medical
Commercial Director
Milan
Anjanappa
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Consultant Oncologist
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First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
MIllie
Lewis
Doctify
Customer Service Lead
Mohsin
Ashraf
GSK
Market Access & Pricing Leader
Morgan
Bullock
Streets Heaver
Marketing Executive.
Myah
Mahal
Nonacus Ltd
Clinical Genomics Account Manager
Nancy
Hollendoner
Smith Square Partners
Senior Adviser
Naomi
Osunde
LaingBuisson
Lead Events Coordinator
Narottam
Thanvi
Thanvi Consultants Ltd
Consultant Oncologist
Natalie
Bingham
Lloyds Clinical Ltd
Head of Cancer and Private Services
Nathan
Kasivisvanathan
London Clinic
CMO
Nathan
Lang
Practice Plus Group
Partnerships Relationships Manager
Neda
Hormozi
Pharmacierge
Practice Support Associate
Neil
Brown
Practice Plus Group
Partnerships Relationships Manager
Nicholas
Whitcher
Aviva
Head of Hospital Management
Nick
Manning-Cork
AstraZeneca
Private Market Medical Lead
Nick
Fox
Imperial College Healthcare
Imperial Private Care Director
Nick
Bills
Source BioScience
Healthcare Director
Nigel
Hawkins
HCA Healthcare UK
Vice President, Commercial
Nina
Vegad
Maulin Group
Partnerships and Investigations Director
Noel
Waters
MDU Services
Head of Distribution and Broker Partnerships
Olivia
McCulloch
MDDUS
Senior Key Account Executive
Pascale
Day
Semble
Content Marketing Manager
Patrick
Webb
CBRE Limited
Senior Director - Healthcare Investment Properties
Patrick
Dawkes
Nuffield Health
Head of Trading - Hospitals and Primary Care
Paul
Hayward
Ramsay Health Care
Head of Commercial Contracts
Peter
Wickham
Howden
Division Director
Pinchas
Kahtan
ABPI
Head of Commercial Policy
Professor William
Ribbans
Bloom Health, Milton Keynes
Consultant Trauma and Orthopedic Surgeon CMO
Raji
Dhaliwal
Johnson & Johnson
Customer Solutions Project Manager
Rammy
Arafa
Stryker
Senior Manager
Ravinder
Punia
Bloom Health Hospitals Ltd
CEO
Rebecca
Bates
Teneo
Director
Rebecca
Middleton
Royal Free London Private Patients Unit
Associate Director of Operations
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Delegates First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
Richard
Aris
Healthcode
Director of Strategic Partnerships and External Affairs
Rob
Findlay
Independent Analyst
NHS Waiting Times Specialist
Rob
Maule
AbbVie Ltd
Business Unit Manager
Robert
Lorenz
Cleveland Clinic
Professor
Robert
Sloan
Healistic
Growth Lead
Ryan
Wong
GSK
Solutions Lead Market Access and Patient Activation
Ryan
Murray
Spire Healthcare Limited
Group Head of Insurer Relations
Sara
Stiddard
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Head of Business Development- Private Patient
Sarah
Haas
HCA Healthcare UK
Head of Business Development – Primary & Urgent Care
Scot
Smith
Active Care Group
Chief Commercial Officer
Sebastein
Dean
Themis Clinical Defence
Senior Associate
Simina
Oprea
Top Doctors
Business Development Manager UK
Simon
Taylor
Canon Medical
Independent Sector Sales Manager
Simon
Cahill
Benenden Health
Digital Experience Manager
Simon
Davis
Nonacus Ltd
Chief Commercial Officer
Siobhan
Mcgarvey
Cleveland Clinic London
Head of Business Development
Stuart
Hymers
Streets Heaver
Chief Commercial Officer
Sylvester
Oppong
Ernst & Young LLP
Partner
Tejiri
Ahweyevu
Guy’s and St Thomas’
Business Development Lead - UK & Asia Heart, Lung and Critical Care
Theodore
Toulson-Roberts
LaingBuisson
Conference Producer
Thomas
Fellows
SpaMedica
Head of Policy And Commercial Diversification
Tim
Williams
My Clinical Outcomes - PROMs
CEO
Tim
Edghill
Space Developments
Principal
Tim
Galliver
Nightingale Hospital
Commercial Director
Timea
Takacs
LaingBuisson
Events Manager
Tom
Parker
Streets Heaver
Customer Account Executive
Tom
Hawkins
Scan.com
VP, Marketing
Tom
Reynolds
MDU Services
Director of Policy & Communications
Tom
Green
Newmedica
Director of New Private Business Development
Umaima
Ahmad
52North
CEO & Co-founder
Vernon
Baxter
Carnall Farrar
Associate Partner
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Last Name
Company Name
Job Title
vickey
Petrie
AXA Health
Senior Strategy Manager
Victoria
Wright
Novocure UK Ltd
General & Country Manager for UK, Canada & Sweden
Will
Temple
Cority Meddbase
Managing Director
Will
Rowberry
Medserv
Chief Commercial Officer
William
Cook
Tandem Health
Commercial Partnerships
William
Laing
LaingBuisson
Executive Chairman
Yasmine
Manshadi
Skin Analytics
Partnership Success Manager
Yvonne
Umebuani Beresford
Vitality
Commercial Medical Director
Zakaria
Khan
Healistic
Head of Business Development
Zoei
Charalambous
4ways
Business Development Manager
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