Linda Watts

Linda Watts is a senior NHS digital transformation leader with more than 20 years’ experience. She has led large-scale clinical systems programmes that digitised more than 19 million patient records across Luton & Dunstable University Hospital and Imperial College Healthcare Trust. She has also served as deputy chief information officer (digital) for the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative, as a strategic adviser to NHS England and is currently head of UK and Ireland NHS strategy and partnerships at XBP Europe.

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    HSJ Partners

    How health record transformation creates capacity for modern healthcare

    2026-09-25T06:00:00

    Health record transformation can address some of the NHS’s most persistent operational pressures: constrained estate, workforce capacity, rising administrative costs, and delayed access to clinical information. The experience of Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare Trust demonstrates how legacy digitisation, day-forward scanning, and modern digital governance can turn ...