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Victor Adebowale

Chief executive, Turning Point

Lord Adebowale is widely crediting with changing the way in which the third sector works with the NHS, as well as public perceptions of mental health. Since 2001, he has been chief executive of Turning Point, a social enterprise delivering NHS services to people with complex needs, such as alcohol and drug misuse and learning disabilities. He is also a member of the NHS Future Forum on integrated services and sits on the board of NHS England.

What the judges said: “Victor has been a service user and patient advocate, consistently, over a decade.”

Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Founder and chief executive, Patients Know Best

Dr Al-Ubaydli founded the social enterprise Patients Know Best to help patients understand their health records and collaborate with clinicians. PKB was the first company to integrate into the NHS Connecting for Health network. He has over 15 years’ experience in medical software and has focused on researching personal health records. He was elected an Ashoka Fellow as a social entrepreneur for the contributions he has made to patient care.

What the judges said: “He has helped patients with rare diseases.”

Dr Steve Allder

Consultant neurologist, Plymouth Hospitals Trust

A hospital clinician who has followed improvement science and made a transformational change in stroke care, Dr Allder is passionate about utilising clinical systems engineering to improve patient care. The reforms he initiated at Plymouth resulted in shorter hospital stays for patients, a cut in costs and higher morale among staff. He has been instrumental in transforming stroke care and saving lives.

What the judges said: “He’s a role model of a clinical leader who takes improvement science and builds it into everything he does.”

Dr Neil Bacon

Founder of doctors.net.uk and chief executive and founder of iWantGreatCare

Doctors.net.uk was founded by Dr Bacon in 1998 and has become one of the world’s largest doctors’ networks, providing communications, innovative collaboration and training to a member base comprising more than 150,000 doctors in the UK. More than 45,000 doctors use the website each day to network with colleagues and view information. More recently the former nephrologist set up iWantGreatCare, a website which enables patients to provide feedback on doctors, dentists, hospitals, GP practices, medicines, pharmacies and nursing homes.

Mark Barrett

Service delivery manager, Health and Social Care Information Centre and co-founder of Leeds Data Thing, creator of GP Ratings for iPhone

Mark created the GP Ratings iPhone app, which helps patients pick a good GP surgery in their area. The app uses 42 million pieces of data (an average of 4,000 ratings per surgery) to surface data in an understandable format − star ratings. He also co-founded Leeds Data Thing, a group to explore the benefits of open data across industry within the city.

What the judges said: “He created GP Ratings, which has a new way of handling GP data. He’s become a leading light locally in open data.”

Helen Bevan

Delivery team, NHS Improving Quality

The former chief of service transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Helen has worked in the field of healthcare improvement at local, national and international level. In 2008, the 60th anniversary of the NHS, she was named one of the 60 most influential people in the history of the NHS and in 2010 one of the top 10 NHS opinion formers. She now becomes one of HSJ’s top innovators.

What the judges said: “She was instrumental in the NHS Change Day. She’s got to be in.”

Dr Jonathan Bloor and Dr Jonathon Shaw

Co-founders of DocCom

The cloud-based networking platform for healthcare professionals and organisations allows people working in healthcare to connect and collaborate - the aim is to promote increased productivity, efficiency, safety, engagement and improved outcomes. Current partners include Microsoft, the National Patient Safety Agency, the Severn Deanery and University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust. DocCom was selected by the UK Technology Strategy Board as one of the UK’s top 20 emerging health tech companies.

What the judges said: “They are doing some innovative things around opening up communication among junior doctors.”

Ben Bridgewater

Cardiothoracic surgeon, South Manchester University Trust

Ben leads the programme to collect, analyse and publish data on cardiac surgical outcomes in the UK and runs an active research programme which develops methodologies for analysis. Since March 2013, he has been director of outcomes publication at the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, which will publish clinical outcomes for nine surgical specialties and interventional cardiology on behalf of NHS England.

What the judges said: “He has led the thinking around care quality indicators and risk stratification in cardiothoracic surgery and has opened up outcome data. One of the leaders in measuring quality in the NHS.”

Professor Iain Buchan

Professor of public health informatics, Manchester University

He built the NHS e-Lab and uses big data for complex models of health and disease. Professor Buchan’s research focuses on building usefully complex models of health and connecting patients and health professionals with health data in more informative ways. He has a long history in this area and as a junior doctor developed software to support care pathways between primary and secondary care.

What the judges said: “He’s made Manchester a leading place in the world in terms of informatics. He’s a leading light on data and trying to understand it.”

Sir Harry Burns

Chief medical officer, Scotland

He is known for his work on social inequalities in health in Scotland and patient safety. A trained surgeon and former director of public health, Sir Harry gained insight into the complex inter-relationships between economic status and illness when he worked with patients in Glasgow’s east end. As lead clinician in Scotland for cancer care he developed Managed Cancer Networks and helped reorganise cancer services in Scotland.

What the judges said: “He’s done some amazing stuff around health inequalities nationally and internationally. He uses data to reframe a really challenging issue that people never engage with, and he’s engaging with people as a consequence.”

Dr Gordon Caldwell

Consultant physician and clinical tutor, Western Sussex Hospitals Trust

Dr Caldwell’s innovative work includes investigating ways to improve ward round processes and practices. He called for a diagnostic cockpit for doctors to reduce interruptions and the possibility of errors, believing that improving patient safety requires healthcare professionals to be alert and watch out for distractions.

What the judges said: “He’s awesome. He’s been doing innovative work around ward rounds in particular. He’s invited lots of people to see what he’s doing, he’s written lots of stuff. He doesn’t have any titles but he’s probably the most innovative person I know.”

Professor Lyn Chitty

Consultant in genetics and foetal medicine, University College London Hospitals Trust, and professor of genetics and foetal medicine at UCL Institute of Child Health

Professor Chitty is at the forefront internationally in developing safer, non-invasive ways to determine the health of unborn babies. She established a method using tiny quantities of foetal DNA in the mother’s blood to confirm the sex of children at risk of inheriting a sex-linked disease. She is currently working on non-invasive testing for Down’s syndrome and other single gene disorders.

What the judges said: “She invented a test which replaces the amniocentesis test, which is risky and not always right. Her genetic test is not risky and is always right, and it is about to take over the whole NHS and spread across the world.”

Maxine Craig

Organisational development lead, South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust

With her roots in nursing, Maxine’s passion is helping NHS people live their values and flourish in their teams. She is a self-professed “advocate of honest conversations that keep our patients safe”. Maxine is also a visiting professor at the University of Sunderland.

What the judges said: “She does more innovation around organisational development than anybody else I know. She’s very influential nationally as well, through the organisational development community but particularly around some of the work she’s doing on teams and thinking differently about team-based working.”

David Dalton

Chief executive, Salford Hospitals Foundation Trust

He was singled out by health secretary Jeremy Hunt as one of the two NHS trust chief executives who are leading innovation in the NHS. He led the development - and is now chair - of NHS QUEST, a network of foundation trusts focused on improving quality and safety. He also leads the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network, whose aim is to improve health by adopting best practice. David set a trust ambition to be the safest organisation in the NHS and to that end is involving staff in improvement science.

Lord Ara Darzi

Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation and chair of Imperial College Health Partners

Lord Darzi is renowned for his research on achieving best surgical practice through innovation and enhancing patient safety and the quality of healthcare. His report, High Quality Care for All, made quality of services the organising principle for the NHS. He put the quality of care patients receive centre stage and reinforced the need to involve doctors, nurses and other professionals in the reform process.

What the judges said: “He’s done very interesting things globally and is continuing to push boundaries.”

Kevin Dean

Health lead, Cisco

Kevin has experience in numerous aspects of health IT strategy and execution, especially in large scale programmes at the leading edge of health knowledge and information use. He has developed IT strategies for some of the world’s largest and most innovative healthcare and provider organisations. He helps healthcare and other public sector leaders use technology to accelerate transformation of their organisations and the healthcare industry. Kevin edited Thought Leaders: Connected Health, a collection of essays from leading health IT thinkers on opportunities for networked healthcare.

What the judges said: “He’s an innovator in IT and in bringing together healthcare and the broader smart cities arrangement.”

Marc Farr

Director of information, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust

He is the founder of Beautiful Information at East Kent, which among other things tracks A&E activity levels. The project won the data/information management category at the 2013 National Patient Safety Awards. Made honorary professor in geomatic and civil engineering at UCL in 2007, his academic research focuses on analysing the relationship between geodemography and health outcomes, including how postcode-level statistics can be used to standardise hospital mortality rates for clinical benchmarking. As head of development at Dr Foster, he oversaw the development of tools for clinical benchmarking, financial management and health needs mapping.

What the judges said: “I’m a fan. Marc is an innovator.”

Professor David Fish

Managing director, UCLPartners

He is the former chair of Monitor’s medical director’s advisory group, where he supported clinical engagement to improve healthcare management across foundation trusts. Committed to recognising medical leadership as a full time specialty, in 2006 Professor Fish became a fellow of the British Association of Medical Managers.

What the judges said: “He’s the managing director of UCLPartners and if ever there were a venture that’s trying to break the mould of NHS top-down management through local partnerships, David is the man who has really led it. His method of driving change through partnerships is innovative for the NHS.”

Patrick Geoghegan

Former chief executive of South Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust

A former member of the HSJ100, Patrick is a passionate leader whose trust was awarded top NHS healthcare employer. His innovations include setting up a management training programme between the trust and Yale University.

What the judges said: “An incredibly innovative manager of an organisation. He’s bristling with innovation and he’s been doing it for a long time.”

Dr Clare Gerada

Chair of the Royal College of GPs and a GP in Lambeth

The outgoing chair of the RCGP (she leaves this month) has been named clinical chair for primary care transformation in London. She has been charged with improving primary care in the capital and addressing variability in performance. Dr Gerada describes herself as a “radical evolutionist”, rejecting disruptive innovation as unnecessarily risky and embracing new technology while preserving the best of current practice.

What the judges said: “Clare is always suggesting different ways of doing things. A great innovator. She pioneered social media and for that work alone she should be on the list.”

Dr Ben Goldacre

Doctor, science writer, academic and Wellcome research fellow in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Bestselling author, broadcaster, campaigner, medical doctor and academic who specialises in unpicking the misuse of science and statistics by journalists, politicians, quacks, drug companies and more. One of HSJ’s top clinical leaders in 2013, Dr Goldacre is an advocate of open publishing and combines his arguments with an explanation of how science works and why the scientific method delivers the best results for human health. He is the author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma.

What the judges said: “He does innovative stuff constantly.”

Dr Allan Goldmann

Consultant and divisional director for critical care services, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust

With a colleague, Dr Goldmann used insights from Formula 1 racing to reduce the transfer time of infants and children from the operating theatre to intensive care - an impressive specialist application of process redesign. He then set up the Risky Business international conferences in which people from high-risk industries share new ideas about managing risk.

What the judges said: “He says there are lessons to be learnt from the way people manage extreme situations well that we can all apply. He’s brilliant.”

Dr Kate Granger

Registrar in elderly medicine at Pinderfields Hospital, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust

Dr Granger is a terminally ill doctor who has shared her experiences of being treated by the profession of which she is a member. She is inspiring doctors to recognise the impact of their communications on their patients from The Other Side (the name of her first book). Dr Granger has published a follow-up book called The Brighter Side. One of HSJ’s Inspirational Women in 2013, she is a fantastic example of a health professional selflessly offering her time to help others understand the importance of care of the dying.

What the judges said: “She should fundamentally be on the list.”

Professor Sir Muir Gray

Director, Better Value Healthcare

He pioneered Britain’s breast and cervical cancer screening programme and became the director of the UK National Screening Programme. He set up the National Library for Health and was director of clinical knowledge, process and safety for the NHS. Professor Sir Muir remains still influential after 35 years in the field, being named one of our top clinical leaders in 2013. He has long advocated evidence-based care and it is anticipated he will continue to be a figure of influence as new programmes emerge.

What the judges said: “He’s absolutely wonderful. His contribution is amazing and he’s still doing stuff.”

Dr Trisha Greenhalgh

Co-director of the global health, policy and innovation unit, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

A recognised academic in primary health care who explores complex, policy-related issues in contemporary healthcare, as well as a GP in north London. Trisha uses innovative interdisciplinary approaches, drawing on narrative, ethnographic and participatory methods, to explore complex, policy-related issues in contemporary healthcare. She has a strong research interest in the interface between sociology and medicine.

What the judges said: “A leading thinker in terms of challenging conventional models of academic knowledge creation. Highly influential, very focused on needy communities.”

Frank Hester

Chief executive and founder, TPP

Inspired by his wife’s work as a GP, Frank has dedicated his career to developing technology to enable better patient care. He founded TPP 15 years ago. The company currently has 150,000 NHS staff using their SystmOne solution and it holds records for nearly 30 million patients. Last year Frank helped to develop ResearchOne, the largest medical database in the world, alongside staff at Leeds University.

What the judges said: “TPP is the informatics leader in integrated care and Frank Hester is clearly the innovator in that company. They are really joining healthcare together.”

Dr Paul Hodgkin

Chief executive, Patient Opinion

A GP for 25 years, Dr Hodgkin founded Patient Opinion in 2005. It is now a leading platform for patients to give feedback on health services. Dr Hodgkin is a graduate of the Young Foundation’s School for Social Entrepreneurs, a columnist for website E-Health Insider and writes articles and papers for newspapers and journals about the future of medicine and how the web is changing healthcare. He was also a member of the Future Forum’s Information work stream during 2011/12.

What the judges said: “Has done fantastic work with Patient Opinion. His articles in EHI around the wider agenda and changes in society have been amazing at raising the level of the discussion.”

Jen Hyatt

Founder and chief executive, Big White Wall

Jen founded the first online community for improving mental and emotional health. Big White Wall combines social networking principles with a choice of clinically informed interventions to improve mental wellbeing. It includes 24/7 guided self-help and individual support by staff trained and supervised by the Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust.

What the judges said: “Big White Wall is an online community for people with mental health issues. Jen is a great champion of crowd sourcing experience and Big White Wall is starting to generate an evidence base for improving outcomes.”

Dr Kerri Jones

Consultant anaesthetist and associate medical director (innovation and improvement), South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust

She is the former national clinical adviser to the Department of Health Enhanced Recovery Programme, which focused on a new, evidence-based model of care that creates fitter patients who recover faster from major surgery. The panel were impressed by her continuing improvement work in Torbay, which focuses on applying the model to non-surgical patients.

What the judges said: “A medic who does brilliant work locally. What she’s doing now is really innovative - she is taking enhanced recovery and applying it to medical patients. A local clinician delivering really good improvement work.”

Tim Kelsey

National director for patients and information, NHS England

Tim founded Dr Foster, a company that pioneered the publication of patient outcomes in healthcare. He is an internationally regarded expert in thinking differently about how digital and social media can transform the customer and patient experience in public services. In 2007 he launched NHS Choices, the national online health information service which now reports around 20 million unique users a month. An advocate of the NHS embracing innovation and partnership with for-profit and not-for-profit entrepreneurs.

What the judges said: “Love him. He’s fantastic.”

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh

Medical director, NHS England

One of the country’s leading heart surgeons and a pioneer of making surgical performance data public, Professor Sir Bruce has a passion for patient safety and continues to campaign for the NHS to publish high quality data, particularly around mortality rates. This year alone he has confronted cosmetic surgery cowboys, halted and then restarted children’s heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and launched the Keogh Mortality Review at 14 hospitals with the worst death rates. Unafraid of a fight and undoubtedly the most influential clinician in the English NHS.

Professor Sir Peng Khaw

Consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust and professor of glaucoma and ocular healing at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

A beacon for innovation, Professor Sir Peng’s long track record of innovative research includes developing new therapies. He has devised surgical techniques which have markedly improved the safety and outcome of glaucoma surgery, and developed new anti-scarring regimens. He has also transformed the management of patients worldwide by integrating fundamental science with improved surgical technique.

What the judges said: “He’s a world-leading surgeon at Moorfields, has got an absolutely innovative approach to linking research and disciplines and is doing it in a very influential way. He’s an incredible lateral thinker.”

Dr Tom Leach

Junior doctor and founder of almostadoctor.com

He founded a free online medical resource for medical students, junior doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. Dr Leach created almostadoctor.com in 2009 as a place to upload his notes to share with his friends. The website now has hundreds of articles, blogs, mind maps and other resources from junior doctors and medical students. By 2012, there were over 2,000 pages of content written by authors from all over the world.

What the judges said: “A young doctor doing interesting things. That’s the kind of person I’d like us to be recognising.”

Dr Sandip Mitra

Consultant nephrologist, Central Manchester Hospitals Foundation Trust

Dr Mitra has enabled patients to perform haemodialysis at home and leads the largest home haemodialysis programme in Europe. By leading transformational change and driving innovation in dialysis delivery, he aims to improve patient experience and outcomes. He is the renal theme lead at Devices for Dignity, a national initiative funded by the National Institute for Health Research. The programme aims to drive forward innovations which help people with long term conditions.

Professor Andrew Morris

Chief scientist for Scotland

An internationally renowned expert in diabetes and health informatics, Professor Morris is co-director of the Medical Research Institute at Dundee University. His research team uses informatics to improve the quality of care, and studies the epidemiology and genetics of diabetes and its complications. Previous roles include lead clinician for diabetes in Scotland from 2002 to 2006, when he led a national programme of quality improvement in diabetes care. In 2007 he co-founded Aridhia Informatics, an innovative healthcare informatics company.

What the judges said: “He’s an international expert in using clinical data effectively.”

Bernadette Porter

Nurse consultant, University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust

The first nurse to be appointed an NHS multiple sclerosis nurse consultant, Bernadette is pioneering a pilot project to give MS patients more control over their own lives and a greater choice in their care. NeuroResponse uses technology and staff expertise to help patients and is initially focusing on providing three core services to people with MS: NeuroDirect, a telephone triage/advice line service staffed by expert MS nurses; NeuroMail, an email advice service that GPs can use to contact a consultant neurologist; and NeuroView, a video clinic linking an expert neurology team with the patient and local clinical team in the patient’s community.

Margaret Rickson

Patient

At 80 years old, Margaret was the first patient in her GP surgery to gain online access to her medical records. This is a lady who hadn’t seen a computer before she was 76. Margaret made a video of how she got access to her records, which is now on the practice website, and she speaks at national conferences about patient access to data.

What the judges said: “She’s shattered the preconceptions that people have that you’ve got to be 20 years old and an IT geek to do this stuff. I’ve heard her speak and she’s brilliant.”

Andrew Ridley

Managing director, North and East London Commissioning Support Unit

Andrew has extensive experience in managing commissioning services. He has held a variety of senior positions in NHS Tower Hamlets, starting as director of primary care in 2005 and ending as acting chief executive in 2011. Prior to that he was director of the modernisation initiative at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust.

What the judges said: “He’s a brilliant commissioner and has always challenged the status quo. He challenged the digital divide and a few years ago got the Bengali community online for immunisations - and he’s still doing that sort of stuff.”

Dr Damian Roland

NIHR doctoral research fellow in paediatric emergency medicine, Leicester University

A co-founder of NHS Change Day, Dr Roland used social media to get 189,000 pledges of action shared (his personal pledge was to taste a variety of the paediatric medicines he prescribes). The initiative won a global challenge for management innovation prize organised by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey and was the biggest day of collective action for improvement in the history of the NHS.

What the judges said: “He’s always doing really innovative things. He’s really active in social media and is an emerging young leader who combines being a clinician with being an improver and a connector.”

David Rosser

Executive medical director of University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust

He developed an electronic system to monitor medication administration. The new IT system saves lives by reminding staff to give patients their drugs. Dr Rosser was also senior responsible owner for Connecting for Health’s e-prescribing programme which provided national guidance on e-prescribing to the Department of Health. In his current role he has executive responsibility for IT and quality. He speaks at conferences about patient safety, the use of information in the NHS, and holding clinicians to account for performance.

What the judges said: “He’s definitely on the list.”

Bibhas Roy

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Central Manchester University Hospitals Trust

About 80 per cent of Mr Roy’s surgery is performed using keyhole techniques. This often means procedures can be performed as day case surgery, enabling patients to return to their daily activities much more quickly than with conventional surgery. Mr Roy has also pioneered the use of real-time patient feedback to tailor follow-up care to individual patients’ needs using a tool called PROMs 2.0. He is the convener of annual PROMs summit.

What the judges said: “He’s done fantastic stuff and has implemented PROMs 2.0 in 14 trusts around the country, so he’s starting to show it’s scalable. He’s also looking at prototyping telemedicine things such as gaming for shoulder rehabilitation.”

Professor Tony Rudd

Consultant stroke physician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust

Professor Rudd is also London stroke clinical director and national clinical director for stroke at NHS England. He is credited with the idea and implementation of centralised stroke services in London, which set a standard for stroke care nationwide. It is estimated that his new model for acute stroke services will help save up to 400 lives a year.

What the judges said: “A stroke physician in south London who is responsible for changes in stroke services across London. Some of his work is being applied across England and the UK.”

Professor Neil Sabire

Professor of paediatric and developmental pathology, University College London

Professor Sabire has invented and pioneered non-invasive post-mortems. The new method uses MRI and doesn’t require any opening up of the body. His discovery has now been published in journals and is expected to be adopted worldwide.

What the judges said: “His non-invasive post-mortems are about to sweep the NHS and the world. This will change a major part of the practice of medicine. For certain people from certain cultures it could be really transformational. Groundbreaking. Impressive.”

Michael Seres

Patient leader

Michael was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 12 and last year had a small bowel transplant. Six months before his transplant he started a blog, Being a Patient Isn’t Easy. His blog went viral and a year later he had 52,000 readers including doctors, medical students and patients. It has become the official global patient journey of the Intestinal Transplant Association and has become “syndicated” in patient sites and forums globally.

What the judges said: “He has been fantastic as a patient advocate. He’s raising the profile and showing how patients can be actively involved in their care.”

Dr Emma Stanton

Chief executive, Beacon UK

Dr Stanton is both a psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust and chief executive of Beacon UK, an organisation that works with commissioners and providers to improve outcomes for patients with a mental illness. Dr Stanton was an adviser to England’s former chief medical officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, and co-founded the clinical leadership social enterprise Diagnosis.

What the judges said: “She got a roundtable at number 10 in mental health and she’s talking to Norman Lamb constantly. She’s getting data recognised in mental health, or the lack of it, and the need to collect and analyse it.”

Louise Towse

Student nurse, University of York

Louise came up with the idea of making nurses patients for a day. She and a team of students took over the clinical simulation unit and ran it as a clinical ward - swapping their uniforms for pyjamas so they could find out what it was like to be a patient. Students played the role of patients, carers and medical staff as they worked through scenarios based on the practice experiences of staff in the health sciences department.

What the judges said: “She’s a second year nurse who’s doing really interesting things.”

Professor Neil Turner

Chair of nephrology, Edinburgh University and co-founder, Renal Patient View

Through Renal Patient View, Professor Turner is providing patients with an online view of their own diagnosis, treatment, and latest test results. Patients can share the information with anyone they want, and view it from anywhere in the world.

What the judges said: “They’ve implemented Renal Patient View in 70 per cent of renal units around the country. An average of 40 per cent of the people registered at the units have signed up for it so there’s a massive scale. And he’s managed to gather together clinicians and managers to build it, which is fantastic.”

Professor Charles Vincent

Director of the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality and the Clinical Safety Research Unit at Imperial College London

Professor Vincent is a leading member of the government’s post-Francis safety review group. He is chairing a sub-committee of the National Patient Safety Advisory Group looking at measurement, tracking, transparency and learning. A professor of clinical safety research, he developed the London Protocol, which can be used by clinicians, risk and patient safety managers, researchers and others to reflect and learn from clinical incidents. Its use extends from education and training to investigations of serious incidents.

Paul Wicks

Research and development director, PatientsLikeMe

A research neuropsychologist who is interested in patient-reported outcomes, health-related quality of life, genotype-phenotype relationships, predictive modelling and web technology. He is a TED fellow, medical entrepreneur and lead scientist for PatientsLikeMe, an online community allowing people living with medical conditions to track their illnesses, share their experiences and contribute to research. Paul specialises in conducting clinical research using the internet and is responsible for shaping the scientific validity of the PatientsLikeMe platform.

What the judges said: “He’s a fantastic innovator.”

Professor Terry Young

Chair of healthcare systems, Brunel University

Professor Young is seeking to introduce simulation to healthcare at scale, an approach which could significantly reduce the risk of major change. His work could accelerate the adoption of new systems and processes to the NHS. Professor Young’s research interests include healthcare informatics and communications, healthcare delivery processes, and analysis of healthcare delivery systems.

What the judges said: “He’s absolutely brilliant, a great innovator and incredibly tenacious. He’s seeking to address an important problem.”