Sir Jonathan Michael
Deputy managing director, BT Health
Sir Jonathan Michael MB, BS; FRCP (Lond); FKC joined BT Health on 01 June 2007 as Deputy Managing Director Healthcare.
Sir Jonathan trained as a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1970. During the next 10 years he worked in a number of hospitals in and around London, including both St Thomas' and Guy's Hospitals. In 1980 he was appointed Consultant Physician and Nephrologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University. During his 16 years as a practicing consultant he was responsible for the development of what has become the largest kidney dialysis and transplant programme in the UK.
Sir Jonathan became increasingly involved in hospital management during the 1990s, being appointed Clinical Director, then Medical Director and finally in 1996 Chief Executive of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. In 2000 he was recruited to the position of Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust an organisation that he lead to become one of the first wave Foundation Trusts in the NHS. He held this position until May 2007. In addition to this he held a number of regional and national roles including membership of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Board, Chairmanship of the Board of NHS Innovations (London), Chairmanship of the Association of UK University Hospitals and Chairmanship of the Board of the NHS Foundation Trust Network.
Sir Jonathan was knighted in the New Years Honours in 2005 for services to the NHS.
In the same year he was elected Fellow of Kings College London (FKC) in recognition of his contribution to the relationship between the Health Service and Higher Education. In 2007 Sir Jonathan was appointed by the Secretary of State for Health, to chair an Independent Inquiry into the access to healthcare for children and adults with learning disabilities.
Dr Justin Whatling
Director of Strategy & Planning, Global Healthcare
Justin leads BT’s health strategy globally and is responsible for strategic partnership management.
A physician by background, Justin trained in medicine in London and also has a degree in molecular biology. He has worked at a number of teaching centres and was previously a hospital physician in the field of neurology.
Since then, Justin has built eight years experience of health IT, health outcomes and health informatics in the business sector.
Justin is also a Visiting Professor at University College London, UCL, in the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, CHIME.
Janette Bennett
Senior health policy consultant, BT Health
Janette's clinical career spans almost 30 years. During this time she held senior positions in a number of clinical areas, including specialist intensive care and trauma and orthopaedics. This experience has given Janette a first hand understanding of the NHS and how it works.
Janette joined BT in 2005 from the NHS, where she was an Electronic Patient Record Programme Manager.
She has a Masters in Health Care Policy and Organisation, is a member of the British Computer Society, and recently became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Nick Booth
Head of informatics
Alongside his work for BT, Nick is a part-time GP in Northumberland. Nick has been a practising GP for over 20 years, beginning his career at a teaching practice in the Tyne Valley, where he worked as a trainer and principle until 1998.
In 1992 he took a six month sabbatical to work at the NHS Centre for Coding and Classification (NHS CCC), where he led on the GP issues of Read codes version 3 (CTV3) until 1996. In 1996 he left NHS CCC to join a Newcastle University Medical School Health Informatics research group.
In 2003 he left Newcastle University to join a consultancy specialising in health management.
Tracey Eastman
London LSP clinical design lead