Prof Ifan Evans
Executive Director of Strategy, DHCW, NHS Wales
Professor Ifan Evans is a compelling advocate for digitally led transformation, reflected in an organisational purpose of "making digital a force for good in health and care". He combines academic and professional insight to make the case for digital as an enabler and driver of change, and for using data and information to improve the quality of health and care services. Health and care faces major challenge as described in the national strategy document A Healthier Wales, which he wrote when in Welsh Government. But all health systems struggle to make change happen. Ifan's experience of leading the digital pandemic response reinforced his belief that digital and data is the most promising route to sustainable health and care delivery - for example more change in 6 months than the previous 6 years, and Ministers using real time data to inform policy and delivery decisions.