Speakers
Ming Tang, Director for Data, Analysis and Intelligence Service, NHS England
Ming is the Director of Data Analysis and Intelligence Service for NHS England and is responsible for delivery of national programmes to support commissioning of integrated care.
Ming has over 20 years’ experience in managing and delivering large scale change involving implementation of new operating models in complex and challenging environments. She joined NHS in October 2009, initially leading commissioning support services in the West Midlands as the Managing Director for Healthcare Commissioning Services and then as the Managing Director for South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit. Prior to joining the NHS, Ming was a Partner with Accenture specialising in Strategy and Supply Chain work. She has worked in Europe, North America, and SE Asia where she led the Supply Chain Practice for 3 years. Her experience spans global clients in Consumer Goods, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and Utility sectors. Ming holds a first degree in Pharmacy and a MBA from Warwick University.
Dr. Jim O’Donnell, GP & Locality Lead, East Berkshire CCG
Dr. O’Donnell is a GP Partner at Farnham Road Practice in Slough and the Locality Lead for Slough within East Berkshire CCG. A former chair of Slough CCG and an active participant and advocate of the work being undertaken as part of the Frimley Health & Care ICS, he says, “Leading my G.P. colleagues and practices into and through Clinical Commissioning is the greatest privilege. I am determined to make the best contribution I can to the system to improve patient outcomes. How do we all become system-focused, leaving our organisation blinkers and shackles behind, putting patients first, and ensuring everyone ‘boards the bus’?”
Dr. O’Donnell qualified at the National University of Ireland, Galway in June 1978 and completed his General Practice training in Portsmouth in 1982.
He worked in tertiary referral medicine in Baghdad, Iraq from 1984 to 1988 followed by a cardiology research post in the UK at Wexham Park Hospital involving the first use of thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction. This led to a career in the pharmaceutical industry involving novel treatments for ischaemic heart disease.
He continued as a General Practitioner, and was involved in the development of new medicines up to 1998. He then returned to full time general practice in Slough and had a key interest in clinical governance and education in primary care. From 2006 he was involved in commissioning and in 2007 became the Slough Locality Lead.
In 2008 he became Chairman of the Clinical Executive Committee at Berkshire East PCT. Dr. O’Donnell is also a member of the NHS Commissioning Board “Sounding Board” and has been involved in drawing up plans for the Commissioning Assembly.
Dr. Kelechi Nnoaham MBBS MSc DTM&H MPH DPhil FFPH
Kelechi joined Cwm Taf University Health Board in Wales in November 2016 as Director of Public Health and is also Executive Lead for Research, Development and Innovation in the Health Board. His background is in Infectious Diseases Medicine and he has held senior Public Health positions in the NHS and Local Government since 2005. He has since February 2015 held an honorary professorship in Public Health & Epidemiology with Plymouth University and co-chairs its South West Global Health Collaboration. His key interest is in harmonising the input of the Health Service with those of communities, public and third sector partners to improve population health and narrow disparities in health and wellbeing of populations.
