Daniel Ray

Daniel Ray has worked in health informatics for 20 years. He is Director of Data at NHS Digital; responsible for developing the organisation’s data capability. Daniel is the product owner of the new national data services platform and head of the data management profession. Daniel is also responsible for all technical data and product delivery for the £50m Data Insights and Statistics Directorate and leads several operational teams. Prior to this, he was Director of Informatics at a large teaching hospital in England, where he transformed the health informatics service, set up a quality outcomes research unit, and developed a patient portal among other work programmes.

He also set up commercial analytics businesses in England, Australia, the US and Italy. He has worked in commissioning in the NHS, the private sector and a number of other acute hospitals.

He is also honorary professor of health informatics at UCL’s Farr Institute of Health Informatics, where he gets involved in leading-edge research and teaching.