Professor Daniel Ray

Daniel Ray has worked in health informatics for 18 years. He is Director of Data Science at NHS Digital where he is responsible for developing the organisations data science capability. He also is the product owner of the new national data services platform, head of profession of data management. As well as being responsible for all technical data and product delivery for the £50m Information and Analytics Directorate.

He also leads a number of 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 setup commercial analytics businesses in England and also abroad including 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.