Project board members

Project board

Name Role Organisation
Nikhil Premchand Senior Responsible Owner/Chair (SRO) Northumbria NHS FT Trust
Chris Plummer Lead Chief Clinical Information Officer/ Chair ODA Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT Trust
Gordon Elder Regional Chief Nursing Information Officer North East & Yorkshire, NHS England
Lisa Sewell Head of Digital Innovation & Delivery Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT Trust
Edwin Wong Clinical Lead Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT Trust
Thomas Salisbury Regional Digital Fellow South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS FT Trust
Raman Diddee Lead Clinical Safety Officer Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT Trust
David Byrom Project Corporate Finance Manager
Scott Neal Project Information Governance Lead
Tom Hooper Project Lead

Organisational representation

Organisation Name
North East North Cumbria ICB Graham Evans
County Durham and Darlington NHS FT Trust Darragh Twomey
Gateshead Health NHS FT Trust Paul O’Loughlin
Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT Trust Chris Plummer
Northumbria NHS FT Trust Nikhil Premchand
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS FT Trust Laura Parkinson
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS FT Trust Jayesh Vasani
South Tees Hospitals NHS FT Trust Andrew Adiar
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS FT Trust Kevin Joisce
CCIO Regional Network Chair Jonathan Richardson
CIO Regional Network Chair Nick Black
Primary Care Representation Mark Dornan

If you have any questions about the project, contact your named Trust representative.

If you would like to schedule a briefing meeting for more information, you can email the team (nuth.connectnenc@nhs.net) with any queries.