19. Rachel Dunscombe

CEO, NHS Digital Academy
While still working as Director of Digital at Salford Royal, Dunscombe has also accepted a leadership role at the new NHS Digital Academy: a virtual institution established this year. Dunscombe says that this move towards digitising the NHS will "create significant improvements for both patients accessing NHS services and health professionals working within it."
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