 | Dr Pratheep Sunatharamoorthy GP Partner, AbbaMoor Surgery, North East London Pratheep qualified from the University of Nottingham in 2011 and has worked in the Midlands, Essex and London. He has been a GP partner for the last two years and this is where he developed the idea for ‘CareIQ’ with his co-founder Janu. CareIQ is a digital health platform that aims to improve the management of patients with chronic health conditions. CareIQ aims to make chronic care safer, faster and more transparent. |
 | Lola Adegunle Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Lola is an HR professional, mediator and innovator. She has held senior roles in a variety of public and private sector organisations and is currently employed at Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust as a HR Business Partner. Lola is passionate about employee relations and has successfully dealt with range of workplace issues during her career. Recognising the need for employees to voice concerns quickly and conveniently without fear, Lola created ‘Note and Nip-it’, an innovative app which allows employees to raise concerns with the option of anonymity. Her ambition is to transform the culture of the NHS by empowering employees to speak up and to ‘nip’ concerns in the ‘bud’ before they escalate. |
 | Dr Dilshan Arawwawala Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia and Chief Clinical Information Officer, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Dilshan is a Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia and the Chief Clinical Information Officer at MSEHT, with 25 years experience in frontline care where staff shortages are a daily reality. He founded ‘Shift Partner’ in 2017 to address some of the fundamental causes of the staffing crisis within the NHS, with a deeply held belief that, as one of the largest employers in the world, opportunities to build long term careers should be unrivalled. Shift Partner supports the NHS in delivering its long term workforce plan, engaging and developing staff, promoting functional and spatial flexibility. |
 | Dr Naveen Keerthi Locum Registrar, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Naveen is an International medical graduate (IMG) who moved from India to the UK. Alongside his locum registrar work in orthopaedics, he is part of Silverstone circuit’s race track doctors for Formula 1 and Moto GP races. He completed a mini MBA from Stanford University and is part of NHS England’s Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. During his tenure working in the NHS, Naveen observed that the traditional HR processes caused undue delays for overseas recruitment. Further, mismatched expectations of overseas staff and NHS support can cause distress. He built the ‘Doc2uk’ platform with a clear intention to address this issue. Naveen’s experiences as an IMG doctor, working in his home country to working within the NHS, has personalised his recruitment model for the benefit of the NHS and future IMG doctors. |