IMPACT

Governance

Founding Governing Board

The IMPACT Founding Governing Board provides strategic oversight and safeguards the collaborative's development as a clinically led, multi-institutional learning health system.

Membership is designed to balance institutional, clinical, analytical, research, implementation and public perspectives, without allowing any single organisation or professional group to determine IMPACT's direction.

Balanced by design

Different institutions.
Shared responsibility.

Multi-institutionalRepresentation across founding NHS and university partners.

Clinically informedAdult and paediatric expertise across care, research and improvement.

Analytically groundedFormal representation for those who build and validate the data.

Publicly accountableDedicated patient, public, governance and independent perspectives.

01 / Founding members

The initial leadership of IMPACT.

TBChair and Founding Board Member

Tim Baker

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Anaesthetist and Digital Clinical Director for Peri-operative Care. Tim developed the original IMPACT data model at CUH and brings expertise in clinically led digital infrastructure, national audit and learning health systems.

JBFounding Board Member

James Bedford

University College London and University College London Hospitals

Consultant Anaesthetist at UCLH and Honorary Associate Professor at UCL. James brings experience in perioperative outcomes, risk-adjusted monitoring, national audit infrastructure and mixed-methods evaluation.

SRFounding Board Member

Susanna Ritchie-McLean

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthetist and Deputy Clinical Service Lead for Anaesthesia. Susanna brings experience in EPR implementation, clinically usable system design and outcomes dashboards.

ASFounding Board Member

Amaki Sogbodjor

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University College London

Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist with research interests in children's emergency surgery, medical ethics and use of data to improve perioperative care. Amaki brings expertise in paediatric quality metrics and clinical informatics.

DSFounding Board Member

Daniel Stubbs

University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals

Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist and clinical academic whose research uses routinely collected healthcare data to understand complex health systems. Daniel brings expertise in epidemiology, digital phenotyping and health-systems engineering.

DWFounding Board Member

Dylan Whitaker

University College London and University College London Hospitals

Early-career clinical academic working in perioperative analgesia and clinical data science. Dylan brings expertise across EHR data, software development, reproducible analysis and data validation.

02 / Representation

Seats that protect balance.

The permanent Governing Board will distinguish founding leadership from formal representation of the people who build, govern, interpret and are represented within healthcare data.

Analytical seat

Cambridge University Hospitals

Analytical seat

University College London Hospitals

Analytical seat

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Analytical seat

Birmingham Women's and Children's

Public-interest seat

Patient and public representation

Independent seat

Data governance and ethics

Methodological seat

Statistics and evaluation

Implementation seat

Quality improvement

Board development: institutional analytical representatives and independent public-interest members will be confirmed as the governance framework develops.