Waiting List Conference 2026: From Backlog to Breakthrough

Tackling a vital challenge

With waiting lists in England now exceeding seven million, the impact on patients, staff, and the wider economy is impossible to ignore. The government has set ambitious targets to cut waiting times — but it’s clear that traditional approaches alone won’t be enough.

That’s why the theme of our conference (taking place on 16-17 September), From Backlog to Breakthrough, is more than just a slogan — it’s a shared call to action.

Waiting lists are what systems thinkers call a wicked problem: a complex, adaptive challenge that resists simple solutions and demands new ways of thinking, ��learning, and innovating together.

About the conference

We’ll explore practical ways to make progress on cutting patient waiting times and numbers. The urgency couldn’t be greater. NHS waiting lists continue to grow — and an increasing number of patients are turning to private healthcare for faster access. System-wide reform and innovation can’t wait.

Hosted by The Strategy Unit in partnership with Health Data Research UK (HDRUK), the conference will also mark the launch of the Waiting Intelligence Network (WIN) — to share learning, scale innovation, and accelerate system-wide change.

It is being co-designed by patients with lived experience of waiting lists and the patient voice will be represented throughout, including among the audience.

Sessions will draw on proven principles for understanding and addressing complexity:

Understanding the system – exploring the causes, consequences, and connections that shape waiting lists across the NHS.
Engaging diverse voices – ensuring everyone, from patients and frontline staff to national leaders, is part of the conversation.
Reframing assumptions – challenging long-held narratives and seeing the problem through fresh lenses informed by a diverse mix of methods.
Experimenting and learning – sharing prototypes, pilots, and case studies that have achieved real-world impact, including novel models of care and AI-based innovations.
Adapting and iterating – focusing on agility, feedback, and continuous improvement rather than one-off solutions.
Tackling root causes – going beyond surface symptoms to address the deeper structural, behavioural, and cultural drivers of long waits.

Conference agenda

Day 1

08:30 – 09:30 Registration and Coffee.

09:30 – 09:40 Welcome and Overview: Simon Ball, Consultant Nephrologist and Senior Science Advisor at Health Data Research UK and Senior Responsible Owner for the West Midlands Secure Data Environment.

09:40 – 11:10: Impact Talks. Chaired by Simon Ball, 51��.

09:40 – 09:55 The Impact to Patients of Waiting Lists. Fiona Loud, Policy Director of Kidney Care UK.

09:55 – 10:15 Waiting lists policies and the two-tier system within the NHS: How NHS outsourcing to the private sector is driving inequalities and shrinking NHS capacity for elective surgery in England. Allyson Pollock, Co-Director of Newcastle University Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Sciences.

10:15 – 10:30 Understanding NHS Elective Waiting Lists: Past and Present. Tineke Poots, Head of Elective Recovery Analysis and Modelling at NHS England.

10:30 – 10:45 Beyond the Dashboard: What Data Misses Without the Frontline: Michelle Rigozzi, Senior Delivery Adviser, Cabinet Office.

10:45 – 11:00 Panel Q&A Session.

11:00 – 11:25 Coffee Break.

11:25 – 12:40: Late Morning Impact talks. Chaired by Simon Ball, 51��.

11:25 – 11:40 Waiting Lists Internationally Compared. Do Long Waits Affect Health? Luigi Siciliani, Professor of Health Economics, University of York.

11:40 – 11:55 What is Driving High Elective Waiting Times, and How can the Government Reduce Them? Ollie Harvey-Rich, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

11:55 – 12:10 Is the government on track to restore the 18-week standard? Updated projections. Francesca Cavallaro, Senior Analytical Manager, The Health Foundation.

12:10 – 12:25 Do longer waits affect health? Analysis of health and care before, during, and after waits for 65,000 hospital procedures in a whole-population cohort in Scotland. Jessica Butler, Lead Data Scientist, NHS Grampian.

12:25 – 12:40 Panel Q&A Session.

12:40 – 13:40 Lunch.

13:40 – 15:00: Early afternoon impact talks. Chaired by Fraser Battye, The Strategy Unit.

13:40 – 14:00 Clinical Prioritisation: Kiran Patel, Group Chief Medical Officer & Deputy CEO, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

14:00 – 14:15 Tracking Waiting Lists at the Manchester University NHS FT: Dr Sohail Munshi; Vanessa Gardener, University of Manchester.

14:15 – 14:30 Talk title to be confirmed: Stuart Bell, Director of Performance, Imperial College.

14:30 – 14:45 Untimely Care: Notes from the Waiting Times Project: Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London; Michael J Flexer, lecturer at the University of Exeter; Laura Salisbury, Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter Untimely Care.

14:45 – 15:00 Panel Q&A Session.

15:00 – 15:25 Coffee Break.

15:25 – 16:20: Late afternoon impact talks. Chaired by Neil Walton, Durham University Business School.

15:25 – 15:40 Building Trust in AI Within Healthcare: James Crisp, MBI Health.

15:40 – 15:55 Using Clinical language AI to Prioritise Elective Care Waiting Lists and Reduce Lost to Follow-Up in Outpatient Pathways. James Teo, Associate Medical Director of Patient Outcomes; Co-founder of CogStack and Thomas�� Searle, Data Scientist, Kings College NHS Foundation Trust – CogStack

15:55 – 16:10: Reducing the Administrative Burden: Can AI-Generated Discharge Summaries Help Address Waiting Lists? Benjamin Atkins, Core Surgical Trainee, Imperial College London.

16:10 – 16:25: Panel Q&A.

16:35 – 16:45 Closing Remarks: Fraser Battye, The Strategy Unit.

16:45 – 18:00 Coffee and Networking.

Day 2

08:30 – 09:30 Registration and Coffee.

09:30 – 09:35 Welcome and Overview: Neil Walton, Professor of Operations Management, Durham Business School.

09:35 – 11:10: Early Morning Talks. Chaired by Neil Walton, Durham University Business School.

09:35 – 09:50 The Patient Perspective.

09:50 – 10:10 Managing long waits? Or the causes of long waits? Rob Findlay, Director of Strategic Solutions, Insource Ltd.

10:10 – 10:25 Using Queuing Theory and Simulation in NHS Planning: Applying the NHSR Waiting List R Package: Chris Mainey, Senior Data Scientist, NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB.

10:25 – 10:40 Application of waiting list theory to service planning within a large tertiary-level ENT service: Dan Gordon, Director of Elective Recovery and Reform, Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.

10:40 – 10:55 Adjusting for the Impact of the Waiting List Backlog in Medium Term Planning Using the NHP Demand and Capacity Model: Lucy Morgan, Analytics Manager (Simulation), The Strategy Unit.

10:55 – 11:10 NHS Waiting Times and Privately Funded Hip and Knee Surgery in England: A Causal Analysis Using National Joint Registry Data (2013–2023): Steven Wyatt, Head of Strategic Analytics, The Strategy Unit.

11:10 – 11:25 Panel Q&A Session.

11:25 – 11:50 Coffee Break.

11:50 – 13:05: Late Morning Impact Talks. Chaired by Simon Ball, 51��.

11.50 – 12:05 Additional healthcare use among patients awaiting elective care: evidence of failure demand impacting NHS resource use and indicating patient harm. Cheryl McQuire, Research Fellow in Public Health Evaluation, University of Bristol.

12:05 – 12:20 Do Surgical Hubs and Community Diagnostic Centres Work? Estimated Impacts on Activity, Waiting Time and Equity in the NHS. Peter Sivey, Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.

12:20 – 12:35 One Queue, Unequal Risk: MRI Waiting Lists and Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: Odunola��Fridauz Atitebi, Research and Evaluation Worker, Can-Survive UK.

12:35 – 12:50��The indirect health costs of the COVID-19 pandemic: Inequalities in the number of undelivered elective surgeries in the English NHS accumulated since March 2020. Adrián Villaseñor.

12:50 – 13:05 Panel Q&A.

13:05 – 14:05 Lunch.

14:05 – 14:30 Patient Panel Discussion. Facilitated by Fraser Battye.

14:30-15:20: Working Groups. Interactive breakout sessions focused on identifying priorities, shaping actionable recommendations, and defining next steps emerging from the conference themes.

15:20 – 15:35 Feedback Discussion.

15:35 – 15:50 Closing Remarks: Fraser Battye, The Strategy Unit.

15:50 – 16:30 Coffee and Networking.

Register now

This is an in-person event. Places are limited, with priority given to NHS and social care staff. Please register your interest on the form below to attend. Further instructions on how to apply for a space will be released in due course.

ELAB sessions

The conference will be complemented by a series of free, focused, expert-led ELABs in the weeks leading up to the event — including training sessions, international perspectives, and thematic seminars designed to deepen learning and spark new ideas.

ELABs

Conference Speakers

Odunola Atitebi, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Coordinator at Can-Survive UK

Odunola works across research, service evaluation, community engagement, and health inequalities. Her work focuses on using community insight, service-level data, and evaluation approaches to support more responsive and equitable health services. She has experience supporting community-informed health initiatives, evaluating culturally responsive programmes, and translating routine data into accessible insights for service improvement and decision-making. Her interests include health improvement, health service access, diagnostic pathways, community-centred research, and data-informed decision-making. Odunola is also a member of the 51�� Impact Committee, contributing to discussions around impact, inclusion, and the use of data to improve health outcomes and research practice.

Professor Simon Ball, Senior Responsible Officer for West Midlands Secure Data Environment

Simon is also a nephrologist who has worked in Birmingham for 25 years, is Science Advisor at 51�� and Chairs the Midlands Regional Strategy Group, having previously been research director in the Midlands and of the national Better Care theme from 2018 to 2023. He was president of the British Renal Society between 2013 and 2016 and Chief Medical Officer at University Hospital Birmingham from 2019 to 2024. Simon has a longstanding interest in the curation and analysis of high-value health data assets, developed through his leadership in the design, implementation, and use of secondary care electronic health records to improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of patient care.

Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London

Lisa is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research brings together psychoanalytic and social theory to address the temporal, ethical and affective dimensions of care. Her monographs include Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Routledge, 2009), Enduring Time (Bloomsbury 2017), and she is co-author of Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity, and Care (Bloomsbury, 2026). With Laura Salisbury she was co-Principal Investigator on the Wellcome-funded Waiting Times project and is currently PI of the Wellcome-Trust funded project Contragestive Time: Pregnant Uncertainties in Fertility Control, a large interdisciplinary project investigating ‘contragestion’ as the future of fertility control.

Fraser Battye, Head of Policy, The Strategy Unit

Fraser helps leaders and organisations think clearly and make better strategic choices. He is a skilled facilitator and runs several of our training programmes on decision making, strategy, critical thinking, creativity and leadership. In this work, he draws on insights from multiple academic disciplines. In addition to his role at the Strategy Unit, he is a Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (University of Cambridge), and a Senior Research Associate at the Jesus College Intellectual Forum.

Jessica Butler, Lead Data Scientist at NHS Grampian

Jessica is also a senior research fellow at the Centre for Health Data Science at the University of Aberdeen. She runs Grampian’s collaboration with The Health Foundation and four other NHS centres across the UK, the Networked Data Lab. This is a six-year project working to reduce health inequalities. Jessica's team’s specialty is linking high-security health and social care data to create useful analysis for policy makers and care providers.

Dr Francesca Cavallaro, Senior Analytical Manager at the Health Foundation.

Francesca leads a programme of work on National Health Service performance, including elective and emergency care. Prior to joining the Health Foundation, she worked on evaluations of national health interventions in the UK and internationally. Francesca completed her PhD in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2015. Her interests focus on inequalities in access to NHS care, variation in performance across England, and leveraging data to address health disparities and improve health outcomes.

Rob Findlay, Director of Strategic Solutions, Insource Ltd

Rob is a commentator for Health Service Journal as well as a director at Insource Ltd. He has been a specialist in elective waiting time dynamics since the 1990s, when he created and successfully commercialised the NHS’s first demand and capacity planning model for delivering waiting time targets, before moving on to create the more advanced models incorporating discrete event simulation which are in use today. Rob has assisted hundreds of healthcare organisations and several governments in the UK and overseas, writes a regular column for the Health Service Journal, and takes some credit for England’s 2012 introduction of the waiting time target which remains in force today. Before all that, he worked for an NHS Trust, HM Treasury, and was a research scientist in Cambridge and China.

Michael J Flexer, lecturer at the University of Exeter

Michael is the co-director for public engagement at the Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. He has written on Peircean semiotics and the medical case report, temporal disruptions in psychosis, and the semiotics of clinical spaces. His monograph The Madness of Meaning is being published by LUP. He was the publicly engaged research fellow on the Waiting Times project, and now works with people who see, hear and sense things others don’t, to explore the impact of AI and other disruptive technologies on healthcare.

Vanessa Gardener, Chief Delivery Officer, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Vanessa has considerable strategic experience with a strong focus on elective recovery, operational performance and reducing waiting times at scale. She is passionate and experienced in transforming services to deliver the best possible care for patients, understanding and delivering small and large scale transformational change. Vanessa is an advocate for collaborative working across MFT and with system partners, with a firm belief in the benefits of shared learning to prevent the unnecessary reinventing of the NHS wheel and an advocate for translational research and innovation.

Dan Gordon, Director of Elective Care NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board

Dan has wide-ranging experience of planned care, leading transformational change and operational performance improvement at a provider and system level. As Director of Elective Care at Greater Manchester ICB, he leads system-wide programmes to restore constitutional standards, build system capacity and deliver large-scale elective reform. Dan has an interest in applying queuing theory to elective recovery and has done so both in the ICB and in a previous role at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust where he deployed queuing theory within the operational planning cycle. Prior to his NHS career he worked in higher education, management consultancy and was Chair of Trustees for upReach a charity supporting working class graduates to access professional careers.

Olly Harvey-Rich, research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Olly's research focuses on the economics of healthcare policy in the UK, including work on waiting list dynamics, workforce policy, and healthcare productivity. His recent work on elective waiting times has considered the trade-offs involved with different policy objectives around waiting lists, and modelled the effects of different interventions on the distribution of waits.

Fiona Loud, Policy Director of Kidney Care UK

Fiona spent five years on dialysis (PD and HD) after her kidneys failed as a consequence of the rare disease tuberous sclerosis and also kidney cancer, before receiving a transplant from her husband in late 2006. She is involved with numerous groups working to improve standards of care for kidney patients and led the charity’s work on Covid-19, the organ donation opt-out law and the continuation of dialysis provision in the EU post-Brexit. Fiona set up and chaired the UK Renal Registry patient council and has contributed as a lay representative to many of the kidney guidelines produced by NICE. She is chair of the Organ Donation committee at West Herts hospital, and vice chair of the Lister Area Kidney Patients Association. In 2015 she was voted a Health Service Journal top 50 patient leader. Fiona was nominated and has been elected as an honorary member of the UK Kidney Association in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the UK kidney community.

Cheryl McQuire, Research Fellow in Public Health Evaluation, Centre for Public Health, University of Bristol

Dr McQuire is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and Researcher-in-Residence with NHS Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, where she works within the Modelling and Analytics Team. She has been investigating the relationship between being on an elective care waiting list and additional healthcare utilisation, using data from the South West System-Wide Dataset. More broadly, her work focuses on evaluating public health interventions and reducing health inequalities, with particular expertise in maternal and child health, alcohol-related harm, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Cheryl is the public involvement and engagement lead for the University of Bristol Health Data Science (HeDS) Group and a founding member of the NIHR SPHR Network for Natural Experiments. Her research combines epidemiological and applied evaluation methods to inform policy and practice, and has influenced national guidelines (NICE), parliamentary debates, and health strategies.

Professor Mohammed A Mohammed, Head of Innovations and Academic Partnerships (The Strategy Unit) Employment

Professor Mohammed A Mohammed is an academic with extensive experience of applied health services research, including quality of care, patient safety and improvement science. He has 100+ peer reviewed publications. Mohammed has delivered scores of highly rated courses on variation, systems thinking, improvement science and mortality statistics to senior and front-line clinical staff in the NHS over the last ten years. He also founded the NHS-R community. Mohammed is currently working in the NHS as Head of Innovation & Academic Partnerships at the Strategy Unit. His main area of focus is innovative decision support systems. He is emeritus professor at the University of Bradford and Visiting Professor at Cardiff University.

Dr Sohail Munshi, Joint Chief Medical Officer, Manchester Local Care Organisation

Sohail was a GP partner in Manchester for more than 25 years and became the CMO of Manchester Local Care Organisation in 2018, with the leadership team then taking on the locality of Trafford in 2019. He is senior clinical advisor to the NHS England National Director for Health Inequalities Improvement and received a British Empire Medal for his services to the community and primary care in 2017.

Jaideep J Pandit, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Oxford

Jaideep, who is also an NHS Consultant at Oxford University Hospitals and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, trained in medicine at Oxford with a Double First in physiology and medicine. He has served as Clinical Director of Operating Theatres and as Clinical Advisor to NHS England for Theatres. In addition to medical qualifications he holds a doctorate in operations (systems) management from the Said Business School and an MBA with Distinction. His prize-winning book, Practical Operating Theatre Management is published by Cambridge University Press, and a second edition is due in 2027. He is the first non-American to serve as Editor in Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the world’s oldest anaesthesia journal, in over 100 years. He has received the Royal College Gold Medal 2023 and the Association of Anaesthetists’ Magill Medal 2023 – both these organisations’ highest awards. Among his visiting professorships is one at Harvard, in association with the Beth Israel Hospital, where he co-directs a Masters program in Quality & Safety in Healthcare.

Kiran Patel, Group Chief Medical Officer & Deputy CEO, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

In addition to his CMO and Deputy CEO roles, Kiran is a consultant cardiologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He came to that role in 2024 after five years as Chief Medical Officer and Deputy CEO at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He has managed significant transformational change not only in cardiac services but as NHSE Medical Director for the West Midlands (2014-19), Clinical Director at West Midlands Strategic Health authority (2009-11) and Medical Director for West Mercia PCT Cluster (2011-13). In healthcare policy and strategy, he has worked with NICE, the Royal Colleges and the Department of Health for over two decades. He has published papers and books and lectured widely on cardiology and on healthcare systems and strategy.

Allyson Pollock, Co-Director of Newcastle University Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Sciences

Allyson trained in medicine and is a public health physician and academic scholar. She is professor emerita of public health and was director of the Institute for Health and Society and of the Newcastle University Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Science. She is an honorary professor at St Andrew’s University and also at University College London. Allyson’s research interests are in public private partnerships and health systems; long-term care; in access to medicines and appropriate medicines use, and pharmaceutical regulation and regulatory science; and the epidemiology of child and sports injury. She is well known for her active commitment, spanning nearly three decades, to promoting universal public health care in the UK, and her expertise on the negative consequences for the public of privatisation, the use of private finance, marketisation and other aspects of NHS health service ‘reform’.

Tineke Poot, Head of Elective Recovery Analysis and Modelling at NHS England

Tineke leads analytical work focussed on elective care, including conducting national modelling to support the UK government’s ambition to reduce elective waiting times. Tineke has worked in the public sector since 2009, applying operational research techniques to a variety of health areas. Her experience ranges from GP workforce modelling to COVID-19 simulation, but throughout her career she has often returned to working on Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times. Notably, Tineke developed the modelling that informed the introduction of the England elective waiting time standard in 2012. She is passionate about using operational research and analysis on complex system problems to inform decision-making within healthcare and government.

Michelle Rigozzi, Senior Delivery Adviser, Cabinet Office

Michelle joined the unit in November 2025 after five years in the No 10 Delivery Unit’s health team, advising three Prime Ministers and driving delivery across cancer, primary care, prevention and elective recovery. Before joining the centre of government, Michelle spent five years in the NHS leading strategy and quality improvement programmes across acute, mental health, community and primary care – improving cancer pathways at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, overseeing over 50 projects at East London NHS Foundation Trust, and co-authoring the business case for the UK’s first £2bn NHS provider merger at Guy’s and St Thomas’. She previously worked as a Senior Research Scientist at a top 100 medical device company. Michelle holds a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, where she modelled how cells respond to mechanical stimuli, and degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Sydney.

Laura Salisbury, Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter

Laura has published widely in the field of modern literature, particularly on the work of Samuel Beckett. She was co-Principal Investigator on the Wellcome-funded Waiting Times project and is co-author of Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity, and Care (Bloomsbury, 2026). Laura is currently a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome-funded project After the End and is also finishing a book called Between-Time Stories: British States of Waiting, 1939-2016.

Tom Searle, CEO and Co-Founder of CogStack

Tom is the CEO and Co-Founder of CogStack, a leading health-tech spinout from two top-tier universities and four leading NHS Trusts. For the past eight years, Tom has been at the forefront of the clinical AI and NLP space, using advanced technologies to unlock clinically relevant data for healthcare providers. With a PhD in Clinical NLP and dual roles as an associate professor at UCL and Translational Research Director at KCL, they bring a deep expertise in transforming fragmented, complex datasets into actionable insights. Having previously managed global development teams in financial services, Tom combines academic rigour with industrial-scale engineering experience to deliver data solutions capable of tackling systemic healthcare challenges like elective care backlogs and patient waiting times.

Luigi Siciliani, Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York

Luigi has specialised in the economics of hospitals and has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality, patient choice, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care. He is a Senior Expert Adviser for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He was a member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health in 2017-2022. Prior to joining the University of York in 2003, he worked at the OECD in Paris for two years to conduct an international project on policies to reduce waiting times in healthcare, and collaborated with the OECD over the year on international reports on the same topic.

Peter Sivey, Reader in Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Peter previously worked at RMIT University, La Trobe University, and University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Peter is working on research projects including hospital waiting times, emergency department performance, evaluation of NHS policy initiatives and doctors' labour markets. He is the Director of ESHCRU, the NIHR Policy Research Unit in the Economics of Health and Care Systems and co-lead the MEASURE study, evaluating the NHS surgical hubs programme. He has a PhD in Economics (2009) from the University of York and is an Associate Editor of Health Economics.

Image of James Teo, Professor of Neurology and Associate Deputy Medical Director of Patient Outcomes, Kings College Hospital and Guys & St Thomas Hospitals

James Teo, Professor of Neurology and Associate Deputy Medical Director of Patient Outcomes, Kings College Hospital and Guys & St Thomas Hospitals

James has a clinical practice based in stroke, neurorehabilitation, general neurology, brain injury, and clinical informatics. He has led AI technology deployments in the UK public health sector and one of first sites to deploy radiology AI systems for hyperacute stroke. He holds a number of senior advisory positions in the NHS as a member of multiple working groups for NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority and for the Health Research Authority on the use of confidential patient data. He is Chief Medical Officer for the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre and co-founder of CogStack AI. His work with natural language processing AI for a wide range of healthcare uses and research has won AI Awards from NHSX. James is on the technical design authority of the OneLondon Secure Data Environment. He has >90 peer-reviewed academic publications across many healthcare technology domains across clinical specialties and across health sectors. He also works on value-based healthcare.

Adrián Villaseñor, Research Fellow, University of York

Adrián is a Research Fellow with the health and social care policy theme working mainly on mental health. His background is in development economics and he is currently working on understanding how to better provide mental health services within the NHS. His research also focuses on the social determinants of health and how economic inequality impinges on the individual. Adrián holds a PhD in international development from the University of East Anglia.

Neil Walton, Professor in Operations Management at Durham University Business School

Neil's research focuses on applied probability and queueing theory for optimal congestion management. Queueing and congestion is critical in many applications; interests include, but are not limited to, internet congestion, road traffic, online advertising, electricity systems, cloud computing, service systems, AI/ML, quantum communications, and NHS waiting lists. He is an Area Editor for Stochastic Models at Operations Research. He is also an associate editor at the journal Stochastic Systems. He has won the best paper award at the ACM Sigmetrics conference.

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