Ethical Healthcare

Who we are

Ethical Healthcare is an advisory consultancy with a renowned team that has extensive experience in digital health from organisations across the health service.

These individual subject matter experts are, collectively, a powerful force for change in digital transformation.

Our priority is to make a positive and meaningful social impact by working with people and clients with whom we share values, understanding and experience.

We value

 
equity & equality integrity honesty & transparency compassion happiness
About Ethical Healthcare
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Directors

Our hand-picked team is committed to doing the right thing for the right reason.  We will deliberately share what we know for positive impact. And we will give our employees opportunities to flourish and that have a meaningful impact on their lives.

Thomas Webb
CEO

Thomas founded Ethical to make a positive and meaningful social impact on the NHS and its users. He brings two decades of experience in health informatics and a passion to pioneer new disruptive approaches to digital healthcare  

Anne Cooper
Clinical Director

Anne brings clinical expertise and knowledge to our board. A former Chief Nurse and health informatics specialist for two decades, she has a strong focus on patients and users when it comes to developing digital healthcare services.  

Andy Kinnear
Partnerships Director

Andy helps us develop partnerships that support the NHS to deliver successful digital transformation. He’s a former Chief Information Officer (CIO) with 30 years’ experience in the NHS and a track record of delivering frontline information and technology strategy and solutions.  

Ian Sharp
Commercial Director

Ian is our innovation and growth specialist. He is an expert in strategic market fit, idea development and business modelling 

Ethical team

Judy Smith
Chief Operating Officer

Judy drives forward our mission to provide the ethical route to digital transformation. Her impressive track record includes senior programme and operational roles and heading up an electronic patient record (EPR) provider’s software portfolio.  

Luke Stockdale
Chief Technology Officer

Luke drives our vision to exploit the opportunities of technology and innovation in the healthcare sector. He has extensive experience in digital healthcare, having worked as CTO on digital transformation programmes in two NHS Foundation Trusts.

Jan Coster
Finance Director

Jan leads our finance team and has a passion for quality service delivery. She is an accredited public sector accountant and former NHS director.  

Tracey Watson
Director of Consulting

Tracey oversees client engagement, strategic planning and delivery at Ethical. She has a wealth of experience spanning central government and the health and technology sectors, including roles as Chief Information Officer at Pennine Actue Hospital Trust, Digital Director for the Northern Care Alliance and Innovation and Partnerships Director at NHS Digital.

Laura Blacker
Operations Manager

Laura drives continuous improvement across Ethical by streamlining processes and enhancing operational efficiency. She has a pharmacology background and significant experience in senior roles at a health communications and research agency.  

Shaun Holywell
Technical Operations Manager

Shaun brings our people and processes along with our technology to keep our internal wheels turning. He helps our team and clients gain valuable insights through the use of business information and analytics tools.  

Matthew Roberts
Sales Lead

Matthew manages our client relationships and supports the development of services and solutions to meet their needs. He has over a decade of experience working with NHS organisations and a particular enthusiasm for interoperability.  

Ash Tailor
Head of Delivery

Ash crafts and executes high-performing delivery strategies for our clients. An experienced pharmacy technician turned strategic leader, Ash combines clinical safety knowledge, supplier expertise and a relentless focus on quality.  

Caroline Maddams
Head of Communications, Design and Change

Caroline develops strategic communications and behavioural change activities to support our clients through change. She is a chartered communications professional with experience in various NHS trusts and local government.  

Donna Tyalor
Project Support Officer

Donna supports the management and delivery of client projects. 

Fraser Marshall
Sales Support Analyst
Heather Payne
Project Support Officer

Heather supports the delivery and management of client projects, with a focus on improving project delivery, relationship building and technology.  

Katie Hogg
Administrative Support

Katie provides administrative support to our senior leadership team and ensures our business runs smoothly.  

Nicola Lowe
Delivery Manager

Nicola expertly manages the delivery of client projects and has expertise in electronic patient record (EPR) implementation and optimisation, business change and benefits reporting. She is PRINCE II qualified and has worked in project and programme management roles in the NHS.  

Liz Simms
Delivery Manager

Liz manages the delivery of projects for our clients, with a focus on cutover planning and expertise in electronic patient records (EPR) and laboratory information management systems (LIMS). She has 40 years of experience in the NHS and health IT suppliers and is a qualified transformation coach who works on our Minerva leadership development programme 

Associates

Ulrika Crossfield
Associate - Digital Transformation
Carolyn Manuel-Barkin
Associate - Digital Transformation
Mark Outhwaite
Principal Associate - Strategy and Leadership

Mark helps our clients improve their capacity and capabilities by designing strategic  programmes that deliver successful change. He’s worked in the NHS, including the NHS Modernisation Agency, private sector and Armed Forces.  

Ellie-Jane Lucas
Delivery Manager

Ellie utilises Waterfall and Agile methodologies to offer our clients tailored project management approaches. She’s a PhD student, teacher and is passionate about people-centred delivery.  

Felix Williams
Technologist

Felix excels at translating non-digital user needs into understandable and deliverable digital strategy and software. He operates from national strategy level to local implementation with specialisms in interoperability, digital diagnostics and large-scale data analytics solutions.  

Penny Bell
Digital Healthcare Consultant

Penny delivers change and improves digital systems in programmes across all healthcare domains. She’s an expert in cyber security, digital systems implementation, complex data migration, information reporting, test management and clinical process mapping.  

Lisa A’hearne
Digital Transformation Programme Manager

Lisa ensures our clients’ programmes meet their objectives and are delivered on time and to budget. She has more than 20 years’ experience of strategic planning, leadership and programme implementation in the public sector.  

Dr Amanda Thornton
Clinical Psychologist and Change Expert

Amanda is an expert in the psychology of change, with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and 30 years of NHS experience both patient-facing and more latterly transformation, leadership and strategy.  She leads our Minerva leadership development programme. 

Victoria Betton
Associate

Victoria has unrivalled knowledge and experience in design thinking in digital health, working as a user-centred design lead for the Northern Care Alliance and leading a partnerships and innovation service in an NHS trust.   

Want to know more about Ethical Healthcare?
Give us a call today on 0333 0124275