Clinical Coding Roadmap 2024

Sue is a specialist with over 30 years of experience in training, audit, standard setting, classification authoring, mapping, organisational change, mortality data review, data analysis and research. She has worked at hospital, regional and national level and in the commercial sector in the UK and overseas. NHS roles have included Head of Clinical Coding and Data Quality at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Head of Clinical Coding at the East and North Herts NHS Trust. Sue is currently a GIRFT Coding Specialist, Trainer and Auditor. 

Dr James Teo is a Professor of Neurology with a specialist interest in stroke rehabilitation, general neurology, brain injury and clinical informatics.

He began his undergraduate medical training at University of Oxford and Royal Free Medical School. His postgraduate training was throughout the south east (including Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, Royal Marsden Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and University College London Hospital). He also holds a PhD in Clinical Neurology, awarded by the internationally prestigious UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square.

He is also the Joint Director for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at King's College Hospital and Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, leading the development and deployment of the CogStack as Clinical Lead and Founder.

He is KCH Investigator for the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare. His work with natural language processing AI has won AI Awards from NHSX and has been reviewed by the World Economic Forum.

He has written more than 80 peer-reviewed academic papers on topics ranging from Stroke to Parkinson's Disease. He worked with smartphones in smartphones in Parkinson’s disease (Michael J Fox Parkinson's Data Challenge in 2012), wearable cardiac patches for stroke prevention as chief investigator of EPACS trial, as well health data monitoring systems and AI for Natural Language Processing and Machine Vision.

Leilei heads up the clinical data quality, data standardisation and interoperability at UCLH and UCL Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

She was trained in Health Informatics from the University of Syndey and then continued her postgraduate study in London. She has carried out leadership roles in clinical classifications, casemix designs, business intelligence, analytics, terminologies and EHR (Electronic Health Record) system implementations. 

She led the first SNOMED CT clinical data standards implementation in MEDITECH EHR in the UK. In April 2021, she initiated a program which enabled UCLH as the first Epic site in the UK to implement native SNOMED-CT data standards for diagnosis recording in Epic. Collaborating with the EPIC development team, this functionality has been integrated into the Epic Foundation system, setting a precedent for future Epic sites. In 2022, her team's efforts facilitated UCLH in becoming the pioneering trust in the country to harness the FHIR standard, establishing seamless automatic data exchange between Epic EHR and sponsors' Electronic Data Capture systems (EDCs).

She guest lectures on health informatics at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics (IHI) and serves as an editorial board member for the Digital Medicine and Health journal, sponsored by the Chinese Medical Association.

Will leads the NCIP team, directing the activities of the Deployment and Adoption team, the attached National Clinical Leads, and the development of the portal and its dashboards.

Will joined GIRFT 7 years ago to oversee policy and stakeholder engagement, responsible for the creation, publication, and implementation of the National Specialty Reports and their policy recommendations.

He has a background in NHS programme management and strategy, working in both commissioner and provider services. He joined GIRFT from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network where he was responsible for setting up and overseeing a series of clinically-led networks working to deliver improvements to patient care across nine provider trusts.

With qualifications in project and programme management, his NHS career over the past 20+ years has involved building programmes and structures to maximise improvement opportunities, as well as brokering partnering agreements with various NHS organisations, agencies and universities.