CIO, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Joanna started her career in the global Pharmaceutical industry with international roles at Roche and Takeda.
In her current role as CIO for the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, she is leading the organisation through a major transformation programme with significant investment in new systems and technologies including a complete overhaul of the IT and telecoms infrastructure, including VOIP and migration to the Cloud; and the introduction of major new clinical solutions including the digitisation of patient casenotes, replacement patient administration system and a new electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution.
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is the UK’s largest specialist heart and lung centre, is based in Chelsea, West London and Harefield, Middlesex. It is Europe’s top-ranked respiratory research centre and the cardiac, cardiovascular and critical care teams are rated in the top three most highly-cited health research teams in Europe.
In addition, Europe’s largest unit for the treatment of cystic fibrosis is based at the Royal Brompton Hospital, dealing with over 650 adults and 300 children with this condition. The Trust is also the country’s largest centre for the treatment of adult congenital heart disease.