Rachel is currently Chief Industry Advisor for Dedalus, lead health AI advisor to the UK government, deputy chair of the OpenEHR Foundation and strategic advisor to the Turning Innovation Hub.  Until August 2022 Rachel spent over five years as the CEO of the NHS Digital Academy . She has provided advisory services to the Secretary of State for Health and through her academic work Rachel has received a Visiting Professorship at Imperial College, London. Rachel is formerly the Director of Digital/CIO for Salford/NCA Group which under her leadership was the NHS’s most digitally mature organisation 2017. She has worked globally in consulting and formally provided leadership for the global KLAS Arch collaborative research improving clinical outcomes and clinician satisfaction with digital systems.