Paul Rice joined Bradford and Airedale NHS foundation trusts from his role as Regional Director of Digital Transformation for NHS England and Improvement in the North East and Yorkshire.
He has been the senior responsible owner for substantial national digital transformation programmes relevant to hospital electronic patient records, mental health, transforming primary care, maternal and child health.
Paul was formerly the Director of the Long-Term Conditions programme in Yorkshire and Humber with a focus on Telehealth. He has been a Primary Care Trust director, a transformation director in the NHS Modernisation Agency and a policy lead in the Department of Health.
Paul holds a BA degree in Law and Accounting (Manchester), a Masters in Informatics Leadership (Imperial) and a Doctorate in Medical Law and Bioethics (Manchester). He is also a graduate of the Said Business School (Oxford), where he completed the Major Projects Leadership Academy, and a Fellow of the British Computing Society.
Paul is a trustee of Yorkshire Cancer Research and a volunteer fundraiser with Macmillan Cancer Support.