Olly Benson
/oliverbenson
@ollybenson
NHS England
I currently work for the
Personalised Care
and
Horizons
teams at
NHS England
. 60% of my time is as digital strategy lead for Personalised Care, working closely with the
Empower the Person
team; the remainder is delivering the
School for Change Agents
and other Horizons projects.
Democracy Club
I am a non-executive director of
Democracy Club
, a social enterprise using digital tools to promote democratic participation in the UK.
Charity Data
I have built a way of being able to search the Charity Commission
Register of Charities
.
NHS Appointments Manager
After getting frustrated with the number of letters from the NHS I had, I built a prototype of an app that you could
manage all your NHS appointments
.
A&E live
In 2015 I built a realtime simulation of English NHS
A&E departments
.
Heart condition
I have a
congenital heart condition
, and since 2005 I have had an ICD fitted.
Photo Credits
All images used under licence.
NHS England photo taken by
Colin Royle
Polling station image courtesy of
secretlondon123
Charity image sourced from
Pxhire
Ambulance image courtesy of
Benjamin Ellis
24-hour ECG taken from
hospital notes