David Sloman

Sir David Morgan Sloman is the NHS Regional Director for London. He was previously chief executive officer of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2009 to 2018. He was knighted in 2017 for his services to the NHS.

David Sloman

Career

He was chief executive officer of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2009 to 2018. In 2016 he also became interim accountable officer at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, as part of the Royal Free's hospital chain project.[1]

In 2016 the Health Service Journal named him as the third-most influential CEO in the National Health Service.[2] In 2015 he was paid £240,000.[3]

Sloman was a keen advocate of the Royal Free Trust's collaboration with DeepMind which, he said, could free up over half a million hours per year currently spent on paperwork[4] and help improve patient safety.[5] However, the Trust's transfer of 1.6 million patients' data to UK artificial intelligence firm DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2013),[6] failed to comply with the Data Protection Act and was illegal, as "Royal Free should have gained the consent of patients before handing the personally identifiable medical records to DeepMind for processing", the UK’s data protection watchdog (Information Commissioner's Office) ruled in 2017.[7]

Sloman was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for his services to the NHS.[8][9]

Sloman stepped down in early 2019 [10] to take up a new role as NHS regional director in London.[11]

References
  1. "London Eye: Chain-gang". Health Service Journal. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. "HSJ Top Chief Executives 2016". Health Service Journal. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  3. "NHS hospital bosses given pay rises worth more than a nurse's annual salary". Telegraph. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  4. "NHS using Google technology to treat patients". BBC News. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  5. "DeepMind Health Partnership with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust". Youtube. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  6. Hern, Alex (2017-07-03). "Royal Free breached UK data law in 1.6m patient deal with Google's DeepMind". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  7. "UK rules patient data shared with Google's DeepMind was illegal: AI is not a doctor". www.cso.com.au. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  8. "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 4. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  9. "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N2.
  10. Taylor, Harry. "Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust boss Sir David Sloman to step down". Ham & High.
  11. Clover2019-03-19T12:23:00+00:00, Ben. "London Eye: Two aims". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
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