Tim Kelsey
| Tim Kelsey | |
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Conference presentation, March 2014
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| Chief Executive, Australian Digital Health Agency | |
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Assumed office August 2016 |
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7 May 1965 Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, U.K. |
| Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Tim Kelsey is chief executive of the new Australian Digital Health Agency which is responsible for all national digital health services and systems, with a focus on engagement, innovation and clinical quality and safety. Australian Minister for Health Sussan Ley announced the appointment in August 2016. He was previously the first National Director for Patients and Information in NHS England. The role - which he served between 2012-15 - combined the functions of chief technology and information officer with responsibility for patient and public participation and communications.
Before his appointment in July 2012, he was the United Kingdom government's Executive Director of Transparency and Open Data leading on the development of national public data policy.
He was appointed National Information Director in health and care and chair, the National Information Board, in April 2014.
He started his career as a journalist who went on to co-found Dr Foster in 2000, the organisation which internationally pioneered publication of comparative hospital death rates and other measures of health quality. The Department of Health's acquisition of 50% of Dr Foster in 2006 was strongly criticised by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, which described it as "favouritism" and a "hole and corner deal".
Kelsey has become a leading activist for transparency and digital empowerment in public services. He was appointed visiting professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London in November 2015 and is co-author with Roger Taylor of "Transparency and the Open Society", which makes the case for transparency in public services and argues that it improves social and economic equity. It was published in June 2016 by Policy Press and the University of Chicago.
In 2007, Kelsey was the architect and launch programme director of NHS Choices. He has also worked for Telstra, the Australian telecoms company, and for McKinsey & Co
Kelsey was born on 7 May 1965. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, between 1978 and 1983. In 1984 he won an Exhibition to study history at Magdalene College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1987, Kelsey worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist in Turkey and Iraq for The Independent, BBC and The Sunday Telegraph. His investigation into illicit kidney trafficking between Istanbul and London in 1989 triggered a change in British law. He also documented the use of chemical weapons against civilians during Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in a series of articles in The Independent. He joined the launch staff of The Independent on Sunday in 1989 and covered the 1990 Gulf War as a combat pool reporter with British forces. During this period he also presented a number of TV documentaries including "Frontline" for Channel 4 (1994), a documentary in which he escorted Queenie Fletcher, mother of murdered policewoman Yvonne Fletcher to confront Col Gadaffi in Libya and "You Only Live Once" for the BBC (1996), an investigation into anti-ageing science. In 1995 he joined the Sunday Times and became deputy editor of the Insight Team before being appointed news editor in 1998. Kelsey is author of Dervish: The Invention of Modern Turkey, a portrait of the country in the mid-1990s which was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1996 and Penguin Books the following year. Jan Morris, the noted travel writer, commented in her jacket review: 'An excellent travel book, offering startling and vivid insights, social, historical and political, into a Turkey that most visitors can hardly imagine.' Others described it as 'dystopian' and 'no standard travel narrative'.
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