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New Interim Joint Chief Digital Officer for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and Derby and Derbyshire ICBs

  • 1 August 2024

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board and Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board are pleased to announce a new strategic digital collaborative partnership, with the creation of an Interim Joint Chief Digital Officer as of Thursday 1 August 2024.

Andrew Fearn, currently Chief Digital Officer for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, will take up the role, as Jim Austin leaves Derby and Derbyshire ICB to be the interim Chief Executive of Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust.

The new role, unique within the 42 ICBs in England, will take responsibility for the strategic digital transformation programmes for both systems for the next 18 months.

The new Joint Chief Digital Officer will:


  • enable improved digital efficiencies to meet clinical transformation priorities for the residents of Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
  • enable financial savings from joint procurement projects, and
  • increase shared learnings through greater collaborative working across the systems.

Further details will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

For any enquiries, please contact:

Alexis Farrow, Programme Director, Digital Notts email: alexis.farrow@nhs.net 

Dawn Atkinson, Programme Director, Derbyshire Digital email: dawn.atkinson6@nhs.net

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