Andrew is an experienced programme director and technology leader in the NHS, with expertise in Digital Health strategy and programme delivery, population health intelligence, integrated care records and interoperability.
His background in Public Health and Primary Care provided a solid basis for moving into analytics and digital health, heading up Business Intelligence and then Digital Transformation at Oxfordshire PCT as CIO, and since 2013 with SCW.

How a focus on health inequalities can bring rapid benefits to financial health
The Darzi reportconfirmed what most people involved in or close to the NHS already know: there is increasingly high spending directed into the vortex of acute care, accompanied by declining productivity, under-investment in technology, and the...

Discover how Core20Plus Connectors are targeting health inequalities
On the second day of ConfedExpo (15-16 June 2022, Liverpool), SCW hosted a session of talks and Q&A with a panel of speakers involved in Core20Plus Connectors as part of SCW’s ‘Live Lounge’. The Expo event attracted more than 6,000 delegates across...

Lived experience central to shaping the Core20Plus Connectors programme
The Core20Plus Connectors programme has recently passed an important milestone, with the selection of the first 11 areas to receive funding and progress their local initiatives. We share the rapid process to design and launch the programme, with...

‘The biggest opportunities are at the margins of our communities’
This striking comment from Dr Bola Owolabi, Director for Health Inequalities Improvement at NHS England, represents an increasing emphasis that health improvement for populations can and should largely be achieved through tackling health...

ICSs and the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities
Andrew Fenton reflects on a re-energised NHS focus on health inequalities, a place-based approach, and the vital role of ICS partnerships.

Special report from Digital Health considers the future of shared care records
SCW's Andrew Fenton contributes to the special report from Digital Health on the progress of Shared Care Records.