Saif is the Clinical Digital Transformation Lead for Health Innovation Manchester and also works as Associate Medical Director for Digital at Tameside and Glossop ICFT. As a GP by trade, he has a particular interest in digital and sees it as a huge enabler to the future success of the NHS. 

In recent years, Saif has worked on the roll-out of the Safe Steps app across care homes in Greater Manchester to track deterioration and continues to have a strong interest in improving lives for people with frailty through improved use of data and digital.  

Through his role in Tameside, he has been involved in the development of the ground-breaking Digital Health Service and the introduction of virtual wards – providing hospital level of care for people from the comfort of home. 

He also has a key role in the development of the GM Care Record, building on improved data sharing to digitally shape and transform services. Saif has had significant clinical input to the recently launched dementia wellbeing and heart failure care plans that enable standardised, high-quality care for vulnerable patients wherever they are seen in Greater Manchester. In addition, the development of the My GM Care app under his clinical leadership has given patients the power to contribute directly to their own care and share this with health professionals via the GM Care Record including voluntary organisations such as the Alzheimer’s society – a first in the UK. 

Saif’s key expertise is linking the clinical problems with the technical solutions, with a strong emphasis on clinical leadership and patient-centred design.