An Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner by background, Linda Vernon is Head of Digital Empowerment at Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

Passionate about how technology can empower individuals, communities & our workforce to thrive, and the principles of user-centred design & co-production, Linda leads the Digital and Data Strategy for Lancashire and South Cumbria and oversees the system-wide citizen-facing digital programmes: digital inclusion, patient engagement portal and digital personalised care across the ICS.  She is an ‘upstreamist’ with a focus on how we can better support the prevention and population health agendas, supporting the ‘shifts to the left.’

Linda is also an Honorary Lecturer at University of Lancashire and is a member of the Digital Health Networks ICS Digital Council, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Health Informatics Strategy group and a number of conference planning groups.

Linda enjoys climbing fells in the Lake District (and more recently the Himalayas), playing guitar, ukulele and singing, and believes the health of the planet and her inhabitants are mutually dependant.