Chris Fleming

Chris Fleming is Public Digital’s health and care sector lead.

Chris helps healthcare organisations use digital technologies and ways of working to better achieve their potential, elevating their digital products and services, and delivering better value for their service users and customers.

His deep experience of research, design, and development of digital services alongside wider organisational and operating model transformation enables him to support leaders in setting the right conditions for successful digitally enabled change. He works with organisations to understand their team's maturity and capability, and supports them on their journey to high performance.

Chris works extensively with the NHS, including supporting NHS England in the development of a new operating model, and of its integrated care boards. He provides digital leadership coaching on the NHS Providers Digital Boards Programme, coaching the executive leadership teams of NHS trusts in how to create the conditions for digital transformation. As such, Chris has an expert understanding of what NHS clients need to enable them to thrive in a highly networked, digitally enabled world.

Alongside his work with the NHS, Chris has also supported clients in local authorities, the private and charity sectors, including leading pharmaceutical companies or national scale charities providing key services such as addiction support.

Prior to joining Public Digital, Chris led product and delivery for a number of national platforms for the NHS including the NHS App, 111 online and the NHS’s vaccine trials registry, He also supported the UK government to build its data science capability.