Summary
Nicholas Oughtibridge is a health informatics leader with 9 years formally counted experience and over three decades in digital healthcare, specialising in clinical data architecture, standards and interoperability. He has driven national and international standards work—shaping ISO and SNOMED-related specifications—and led the development of England’s clinical data architecture and statutory guidance on confidential information. As Lead Architect at NHS England and former Head of Clinical Data Architecture at NHS Digital, he bridges semantics, information models and real-world care delivery to make records safe, effective and portable. He chairs and chaired multiple standards panels, bringing consensus-driven governance to complex technical and policy trade-offs. Nicholas runs his own consultancy, combines technical rigour with policy influence, and has a practical history of delivering data warehouses and core record models in NHS settings. Based in Bradford and trained in Management Sciences at LSE, he focuses on making portable care records a workable reality for patients, clinicians and researchers.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Silcoates, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield
London School of Economics and Political Science