Dr Kevin Kiff is a retired NHS Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine with over 25 years of senior clinical and digital transformation experience across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
As Clinical Director for Critical and Emergency Care, he led the £185m MEHT PFI development — one of the largest NHS capital programmes in the region — and drove the implementation of electronic track-and-trigger systems, demand-based critical care planning, and integrated electronic governance frameworks across the Essex Critical Care Network, which he founded.
He has a strong track record of translating complex clinical workflows into scalable digital solutions, including the development of electronic patient pathways compliant with the Mental Capacity Act and the integration of mHDU with ICU services to meet national standards.
A graduate of The London Hospital Medical College, he holds the FRCA, FRCP (Edinburgh), and FFICM, and is co-editor of the Oxford University Press textbook Training in Anaesthesia.
He led the Trust’s COVID-19 critical care response across Essex and the East of England, coordinating system-wide digital and operational change at pace and scale.
His career combines deep frontline clinical insight with proven expertise in NHS service redesign, making him well placed to bridge the gap between clinical need and digital innovation.
Dr Jayachandran Radhakrishnan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and co-founder and director of Sylvan Tech Ltd, a health technology company developing a modular, AI-enabled software platform to manage perioperative patient flow and address NHS waiting list pressures.
He holds a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from Oxford University, funded by a competitive Wellcome Trust Fellowship, and has published on the genomics of sepsis in journals including the Lancet Respiratory Medicine and Nature Genetics.
Recognised as both an NHS Innovation Fellow and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, Jay combines rare depth in clinical research and bioinformatics with hands-on software development experience and active commercial partnerships.
Dr Alistair Hughes is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Broomfield Hospital and Clinical Lead for Pre-assessment across Mid and South Essex NHS Trust, where he oversees perioperative pathways for approximately 40,000 patients annually across three acute sites and one cold site.
He is actively engaged in NHS digital transformation, having led the Trust-wide implementation of a unified digital pre-assessment platform now extended to endoscopy, paediatrics, and obstetric anaesthesia.
Alistair brings deep operational experience in change management, clinical pathway redesign, and cross-site service development, alongside practical skills in data analytics and visualisation using R — making him well placed to bridge the gap between frontline clinical practice and health technology.
He is a co-founder and director of Sylvan Tech Ltd, a health technology company developing a modular, AI-enabled software platform to manage perioperative patient flow.