Dr Minal Bakhai is the Clinical Director for Digital First Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement. She is a practicing GP, working at an inner-city London practice for almost 10 years.
Minal has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across policy, national programme strategy, research and implementation. Additionally, she is an expert advisor at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), appraising the effectiveness and safety of digital tools used in primary care to reduce preventable ill health and to empower patients.
She is passionate about harnessing the power of technology to support dynamic, high quality, sustainable general practice and developing shared learning to ensure that digital tools are used to enable real transformation and redesign of care pathways that benefit all patients and meet practice needs.