Meet the Speakers

#BACCNConf2025 Keynote Speakers
We are excited to present this year's renowned Keynote speakers who will be joining us from across the world to share their stories and experiences.
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Simon Noel
Deputy Chief Nursing Information Officer, NHSE
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Simon first started working in adult intensive care in 1989, first in the ICU at Warwick Hospital, and then moving to the John Radcliffe in Oxford in 1994, becoming Charge Nurse in 2001 and then taking on the role as ICU Patient Information System Manager in 2002. From 2009 he moved to work with NHSBT on the electronic transfusion development, also working close with EPR providers to embed the electronic transfusion process into patient record systems. |
In 2017, Simon became the first Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) in Oxford, providing leadership and a nursing voice to effective electronic patient record deployment. In 2021 he took on a national role with the Digital Health CNIO Advisory Panel where he later served as its chair for two years. Since February 2025, Simon has been Deputy CNIO at NHS England, using his experience to further help shape and support Digital Nursing at a national level.
For a summary of Simon's session, click here.
Rosalind Searle
Chair in Human Resource Management and Organisational Psychology at the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School
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Rosalind H. Searle (University of Glasgow - Schools - Adam Smith Business School - Our staff - Professor Rosalind Searle) holds the chair in Human Resource Management and Organisational Psychology at the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School, in Scotland, UK and founding director of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology’s Impact Incubator (www.Eawopimpact.org). She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (FASS), the British Psychological Society (BPS), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), the Royal Society of Arts, and an academic fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal and Development (CIPD). |
Her research includes study of health professionals counterproductive work behaviours, especially sexual misconduct and theft behaviours, and factors relating to organisational trust and distrust. Her reports for the Professional Standards Authority – bad apples, and the moral mindsets of sexual perpetrators – have lead to new perspectives on professional misconduct.
She is a co-editor for a forthcoming book on Doctor on doctor sexual harassment and abuse. She sits on the Royal College of Surgeons (England) working party on sexual misconduct in surgery, and NHS (England)’s working party on domestic and sexual violence.
For a summary of Rosalind's session, click here.