Helen is the National Chief Nursing Information Officer for NHS England, where she provides professional nursing leadership across the country on digital health.

This work seeks to ensure nurses and midwives are equipped to practice and lead in a digitally enabled environment, where technology and data science supports practice. Helen has an extensive portfolio that includes digital nursing and midwifery, digital clinical safety, and clinical leadership to National Digital Programmes including Single Patient Record and, Frontline Digitisation and Productivity. With over 30 years’ experience as a registered nurse, in practice, management and leadership roles in cancer care, patient experience, end of life care and digital health. During her career Helen has demonstrated the ability to re-design services, leading, supporting, and motivating others to deliver meaningful, effective and sustainable data driven improvement and change the way they work harnessing digital. Helen is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. Helen Balsdon RN | LinkedIn