Richard Corbridge FBCS

Richard Corbridge is a globally recognized expert in digital technology and its application to healthcare strategy, with over 25 years of experience in diverse CIO roles across the health, care, and research sectors. Richard has a passion for innovation, business change, and benefits management. As a leader, he insists on a focus on engagement and benefits being brought to all technology implementation.

In 2019 he was appointed as the first Director of Innovation at Boots UK with a remit to deliver a transformed high street pharmacy and health and beauty experience for customers across the UK. In 2020 he was promoted to the Boots Executive as Chief Information Officer with responsibility for technology throughout the business.

Prior to Boots, he led Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust as their first Chief Digital and Information Officer with a remit of bringing a ‘must do’ culture to the digital capability of the trust and ensuring that Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, one of the largest in the NHS, adopted a digital fabric to how it delivered health care by 2019.

Earlier in his career, Richard was the Chief Information Officer for the Health Service Executive in Ireland. In Ireland, he achieved many successes, including the implementation of a unique identifier for health, along with a fully digitized referral process. He put in place Ireland's first clinical information officer’s council, whilst driving a team to begin the first epilepsy genomic sequencing program globally. He then went on to deliver the ability to implement a national lab system and oversaw the delivery of a national maternity health record. He was instrumental in the reform of the Irish healthcare technology system which has subsequently seen a plethora of awards and recognition for the team across Europe and globally.