Ayub Bhayat is the Director of Data and Analytics, Deputy Chief Data and Analytics Officer at NHS England and is the HSJ Digital Awards 2024, Digital Leader of the Year. Ayub has over 20 years of leading digital change across the health service.

Successfully progressing from the ground up, he started his career as an Information Analyst in 2005, and has worked in a variety of data, analytics, and software engineering type roles across the NHS ever since.

Passionate about using data to drive decision making, he works alongside clinicians, operational teams and leaders to transform patients’ outcomes through his work. This has included building the data infrastructure for the Covid-19 Vaccinations programme, being responsible for the largest non-clinical procurement in NHS history – the £330m Federated Data Platform – and now driving efforts to develop a Single Patient Record, owned by the patient and shared across the NHS system.