Dr Shera Chok GP and former Chief Medical Officer

Organisation: NHS Digital

Fellowship(s):

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network
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About me

Shera is a GP in East London and is the former Chief Medical Officer at NHS Digital. She started the multi award-winning Shuri Network in 2019 as she is passionate about increasing diversity, innovation and safety and to encourage other women from minority ethnic groups to lead and engage with digital transformation.

She was awarded the international Richard von Weizsäcker Fellowship by the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin in 2023 to examine the German digital health strategy, compare their approach to digital transformation and help develop new insights and perspectives that will help both health systems deliver safer, more equitable and innovative care.

Shera has held national leadership roles with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care and led complex national and local programmes to improve patient outcomes and pathways. She worked at Barts Health, the largest acute trust in the NHS at the time as Director of Primary Care for six years, helping to improve patient pathways across organisational boundaries.

She has helped to develop and implement health policy as a national clinical advisor on new models of care, system transformation and Integrated Care Systems with NHS England and advised ministers as a member of the NHS Independent Reconfiguration Panel for seven years. She is a member of the Sciana Network for European health leaders, sponsored by the Health Foundation.

Shera has volunteered as a clinician in countries including Sudan, Laos, Indonesia and Greece with NGOs working in war and disaster zones and with displaced populations. She studied at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health on the NHS Executive Fast Track programme, focusing on quality improvement, community engagement and leading change.

She has completed an M.B.A., M.A. in Inter-professional Education and a Nuffield Trust Fellowship on cross-organisational learning with Sunderland Athletic Football Club.