Waseem Akhtar

Portfolio Delivery Manager

NPIC Deployment Team – Deploying the NPIC digital pathology solution to NHS Trusts nationally.

Waseem Akhtar

Since joining the NHS in 2004 Waseem has gained extensive experience in Primary Care, Secondary Care and Community Health. He has worked on various digital projects throughout his career including one of the largest IT projects in the UK, The NPfIT Programme.

At NPIC Waseem successfully spearheaded the complex build of NPIC’s National dual datacentre and implemented NPIC’s national service desk. Waseem is passionate about Digital Pathology and has a proven track record of delivering results.

Waseem is the Portfolio Delivery Manager and plays a critical role in managing a complex portfolio of work alongside various multi-disciplinary workstream teams and suppliers, whilst supporting our partner Trusts to embark on digital transformation across pathology.

Waseem is responsible for providing strategic leadership and delivering NPIC’s portfolio of work which includes complex multi-site deployments of NPIC’s Digital Pathology solution across a national footprint spanning multiple pathology network regions across the country; associated interoperability projects; the design and implementation of a research platform to facilitate NPIC’s research and artificial intelligence ambitions.