Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service team

Senior leadership team

Reach out to any of our Senior Leadership Team if you would like to discuss how DiiS can support you.

Matt Prowse
Matt ProwseHead of Business Intelligence

Matt is part of the Dorset Intelligence and Insight (DiiS) senior management team and is primarily responsible for the delivery of business intelligence to Dorset ICB. He has oversight and is accountable for the operational delivery of the service to all aspects of the ICB, spanning acute, mental health, primary and community care. Matt is responsible for service development and ensuring the teams output is supporting our numerous stakeholders make inform decision to develop services and improve the health and well being of Dorset residents. An experienced business intelligence professional with a wealth of experience in numerous roles across the public sector including the police, probation service and NHS. Throughout his career Matt has develop both the technical expertise and interpersonal skills necessary to manage and lead teams to deliver first-class BI services. He is passionate about using data and intelligence to support decision making and ensuring output is used to have a meaningful impact on the operational delivery of services.

Nicola Hilton
Nicola HiltonHead of System Analytics

As Head of System Analytics, Nic is responsible for leading the delivery of changes to data and analytics across all organisations within the Dorset Integrated Care System and beyond, including the design and delivery of Dorset’s approach to population health analytics. As part of the senior leadership team, Nic also takes responsibility for leading the DiiS analytical team, prioritisation management, creating new approaches and designing collaborative opportunities across our system partners.

Nic’s career has spanned both the NHS and local government with an established background in intelligence and analytics. Specialisms include demography, inequalities, and population wider determinants, ensuring our approach is truly holistic when designing interventions and improving population outcomes.

Andy Poole
Andy PooleHead of Data Science

Andy is responsible for leading the data science function for Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service (DiiS). His role is to lead the development and adoption of data science, machine learning and AI across the Integrated Care System (ICS). His focus is on operationalising data science and enabling self serve analytics with interactive cloud based applications. He has helped the team develop a range of solutions for population health management (PHM), cancer, A&E and urgent care with many more solutions in the pipeline. In addition to this Andy has experience of leading research projects and regularly works with a number of local universities. Andy is an experienced data scientist and python developer who specialises in working collaboratively to refine data into actionable insights. He has a wide range of experience across the NHS and financial services industry and is also a chartered accountant (ACMA, CGMA). His technical expertise includes Python, Azure, MLOps, Git and SQL to name but a few. Andy’s passion is in using data, technology and AI to deliver impact where it is needed most.

DiiS team combine a dedicated support staff of Business Intelligence Analysts, Data Engineers and Data Scientists all working together to provide a high level analytical and insights service. Should you wish to enquire about a support service please contact us and one of the team will be in touch.

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