Peter Singleton

Peter Singleton is an Information Governance expert and Director of Cambridge Health Informatics. He specialises in the strategic use of information in healthcare, particularly privacy and confidentiality issues and has advised a range of healthcare organisations at national, regional, and local levels on deployment of information systems.

He has been involved in a number of EU projects (EHR4CR as Chair of the Ethics Board; AIDAVA as member of the Ethics Advisory Board; IDERHA, HIPPOCRATES, H2O, ConcePTION, EU-PEARL, VPH-Share and DebugIT as advisor on ethical and data protection issues) and conferences on the legal and ethical aspects of privacy. He also led the earlier ‘The Informed Patient’ project through the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, which looked at the patient perspective of information use across the health economies of Europe. He has worked on a range of EHR and research-related projects in the UK on business models and information governance issues.

He spent 4 years advising UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) on its data management and data release approaches and before that five years helping and advising the UK’s Connecting for Health project to implement a new generation of electronic health records in England. Previously he has produced a number of key reports on privacy questions for the NHS Information Governance Toolkit, the Toolkit for the UK Medical Research Council, the UK General Medical Council and for the Nuffield Trust, London. He has organised workshops and conferences on privacy-related issues.

Peter originally trained as an actuary before he moved into IT software development and management consultancy. Peter has an MA in Mathematics (Corpus Christi, Cambridge, UK) and MBA (Judge Institute, Cambridge, UK). He was also an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London.