Sultan is the Director of Health and Communities for BT Business overseeing Local Government, Healthcare, Education, and Housing across England. He is an experienced executive with a passion for innovation and has had a distinguished career in the NHS spanning two decades and is a respected figure in Health technology circles in the UK and internationally.
He holds visiting professorships at Birmingham City University and Keele University and guests lectures across the country in healthcare technology and integrated care.
Prior to joining BT Group PLC, Sultan was Chief of Innovation, Integration and Research at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) and before that at a director at NHS England. He led pioneering work in integration across the care spectrum in primary, community and acute care and developed some of the most impactful live clinical datasets at a placed based level. Sultan is enthusiastic about care providers working collaboratively and using technology enabled methods to manage patient care in an anticipatory way. To this end he has worked closely to develop partnerships with the commercial sector, patient groups and clinical teams to enable evidence-based innovation.
In addition to his day job, he is on the board of Healthwatch England and also Pathway the homeless health charity. In his spare time Sultan mentors young digital professionals who are female or from a BAME community to progress their careers. In 2018 he was chosen as one of the 100 vibrant faces of the UK economy by Grant Thornton and in 2019 Sultan joined the Advisory Board of the Centre for Health and Social Care Leadership at the HSMC, University of Birmingham. Between 2021- 2023 was also a board member of the Centre for the New West Midlands.
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