When cyber security becomes critical care: Hammond Reddie on cyber security in healthcare

In this episode, we explore digital transformation in environments where the stakes couldn’t be higher. In healthcare, cyber security isn’t just about protecting systems or data – it’s about protecting lives.

Our guest is Hammond Reddie, Chief Information Security Officer at Spire Healthcare, the UK’s second largest private healthcare provider. Before joining Spire in January 2025, Hammond was CTO at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, where he managed a £60 million technology budget and built one of the NHS’s largest cyber security teams. His career spans database vulnerability and compliance at Barclays, CTO roles in fleet technology and NHS healthcare, and now security leadership in private healthcare.

It’s an unusual and powerful career path, one that gives Hammond a rare perspective on how different sectors approach risk, resilience and transformation.

In this episode, we cover:

  • Balancing innovation with security and compliance
  • Defending as one: lessons from the NHS
  • People before technology
  • From finance to frontline care
  • When failure costs lives
  • Boardrooms, budgets and hard truths
  • Third-party risk and smarter procurement
  • Minimum viable business in a black swan event

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🔗 Connect with Hammond on LinkedIn: Hammond Reddie | LinkedIn