Dr John Parry is clinical director, clinical safety office and data protection officer for TPP. He has a broad interest in health informatics and health care systems, the use of the shared electronic patient record to support best practice, information governance, big data research and the structure of electronic clinical records. He has worked with colleagues across the UK, the Gulf and in China.

He qualified from Cambridge University and has been a General Practitioner in the NHS for 32 years. In addition, he has worked in out of hours medicine, oncology, palliative care and information governance. He commissioned TPP to deliver a remotely hosted single instance electronic health record in 1998, and has worked with the company since then, becoming the Clinical Director for the last thirteen years. His interests include clinical safety, the sharing of the electronic patient record to support best practice, information governance, big data research and the structure of electronic clinical records.